IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES AND IN STOPPERS FOR CLOSING THE OPENINGS THERETO
Year: 1885

page_text: in Stoppers for Closing the Openings thereto.
We, WILLIAM HEATLEY of 3 Clifton Square Albert Road Peckham in tho
County of Surrey Builder and GEORGE HUTCHINS of 24 Paternoster Square in
the City of London Railway Agent do hereby declare the nature of our inven-
tion for IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES AND IN
STOPPERS FOR CLOSING THE OPENINGS THERETO, to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to means for closing bottles or other vessels or recep-
tacles for aerated or gaseous liquids, beer and other malt liquors, and for other
purposes such as the oil receptacles of machinery, wheels and axles of vehicles and
other receptacles having openings requiring to be closed by removeable stoppers
or caps where it is desirable to thoroughly exclude ingress or egress from such
vessels.
Our improved stopper is formed with a head which to aid manipulation may be
milled roughened or otherwise formed with projections and recessions and has a
stem adapted to enter the opening into the bottle or vessel and such stem is formed
with enlargements having inclined surfaces adapted to engage with other corre-
spondingly formed projections from the wall of the opening into or the neck of the
bottle or vessel upon a part turn or twist being given to the head of the stopper
with the effect of drawing such head which also carries a cork or other suitable
washer between it and the edge of the bottle neck or other opening to be closed
into close contact so as to preclude passage of gas or liquid until by a part turn
correspondingly in reverse direction the enlargements on the stem of the stopper
are again released from the projections in the neck of the bottle or vessel. Or, the
stopper may be formed as a cap to pass over, in place of into, the neck of the bottle
or other vessel the opening into which is to be closed-and according to this modifi-
cation, the inclined projections will be formed on the internal wall or side of the
cap and they will engage correspondingly with similar projections from the outer
side of the neck or wall of the opening to be closed.

page_text: In the case of wood stoppers or caps the inclined projections and recesses in or
upon the stoppers or caps and bottles or walls of the openings to be closed may
be made more or less continuous and the inner ends formed of cork so that the
contents are prevented from contact with the portions of the stoppers not so
formed with cork or other similar liquid resisting material to further insure a 5
close joint.
WM BROOKES & SON,
Agents for the said William Heatley and
George Hutchins.
in Stoppers for Closing the Openings thereto.
.
We WILLIAM HEATLEY of 3 Clifton Square Albert Road Peckham in the
County of Surrey Builder and GEORGE HUTCHINS of 24 Paternoster Square in
the City of London Railway Agent do hereby declare the nature of our inven-
tion for IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES AND IN
STOPPERS FOR CLOSING THE OPENINGS THERETO and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
These improvements relate to means for closing the mouths or openings of
bottles or other vessels either for aerated or gaseous liquids beer or other malt
liquors, oil or axle boxes, color tubes and openings of vessels for other purposes
where it is desirable to preclude ingress or egress therefrom after closure and to
secure the same.
Our improved stopper is formed with a head which to facilitate manipulation is
milled, roughened, or otherwise, as a cap to pass over the neck of the bottle or other
vessel whose opening is to be closed and inclined projections are formed on the
internal wall or side of the cap and these inclined projections engage with corre-
spondingly formed projections from the exterior of the neck of the bottle or vessel
or of the wall of the opening to be closed.
Cork or other flexible packing applied aid the tight closing of the opening.
Inclined projections and recesses or engaging parts serve to guide and retain the
narte in position

page_text: DESCRIPTION, OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 by a sectional view of a cap and front view of a neck of a vessel shows
a convenient form of our improvements applied especially adapted for bottles, or
colour tubes or such like uses, and which for colour tubes may be taken to be
shewn to a scale considerably larger than the actual size.
Figure 2 shews a side view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 shews a side view of the neck of the vessel whose opening is to be
closed shewn by Figures 1 and 2 but with the cap removed.
Figures 4 and 5 shew a section and a side view of the cap separately, respectively.
Figure 6 shews by an underside view of the cap and Figure 7 by a plan of the
neck of the vessel, their respective inclined projections, each in position relatively
for being passed one upon the other, previously to a rotatory movement for
engagement.
Figure 8 is a corresponding view to Figure 7 but shewing the projections on the
neck in plan relatively to Figure 3.
a is the cap formed interiorily at a¹, a' with projecting portions of a double
threaded screw, with cut away portions or spaces a³ a' of corresponding size.
a are guide pieces. a is a pad or washer to fit between the end of neck and
this cap, to ensure complete sealing.
b is the neck of the vessel having projecting portions of double thread screw 61, 68
to engage with the parts a', a² of the cap and having corresponding spaces 63, 64
down which the parts projections of a pass before engagement.
The inclined ways 6 are for the guide pieces a³ to rest upon.
The operation of these parts is as follows:-the cap a is passed over the neck b
the part screws a³, a² respectively interspacing with the part screws 61, 63, until the
guides a rest on the ways be when the part threads a¹, a, b, b, will be in correct
position for engagement being effected by a quarter turn, more or less, to effect a
tight joint.
According to a slight modification of the arrangement particularly adapted for
axle boxes or large openings requiring closing means, the cap is shewn by Fig. 9.
by side view partly in section in one position and by Figure 10, in another position
at right angles to that of the previous, by a similar view and by an underside view
at Figure 11.
Figures 12 and 13 shew each by side views taken at right angles to each other
the form of the inclined projecting part screws on the neck of the box or vessel
to be closed and the guiding and locking devices.
Figure 14 shews a plan of this neck and of the part screws, guides and locking
parts.
Figures 15 and 16 shew by side views taken relatively to each other at right
angles a modification of the locking projections in their engaged position.
Figure 17 shews another modification of such locking means.
a is the cap. a¹, a² are the part double screws projecting interiorily. a³, a' are
the intermediate spaces or ways. a are projections for guiding and locking the
cap a on the neck b on which are part double screws 61, 62 corresponding with
the part screws a¹, a² and b³, b are the like intermediate plain spaces-b are
ways, or projecting guides on which the parts as rest when the cap a and neck b
are placed in position for their part screws to be engaged by a partial rotatory
movement being given thereto, and 67 is another pair of projections over which the
guide pieces as are forced and against which each locks so as to prevent the cap
working loose.
Figures 15 and 16 shew an alternative form of the locking parts a³ for engaging
with the stop or part b'.
The part as in the last arrangement may be of rubber or metal with a spring
beneath or of inetal only, whereas in Figures 9, 10 and 11 the parts a³ consist of
a plate spring a supported on pins a³.

page_text: In this, as in the former arrangement, the cap a being passed over the neck b
by the part screws a', a' being passed down the spaces 63, 6 and the part screws b¹, b³
in the spaces a³, a' until a rests on b, when a quarter turn more or less, engages
the part screws a¹, a² b1, b2 together and as, as passing 6' the cap a becomes
locked to b.
The reverse operation in each case serves to disengage the parts.
In the case of colour tubes and other vessels for export it may be 'desireablo
sometimes to further secure the caps from movement in transit by pressing in at
a point where the wall of the cap is thinnest a slight indentation so that the
internal protuberance may engage the end or other part of the incline 6' or such
like part of the neck.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. The arrangements or combinations of parts of caps, and necks around the
openings of vessels for containing liquid or other matter formed with parts of
continuous double, thread screws adapted to engage and be secured in position as
Bet forth.
2. The herein described arrangements or combinations of parts of caps and vessels
to be closed thereby formed with double threaded part screws on each respectively
adapted to be engaged and locked in position in manner and for the purposes herein
set forth.