Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 10th Jan, 18º2
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
I, LOUIS CHAUMONDE of Place de l'Hotel de Ville à Brive Correze France
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in stoppers for bottles, jars and other
vessels containing either effervescing or still liquids and has for its object to
dispense with the moving of corks the depression of marbles and such other tedions
operations which had to be performed with the stoppers hitherto in use and which
besides being liable to injure the person trying to open a bottle, thus corked or
stoppered, required the use of special tools.
Now according to my invention all these defects are obviated as my improved
stopper can be readily removed without any particular effort being exerted.
In carrying my invention into practice I use a stopper of glass, china, wood or
other substance which is inserted in the mouth of a bottle and rests upon an india
rubber ring passed over the said stopper. The top or head of the stopper is
furnished with a perforation formed through the side thereof, or carries a loop or
staple if made of wood or other similar substance. A chain is passed through this
perforation, staple or loop and is secured at one end by a screw pin passing through
one of its links and through the two bent up ends or flanges of a ring placed around
the neck of the bottle, these ends being furnished with tapped perforations so that
the screw pin may likewise secure the ring to the neck of the bottle.
The other end of the chain is fixed to the lower extremity of a snap lever
pivoted by means of two pins or rivets to tvo lugs formed on the middle of the
ring.
In some cases, I pivot a lever upon a transverse pin passing through the top of
the two lugs furnished at their lower parts with two perforations through which is
inserted a headed pin passing also through a corresponding perforation of the said
lever.
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RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
1, LOUIS CHAUMONDE, of Brive (Corrèze), in the Republic of France, do
hereby declare the 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in means for stoppering bottles or flasks,
such as require hermetically sealing.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
I, LOUIS CHAUMONDE, of Brive (Corrèze), in the Republic of France, do
hereby declare the 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:
This invention relates to improvements in means for stoppering bottles or flasks,
such as require hermetically sealing.
In the drawing annexed-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a system of stoppering with a lever locked by a pin.
Fig. 2 is a plan.
Fig. 3 represents the lever in section.
Fig. 4 is an elevation of a system of stoppering with a spring catch.

page_text: In carrying out this invention the improved system of stoppering bottles or flasks
is composed of a clip a the two extremities of which are connected by a screw b,
which permits of enlarging or diminishing the clip a. The latter is fixed on the
neck of the bottle below its shoulder. A ringe is soldered on the clip a, receiving
a chain d, which passes over the porcelain stopper e furnished with a rubber ring f
adapted to close the bottle hermetically. Opposite the ring e, there are two lugs g
to which is hinged a lever h which has a hook i to engage the chain d at any part
of its length. The lugs and the lever are formed respectively with a hole,
through which is passed a pin furnished with a knob adapted to lock the lever h
in position between the lugs g.
To open the bottle or flask, the lever is depressed and the pinj withdrawn and
the lever then released.
To close the same, the chain dis drawn tight, the stopper e is placed on the
mouth of the bottle or flask, the lever depressed and the locking pin j passed
through the same and the lugs g.
In the system of stoppering, shown in Figs. 4 & 5, the lugs g receive a double
spring catch, which move between the same. This spring catch k receives at
their lower ends a chain d, which passes over the stopper e and the other end of
which chain d is fastened to the clip a by passing the screw through one of the
chain links.
To close the bottle or flask, the chain d is drawn tight, the stopper e is brought
back perpendicular on the mouth of the bottle, the spring catch k is depressed and
thus positioned against the bottle.
To open the bottle or flask it is sufficient to depress the spring catch k in an
opposite direction.
A modification of the preceeding system is represented in Figs. 6 & 7. It
consists in dispensing with the chain d and using in lieu thereof two rods 1 & 1¹, the
extremities of which are furnished with a thread and nuts m. Across the stopper e
is placed a bar formed at each end with an eye adapted to receive the rods 1 & 1.
By screwing down or
regulated. The rods & are fixed to the spring catch k and the screw b by
the nuts m the height of the stopper on the neck can be
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means of two S links. The opening of the bottle or flask takes place by the
depressing of the spring catch k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
A new system of stoppering bottles, jars, and other vessels, characterized
principally by-
1st. A clip a surrounding the neck or fixed by means of a screw b, ring c, a
chain d passing over the stopper e furnished with a rubber ring f, lugs g lever h
and a locking pinj adapted to fix the lever h in position, substantially as described
and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 & 3.
2nd. A spring catch, connected by means of a chain d, passing over the
stopper e to the screw b, substantially as described and illustrated in Figs. 4 & 5.
3rd. A spring catch k connected by a rod furnished with a nut m, with a bar
placed across the stopper e which receives on the opposite side the rod also
secured to the said bar and connected with the screw 6, substantially as described
and illustrated in Figs. 6 & 7.
Dated this 15th dow of Do1001
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.