Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
I, HENRI ANDRÉ DESBOIS, of 8-10, Route de St. Barthélemy, Angers, De-
partment of Maine and Loire, France, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention concerns a safety controlling stopper which renders the
bottle. to which it is applied non-refillable.
The apparatus is composed of a hollow metal cylinder, slightly widened at its
upper part, where it has a circular expansion or flange which covers the top of
the neck of the bottle in which the stopper is fixed; this flange or collar is
fixed to the neck either by means of small rivets or with clasps or with sealing-
wax, ribbons, strings or the like sealed on the bottle and bearing the manu-
facturer's trade mark.
The upper half of the stopper is slightly truncated and the lower part is cylin-
drical; at the bottom of the truncated part grooves or openings are made in the
side, over the whole circumference, and above these openings the stopper has
segmentary shoulders cast to it, leaving empty spaces between them, also in the
form of segments; in the cylindrical part of the stopper is an annular empty space
between it and the interior side of the neck of bottle. At the height of the
segmentary shoulders below the said holes, a truncated chamber is connected
with the sides of the stopper, in the interior of the latter, this chamber extending
in a cylindrical form over the whole height of the interior cylindrical part of the
stopper; at its lower part, the stopper has holes over the whole circumference
communicating the interior of the stopper with the annular space comprised
between the exterior cylindrical side of this stopper and the interior of the neck
of the bottle. A screw coupling-box with truncated interior is connected with
the lower end of the stopper, the upper part of this coupling-box serves as a seat
to a valve composed of a solid disk connected with an open truncated cone which,
when the bottle is upright, penetrates into the coupling box so as to stop the
lower opening of the stopper to prevent all introduction of liquid into the bottle;
the stopping is secured, moreover by a heavy ball or a weight in a truncated
conical form which is lodged in the cylindrical chamber existing above the
valve, and which presses upon the latter when the bottle is standing.
When the contents of the bottle is poured out, the said ball or feeder falls into
the truncated chamber above-mentioned, the valve-slips into the cylindrical
chamber which follows the truncated chamber, and the liquid can then escape
through the different holes above-mentioned which are all free.
When the bottle is set upright the top opening of the stopper is stopped with
a small stopper in rubber, cork or the like. Moreover, the sides of the safety

page_text: stopper are lined at the top and bottom with two rubber or cork cylinders to
secure the tightness along the interior sides of the neck.
The safety-stopper can be made of metal, glass porcelain or any other suitable
matter.
Dated this 31st day of December 1897
L. DUVINAGE,
Patent Agent, 8, Rue des Princes, Brussels, Belgium.
I, HENRI ANDRÉ DESBOIS, of 8-10, Route de Saint Barthélemy, Angers, De-
partment of Maine and Loire, France, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to a safety controlling stopper intended to prevent
the refilling of the bottles to which it is applied.
This stopper possesses the advantage of permitting a regular discharge of the
liquid contained in the bottle taking place when the latter is sufficiently inclined
or tilted, whilst at the same time preventing by its perfect water tightness the
entry of any liquid poured in through the neck of the bottle with the object of
refilling this latter." This stopper is consequently one of great value to the
manufacturers of well known brands of liquors, pharmaceutical productions, and
the like, who suffer grave losses in consequence of the unfair competition to
which they are subjected by the filling of bottles bearing labels or seals similar
to that of their houses or firms with products similar to theirs but of an inferior
quality, when such bottles have been emptied of their contents emanating from
an authentic or legitimate source.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a vertical section through the axis of a safety controlling stopper
fitted to the neck of a bottle.
Fig. 2, shows the same stopper as seen in elevation from the exterior.
Fig. 3, shows in elevation a modification of the safety controlling stopper
applied to a bottle.
Fig. 4, is a vertical section through the axis of this latter.
In this stopper S is a metallic casing the upper part of which is provided with
an aperture, and the lower portion A of which is of a slightly truncated coniform
shape as far as C, afterwards cylindrical, and lastly again conical at the extreme
portion E which is internally tapped or screw-threaded. P is a washer cast in
one piece with the casing S, and C represents a circular shoulder. Extending
through the casing. b, c, and d, are openings, the first above the shoulders or
beadings C, and the others below the said shoulders or beadings, and so arranged
that the openings 6 reach down to the shoulders or beadings, and that the
openings are placed below the openings c. T is an interior cap cast in one
piece with the casing S and located at the height of the shoulders or beadings C,
this cap being provided with a stop K at the apex of its interior wall.
M is a loader or weight of a spherical, cylindrical, or other suitable form,
placed in the chamber D situated below the cap T.
Openings care for the liquid to pass through the apparatus.

