IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES".
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to Peter Philip Deslandes of St Helier's Jersey one of
the Channel Islands for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR
BOTTLES".
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Philip Deslandes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th December 1882.
PETER PHILIP DESLANDES of St Helier's Jersey, one of the Channel Islands
'IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES
"
The Invention has for its object improvements in stoppers for bottles and relates-
to that class known as outside stoppers used in bottling aerated liquids.
The body of my improved stopper is made of earthenware, or other suitable
material, provided around its lower part, with a ring of india rubber or other
suitable soft material to enter the mouth of the bottle.
The upper part of the body of the stopper is formed with a head piece to receive
the wire fastener which latter is formed of wire bent to the required shape and is
connected by loops to a wire passed around the neck of the bottle and fixed firmly.
thereto.
The upper part of the body of the stopper is also provided with a band of
material at the sides and passing over the head piece thereof, but leaving a space.
or opening between such parts, so that the wire fastener may be free to pass in
such space or opening over and away from the head piece on either side thereof.
The wire fastener is formed to pass up each side of the bottle neck and of the
stopper, and then to pass over the head piece of the stopper, a loop or projection
being formed on each side of the upper part of the fastening wire to facilitate the
manufacture thereof.
By these means the stopper is permanently fixed to the bottle, but is at the same
time freely moveable thereon, so as to enable it to be readily used, for closing and
opening the bottle as required, whilst by pushing the side loops or projections to
one side or the other of the head piece, the pressure within the bottle will force the
stopper out of the neck and towards one side thereof.

page_text: The head piece a¹ is formed with a flat or with an indentation c³ on the top
thereof to retain the wire fastener c in position when the bottle is closed.
In the modification shown at Figure 6 the space or opening a³ is formed only on
one side of the head piece a¹ of the stopper and the other side thereof is formed
solid so as to form a stop or abutment as to control the extent of movement to be
given to the wire fastener c when closing the bottle.
By these means the stopper is permanently fixed to the bottle but is at the
same time freely moveable thereon so as to enable it to be readily used for closing
and opening the bottle as required whilst by pushing the side loops or projections
c to one side of the head piece a¹ the pressure within the bottle will force the
stopper out of the neck and towards one side thereof or where no such pressure
exists the stopper may be removed by hand.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and the mode in which
the same may be carried into effect I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein shown and described as such may be
varied without departing from the nature of my Invention But what I claim is :-
Forming a stopper for bottles with a space or opening a³ in the head thereof to
allow of a wire fastener c moving freely therein to lock and unlock the stopper
substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
In Witness whereof I the said Peter Philip Deslandes have hereunto set my
hand and seal this thirtieth day of May in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
P. P. DESLANDES (L.S.)