Improvements in Stopples for Bottles and Parts Connected therewith.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 21st May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd July, 1887.
Improvements in Stopples for Bottles and Parts Connected
therewith.
I TIMOTHY MURPHY of Number 73 Main Street Clonmel in the County of
Tipperary Ireland Agricultural Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :--
The said stopples are tubular or cylindrical shaped and are composed of India
Rubber or other elastic substance and a pin or bolt forms the central part of said
stopple. Said pin is provided with a head at one end the inside surface of said head
is conical at neck the other end of said pin is screwed and has a nut which is screwed
on with the hand.
Said pin is also fitted with a collar inside said nut which collar is free to slide on
said pin. Said pin is passed through the central hole in said stopple and said sliding
collar and nut are got on said pin as stated.
Said stopple as so placed on said pin having said head at one end and sliding collar
at the other end and is inserted with the hand in the passage or mouth of bottle having
the head of said pin inside and as so placed it is compressed from one or both ends
and thereby expanded on the circumference.
Said compression is effected by screwing down the said nut with the hand against
the said sliding collar thereby drawing up the said pin and causing the said stopple to
be compressed between the head of said pin and said sliding collar thereby causing
the passage or mouth of bottle to be made air and water tight.
Said sliding collar has a flange which covers the mouth of bottle and prevents said
collar passing into bottle. The compression stopple is released by screwing up the
said nut when the stopple and the other parts connected with it are removed by
catching the flange of collar with the hand and pulling it up.
The said sliding collar and said nut may be provided with projecting stops which
fit into each other in which case the compression of said stopple may be effected by
forcing said sliding collar and nut assunder thereby drawing up the pin as stated.
Said forcing is effected with a tangs prepared for that purpose and when so forced
the said stops are locked into each other by slightly turning the said nut with the

page_text: hand. The said stopples can be connected with the bottles when desired by providing
each said siopple with a chain one end of which is made fast to the flange of sliding
collar and the other end to a band said band being fitied on neck of bottle.
The
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Drawing Fig. (1) is a cross section of said stopple and parts connected.
letter Sshews the india rubber stopple placed between the head of the pin
and the collar "C" P indicates the pin which passes through the said stopple and
collar Cand which is screwed through the nut
< N."
The stopple "S" is compressed between the head "H" of the pin "P" and the
sliding collar "C" by screwing down the nut "N" and the pin "P" against the
collar "C."
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stopples for Bottles and Parts Connected
therewith.
TIMOTHY MURPHY of No. 73 Main Street Clonmel in the County of
Operary
Agricultural Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
That the said stopples are tubular or cylindrical or globular shaped and are composed
of India Rubber or other elastic substance and a pin or bolt forms the central part of
said stopple. Said pin is provided with a head at one end the inside surface of said
head is conical at neck the other end of said pin is screwed and has a nut which is
screwed on with the hand. Said pin is also fitted with a collar or washer inside said
nut which collar is free to slide on said pin. Said pin is passed through the central
hole in said stopple. The said sliding collar and nut are got on said pin as stated and
said stopple as so placed on said pin having said head at one end and said sliding
collar at the other end is inserted with the hand in the passage or mouth of boule
having the head of said pin inside and as so placed it is compressed from one or both
ends and thereby expanded on the circumference. Said compression is effected by
screwing down the said nut with the hand against the said sliding collar thereby
drawing up the said pin and causing the said stopple to be compressed between the
head or conical end of said pin and conical end or face of said sliding collar or washer
thereby causing the passage or mouth of bottle to be made air and water tight by said
India Rubber or other elastic stopple being so expanded. Said sliding collar has L
flange which covers the mouth of bottle and prevents said collar passing into bottle.
The compression on stopple is released by screwing up said nut when the stopple and
other parts connected with it are removed by catching either its flange of collar or
said nut with the hand and pulling it up. The said sliding collar and said nut may be
provided with projecting stops which fit into each other in which case the compression
of said stopple may be effected by forcing said sliding collar and nui asunder thereby
drawing up the pin as stated said forcing is effected with a tangs prepared for that
purpose and when so forced the said stops are locked into each other by slightly
turning the said nut with the hand. The said stopples can be connected with the bottles
when desired by providing each said stopple with a chain one end of which is made
fast to the flange of sliding collar and the other end to a band said band being fitted
on neck of bottle.
Drawing Fig. (1) is a cross section of said stopple and parts connected. "S" is
the India rubber stopple placed between the head of the pin "H" and the collar "C."
P is the pin which passes through said stopple and collar "C" and is screwed through
the nut N. The stopple "Sis compressed between the conical head H" of the
pin and the conical end or surface of sliding collar "C" by screwing down the
" N"
on the pin "P" against the collar "C" The sliding collar and the
nut
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page_text: pin "P" are kept from moving around whilst the nut "N" is screwed up and down
on said pin "Pby holding the flange "F" with the hand.
Drawing Fig. (2) is a cross section of said stopple with sliding collar "C" and
nut "N" to which said sliding collar and nut the projecting stops "SS" are attached
as stated. The sliding collar Cand nut "N" are shewn as forced assunder in
which position they are kept by the projecting stops "SS" being locked upon each
other. The elastic stopple "H" is shewn compressed between sliding collar "C"
and head "A" attached to the pin "P" which said pin may be either screwed into
nut "N" or provided with a cross key outside it. The forcing assunder of said
sliding collar "C" and nut "N" are effected with a tangs which fit against the
flanges Fattached to the collar "C" and the nui "N" as stated. The locking
of the projecting stops "SS" is released by catching the flange "F" of the nut "N
with the hand and twisting it around until the said stops are unlocked when the
pin "P" will drop down and release the compression stopple "H."
Said elastic stopple may be used in more parts than one in which case there is a
conical washer placed between said parts.
Figure (3) is the elastic stopple as shewn at "M M" the conical washer placed
between them is shewn at "R."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
That the features of novelty are that the said stopples can be repetedly used a very
large number of times for stopping the mouths of bottles. That the placing of said
stopples in the mouths of bottles and the expanding and removing of same as stated
can be accomplished directly with the hand in from two to four seconds with very
little exertion.
That the said stopples will resist any pressure from the inside until the said nut is
serewed up as stated.
That the said stopples will drop loosely into the mouths of bottles before being
expanded.
That when connected to the bottles with a chain as stated they are always ready
for use.
Dated this 16th day of May 1887.