Improvements in or relating to Stoppering-devices for Bottles and similar Receptacles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
Improvements in or relating to Stoppering-devices for Bottles and
similar Receptacles.
A communication from LOUIS BOUNEU, of 34 Rue de la Bourse, Brussels, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention relates to a stoppering device to protect the liquids
contained in bottles or similar vessels against any attempts at counterfeiting by
rendering impossible the substitution of other liquid for the original contents.
The neck of the bottle is provided at the top on the inner surface with a groove.
The stopper is made of glass or other suitable material, and intended to receive
valves; it is provided with two passages, one of which affords passage to liquid
and the other to air. Dowel pins are provided which engage in recesses made for
this purpose in the stopper for reasons hereinafter explained; holes or recesses
are made on the stopper in which enter lugs formed on the valves, which are
hinge or flap valves, pivotted on those lugs. Of the valves, made of glass or
other suitable material, four or more or less are used, according to the requirements
of the case.
The bottle being filled, the stopper is placed in the neck this stopper having been
previously fitted accurately to the neck by means of emery paper.
The stopper having been well fixed in the neck so as to bring its upper surface
level with the lower edge of the groove a metal plate is placed on the stopper
and by means of a suitable instrument a corrugation made in the said plate is
flattened, which plate then expands radially and enters into the groove of the neck,
thus preventing the stopper from coming out.
Two cork plugs are placed in the opening at the upper end of each of the
two passages through circular holes made above them in the metal plate in
order to prevent the liquid from escaping during transport or when the bottle is
horizontal. To empty the bottle, it is sufficient to remove the two cork plugs, and
the liquid can come out.
When the bottle has been completely emptied, or even uncorked by removal
of the cork plugs it is impossible to introduce liquid into it through the passages
in the stopper because of the non-return flap valves therein and as the stopper
cannot be removed, being kept in by the expanded plate above it, the bottle when
once emptied can only be thrown away or broken being no longer of any use.
The stopper is made in two parts moulded in the press and applied one to
the other after the valves are engaged with the holes which receive their pivots.
The dowel pins ensure the proper positioning of the two halves of the stopper.
Ded this 2nd day of May 1896
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Stoppering-devices for Bottles and
similar Receptacles.
A communication from Louis BOUNEU, of 34 Rue de la Bourse, Brussels, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 111 Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 present invention relates to a stoppering-device to protect the liquids contained
in bottles or similar vessels against any attempts at counterfeiting by rendering
impossible the substitution of other liquid for the original contents.
Figure 1, represents part of a bottle the neck of which is provided at the top on the
inner surface with a groove at A.
Figure 2, represents in section the stopper made of glass or other suitable material
and intended to receive valves E; it is provided with two passages B one of which
affords passage to liquid and the other to air. are dowel pins which engage
in recesses made for this purpose in the stopper for reasons hereinafter explained;
D are holes or recesses in which enter lugs formed on the valves E which are
hinge or flap valves pivotted on those lugs in the position indicated by dotted
lines in Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 represents the valves, made of glass or other suitable material, of which are
used 4, or more or less according to the requirements of the case.
Fig. 4 represents the stopper in front elevation,
Fig. 5 represents in section a metal plate with ribs G or a bead or corrugation
struck up on it.
Fig. 6 represents a section of the same metal plate with the corrugation flattened
out of it as hereinafter described,
Fig. 7 is a plan of the metal plate with the corrugation upon it,
Fig. 8 is a plan of the metal plate with corrugation flattened.
The bottle being filled, the stopper is placed (Figs. 2 and 4) in the neck, this stopper
having been previously fitted accurately to the neck by means of emery paper.
The stopper having been well fixed in the neck so as to bring its upper surface level
with the lower edge of the groove is placed on the stopper a metal plate shown in
Fig. 5 and by means of a suitable instrument is flatten out the corrugation made in
said plate which plate then expands radially & enters into the groove A of the neck
thus preventing the stopper from coming out.
Two cork plugs are placed in the opening at the upper end of each of the two
passages B, through circular holes made above them in the metal plate shown in
Figs. 7 and 8 in order to prevent the liquid from escaping during transport or when
the bottle is horizontal. To empty or use the bottle, it is sufficient to remove the two
cork plugs, and the liquid can be poured out.
When the bottle has been completely emptied or even uncorked by removal of
the cork plugs it is impossible to introduce liquid into it through the passages B
in the stopper because of the non-return flap-valves E therein and as the stopper
cannot be removed being kept in by the expanded plate above it, the bottle when
once emptied can only be thrown away or broken being no longer of any use.
The stopper is made in two parts moulded in a press and applied one to the
other after the valves are engaged with the holes D which receive their pivots
the dowel pins C ensure the proper positioning of the two halves of the stopper.

page_text: The stopper is formed so as to afford suitable seating for the valves and to prevent
illicit tampering with the valves.
Having now particularly described the nature of the said invention as
communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. A system of stoppering bottles and similar vessels characterised by a stopper
of glass or other suitable material with passages containing non-return valves of
any desired number, the stopper being formed to fit the neck of the bottle and
being protected against removal by a metal or other plate secured in an inner groove
of the neck, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting a complete sioppering
device substantially as and for the purpose described, and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.