IMPROVE MENTS IN CORKS OR BUNGS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR LIQUIDS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,.
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN CORKS OR BUNGS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR
LIQUIDS." A communication from abroad by Adolphe Jacquesson, of
Paris, in the Empire of France.
MENTS IN CORKS OR BUNGS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR
LIQUIDS." A communication from abroad by Adolphe Jacquesson, of
Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 1st December 1865, and dated the 5th June 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 5th June 1865.
I, JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORKS OR BUNGS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEP..
TACLES FOR LIQUIDS," a communication to me from abroad by Adolphe Jacquesson,
of Paris, in the Empire of France, to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in making one or more annular grooves round
corks or bungs intended for closing bottles and other receptacles for liquids,
and in introducing into such annular groove or grooves a ring or rings of
caoutchouc, gutta percha, leather, or of any suitable elastic material, whereby.
a more effectual closing of the neck or orifice of the bottle or other liquid.
holder is obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Henry Johnson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 5th December 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the 28th year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Henry Johnson, Her special license that I, the said John
Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, adminis-
trators, or 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORKS OR BUNGS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES FOR LIQUIDS," a communication to me from abroad by Adolphe
Jacquesson, of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 John Henry Johnson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, referenco being had to the accompanying Drawings, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
My said Invention in making one or more annular grooves round
corks or bungs intended for closing bottles and other receptacles for liquids,
and in introducing into such annular groove or grooves a ring or rings of
caoutchouc, gutta percha, leather, or of any suitable elastic material, whereby
a more effectual closing of the neck or orifice of the bottle or other liquid
holder is obtained.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood I shall now

page_text: proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved stopper or cork; Fig. 2 is
an external elevation of the same complete; Fig. 3 is an external elevation
of the same without the elastic ring, and Fig. 4 represents an elevation
and plan of the elastic ring detached before its introduction into the annular
groove or grooves.
A is the body of the cork; B an annular groove which is cut round
the cork, by preference nearer the top than the bottom thereof, so that
the contents of the bottle or vessel may not be liable to come in contact
therewith. Into this groove is introduced an elastic ring C, which when
composed of caoutchouc, gutta percha, or similar gums must be first treated
with a view to the removal of the unpleasant flavour therefrom.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
First, the application and use to and in the closing of bottles and vessels of
corks or bungs provided with one or more packing rings of elastic material,
substantially as herein-before described.
Second, the constructing of corks or bungs with one or more annular grooves
containing elastic packing rings, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Johnson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Fifth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.S.)
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.8.)