AN IMPROVED MODE OF SECURING OR HOLDING CORKS IN THE NECKS OF BOTTLES, JARS, OR OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Westwood, of Brierley Hill, in the County
of Stafford, Glass Bottle and Stoneware Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF SECURING OR HOLDING CORKS IN THE NECKS OF
BOTTLES, JARS, OR OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS."
Sealed the 20th April 1860, and dated the 17th February 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Westwood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
February 1860.
I, EDWARD WESTWOOD, of Brierley Hill, in the County of Stafford, Glass
Bottle and Stoneware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF SECURING OR HOLDING CORKS IN THE
NECKS OF BOTTLES, JARS, OR OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS," to be as follows (that
is to say):-
My Invention which has reference to an improved mode of securing or
holding corks in the necks of bottles, jars, or otherwise, with the view to resist
the pressure of gaseous fluids and prevent the escape of gases or volatile
matters therefrom without requiring the ordinary capsules or fastenings,
consists in forming within the upper portions of the necks or mouths of
bottles, jars, or otherwise, during manufacture, a series of horizontal pro-

page_text: jecting rings, or annular corrugations, so as to allow the corks when inserted
to swell or take into the corrugations, and thereby secure the contents of the
bottle, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Westwood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
WESTWOOD, of Brierley Hill, in the County of Stafford, Glass Bottle and
Stoneware Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Westwood, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Westwood, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Westwood, 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 "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
SECURING OR HOLDING CORKS IN THE NECKS OF BOTTLES, JARS, OR OTHER SIMILAR
VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward
Westwood, 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 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 Edward Westwood, 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 the following
statement, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to say) :-
My Invention has reference to an improved mode of securing or holding
corks in the necks of bottles, jars, or otherwise, with the view to resist the
pressure of gaseous fluids, and prevent the escape of gases or volatile matters
therefrom, by which the ordinary capsules or fastenings are dispensed with,

page_text: and consists in forming within the upper portions of the necks or mouths of
bottles, jars, or otherwise, during manufacture, a series of horizontal pro-
jecting rings or annular corrugations, so as to allow the corks when inserted
to swell or take into the corrugations, and thereby secure the contents of the
bottle, or otherwise.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say):
Fig. 1 represents an external elevation of a bottle with my improvements
applied thereto; Fig. 2, a top or plan view; Fig. 3, a vertical section, taken
transversely through the dotted line in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a horizontal section
through the dotted line in Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a detached sectional view of the
upper portion or neck of the bottle, showing the application of the cork;
Fig. 6, a top or plan view upon a reduced scale of the tool or instrument for
forming the projecting rings or annular corrugations within the neck or mouth
of the bottle, showing the same in the position for being inserted or withdrawn
therefrom; Fig. 7, a corresponding view, representing the tool as held by the
workman in shaping or forming the corrugations; and Fig. 8, a side view of
the same.
In each Figure the same letters of reference denote similar
corresponding parts.
A, A, the bottle; B, B, mouth or opening; C, C, projecting rings or
annular corrugations formed therein; D, D, the cork; E, E, outer moulding
spring clips; F, F, inner metallic core, provided with annular corrugations
G, G, so constructed as to admit of being opened and closed by the action of
the studs and pivot centres Hand H'; I, I, guide bar secured to the core for
directing the action or movement of the outer moulding spring clips; J, J, slot
or opening through which the same works; K, K, recess or cavity formed in
the spring clips in which the lever ends L, L, of the core work, as represented
by the dotted line in Figs. 6 and 7; M, M, stay rod for securing the guide
bar to which it is attached; N, N, nuts for retaining the same in its position.
In conclusion to the foregoing description it may be here necessary to state,
that by the employment of the opening or expanding core in connection with
the outer moulding side clips, I am enabled to mould or make the inner
corrugations and outer surfaces of the mouths or openings of bottles, jars, or
other similar vessels simultaneously by giving a rotatory movement or action to
the tool or bottle, or otherwise, and causing the instrument to be released by
the expansion of the spring clips, and consequent contact or closing of the
parts composing the core.

page_text: Having now described the nature of this my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I would have it clearly understood that
I do not claim as of my Invention the exclusive use of the several parts
herein-before mentioned, except when the same are employed in and for the
purposes of my said Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in the
mode herein described of securing or holding corks in the necks or mouths of
bottles, jars, or other similar vessels for the above-mentioned purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Westwood, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
EDWARD WESTWOOD. (LS.)