IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED WATERS AND THE LIKE AND IN STOPPERS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Ferguson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th August 1882.
JOHN FERGUSON of Ashton Keynes in the County of Wilts
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED WATERS AND THE LIKE AND IN STOPPERS
FOR THE SAME
"
The objects of my said Invention are to provide bottles and stoppers for the
same which stoppers are wholly internal stoppers with no aid for their suspension
on the outside of the bottles, and whilst they effectually preserve the aërated waters
in the bottles they can at the same time be readily unfastened or brought into
position for withdrawing the contents of the bottle affording a ready and large
passage for the liquid and also the Invention has for its object to render the bottles
strong and not so liable to breakage as are such bottles as at present formed.
According to my said Invention the bottle is formed of a cylinder or body part
of glass or other material with a short strong thick head blown moulded or other-
wise formed or fixed thereon in place of the ordinary neck.
This short strong
head has in it the orifice which is closed by the stopper-This orifice is formed
wider at the top than at the lower part or the orifice may be cylindrical and a ledge
or rim be formed at the lower part thereof The orifice opens at the interior of the
bottle into a shouldered internal part-The stopper consists at its lower part of a
plug piece grooved for the reception of a ring or closing piece of India rubber and
is furnished at its upper part with a semi-cylindrical portion (or part of equivalent
shape) which is of such a size and shape as to project beyond the closing part of
the stopper to be readily pressed upon for forcing down the stopper when the
liquid is to be withdrawn, the said upper part is also of such a shape and size as to
allow the stopper when depressed to fall down so that the plug portion lies under
the shoulder of the bottle and a free passage is given for the liquid, the upper part
of the stopper at the same time resting upon the ledge or in the contracted lower
part of the orifice in the head of the bottle so as to prevent the stopper from falling
into the bottle-Between the part of the stopper which thus retains the said
stopper in position and the closing part of the stopper there is a waist or contracted
part or middle which greatly facilitates the stopper taking a position for giving &

page_text: free passage for the liquid which passage is still further facilitated by cutting away
or forming a recess in the upper part of the stopper
The stopper and bottle thus formed according to my Invention give a very free
passage for the liquid from the bottle or for a cleaning brush into the bottle for
the stopping or corking part lies well under the internal shouldered part of the
interior of the bottle beneath the orifice in the head of the bottle, the contracted
waist or part between this corking part and the upper or retaining parts allows of
this position of the stopper being taken. The retaining part is simply held
against or by the internal part of the orifice in the head of the bottle whilst the
recessing of the upper part of the stopper is such as to obstruct the orifice as little
as possible.