IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF OR IN FITTINGS OR APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES OR VESSELS, WHETHER FOR EPPERVESCING, GASEOUS, OR FERMENTED, OR FOR OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lorenzo Gori, of Florence, in the Kingdom of
Italy, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF OR IN
FITTINGS OR APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES OR VESSELS,
WHETHER FOR EPPERVESCING, GASEOUS, OR FERMENTED, OR FOR OTHER
LIQUIDS."
Scaled the 31st August 1875, and dated the 8th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lorenzo Gori at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th March 1875.
I, LORENZO GORI, of Florence, in the Kingdom of Italy, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MRANS
OP OR IN FITTINGS OR APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES OR VESSELS,
WHETHER FOR EFFERVESCING, GASEOUS, OR FERMENTED, OR FOR OTHER LIQUIDS," to
be as follows:-
The Invention comprises the use of fittings constructed with eccentric
or inclined surfaces (such fittings being herein-after termed eccentrics)
for bringing to bear or into operation pressure on a stopper so as

page_text: effectively to close a bottle or vessel, the eccentrics to be applied either
above or below its mouth.
It is contemplated to use a band or clip to be applied in halves or
pieces to belt round and below the neck of the bottle; also sling or strap
pieces from the neck band for taking the strain or pressure between the
stopper and the neck band or clips, such sling or strap pieces being either
separable or affixed to, or partly affixed to the neck band; also an clastic
or other stopper with metal or hard external surface, on which the
eccentrics may press; or the eccentrics are sometimes to be made or
provided for in the sling or strap fittings themselves.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lorenzo Gori in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LORENZO
GORI, of Florence, in the Kingdom of Italy, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eight day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Lorenzo Gori, Her special
license that I, the said Lorenzo Gori, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Lorenzo Gori, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MEANS OF OR IN FITTINGS OR APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES
OR VESSELS, WHETHER FOR EFFERVESCING, GASEOUS, OR FERMENTED, OR FOR OTHER
LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Lorenzo
Gori, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the

page_text: Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Lorenzo Gori, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly describe and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention comprises the use of fittings constructed with eccentric
or inclined surfaces (such fittings being herein-after termed eccentrics)
for bringing to bear or into operation pressure on a stopper so as
effectively to close a bottle or vessel, the eccentrics to be applied either
above or below its mouth.
It is intended to use a band or clip to be applied in halves or pieces to
belt round and below the neck of the bottle; also sling or strap picces
from the neck band for taking the strain or pressure between the stopper
and the neck band or clips, such sling or strap pieces being either
separable or affixed to, or partly affixed to, the neck band; also an elastic
or other stopper with metal or hard external surface, on which the
eccentric may press; or the eccentrics are sometimes made or provided
for in the sling or strap fittings themselves.
The accompanying Drawing is intended to serve as an illustration of a
convenient mode of performing the Invention.
The bands or clips are shown by Fig. 1, and are of metal furnished
with lugs b and holes a as shown, for the purposes of their being united
and fixed together beneath the band p, round the neck of the bottle or
vessel.
Figs. 2, 3, & 4, show other parts of the apparatus, in which fare the
metal sling or strap pieces, having at their upper parts a chase or guide
as shown, in which the studs o of the disc m may be received and slide
up or down. The lower part of the metal sling or strap is furnished
with several holes r for the purpose of receiving the clip piece or lug c,
shown in Fig. 1. To the disc m is fixed an elastic conical plug or
stopper, made of vulcanized india-rubber, or of other convenient
elastic material; & is a spring uniting the disc m with the lever e of the
eccentric g, working on an axis in ƒ as shown at h. Fig. 3 shows the
apparatus or fittings complete and closed on a bottle.

page_text: Fig. 4, 5, & 6, show other forms of apparatus that may be applied to
bottles made of a fixed or definite shape; these forms are somewhat
similar to those above described, excepting that the band is differently
arranged. To one of its picces is fixed a strap f, and to the other a
small eccentric clasp e, see Figs. 4, 5, & 6, and the disc m is furnished
with two eyes, in one of which is received and held the top of the strap f,
and in the other the moveable strap p, as shown; the strap f is also
furnished with a small tooth r, serving to assist in fixing the apparatus
to the neck of the bottle B.
Fig. 7 shows a band or belts of metal, having grooves or slits therein,
so that the stopper may be held and fixed at different distances by means
of two teeth 1, Fig. 6, which are formed to fit in any of the slits in the
band s.