IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES OF ALL KINDS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial
Gallet, Perfumers, both of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris,
in the Empire of France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Armand Roger
and Charles Martial Gallet at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th February 1870.
We, CHARLES ARMAND ROGER and CHARLES MARTIAL GALLET,
Perfumers, both of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Empire
of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES OF ALL KINDS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention is specially applicable to stoppers for bottles containing
perfumes, spirits, or essences, and consists in an ordinary cork pierced
through the centre, into which a metal tube is screwed, one end of the.
screw projecting for the reception of a cap; this tube has a small channel.

page_text: for admitting of the passage of the liquid in small quantities only. The
cap of the stopper instead of fixing by means of a screw may be provided
with a conical aperture fitting by simple pressure on the head of the
tube, which is also conical for its reception; the aperture in the cap may
be lined with cork so as to produce a more perfectly hermetical con-
nection. Or the upper part of the tube may be smooth and minus the
screw, and made slightly conical, and bearing a shoulder, the--edges of
which rest on the orifice of the bottle, the lower part of the tube being
screw-cut-for-fixing-into-the-cork.-Both-the-central-tube-and-cap-
thereto may be either of metal, ivory, bone, glass, or other durable
substance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial
Gallet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th August 1870.
. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
ARMAND ROGER and CHARLES MARTIAL GALLET, Perfumers, both of
No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Empire of France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial
Gallet, Her special licence that we, the said Charles Armand Roger and
Charles Martial Gallet, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Charles Armand Roger and Charles Martial Gallet,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES OF ALL KINDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Charles Armand Roger and
Charles Martial Gallet; our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and

page_text: seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles Armand Roger and Charles
Martial Gallet, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying
Drawings, that is to say :-
Our improved stoppers are specially adapted to bottles containing
essences, spirits, and perfumes, and consist, as will be seen on reference
to the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1, of an ordinary cork A pierced
through the centre for receiving a metal tube B furnished with screw
threads v, v, outside the cork for screwing into the cap K, Fig. 2. The
tube is fitted closely into the central opening in the cork by means of
the screw so as to effectually prevent the escape of liquid or spirit. The
tube B bears through its whole length a small canal a, a, for giving
passage to the liquid, spirit, or perfume, as the case may be, in small
quantities only when the screw cap K has been removed, which latter
may be made of metal, wood, ivory, or any other substance.
Figure 3 shows a bottle fitted with one of my improved stoppers. The
cap of the stopper instead of being fixed to the tube B by means of a
screw may be arranged as shown in Fig. 4, and fitted by simple pressure
on that tube, the hollow part e being slightly conical and being thus
disposed fits hermetically on the head of the tube, which is conically
arranged for the purpose of receiving the cap. The hollow part e may
also be furnished with cork l, as shown in Fig. 6, so as to ensure a more
hermetical connection. The upper part of the tube may also be smooth
and without a screw and made slightly conical in form and bearing a
shoulder or collar c, c, serving the purpose of cap to the stopper. The
edges or rim of this shoulder, see Fig. 5, rest upon the neck of the bottle.
The lower part of the tube may be screw cut for fixing solidly into the
cork, and may be of metal, ivory, glass, or any other substance as may
be also the cap, Figs. 4 and 6.
Having thus described our Invention, what we claim and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is, the arrangement of stoppers to bottles of all
kinds, especially those containing spirits, essences, perfumes, and toilet

page_text: lotions, the object of such stoppers being to effect a perfectly hermetical
closure in the manner herein described and illustrated by the accom-
panying Drawings.
.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Armand Roger and Charles
Martial Gallet, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy.