Cover and Neck for Hermetically Closing any kind of Jar, Bottle, or other Vessel.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 23rd June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Cover and Neck for Hermetically Closing any kind of Jar, Bottle,
or other Vessel.
WILLIAM BAILEY and JOHN ASBURY BAILEY Earthenware Manufacturers and
Glass Importers and Exporters Alloa Pottery and Flint Glass Works Alloa Scotland
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The cover may be made of any kind of metal, the neck of the jar, bottle or other
vessel, of glass, china, earthenware.
The neck of the jar, bottle, or other vessel is made with a groove at a given
distance from the top, which is fitted with an india-rubber ring, passing all round the
neck, below this ring there are two, three or four indentations, either positive or
negative; the cover, which is smaller in diameter at the top than at the bottom is
provided with two, three or four indentations either positive or negative. The
indentations on the cover and the neck to be either positive or negative round or
elongated. When the indentations on the cover are round those on the neck are
elongated and vice versa.
By placing the cover on the neck of the jar, bottle or other vessel so that the
indentation on the cover is exactly above that on the neck & by turning the cover
round a given distance, the narrow top of the cover will press against the india-
rubber ring, which is fitted into the groove at the top of the jar, bottle or other vessel,
so that it will hermetically close the same.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1896.
WILLIAM BAILEY.
JOHN ASBURY BAILEY.
Cover and Neck for Hermetically Closing any kind of Jar, Bottle,
or other Vessel.
WILLIAM BAILEY and JOHN ASBURY BAILEY Alloa Pottery and Flint Glass Works,
Alloa, Scotland, Pottery Ware Manufacturers and Glass Decorators and Merchants,
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 neck of the jar, bottle or other vessel is made with a groove at a given
distance from the top, which is fitted with an india-rubber ring passing all round the
neck, below this ring there are two, three or four indentations either positive or
negative.
The cover, which is smaller .in diameter at the top than at the bottom is provided
with two three or four indentations either positive or negative.
The indentations on the cover & on the neck to be either round, or elongated at
any angle. If round on the neck then elongated on the cover or vice versa.

page_text: By placing the cover on the neck so that the indentations on the one shall be
exactly over the indentations on the other & by turning the cover round a given
distance, the narrow top of the cover will press against the india-rubber ring which is
fitted into the groove at the top of the neck of the jar, bottle or other vessel so that it
will hermetically close the same, thus the Figure A in drawing represents the metal
top as seen from above, and the numbers 1. 2. 3 denote the elongated indentations.
Figure B represents a side view of the metal top and number 4 shows a side view of
-one of the three elongated indentations.
Figure represents the neck of a jar, bottle, or other vessel without cover,
5 & 6 show position of india-rubber ring, 7 shows the groove at the top of the neck.
8 is one of the three round indentations on the neck of the jar on to which the
elongated indentations as shewn in Figure B, number 4 shall be placed. Figure D
represents the neck of the jar, bottle, or other vessel, the metal cover having been
.fastened on.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is-
1. That our invention is a combination of a jar, bottle or other vessel having
indentations on the neck and an india-rubber ring round the top with a metal cover
having indentations, so that when the top be applied to the neck of the jar it
hermetically closes the same.
WILLIAM BAILEY.
JOHN A. BAILEY.