IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES, DECANTERS, FLASKS, JARS, OR OTHER SIMILAR HOLLOW ARTICLES, AND IN THE MEANS OF STOPPERING OR CLOSING SAME."
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Blackburn at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th December 1878.
WILLIAM BLACKBURN, of Marsh, Huddersfield, in the County of York
"IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES, DECANTERS, FLASKS, JARS, OR OTHER
SIMILAR HOLLOW ARTICLES, AND IN THE MEANS OF STOPPERING OR CLOSING
SAME."
This Invention has for its object the obtaining of a more ready manner of opening
and closing bottles and other similar articles, also to make the stoppers connected
with them in such manner that the danger and inconvenience consequent upon the
usual custom of having loose or detached stoppers is entirely avoided.
And I construct my improved bottles, decanters, flasks, jars, or other similar
articles in such manner that instead of the stoppers being placed in at the top, as in
the case of heretofore coustructed bottles, decanters, and similar articles, the stopper
is placed in a suitably formed recess or opening or openings which I form in the
side or sides of the neck of the bottle, decanter, flask, jar, or other similar article, and
which opening or openings may be placed at or near the top or in such proximity
thereto as may be found most convenient and desirable, and I make the stoppers
which fit into the recess or openings thus made in the side of the bottle or other
article taper by preference, (or they may be made straight) and secure the same
firmly therein either by attaching nut and washer at one side or by casting flange
thereon, or by preference I use a small pin to secure the same, which pin may either
be secured in the bottle or other article or in the stopper, and which pin works in a
groove formed for the purpose, and in the latter case of securing the stoppers I only
make one opening in the side of the bottle or other article as the stoppers do not
require in such case to go through to fasten on the outward opposite side. In order
to render the stoppers perfectly "sealing" I either "grind" them in or place either
cork, india rubber, or other suitable substance in the recess or opening which receives
them, or place the cork, india rubber, or other suitable substance on the stoppers
themselves, as desirable. In the stopper is made an opening or aperture of corres-
ponding size to the opening in the neck of the bottle, decanter, or other article, or
the opening or aperture may be as much smaller as desirable, and as the stoppers are

page_text: made free to turn round, but not to draw out from the bottle or other article to
which they are fitted, it will at once be seen that in order either to fill or draw out
from the bottle or other article its contents that the stopper is only required to be
turned so that its opening is opposite to the one in the article to which it is fitted,
and either operation may be performed by so turning the stopper; it will also be
seen that any desired quantity may be withdrawn and the remainder kept perfectly
good whether the contents be beer, porter, aerated liquids, wine, or other liquids.
The stoppers also, by my improved construction of bottles and similar articles and
manner of fitting them thereto, always remain secure to them, and no danger of
losing them or annoyance of seeking lost stoppers is occasioned.
The bottles, decanters, flasks, jars, or other similar articles, as also the stoppers,
may be made of glass, china, earthenware, stoneware, or of any other suitable
material or substance.-