An Improvement in Bottles, Jars, and the like and in Means for Stoppering and Closing the same.
Year: 1899

page_text: An Improvement in Bottles, Jars, and the like and in Means for
Stoppering and Closing the same.
We, HARRY TROTMAN, and WELFORD AND SONS LIMITED, of 97, Elgin Avenue,
Maida Vale, in the County of Middlesex, Dairy Farmers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficient means
for toppering or closing bottles, jars, and other like vessels, and is especially
intended for application to vessels for delivering milk to consumers, but is also
applicable to vessels for containing other fluids semi-fluids, or solids.
According to this invention an annular recess is formed in the inner surface
of the neck or mouth of the bottle or jar for example, and a wad, disc, or plate
of greater diameter than the top of the said neck or mouth, and approximating
more or less closely to the diameter of the said recessed portion, is forced through
the neck or mouth until its circumferential edge lies in the said recessed portion
which it may fit more or less closely.
The wad, disc, or plate may be of card-board, or other suitable material or
combination of materials, and is preferably protected on one or other sides by a
layer of parchment, wax, or other suitable moisture-resisting material.
When it is desired to open or unclose the bottle or jar the wad, disc, or plate
is forced inwards by the thumb or finger so as to cause it to turn one quarter
of a revolution when it can be pulled out of the neck or mouth of the bottle or
jar by the finger and thumb, Or it may be punctured by any suitable tool or
implement and be drawn out of the neck or mouth of the bottle or jar by such
instrument.
1000
An Improvement in Bottles, Jars, and the like and in Means for
Stoppering and Closing the same.
We, HARRY TROTMAN, and WELFORD AND SONS LIMITED, of 97, Elgin Avenue,
Maida Vale, in the County of Middlesex, Dairy Farmers, do hereby declare the
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page_text: 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficient means
for stoppering or closing bottles, jars, and other like vessels, and is especially
intended for application to vessels for delivering milk to consumers, but is also
applicable to vessels for containing other fluids semi-fluids, or solids.
According to this invention an annular recess is formed in the inner surface
of the neck or mouth of the bottle or jar for example, and a wad, disc, or plate
of greater diameter than the top of the said neck or mouth, and approximating
more or less closely to the diameter of the said recessed portion, is forced through
the neck or mouth until its circumferential edge lies in the said recessed portion
which it may fit more or less closely.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings illustrate in plan and vertical
section respectively a bottle, with our invention applied thereto. a is the recess
in the inner surface of the neck b of the bottle c. d is the wad, disc or plate
shewn in various positions hereinafter described.
The wad, disc or plate d may be of card-board or other suitable material or
combination of materials, and is preferably protected on one or both sides by a
layer of parchment, wax, or other suitable moisture-resisting material. It is
shewn in the act of being forced into position by the curved dotted lines in
Figure 2, and in position in the recess a in full lines in the same figure.
When it is desired to open or unclose the bottle or jar the wad, disc, or plate d
is forced inwards by the thumb or finger so as to cause it to turn one quarter of
a revolution more or less, as illustrated by the straight dotted lines at an angle
to the top of the bottle in Figure 2. It can then be pulled out of the neck or
mouth of the bottle or jar by the finger and thumb. Or it may be punctured
by any suitable tool or implement and be drawn out of the neck or mouth of the
bottle or jar by such instrument.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
First. In bottles, jars, and the like, the employment of an annular recess in
the interior surface of the neck or mouth thereof for the reception of a wad, disc,
or plate, substantially as described with reference to the drawings and for the
purpose specified.
Second. The improved means for stoppering and closing bottles, jars, and the
like which consists in forcing a wad, disc, or plate into a groove or recess formed
in the inner surface of the neck or mouth of the bottle or jar substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 20th day of November 1899.
H. TROTMAN,
WELFORD & SONS LIMITED.
Per W. H. Beck,
Agent, 115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.