AN INTERNAL CAPSULE FOR BOTTLES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip Michaelis, of Number 8, Great Winchester
Street Buildings, in the City of London, for the Invention of "AN
INTERNAL CAPSULE FOR BOTTLES."-A communication from abroad by
Jules Becker, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
Sealed the 16th August 1872, and dated the 22nd May 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Michaelis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd May 1872.
I, PHILIP MICHAELIS, of No. 8, Great Winchester Street Buildings,
in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN INTERNAL CAPSULE FOR BOTTLES," a communication to me
from abroad, by Jules Becker, of Paris, in the Republic of France, to be
as follows:-
The Invention relates to means whereby the liquid contained in
bottles is prevented from coming in contact with the corks or other
substances employed to close their orifices, whereby the possibility of the
taste of such cork or other substance being imparted to the contents is
obviated.

page_text: The Invention is specially applicable to bottles corked in accordance
with the Invention communicated to me by the said Jules Becker, for
which I have also this day applied for a Patent under the title of
"Improved Means or Apparatus for Stoppering Bottles," but it is also
applicable to bottles corked and capsuled in the manner described in the
Specification of a Patent granted to the said "Jules Becker," on the 21st
October 1869, No. 3065, and in some cases to bottles corked in the
ordinary manner.
The Invention consists in the employment of a suitably shaped
capsule which may be of metal such as that known as Bett's metal, or
other suitable substance inserted into the neck of the bottle before the
application or introduction of the cork or other stopper, in such manner
as to envelope the surface thereof contained in the bottle, and thereby
prevent contact between the liquid and the said cork or stopper.
Between the flange of the said capsule and the edge of the mouth of the
bottle an india-rubber or other elastic washer may in some cases be
interposed the more effectually to prevent leakage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Philip Michaelis in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st November 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
MICHAELIS, of No. 8, Great Winchester Street Buildings, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Philip Michaelis, Her special licence that I, the
said Philip Michaelis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Philip Michaelis, 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

page_text: 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 Philip Michaelis, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing,
that is to say :-
This Invention relates to means whereby the liquid contained in
bottles is prevented from coming in contact with the corks or other
substances employed to close the orifices, whereby the possibility of the
taste of such cork or other substance being imparted to the contents is
obviated.
The Invention is specially applicable to bottles corked in accordance
with the Invention communicated to me by Jules Becker, for "Improved
Means or Apparatus for Stoppering Bottles" for which Letters Patent
were granted to me, bearing date the 22nd day of May 1872, but it is also
applicable to bottles corked and capsuled in the manner described in the
Specification of a Patent granted to the said Jules Becker, on the 21st
October 1869, No. 3065, and in some cases to bottles corked in the
ordinary manner.
The Invention consists in the employment of a suitably shaped
internal capsule which may be of metal, such as that known as "Betts
metal," or of other suitable substance A, see Fig. 1 of the Drawing,
inserted into the neck of the bottle before the application or introduction
of the cork or other stopper B, in such manner as to envelope the surface
thereof contained in the bottle, and thereby prevent contact between the
contents and the said cork or stopper.
The figure shows in full black line the internal capsule A, suitable for
a bottle stoppered in accordance with the method described in the Speci-

page_text: fication of the Patent herein-before referred to, as having been granted to
me, and the Fig. 2, the internal capsule C, suitable for a bottle stoppered
with an ordinary full sized cork D which may be introduced into the
neck of the bottle after the internal capsule has been inserted by means
of an ordinary corking machine. Between the flange of the said internal
capsule and the edge of the mouth of the bottle an india-rubber or other
elastic washer E may be interposed, if preferred, in cases where the cork
or other stopper is compressed thereon, as in Fig 1, the more effectually
to prevent leakage.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to or may be performed, I would have it
understood that what I claim is, the use of internal capsules enveloping
that surface of the cork or other stopper which is contained in the bottle,
adapted and applied substantially as described and shown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Michaelis, have hereunto sct
my hand and seal, this 20th day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.