Improvements in Stoppering or Corking Bottles, Jars, and like Vessels for Protection against Piratage of Contents.
Year: 1892

page_text: te of Application, 18th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM HOLLAND FURLONGE, Mining
Engineer, and ARTHUR BURNETT STIRLING, Solicitor, both of Johannes-
burg, South African Republic.]
Improvements in Stoppering or Corking Bottles, Jars, and like
Vessels for Protection against Piratage of Contents.
I JAMES WILKIE, Solicitor Supreme Courts, One hundred & eight George
Street, Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian 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 :-
In vessels with corked, or stoppered necks, such as glass bottles or earthenware
jars, the contents of which it is desired to protect against piratage, the corks or
stoppers are, under this invention secured in position by a binding of the following
description, riz. :-One end of each strand of binding material is permanently
attached to the material of which the vessel may be made, as at "a" in accom-
panying drawing; the other end of each binding strand is left free and of sufficient
length to allow of a secure fastening over the stopper.
The stopper being in its place, and flush with the top of the vessel, the free ends
of the binding strands are tightly twisted or tied as shown at "}," on the drawing.
After these ends have been twisted or tied the surplus binding is cut off as close as
possible to the knot or twist consistent with a secure fastening.
Should this binding be broken, or untied, or untwisted, it will be found almost
impossible to re-tie or re-twist said binding as the free ends of the binding strands
will not be of sufficient length to gather up together and re-unite, excepting with
such extreme care & difficulty as to effectually prevent the attempt upon any
considerable scale.
In the case of a stopper being of glass or other hard material it is not
essential that said stopper be placed down in the neck of the vessel "flush" with
its top.
In the majority of cases, the ends of the binding strands, which are to be
permanently attached to the material of which the vessel is made, are so permanently
attached during the process of manufacture of the vessel, while the material is soft
and plastic, or in a molten state.
This attachment can be made, however, after the vessel is manufactured, by
special care and by the use of special appliances, and any binding material any part
of which is permanently attached, or incorporated with the material of which a
vessel is made, and so attached by any person or persons other than by the under-
signed or his agents, will be considered an infringement of this Patent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In vessels with corked or stoppered necks, one end of each binding strand, or
any part of such binding strand, permanently attached to or incorporated with the
material of which the vessel is made.
2. Binding strands for stoppers part of which strands is permanently attached to
the material of which the vessel is made as described the free ends of such binding
strands twisted or tied and cut off over the stopper, as and for the purpose herein
described.
Dated this distrouth dow of Tan Tinheren
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