IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING OR STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Bertrand Ollivier, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING OR STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 25th January 1860, and dated the 8th August 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 8th August 1859.
I, LOUIS BERTRAND OLLIVIER, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING OR STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS, AND
OTHER RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to a new, simple, and economical means of securing
the corks or stoppers of bottles, cruets, jars, or other vessels used for con-
taining gaseous liquids, acids, drugs, and other liquids which require to b>
hermetically closed.
This improved means may be substituted with advantage for the strings,
wires, or other means usually adopted for fastening the corks or stoppers of
bottles and other vessels.
These improvements consist in forming two holes diametrically opposite to
each other in the neck of the bottle or other vessel. After the cork or
stopper is placed in position, a nail, pin, or other rod is forced through it, of a
kind suitable to pass through the cork or stopper and bottle neck.

page_text: It will be readily understood that after the insertion of the nail or pin, the
cork is fixed in the bottle or other vessel closed, and that any internal pressure
cannot force it out of its place. In order to liberate the cork or stopper, it is
simply necessary to withdraw the cross pin or nail, which is easily performed.
This method of corking or stoppering offers the greatest facilities for
capsuling and sealing bottles or other vessels, as the cross pin may be
enclosed in the capsule, or it may receive two wires, which pass under the
seal and label.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd February. 1860. . .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis
BERTRAND OLLIVIER, of No. 29, Boulevart, St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier, Her special licence that I, the said
Louis Bertrand Ollivier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier, 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 CLOSING OR STOPPERING BOTTLES,
JARS, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 Great Seal Patent Office within six:
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE,. that I, the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by

page_text: tlie following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings;
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to a new, simple, and economical means of securing
the corks or stoppers of bottles, cruets, jars, or other vessels used for .con-
taining gaseous liquids, acids, drugs, and other liquids which require to be
hermetically closed. The means employed may be substituted with advantage
for the strings, wires, or other means usually adopted for fastening the corks
or stoppers of bottles and other vessels.
..
These improvements consist in forming two holes diametrically opposite to.
each other in the neck of the bottle or other vessel. After the cork or stopper
is placed in position, a nail, pin, or other rod is forced through it, of a kind
suitable to pass through the cork or stopper and bottle neck..
It will be readily understood that after the insertion of the nail or pin, the
cork is fixed in the bottle or other vessel closed, and that any internal
pressure cannot force it out of its place. In order to liberate the cork or
stopper; it is simply necessary to withdraw the cross pin or nail, which is
easily performed.
i.
This method of corking or stopping offers the greatest facilities for
capsuling and sealing bottles or other vessels, as the cross pin may be enclosed
in the capsule, or it may receive two wires, which pass under the seal and
label.
In the annexed Prawing, Fig. 1 shows an empty bottle without its cork,
and provided with two holes diametrically opposite to each other. Fig. 2
shows the same bottle filled, and having its cork in, with the nail or pin
engaged through it, which is provided with two metallic wires, one of which
passing under the cork seal and the other under the label. Fig. 3 shows a
beer jar, filled, and having a pin crossing the cork; this pin has a double
metallic wire which passes under the cork seal. Fig. 4 shows a small bottle
or flagon filled, through the cork of which is inserted a pin, having a double
metallic wire which passes under the cork seal. Fig. 5 shows a vessel for
containing acids or alkalis, with a ceramic or other stopper crossed by a pin.
Fig. 6 shows a small bottle or flagon for containing any products; a pin is
inserted through the cork. Fig. 7 shows a cork or stopper for any of the
described vessels. When a cork is used, it requires no hole being made
through it; but when the stopper is of ceramic or other matter, then it must
be pierced through for allowing of the insertion of the pin. In all the
Figures, the same letters stand for like parts.
a shows the body of the bottle, flagon, jar, or other vessel; b, b, holes,
made diametrically through the neck for the insertion of the pin; c, metallic

page_text: wires, passing under either the cork seal or the label; d, the cork seal;
e, the label; f, the cork or other stopper; 9, the pin or nail (represented
in detail, Fig. 8).
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said improvements
in stopping bottles, &c., I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein described, as such may be varied
or modified without departing from the principle of action thereof; but I claim
as new and of my Invention, the improved process for stopping bottles, jars,
and other vessels, substantially as described and as represented in the annexed
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Bertrand Ollivier, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
L. B. OLLIVIER. (L.S.)