Improvement in Removable Bottle-stoppering Device.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1898-Accepted, 23rd July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Removable Bottle-stoppering Device.
ALBERT THIEMS, Merchant, at Hamburg, Lehmweg 33, in Germany, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement-
The object of the present invention is to serve as a stoppering-device for bottles
and vessels of any description. Besides an easy management it offers the advan-
tage, that, after loosening the fastening shackle it drops by itself from the
bottle, without leaving any metal particles which generally soil the bottles
mouths.
The three last figures of the adjoined drawings show the use of the device,
when applied to champagne-bottles, for which it is chiefly destined.
Fig. 1, 2, 3, show the different pieces the device is composed of. Fig. 1 shows
the top-shackle, a the head-plate of which adapts itself to the cork. The flap c,
bent at a right angle, is fitted with an eye at its lower end c¹ whereas the opposite
flap d terminates with a nose d. Fig. 2 shows two semi-circles to put around
the neck of the bottle e one end of which is shaped into eyes e¹ whereas the other,
likewise bent end e2 shows a groove.
Fig. 3 shows the closing hoop. It consists of the upper part f and the
handle g. Fig. 4 shows how this device operates. The hoop is hung over the
nose d¹ and into the grooves of the flaps e² and then turned in the direction of
the arrow,
until it reaches the position marked by the dotted line, when the
curve f will slide over the nose and pull it downwards, the flaps e² being fixed,
until it adopts the dotted line position, this being obtained by the distance A, B
being smaller than A, C. At B a rounding-out prevents the hoop from snap-
ping backwards. A similar rounding out is to be found at A, pressing together
the flaps e, thus obtaining a firm support by the neck of the bottle, Fig. 6.
Fig. 5, 6, 7, show how the device is applied.
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On manufacturing the hoop it must be given a shape in conformity with the
neck of the bottle, Fig. 6 and 7, to prevent the hoop from interfering with the
packing of the bottles, and, eventually, avoid an unintentional opening. On
the hoop may finally be pasted on a label of the firm, for more securities' sake,
and the top-plate 6 also provided with a stamped wording.
If a bottle close in this way is to be opened, one need only pull off the handle
of the hoop g in the direction contrary to that of the dotted line, when the clos-
ing device may, at once, be removed from off the bottle-neck without the use of
any tool. The corks must be protruding from the bottles to such a degree that,
without using any tool, they may simply be removed with the hand.
Bottles and vessels, the contents of which is not under constant pressure do
not want corks entering far into the necks. When using the preceding
stoppering-device it suffices to put a disk of cork or indiarubber or any other
appropriate matter on the mouth of the corresponding vessels.
This same system may also, in a simplified shape, be adapted for vessels with

page_text: linked-on or similarly fastened stoppers, fitting a nose similar to ea to the vessel
and another similar to d to the stopper. The closing-hoop f―g remains the
same as well as its mode of operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is―
A stoppering-device removable from a vessel, characterized by a ring in halves e
encircling the vessel and, linked into it the hasp b, c, d catching the stopper,
the ends of the split ring as well as of the hasp b, c, d constituting projections
opposite one another e² and over which is placed a hoop acting as a lever, with
a sector nearly of the shape of a rectangular triangle f in the direction of the
cathetus A, B, its hypothenuse f¹ forming a curve and destined to produce
gradual contraction of the projections and e², the corners of the cathetus A, B
being somewhat rounded out e³ and f for securing the closing position.
Dated 16th day of June 1898.
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CARL O. LANGE,
Agent for Applicant.