IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF WIRE COVERINGS FOR SECURING THE CORKS OF BOTTLES CON- TAINING SPARKLING WINES OR OTHER FERMENTED OR EFFERVESCENT LIQUIDS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and
6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND
APPLICATION OF WIRE COVERINGS FOR SECURING THE CORKS OF BOTTLES CON-
TAINING SPARKLING WINES OR OTHER FERMENTED OR EFFERVESCENT LIQUIDS."
—A communication from Jean Adrien de Mestre, residing at Paris,
Rue St. Roch, 24, Merchant.
ealed the 4th October 1872, and dated the 25th July 1872.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 25th July 1872, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18;
Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send grecting.

page_text: WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTs in
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF WIRE COVERINGS FOR
SECURING THE CORKS OF BOTTLES CONTAINING Sparkling WINES OR OTHER FER-
mented or EffervESCENT LIQUIDS," communicated to me bay Jean Adrien
de Mestre, a person resident at Paris, Rue St. Roch, 24, Merchant, and 1
have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and mado
solemn Declaration that it is a communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and 1
scal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being to the
accompanying Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for making, .1
shaping, placing, fixing, and scaling the linked wire caps for bottles,
patentec by myself, bearing date January 19th, 1872, and numbered 174,
specially intended for use in closing bottles containing sparkling wines
and other effervescent or fermented liquids.
The Invention is divided into four corresponding parts, the combina-
tion of which constitutes a complete system of apparatus applicable to
the object in view.
The first part comprises the apparatus for manufacturing the wire net;
the second, the apparatus for moulding the same into the required form;
the third part is the apparatus by means of which the cap is placed on 2
the cork and round the neck of the bottle; and the fourth, the tool
employed for embossing or impressing the trade mark on a lead disk or
scal in connection with the same.
The various apparatus are represented in the accompanying Drawings,
in which similar parts are indicated by the same letters of reference.
The first part or appparatus for manufacturing the wire not is shown in
Fig. I., II., III., IV., and me bay subdivised into two secondary parts;
the apparatus for twisting the wire, and the apparatus, used for making
the wire net. Fig. I. is a plan view, and Fig. II. a sectional elevation
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page_text: of the first apparatus. a, is a wooden frame or table on which the
apparatus is mounted; b, a bed plate made of cast iron and provided
with a circular projection c in which openings occur at stated distances
to avoid friction, and in which moves the bevil wheel d operating, by
means of the winch e and the six pinions f, the six horizontal shafts g
carried by the six fixed bearings h. The ends of these shafts are articu-
lated.at i and provided with moveable hooks j which hold the wire for
the purpose of forming the twists. A spiral spring k surrounding each
of the shafts g and placed in the sockets brings the former back into
their primitive position as soon as the twist is formed, and at the same
time maintains a proper tension of the wire to secure regularity in
twisting it. One of the shafts is extended at m beyond the bed plate 6,
and is provided with a longitudinal opening in which the wire is placed,
thus allowing the wire to be twisted without entangling its extremities.
This shaft is provided with two pivots n at its extremity instead of a
hook, which offers a bearing point in order that the wire may be twisted
in the same way as on the hooks. At each side of the outer end of this
shaft is placed an apparatus o which retains the wire in its horizontal
position. p are moveable bearings which follow the concentric motion
of the shafts g. p', Fig. II., represents the bearing as seen when this
movement is performed. q are slides in which the moveable bearings p
are worked, and which are provided with notches at their extremities'
to permit the deflection of the bearings in order to disengage the wire
when the twist is completed. At this moment the hooks occupy the
position shown at j. Fig. II. 8 are moveable hooks, drawing towards
the centre the wire shown by the dotted lines t. &indicates one of
these hooks after having performed this operation, when the wire
occupies the position shown by the dotted lines t'. u are the slides in
which these hooks are operated. The latter are worked by the arms v
articulated on one or more rings sliding on a central vertical shaft x,
and operated by a pedal y. ' show one of the said arms when the hook 8'
has operated it. z is a handle by means of which a slight circular move-
ment is given to the purpose of disengaging the hooks j from the links
formed by twisting the wire. This effected by turning the bearings p
by the action of the arms a¹, which allows the removal of the star formed
by the wire, which is then placed on the apparatus intended to produce
the links, represented in plan view, Fig. III., and in sectional elevation
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page_text: The second apparatus is constructed in nearly the same manner as the
first, with table a, bed plate b, bearing plate 6', circular projection c,
bevil wheel d, winch e, pinions, shafts g, fixed bearings h, jointed
shafts ends i, hooks j, springs k, sockets l, moveable bearings p,
handle, and arms a'. The horizontal shafts and pinions being only
five in number.
The star formed by the apparatus heretofore described is placed on
a disk m mounted at the upper end of a central vertical shaft n, which
may be raised or lowered by the action of the lever o worked by the
handle q. All these organs are used for disengaging the completed net-
work. A vertical appendice placed at the centre of the disk euters the
central opening of the star, the six branches of which enter a corres-
ponding number of slots formed in the circle 8, in order to hold them
uniformly separated and maintain the rigidity' of the rings formed at
their extremities. The wire is next passed crossewise successively and
alternately through each of these rings and each of the hooks i̟, which are
successively brought opposite to the workman by the circular movement
of the bearing plate, and its two extremities are connected together by
three half turns round each other made by the hand at the point l', and
the network then presents the appearance shown by the dotted lines u.
A twist of one turn and a quarter is then given to it by turning the
shafts g, thus giving it a proper tension and forming loops at the
extremities of the star which now has the form shown by the dotted
lines. By raising the disk m the star is disengaged, and the two ends
of the wire are passed by hand, one through the two right hand loops of
the network, and the other through the two left hand loops; both ends
are then crossed by passing them through the loop opposite their starting
point, where they remain unattached, and which are holded by hands
when the network is to be shaped into a cap by the use of a third
apparatus, herein-after described.
This apparatus which forms the second part of the Invention is repro-
sented in Fig. V., VI., VII., VIII. Fig. V. is a side elevation and Fig. VI.
an end elevation of the said apparatus; and Fig. VII. and VIII. plan
and side views of nearly the usual size of the shaping apparatus properly
so called. This apparatus is composed of a block or bench a on which
the workman is seated, and to which is fastened by screws, bolts, or
otherwise a projection or boss b, being the fulcrum of the lever c, d,

