IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPERING OF ABRATED WATER BOTTLES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward William Grimwade, of 82, Bishopsgate Street
Within, in the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE STOPPERING OF ABRATED WATER BOTTLES." A communication from
abroad by Lambton Le Breton Mount, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria,
Glass Battle Manufacturer
Sealed the 5th September 1879, and dated the 30th June 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward William Grimwade
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 80th June 1879.
EDWARD WILLIAM GRIMWADE, of 82, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of
London, Merchant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPERING OF ARRATED WATER
BOTTLES." [A communication from abroad by Lambton Le Breton Mount, of
Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Glass Bottle Manufacturer.]
The Invention communicated to me consists in a novel construction of the upper
part of the neck of aërated water bottles, and in a novel construction of washer to
fit therein.
The washer has its inner face in the shape of a truncated cone, the base of which
may be enlarged outwardly or not.
The bottles have the upper part of the neck also made with their inner face in
the shape of a truncated cone, and (in the event of the base of the washer cone being
enlarged) with recesses to receive such enlarged base, but in any case with a ledge
on which to rest the washer.
The stopper used with such washers and bottles may be of any kind, so long as
they are circular in horizontal section, but I prefer them spherical; and they are
made of such a size as, in the absence of the washer, to pass freely into the neck of
the bottle.
The advantages of these improvements are, firstly, that the bottles can be made
cheaper by reason of the stoppers not having to be put in the bottle while it is being
made; and, secondly, that the stoppers can bo placed in and withdrawn from the
bottle at any time by simply removing the washer.
The washers may be made of india rubber, cork, or other compressible material,
and I prefer them made of even thickness throughout, although this latter condition
is not absolutely essential.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward William Grimwade in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th December 1879.
EDWARD WILLIAM GRIMWADE, of 82, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of
London, Merchant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPERING OF AERATED WATER
BOTTLES." A communication from abroad by Lambton Le Breton Mount, of
Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Glass Bottle Manufacturer.
The Invention communicated to me consists in a novel construction of the upper
part of the neck of aërated water bottles, and in a novel construction of washer to
fit therein.
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The washer has its inner face in the shape of a truncated cone, the base of which
may be enlarged outwardly or not.
The bottles bave the upper part of the neck also made with their inner face in
the shape of a truncated cone, and (in the event of the base of the washer cone being
enlarged) with recesses to receive such enlarged base, but in any case with a ledge
on which to rest the washer.
The stopper used with such washers and bottles may be of any kind, so long as
they are circular in borizontal section, but preferably spherical; and they are made
of such a size as, in the absence of the washer, to pass freely into the neck of the
bottle.
The advantages of these improvements are, firstly, that the bottles can be made
cheaper by reason of the stoppers not having to be put in the bottle while it is being
made; and, secondly, that the stoppers can be placed in and withdrawn from the
bottle at any time by simply removing the washer.
In the accompanying Drawing Figure 1 is a section of the plain cone washer in
its place in one form of the improved bottles, and Figure 2 is a similar view of the
washer with an enlarged base and the bottle made to correspond in shape. In both
the Figures A is the washer and B the bottle, A' being the enlarged "base of the
washer, and B the recess in the bottle to receive it.
The washers may be made of india rubber, cork, or other compressible material,
and they are preferably made of even thickness throughout, although this latter
condition is not absolutely essential.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention communicated to me, what is
claimed and desired to be protected by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is,—
In stoppering aërated water bottles, the truncated cone washer and the truncated:
cone for the inner face of the neck of the bottles, substantially as herein described
and shewn in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward William Gr imwade, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
TWARTAWAND