AN IMPROVED BOTTLE AND STOPPER
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John James Chidley, Gentleman, of Number Eleven,
Glaskin Street, Hackney, London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
BOTTLE AND STOPPER."
Sealed the 24th March 1864, and dated the 30th September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John James Chidley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th September 1863.
J, JOHN JAMES CHIDLEY, Gentleman, of Number Eleven, Glaskin Street,
Hackney, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED BOTTLE AND STOPPER," to be as follows:-
I propose to make a bottle, the top of the neck of which has á tubular
cross-piece at right angles to the neck, open at both ends; and having also an
opening into the neck of the bottle (so that the neck of the bottle forms what
is called a T-piece). I propose also to make a thin lining for the cross-piece
of cork or other suitable material, and a hollow stopper open at one end, withi
a hole in the middle of the side, so as when placed in the cross-piece to form
a channel into the neck of the bottle, so that the contents of the bottle can be
poured out through the hollow stopper, and by simply turning the stopper the:
bottle can be closed. A ground glass stopper can also be used (made as.
before described). if the inside of the cross-piece is ground instead of being.
lined.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John James Chidley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JAMES CHIDLEY, Gentleman, of No. 11, Glaskin Street, Hackney, London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtyeth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John James Chidley, Her special licence that I, the said John James
Chidley, or my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John James Chidley, or my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
BOTTLE AND STOPPER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
James Chidley, or my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John James Chidley, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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:-
I make a bottle, the top of the neck of which has a tubular cross-piece at
right angles to the neck, open at both ends, and having also an opening into
the neck of the bottle; also a hollow stopper, open at one end, with a hole at
the middle of one side, so as when placed in the cross-piece, to form a channel
into the neck of the bottle, so that the contents of the bottle can be poured
out thro' the hollow stopper, and by turning the stopper the bottle can be
closed. The cross-piece and stopper can be ground, or a thin lining of cork
can be placed in the cross-piece, or round the stopper.
The above described bottle, when required to be of glass, is blown in an
ordinary mould of two pieces, divided sectionally, except that the upper half of

page_text: the cross-piece forms part of the back half of the mould; it is blown from one
end of the cross-piece, the other end of the cross-piece being necessarily closed
is opened by grinding if used with the stopper, but if a common cork is used,
it can be left closed.
Another way of blowing the bottle in glass is also in a mould of two pieces,
but divided longitudinally as to the cross-piece, but blown from a tubular
opening in the centre of the upper surface of the cross-piece; the cross-piece
should also have a slight swell at the middle of each side to compensate for
the thickening of the glass at that part, and to reduce the friction on the
stopper in turning it. As in this mode both ends are closed, it is necessary
that the larger end of the cross-piece should be opened by grinding, so as to
admit the stopper.
A glass stopper for the last-described bottle can be made like the plunger of
a common tap, being merely a solid stopper with a transverse hole thro' it
about one-fourth of an inch from its smaller end. Both this and the first-
described stopper can be made in an ordinary mould by a lever press. The
thumb-piece should form the plunger.
But I do not claim any peculiar mode of making the before-described
bottles or stoppers, but what I claim as my Invention is, the making of a
bottle of any size, shape, or material, the top of the neck of which has a
tubular cross-piece, and the using in such tubular cross-piece a suitable
stopper.
In witness whereof, I, the said John James Chidley, have beretofore
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, A.D. One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN JAMES CHIDLEY. (L.S.)