Improvements in Means for Closing Bottles and for Opening them to enable portions of their Contents to be Removed or Sprinkled therefrom.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Feb.,
1898
Improvements in Means for Closing Bottles and for Opening them to
enable portions of their Contents to be Removed or Sprinkled
therefrom.
We, BETTS AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of No. 1, Wharf Road, City Road, in the
County of London, and WILLIAM NIMMY, of 4, Oakley Road, Southgate Road,
Islington, in the said County, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention to be as follows:
In means for closing bottles and for opening them to enable portions of their
contents to be removed or sprinkled therefrom it has been customary to provide a
part fixed to the neck or mouth of the bottle and containing an orifice with a
valve seating around it and to provide another part which can be screwed upon
the first named part and which has formed with it a plug or valve which when
the one part is screwed down upon the other rotates with it and is depended upon
to close the opening in the first named part but it has been found impossible by
this means to secure a sufficiently tight closure without expensive fitting of the
valve to its seat. The object of this invention is to provide means whereby a
very efficient closure can be effected at very small cost and without any expensive
fitting of the parts.
Acording to this invention the valve proper is made separate from the parts
which screw upon each other and is contained within that part which is screwed
upon the part fixed to the bottle so that when the one part is screwed down upon
the other the valve is forced down upon the seat around the orifice from the
bottle and efficiently closes it. The said valve is preferably made of metal or other
hard substance with a bearing surface of a yielding material but it may be made
entirely of metal.. The outer part which screws upon the part secured to the
bottle is perforated above the valve and the orifice therein in which the valve is
situated is of such a size or shape that when the one part is screwed outwards
from the other part the valve can leave its seat and the liquid.in the bottle can
be poured or shaken therefrom. When the one part is screwed down upon the
other part a bearing surface on the part which is so screwed down bears against
the back of the loose valve and presses it firmly upon its seat and securely closes.
the bottle.

page_text: Improvements in Means for Closing Bottles and for Opening them to
enable Portions of their Contents to be Removed or Sprinkled
therefrom.
We, BETTS AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of No. 1; Wharf Road, City Road, in the
County of London, and WILLIAM NIMMY, of 4, Oakley Road, Southgate Road,
Islington, in the said County, Engineer, 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:-
In means for closing bottles and for opening them to enable portions of their
::contents to be removed, or sprinkled; therefrom (and commonly known as
sprinklers) it has been customary to provide a part-fixed to the neck, or mouth,
of the bottle, and containing an orifice, with a valve seating around it and to
provide another part which can be screwed upon the first named part and which
has, formed with it, a plug, or valve which, when the one part is screwed down
upon the other part, rotates with it and is depended upon to close the opening
in the first named part, but it has been found impossible by this means to secure
a sufficiently tight closure without expensive fitting of the valve to its seat.
object of this invention is to provide means whereby a very efficient closure can
be effected at very small cost and without any expensive fitting of the parts.
The
We will describe this invention with reference to the accompanying drawing
which represents in elevation (with the part 6 in section) a bottle neck provided
with a device according to this invention Figure 1 shewing the passage for the
exit of liquid from the bottle closed and Figure 2 shewing it open.
According to this invention the valve proper (shewn at a) is made separate
from the parts b and c, and is contained within the part b which is screwed upon
the part which is secured in the mouth of the bottle preferably by being provided
with a hollow stem inserted into the cork d. When the part b is screwed down
upon the part c the valve a is forced down upon the seat around the orifice at f
in communication with the interior of the bottle and efficiently closes it. The
said valve a is preferably made of metal or other hard substance with a bearing
surface of a yielding material but it may be made entirely of metal. The part b
which screws upon the part e is perforated above the valve at 2 and the
space within the part in which the valve a is situated is of such a size and
shape that when the part is screwed outwards from the other part c as shewn in
Figure 2 the valte a can leave its seat and the liquid in the bottle can be poured,
or shaken, therefrom. When the part b is screwed down upon the part e the
bearing surface 63 on the part 6 bears against the back of the loose valve a and
presses it firmly upon its seat around the orifice f and securely closes the bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-.
A device or sprinkler for closing and opening bottles the said device or sprinkler
consisting of a perforated part carried in the mouth of the bottle and a second
perforated part screwing upon it and a loose valve unconnected to either part

page_text: and situated in the space in the said second part substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of January 1898.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.