CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR SECURING OR FASTENING CORKS OR STOPPERS INTO BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS USED TO CONTAIN EPPERVESCING OR OTHER LIQUORS, OR WET OR DRY INGREDIENTS, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1854

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by Henry Bauckham and Howard Glover
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition and
Declaration, on the 19th August 1854, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
BAUCKHAM, of Number Two, New Walk, Saint John, Southwark, in the County
of Surrey, Engineer, and HOWARD GLOVER, of the same Place, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS we, the said Henry Bauckham and Howard Glover, have
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR SECURING OR
FASTENING CORKS OR STOPPERS INTO BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS USED TO CONTAIN
EPPERVESCING OR OTHER LIQUORS, OR WET OR DRY INGREDIENTS, AND FOR OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES:"
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Henry Bauckham and Howard
Glover, do hereby declare the nature of our Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
:-

page_text: Our Invention as improvements consists in the construction of an apparatus
or instrument to answer the same purpose as wire, string, capsules, and other
known contrivances, for fastening or securing corks and stoppers in bottles and
other vessels used to contain effervescing or other liquors, or wet or dry ingre-
dients, such apparatus or instrument to be constructed as follows, viz. :-A collar
or ring of tin, iron, brass, or any other suitable material is to be formed to fit
the neck of the bottle or other vessel; and from the one side of the said collar or
ring, passing over the cork to the other side of the said collar or ring, a band of
similar or any other material, but moveable, is to he fitted, by means of rivets
or hinges, at each extremity of the said band, on to each side of the said collar
or ring, so as to admit of its swinging backwards and forwards over the top of
the cork, and thereby capable of securing or loosening the cork at pleasure,
without the necessity of destroying the fastening apparatus, or removing the
same from off the neck of the bottle or other vessel; which said improvements
are not only applicable to the securing or fastening of corks or stoppers of
bottles containing effervescing or other liquors, but to every description of bottle
or vessel requiring corking or stopping. By the application to a bottle or other
vessel used to contain effervescing or other liquors, or wet or dry ingredients, of
our improved apparatus or instrument, greater ease, security from danger, and
economy in fastening and securing corks or stoppers, and in uncorking or
unstopping bottles or other vessels, is to be accomplished, inasmuch as such
several operations may be effected without the necessity of passing bottles or
other vessels from hand to hand in bottling or filling, or in securing and
fastening the corks or stoppers; nor is there any necessity to destroy the
apparatus or instrument itself in uncorking or unstopping, as is the case in
all methods now in use for similar purposes.
In the construction of our improvements we do not limit ourselves to the
precise size or design, nor to the manufacture thereof from any particular
material, but extend the same to any size and design, and to the manufacture
thereof from any suitable metal or material.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we claim as our improvements in the con-
struction of an apparatus or instrument for securing or fastening corks or
stoppers into bottles and other vessels used to contain effervescing or other
liquors, or wet or dry ingredients, and for other similar purposes, a readier and
quicker mode, and attended with less danger, loss, and labor of corking or
stopping, and uncorking or unstopping such bottles and other vessels; of
securing or fastening the corks or stoppers, and a saving or avoiding of the

page_text: necessity of using any other instrument or tool to assist in the corking, stop-
ping, uncorking, or unstopping; and also obviating the necessity of destroying
the said apparatus or instrument in the process of uncorking or unstopping.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Bauckham and Howard Glover,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Nineteenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
HENRY BAUCKHAM. (L.8.)
HOWARD GLOVER. (L.B.)