page_text: F is a screw-threaded ring screwed into the extremity E of the casing, and
forming a valve seating.
B is a conical valve closed and provided with a shoulder or beading m at its
upper end, and having an opening or aperture E¹ at its lower end, and openings
or apertures e in its lateral wall. u indicates a rivet which may be employed in
any suitable number, and is intended to hold the washer P, and h¹, h" are
washers of cork, india rubber or other suitable material, intended to stop and
insure the water tightness of the controlling or safety stopper.
The stopper is inserted into the interior of the neck X of the bottle, as shown
in Figs. 1, and 2, and in such a manner that the washer P will bear against the
end of the neck to which it is fixed, either by the rivets u, or by the hooks or
clips, or by sealing by means of wax, capsules, various ties of iron, tapes or
ribbons, strings etc., sealed to the bottle and impressed with the distinctive
mark of the firin.
When the bottle is in its normal position that is to say vertical, the shoulder
or beading m, by reason of the weight of the valve B, and of the action of the
loader or weight M, presses tightly upon the seating F and shuts off all com-
munication between the interior of the bottle and the exterior. It follows from
this that even in case of the controlling or safety stopper not being closed at
its upper part by the cork stopper h, the liquid contained in the bottle could
neither evaporate nor lose its qualities by continuous contact with the air, since
the valve B will always fall back of itself upon its seating F and thus hermetically
close the bottle.
When it is desired to pour out the contents of the bottle, by inclining or tilting
this latter after having removed the stopper 2, the loader or weight M falls into
the cap T, the valve B slides in the chamber D uncovering the openings d, and
the liquid in the bottle runs out at the openings. El and apertures e, the openings d,
the annular space comprised between the neck X and the chamber D, and the
openings b, b, to afterwards escape to the exterior.
When the bottle is again placed in an upright position the valve B falls upon
its seating and the loader or weight M falls back upon the upper part of the valve,
and thus insures the water tight closing of the bottle.
The openings or apertures for the passage of the liquid, may be of any suitable
shape and the controlling or safety stopper may be made of glass, porcelain,
wood, metal, or of any other suitable material.
A modification of the safety controlling stopper which has just been described,
which modification is illustrated in Figs. 3, and 4, consists in the dispensing with
the clack or valve and of the loader or weight, and in the replacing of the
metallic casing by a porcelain cylinder.
This modification consists of a porcelain cylinder S¹ open at its two ends and
divided into two parts by an internal diaphragm or partition M, also of porcelain,
and formed in one piece with the cylinder, thus forming two chambers or com-
partments C, and D. The walls of the chamber or compartment Care perforated
with holes c', and those of the chamber or compartment D with holes. The
cylinder Sis provided with a shoulder which rests, when the stopper is inserted
Between the internal wall of this
into the bottle, upon the neck of this latter.
neck and the cylinder S₁ there exists an annular clearance or space d', d; the
cylinder is fitted with two cork or indiarubber rings hand h which insure
its water tightness. The stopper properly so called, placed at the upper part of
the cylinder S, possesses a ring h¹ also composed of cork or indiarubber. When
the bottle is tilted, canted, or tipped up, in order to pour out the liquid which it
contains, this liquid passes from the chamber or compartment D, through the
holes into the annular space or clearance d', and from thence, through the
holes c, into the chamber or compartment C¹, and can then run out with a
regular discharge, the safety controlling stopper thus performing the office of
pouring out stopper.

page_text: 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:
In a safety controlling stopper the combination of a metallic casing formed
partly of a truncated coniform, and partly of a cylindrical shape, and divided
into two chambers or compartments by an internal cap, of a valve seating
screwed into the lower part of the casing, of a truncated coniform shaped valve
provided with an upper shoulder or beading, of a lower aperture and lateral
apertures, and finally of a weight or loader of a spherical, cylindrical, or other
form, located in the casing between the cap and the valve, the said controlling
stopper being closed and rendered water tight by means of washers of cork,
indiarubber, or other suitable materials, and the casing of the said stopper being
provided with an upper attachment washer fixed to the neck of the bottle by
means of rivets on hooks, an outer sectional shouldering arranged between the
truncated coniform and the cylindrical parts of the casing, and openings of suit-
able shape arranged in four rows, the openings of the first row being situated
above the shoulders and extending down to the latter, those of the second row
being comprised between the shoulders, and the two other rows of openings being
arranged below the shoulders; the said openings and those of the valve having
for their object to form a communication between the interior of the bottle and
the exterior thereof, and to permit the discharge of the liquid when, the bottle
being tipped up, the valve slides in the casing; the said valve closing the bottle
in a watertight manner, when it rests upon its seating, and in consequence of
this opposing the introduction into the said bottle of a liquid poured upon the
upper opening or aperture of the controlling stopper.
Dated this 17th day of October 1898.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant: