An Improvement in Securing Corks or Stoppers in Military and other Water Bottles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Securing Corks or Stoppers in Military and
other Water Bottles.
MAXWELL WILLIAMS of 29, Great St. Helens, London E.C. in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is the application of a spring or springs to secure
corks or stoppers in military and other water bottles, in the following manner.
I attach a strip or strips of spring steel, brass or other suitable material to the top
of the cork or stopper of sufficient length to be bent over the edge and continued
down the side of the cork or stopper so far as may be necessary to spring over and
grip the neck of the bottle. The end or ends of the strip or strips being closed in
to press on the cork or stopper and the extremity of the strip slightly turned
outwards.
The usual practice hitherto has been to attach the cork or stopper with a
loose lanyard to its bottle and experience has proved that the corks or stoppers
are constantly jerked or knocked out and the contents lost; the lanyard only pre-
venting the cork or stopper from being dropped or lost. When fitted with my
improvement herein before described, the act of putting the cork or stopper into
the neck of the bottle causes the strip or strips to open slide over and firmly grip
the outside of the neck thus securing the cork or stopper firmly in the neck of the
bottle.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of March 1892.
MAXWELL WILLIAMS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Securing Corks or Stoppers in Military and
other Water Bottles.
MAXWELL WILLIAMS of 29 Great St. Helens London E.C. in the County of
Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is the application of a spring or springs to secure
corks or stoppers in military and other water bottles in the following manner.
I attach a strip or strips of spring steel brass or other suitable material to the
top of the cork or stopper of sufficient length to be bent over the edge and con-
tinued down the side of the cork or stopper so far as may be necessary to spring
over and grip the neck of the bottle the end or ends of the strip or strips being
closed in to press on the cork or stopper and the extremity of the strip slightly
turned outwards. The usual practice hitherto has been to attach the cork or
stopper with a loose lanyard to its bottle and experience has proved that the corks
or stoppers are constantly jerked or knocked out and the contents lost, the lanyard
When fitted with
only preventing the cork or stopper from being dropped or lost.
my improvement hereinbefore described the act of putting the cork or stopper into
the neck of the bottle causes the strip or strips to open slide over and firmly grip
the outside of the neck thus securing the cork or stopper firmly in the neck of the
bottle. The strip or strips may be of any section and also may be bent to a
curved, wavy or corrugated form in the direction of the length.

page_text: In the drawing hereunto annexed the letter A denotes the spring in each
figure.
Figure 1, represents the plan of a cork so fitted the dotted portion being the
spring.
Figures 2 and 3 represent elevations of this cork and
Figure 4 is a view of the cork fitted into the neck of a metal bottle.
Figure 5 is a plan of a cork fitted with a spring suitable for bottles of glass or
other thick material.
Figures 6 and 7 are elevations of this cork and spring and
Figure 8 is an elevation of the cork and spring fitted to a glass bottle.
Figure 9 is the plan of a cork with a wavy or corrugated spring and
Figures 10 and 11 elevations of this same and
Figure 12 an elevation of the cork and spring fitted in the neck of a metal
bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The application of a strip or strips of spring steel brass or other suitable material
attached to the cork or stopper in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 21st day of December 1892.
MAXWELL WILLIAMS.