Improvements in the Manufacture of Seatings and Rings for Bottles, Jars, and the like, and Washers for Stoppers.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application. 4th Sept.. 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th July, 1887.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Seatings and Rings for Bottles,
Jars, and the like, and Washers for Stoppers.
I, HENRY BARRETT of No. 268, South Lambeth Road in the County of Surrey,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Hitherto in stoppering bottles, jars and the like particularly when the mouths of
such vessels are of large diameter it has not been found practicable to employ india
rubber for forming the seating in the vessel or the washer of the stopper owing to the
fact that india rubber adheres closely to or jams or binds against glass, porcelain or
the like.
Now by my invention I am enable to overcome this objection. For this purpose
I take india rubber in an unvulcanized state and mix intimately therewith a suitable
quantity of granulated or powdered cork, wood, cotton or paper-pulp or other suitable
fibre, and I then form the compound into the required shape and vulcanize by the
usual process of vulcanizing india rubber.
A seating or ring made in this manner will not adhere to or jam or bind against
the bottle, jar or stopper, and can therefore be easily turned in the bottle or jar, or
the stopper be turned on the seating or ring.
Dated the 4th day of September 1886.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Seatings and Rings for Bottles,
Jars, and the like, and Washers for Stoppers.
I, HENRY BARRETT, of No. 268, South Lambeth Road, 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:―
Hitherto in stoppering bottles, jars, and the like particularly when the mouths of
such vessels are of large diameter it has not been found practicable to employ india
rubber for forming the seating in the vessel or the washer of the stopper owing to
the fact that india rubber adheres closely to or jams or binds against glass, porcelain,
or the like.
Now by my invention I am enabled to overcome this objection. For this purpose
I take india rubber in an unvulcanized state and mix intimately therewith a suitable
quantity of granulated or powdered cork, wood, cotton, or paper-pulp or other suitable
fibre, and I then form the compound into the required shape and vulcanize by the
usual process of vulcanizing india rubber.
I have found that equal proportions of the materials employed give good results
but it will be obvious that these proportions may be somewhat varied and by
preference I use india rubber of the best quality.
A seating or ring made in this manner will not adhere to or jam or bind against the
bottle, jar or stopper, and can therefore be easily turned in the bottle or jar, or the
stopper be turned on the seating or ring.
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 :-
--
The manufacture of seatings and rings for bottles, jars, and the like and washers
for stoppers from the materials and by the process hereinbefore described.
Dated the 2nd dor of Lun 1007
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.