Improvements in Apparatus for Securing Corks, Stoppers and Lids to Bottles, Jars and Canisters.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Securing Corks, Stoppers and Lids
to Bottles, Jars and Canisters.
I, JOHN JAMES ALLEN, of 77, Bower Street, Bradford, in the County of York,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This my invention consists in a cap or guard of springable or yielding pressure
which is drawn over the cork or fixed to the stopper in such inanuer as secures firm
holding contact with the under or grooved part of the neck of the bottle or the rin
of the jar or canister and the cork or cap. For aforesaid purposes my device may be
made in clamp form of steel or other suitable metal and can either be attached to the
cork or stopper by means of a screw staple rivet or their equivalents or drawn over
the cork. The instant the claws of the cap or guard spring to the under or grooved
part of the neck of the bottle or the rin of the jar or other receptacle the cork or
stopper is held firmly in position.
In certain cases I make the cap wholly of rubber or elastic material which is drawn
over the cork like a glove and so springs to the under or grooved part of the neck of
the bottle or other receptacle so as not only to secure the cork tightly in position but
to make the bottle or jar absolutely airtight and for some purposes I employ the
rubber or elastic cap purely as an airtight cover.
Improvements in Apparatus for Securing Corks, Stoppers and Lids
to Bottles, Jars and Canisters.
I, JOHN JAMES ALLEN, of 77, Bower Street, Bradford, in the County of York,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
Improvements in apparatus for securing corks, stoppers and lids to bottles jars and
canistera.
This my invention consists in a cap or guard of springable or yielding pressure
which is drawn over the cork or fixed to the stopper in such manner as secures firm
holding contact with the under or grooved part of the neck of the bottle or the rim
of the jar or canister. For aforesaid purpose my device is made in clamp form of
steel or other suitable metal and can either be attached to the cork or stopper by
means of a screw staple or rivet or their equivalent or drawn over the cork. The
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page_text: instant the claws of the cap or guard spring to the under or grooved part of the neck
of the bottle or the rim of the jar or other cover the cork or stopper is held firmly in
position.
In certain cases I make the cap wholly of rubber or elastic material which is drawn
over the cork like a glove and so springs to the under or grooved part of the neck of
the bottle or other receptacle as not only to secure the cork tightly in position but to
make the bottle or jar absolutely airtight and for some purposes I employ the rubber
or elastic cap purely as an airtight cover.
In order to make this my invention clearly and fully understood I hereunto annex
the following drawings.
Fig. and Fig. 2 represent my metal clamp or cap for holding down the corks
stoppers and lids of bottles jars and canisters.
Bis my shapeable clamp secured to the cork or stopper D by means of screw A or
its equivalent a rivet or a staple. The under or lower part of neck C shows my
clamp firmly clenching the bottle or jar.
Fig. 3 is an illustration of my elastic airtight clamp or cap which acts substantially
in the same manner and is for the same purpose as clamp B shown in Fig. 1 but
which secures the bottle or jar perfectly airtight.
Fshows my cap or cover cemented (or it may be secured as in Fig. 1 and 2) at E
with spring or elastic flange G.
Having now ascertained and fully described the nature of my said invention and
the manner in which the same is performed what I claim is :-
Firstly clamp 13 screw A or their equivalent a rivet or staple and cork or stopper D
in combination.
Secondly clamp B and screw A or its equivalent in combination.
Thirdly clamp B and cork or stopper D in combination.
Fourthly the elastic or springable airtight cap or cover F in combination.
Fifthly cap F and spring flange G in combiuntion.
Dated this 29th day of December 1897.