IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING THE TOPS OF BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NARCISSE
LEROY, of Paris, in the Kingdom of France, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Narcisse Leroy, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Narcisse Leroy, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Narcisse Leroy, my exors, adiñors, or assigus, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERING THE TOPS OF
BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER VESSELS," communicated to me by a certain Foreigner
residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said Narcisse Leroy, shall cause a particular description of the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Narcisse Leroy, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
The Invention consists of so forming metal caps or covers to bottles, jars,
and other vessels, that by producing indents therein such indents may, by
entering into screws formed on the outside of the necks or mouths of such
vessels, be screwed thereon, and thus made fast, and at the same time retain
the corks or other stoppers securely in the mouths of such vessels. This
Invention requires that the bottles, jars, or other vessels to be used should have
screws on the outer surfaces of the necks or mouths; at the same time no
claim is made thereto, as it is not new to manufacture bottles with screws on
the exterior of their necks. The caps or covers are to be made of sheet
metal, which is either to be raised by stamping in dies to the figure and size
required, or they may be made by soldering parts together, the metal being of
such a degree of stiffness as to enable it to retain its shape, notwithstanding the
pressure of other action to which it may, in use, be subjected.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents an exterior view of the neck of a bottle having a cap or
cover thereon (shewn in section) according to the Invention; Figure 2 shews
an external view of the neck of the bottle, and also of the cap or cover thereon;
Figure 3 shews a section of the bottle, and of the cap or cover thereon; and
Figure 4, an interior view of the metal cap or cover separately. a is the screw
forined on the neck of the bottle, 6 is the cork or stopper, and ċ is the metal cap
or cover, which will readily fit over the upper part of the neck of the bottle; and
it will be evident that if indents such as d, d, be made into the cap, so that they
enter between the threads of the screw, the cap would not come off by simply
lifting as an ordinary loose cover or cap, but the same would have to be
unscrewed from the neck of the bottle. I would, however, remark that the
indents are not made when on the necks of bottles, but previously to applying
them to bottles. In fact these indents represent portions of a corresponding
female screw, and it is the forming such indents projecting into the interior of
the metal caps or covers of bottles, jars, and other vessels which constitutes
the novelty of the Invention.
Figure 5 shews a cap or cover applied to a bottle containing aërated liquor,
such cap or cover having a hole through it at the top, as shewn at Figure 6.
The object of this hole is to allow of the use of the instrument, Figure 7, to
remove the cover, and yet retain the cork or stopper, which is accomplished in

page_text: the following manner:-The end e is placed on the upper surface of the cork
or stopper, and the part e¹ is pressed against the neck of the bottle, so as
partly to embrace it, as is shewn at Figure 5. The cap or cover c may then
be unscrewed and passed along the instrument e off the neck of the bottle,
and the cork will be retained securely in the mouth till the instrument is
withdrawn.
Figures 8, 9, 10, and 11 shew the same views in respect to a jar which
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 shew in respect to a bottle, and they are marked
with the same letters of reference.
It will be evident that in this manner other vessels having similar necks or
mouths to those of bottles and jars, and being formed with screws, may have
similar covers or caps applied thereto. The metals used may be copper, iron,
brass, or other sheet metal having sufficient stiffness to retain their shape, as
herein explained.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is, the making metal caps or covers for bottles, jars,
and other vessels with indents d, d, to take into screws, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Narcisse Leroy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One.
thousand eight hundred and forty-five...
Taken and acknowledged by Narcisse
Leroy (party hereto), at Paris, in
the Kingdom of France, this 24th
day of May, in the year of our
NARCISSE (L.s.) LEROY.

page_text: Majesty's Consul at Paris, in the Kingdom of France; and this Deponent
further saith, that the signature "Thomas Pickford," set, subscribed, and
written in the margin of the Specification of a Patent hereunto annexed,
marked A, and dated the Twenty-fourth day of May instant, and purporting
to be executed by Narcisse Leroy, of Paris aforesaid, Merchant, whereby it is
stated that the said Specification was acknowledged by him, the said Parcisse
Leroy, before the said Thomas Pickford, on the said Twenty-fourth day of
May, at Paris aforesaid, is of the proper handwriting of the said Thomas
Pickford
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of William Henry Ritchie,
the Specification aforesaid was. enrolled word for word as above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One 20
thousand eight hundred and forty-five.