Improvements in Perforated Sprinkling and Pouring Stoppers for Bottles; Jars, and similar Receptacles.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Perforated Sprinkling and Pouring Stoppers
for Bottles; Jars, and similar Receptacles.
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I ALEXANDER RICHMOND STOCKER of 76 Glengall Road, Peckham, in the
County of Surrey, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of perforated stoppers used as pouring
stoppers or as sprinklers in which the pouring or sprinkling aperture is closed by a
small subsidiary plug or stopper fitting into a recess in the top of the main stopper
of the bottle or other receptacle, and consists in forming a projecting pouring or
sprinkling nipple in the centre of the before-mentioned recess, which receives the
small subsidiary plug, the said central nipple projecting up from the bottom of the
recess to the same height or thereabouts as the surrounding edges of the said recess
whereby I obtain a better pouring or sprinkling action in this class of stopper by
obviating the present tendency of the liquid to be caught by the sides of the recess
and to dribble out irregularly.
Improvements in Perforated Sprinkling and Pouring Stoppers
for Bottles, Jars, and similar Receptacles.
I ALEXANDER RICHMOND STOCKER of 76 Glengall Road, Peckham in the
County of Surrey Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to that class of perforated stoppers used as pouring
stoppers or as sprinklers, and has for its object the obtaining a better pouring or

page_text: sprinkling action by obviating the tendency of the liquid to drip or dribble out
irregularly by being caught by the sides of the chamber or recess which receives
the small subsidiary plug or stopper in the class of perforated stoppers referred to
as hitherto constructed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a vertical section of a sprinkler top or
pouring stopper constructed according to my invention, and
Figure 2 is a plan of the same with the small subsidiary stopper or cap removed.
a is the enlarged head of the stopper which may or may not be fluted round its
periphery for the facility of handling as is well understood. b is a chamber or
recess formed on the enlarged head for receiving the small subsidiary stopper or
cap c which serves to close the pouring or sprinkling orifice of the main stopper d.
A screw thread may be provided inside this recess and a corresponding thread
on the outside of the subsidiary stopper or cap c or both may be left plain and
inade slightly tapering. e is a perforated pouring or sprinkling nipple or nozzle
formed in the centre of the recess and protected thereby said nipple or nozzle
extending upwards from the bottom of the recess nearly to a level with the
surrounding edge or lip thereof and having its perforation of closed by a cork disc
or other packing g in the subsidiary stopper or cap c. The lower portion of the
said improved perforated pouring or sprinkling stopper may be of the usual or any
other construction which will admit of its being readily fitted liquid tight into the
neck of the bottle or vessel to which it is to be applied and the entire stopper may
be manufactured either from metal by stamping or otherwise or from clay dust or
from plastic material compressed or moulded into shape by the aid of suitable dies
and matrices and subsequently glazed and fired as is well understood.
I prefer to make the subsidiary stopper or cap c of metal as being less bulky and
to employ in the shaping of the main stopper compressing dies and matrices
constructed and arranged substantially as described and claimed in my specification
N° 3810 A.D. 1885 filed concurrently berewith.
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
A sprinkling or pouring stopper provided with a raised perforated nipple or
nozzle enclosed within a recess which receives a screwed or plain subsidiary closing
stopper or cap substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this art ay on Docom
μουν.
A. R. STOCKER,
By Edwin P. Alexander, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Agent.