IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS.”
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hiram Codd, of Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING
AERATED LIQUIDS.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hiram Codd at the Office of
the Coinmissioners of Patents on the 24th May 1876.
HIRAM CODD, of Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS."
In the Specifications of my former Patents I have described bottles for con-
taining acrated liquids, which bottles were closed by a stopper of glass held by the
prossure within the bottle up to and against a ring of elastic material carried in
the neck.
My present Invention has for its object to provide a cheap means of forming
bottles to be closed in this manner.
For this purpose I secure within the mouth of the bottle a cylindrical cap or
filling piece of glass to secure or carry the ring of elastic material. The cylinder
or cap may externally be shaped to fit the mouth of an ordinary soda-water bottle.
At its upper end it may have an external flange to come above the top of the lead,
and its lower end may be reduced in diameter and have a ring of vulcanized india-
rubber or other clastic material sprung on to it. The ring of rubber I make of
such a depth as to project beyond the end of the glass cylinder, so that the internal
stopper shall rest only against the ring. The exterior of the elastic ring bears
against the interior of the neck of the bottle, so that when the internal stopper
bears against the end of the ring a perfectly tight joint is obtained. The cylindrical
cap of glass I secure within the mouth of the bottle by wireing in the same
manner that corks are now ordinarily secured.
In place of the elastic ring being sprung on to the lower end of the cap or filling
piece of glass an internal projecting shoulder may be left in the lower part of the
head of the bottle for the elastic ring to rest upon, and a plain ring or cap of
glass may then be placed in the mouth above the elastic ring to secure it in its
place, the glass ring or cap being itself held down by wireing as before mentioned.
By this means the elastic ring will in each case be held, as it were, in a groove in
the neck of the bottle, and the bottles themselves may be made by the bottle
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page_text: makers just as readily as any ordinary soda-water bottles without any previous
practice, whilst at the same time the advantage of all the parts with which the liquid
comes into contact being of glass, as in the bottle described in the Specification
above mentioned, is maintained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Hiram Codd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th November
1876.
HIRAM CODD, of Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS."
In the Specification of my former Patents I have described bottles for con-
taining aerated liquids, which bottles were closed by a stopper of glass held by the
pressure within the bottle up to and against a ring of elastic material carried in
the neck.
My present Invention has for its object to provide a cheap means of forming
bottles to be closed in this manner.
For this purpose I secure within the mouth of the bottle a cylindrical cap or
filling piece of glass to secure or carry the ring of elastic material. The cylinder
or cap may externally be shaped to fit the mouth of an ordinary soda-water bottle.
At its upper end it may have an external flange to come above the top of the
head, and its lower end may be reduced in diameter, and have a ring of vulcanized
india-rubber or other elastic material sprung on to it. The ring of rubber I make
of such a depth as to project beyond the end of the glass cylinder, so that the
internal stopper shall rest only against the ring. The exterior of the elastic ring
bears against the interior of the neck of the bottle, so that when the internal
stopper bears against the end of the ring a perfectly tight joint is obtained. The
cylindrical cap of glass 1 secure within the mouth of the bottle by wireing in the
same manner that corks are now ordinarily secured.
In place of the elastic ring being sprung on to the lower end of the cap or filling
piece of glass an internal projecting shoulder may be left in the lower part of the
head of the bottle for the elastic ring to rest upon, and a plain ring or cap of glass
may then be placed in the mouth above the clastic ring to secure it in its place,
the glass ring or cap being itself held down by wireing as before mentioned. By
this means the elastic ring will in each case be held as it were in a groove in the
neck of the bottle, and the bottles themselves may be made by the bottle makers
just as readily as any ordinary soda-water bottles without any previous practice,
whilst at the same time the advantage of all the parts with which the liquid comes
into contact being of glass, as in the bottle described in the Specification above
mentioned is maintained.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
more fully the manner of performing the same.
Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings annexed shew side views partly in section of
bottles fitted as above described, to retain aerated liquids. In the bottle shewn at
Figure 1 the mouth of the bottle is shaped like any ordinary bottle which has to
be closed by a cork, into the mouth is inserted a cap a of glass, the lower part
of this cap is of smaller diameter than the mouth of the bottle, and has a ring b of
vulcanized india-rubber sprung on to it. The ring at its top rests against a shoulder
formed around the cap and at its bottom projects below and overlaps the bottom
of the cap so that when the globular or other rigid stopper is pressed upwards by
the pressure within the bottle it bears against the ring and the ring is nipped
between the bottle and the globular or other rigid stopper, whereby a perfectly
tight closing of the bottle is obtained. The cap either has grooves formed across
it, as shown at Figures 3 (which represent separate views of the cap), and is secured
to the head of the bottle by wires lying in these grooves, as will be well understood,

page_text: or the upper part of the cap may be formed, as shewn at Figures 4, with a projecting
flange all around it for a wire or sheet metal fastening, such as represented at
Figure 4*, to rest upon.
The neck of the bottle is shewn to have contractions formed in it as described in
the Specification of a former Patent granted to me to hinder the stopper from
dropping to the bottom of the bottle, and also to impede it from rolling up to the
mouth of the bottle during the time that the contents are being poured out.
In the bottle shewn at Figure 2 an internal projecting shoulder is formed in the
lower part of the head; the clastic ring b rests upon this shoulder, and is held down
to it by the glass cap a, which is formed to fit into the mouth of the bottle and on
to the top of the head as shewn. This cap, like the one shown at Figures 3, is also
formed with grooves across it at the top for the wires which are to secure it to the
head to lie in.
Various views of this cap are shewn at Figures 5.
The lower portion of the cap a which enters into the mouth of the bottle is
shewn to fit over the upper part of the elastic ring, so throwing the ring into a
somewhat conical form to better receive the globular stopper. The upper part of
the ring also rests against a shoulder formed around the cap as in the arrangement
shewn at Figure 1. The lower portion of this cap might if desired, be made square
at its end, and simply to bear upon the top of the ring, the ring being then
suitably formed to fit the groove or recess left between the bottom of the cap and
the shoulder at the lower part of the head of the bottle. The caps a are formed
of glass. The glass is pressed into moulds of the form desired, as is well under-
stood.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of perform-
ing the same, I would have it understood that I am aware that it has before been
proposed to secure rings of elastic material within the heads of bottles fitted with
internal stoppers by means of caps secured to the heads by means of wireing, but
that I claim,
First. The securing elastic rings within the heads of bottles by means of caps of
glass substantially as described.
Second. Forming the caps and elastic rings as herein-before described in such
nanner that the rings rest at the top upon a shoulder formed around the cap,
and at the bottom project below the bottom of the cap, whereby a perfectly tight
joint is obtained when the globular or other stopper is pressed upwards against
the ring.
Third. The construction of bottles for containing aerated liquids, substantially
as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hiram Codd, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.