page_text: whose longer arm d is connected by the rod e to a pedal f, articulated on
one of the legs of the bench. On the end of the shorter arm c bears the
lower extremity of a vertical rod g, sliding in the hollow upright h firmly
fixed to the bench. The upper end of this rod is provided with a notched
crown piece i, having at its centre a projecting point j which passes
through the central ring of the wire network. The notches formed in
the crown piece are equal in number to the twists in the wire net to be
used for surrounding the cork.
In order to give the network the proper shape it is placed on the crown
piece i and pressed down over it by the hand; the ends of the wire are
then tightened by hand round the fixed column / below the projecting
ring formed at its upper end, and the vertical rod g and crown piece i
arc raised by pressing with sufficient force on the pedal fin order to give
required depth to the wire cap. The long arm of the lever c, d, is pro-
vided for this purpose with several holes at different distances from its
extremities in which the connecting rod e may be fixed. A spiral
spring m placed between the short arm c and the lower surface of the
bench lowers the short arm when the pressure on the pedal ceases, and
allows the sliding rod 9 and the crown piece i to descend in order that
the completely shaped wire cap may be disengaged. The wire cap is
now ready to be applied to the neck of the bottle by means of the
apparatus hereafter described.
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and in plan Fig. XI. a is a
seated; b, a cast-iron upright
cap fixed to the lower end of a
This apparatus which constitutes the third part of the Invention,
and the tool forming the fourth and last part of the same, are shown in
side view Fig. IX., in elevation Fig. X.,
bench or block on which the workman is
securely bolted to the bench; c, a metal
short rod, which is fastened by a screw nut d to the upper bent end of
the upright b. This cap is used to compress the cork and the wire cap
in order to fix the latter on the nock of the bottle, and may be changed
to suit the size and form of the neck. e is a round iron rod passing
through the bench and provided at its upper end with a block f on which
the bottle is placed. The lower end of the said rod forms a rack gearing
with a cog wheel g, mounted on a shaft which turns on bearings placed
in arms & bolted to the bench. This shaft is moved by a double lever i
pivoted at j, j, and fulcromed at k, worked by the pedal;
bracket at one end to the rod e, and at the other end to a vertical
is a

page_text: rod sliding in the upper and bent part of the upright b, through which
it passes. On the rod n, serving as their pivot, are mounted two hinged
arins o, which may be fixed by means of screws nuts at a height corres-
ponding to the size of the bottles. The front parts of these arms when
placed together form a collar round the neck of the bottle, which holds
it during its ascending movement and while the wire cap is being applied.
The arms are brought together in front when the rod is raised by the
action of their other ends on the two inclines » fixed at each side of the
upright b, and they are separated in front when their opposite ends are
brought together by the pressure of the two arms q, placed at each side
of the upright b, and also forming inclined plaus when the rod u is
lowered.
In order to fix the cap on the bottle the latter is placed on the block
with its neck between the front parts of the arms o, the pedal is pressed
down, and the bottle is raised with the wire cap placed over it and
pressed down over the cork, which was inserted by means in general use.
The upper part of the neck is then placed into the cap e, where the wire
net and the cork are sufficiently pressed by corresponding pressure on
the pedal Z, then the extremities of the wire forming the cap are held
one in each hand. twisted together, passed through the leaden disk, and
cut off close its edge. The trade mark or other impression is next made
on both sides of the disk by means of the tool herein-after described.
This tool is mounted on an arm fixed to the side of the bent part of the
upright b, and is composed of two jaws 8, t, with cavities in which are
inserted steel dies u, engraved with the design intended to be applied to
the disk. The jaw & is fixed, while the jaw moves on a pivot under
the action of a lever o, whose lower end form an excentric which bears
on the moveable jaw ₺ and compress the disk between the two dies.
Two spiral springs a placed one between the two jaws, and the second
outsido and connecting the lever with the support of the tool, serve
to open the jaws after the impression has been formed on the two
faces of the disk when the workman no longer presses on the handle of
the lever.
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Having thus described the Invention, and the manner of carrying it
into effect, I would state that I do not intend to confine myself to the
precise details above given, which may obviously be modified without
departing from the principles of the Invention; but what I claim and

page_text: desire to secure by the said Royal Letters Patent is, the combination of
apparatus for making, shaping, moulding, placing, fixing, and sealing a
wire cap with a looped border for closing bottles of sparkling wines or
other gaseous, or fermented, or effervescent liquids, substantially as
aboved described and represented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.