An Improvement in Bottles, Flasks, Vials, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1002
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Bottles, Flasks, Vials, and the like.
I, JAMES SEMPLE of 7 Stirling Road, Glasgow; Publisher, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to bottles, flasks, vials and the like and it has for its
object to so make or mould the neck of the bottle &c. that the cork will be retained
in place without the aid of wires or the like.
To effect this object I make the bottle &c. with the top or mouth-part of the
neck narrow and straight for, say, from a inch to an inch and in depth and
then to be suddenly widened out at the interior to any suitable angle so that the
cork when inserted through the narrow straight part will have free room to swell
and thus be held tightly in place.
If desired the bottle may be flared outwards at right-angles at the termination
of the straight part.
Instead of having the top of the neck straight it may be slightly tapered.
The neck may be pinched in or reduced at any desired part if desired.
Dated this 25th day of September 1891.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
Glasgow and London, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Bottles, Flasks, Vials, and the like.
I, JAMES SEMPLE, of 7 Stirling Road, Glasgow, Publisher, 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 :-
This invention relates to bottles, flasks, vials and the like, and it has for its
object to so make or mould the neck of the bottle, etc., that the cork can be retained
in place, without the aid of wires or the like, or, when wires are used, that a much
shorter cork, than usual, may be fitted in the bottle.
To effect these objects, I make the bottle etc. with the top, or mouth part of the
neck, narrow and tapered inwards, for, say, from a tinch to inch in depth, and
then it is suddenly widened out at the interior, to any suitable angle, so that the
cork, when inserted through the narrow tapered part, will have free room to swell,
and thus be held tightly in place.
On the drawings 11
Fig. 1 shows, in section, a bottle neck with the double taper.
Fig. 2 shows, in section, the bottle neck slightly altered.
This form of bottle neck is particularly designed for bottles for containing
aerated or fermented liquors.
The interior of the mouth of the bottle neck, as will be seen at Fig. 1, is tapered
inwards at a, for a short distance, say, about or inch, and is then suddenly
tapered or widened out at b. A slight beading or ridge c is shown in Fig. 2, as
formed at the place of junction between the two tapered parts a, b, for the purpose
of facilitating the grip on the cork.
By making the bottle neck, as shown, if the cork is to be wired, it does not need
to be so long as those usually employed, as, after the cork has been compressed in
passing through a, it has free room for expansion in the part b, so that the narrow
neck grips the cork, and, as a consequence, the bottle is closed perfectly tight.

page_text: The wire assists in preventing the gas pressure forcing out the cork, when a short
cork is used.
By using short corks, a saving is effected of about 4d. to 6d. per gross of corks
used.
When the ordinary long cork is used, it can be held in place in the bottle
without the aid of wires, as the expansion of the cork in the part 1, is sufficient to
hold it securely in place against the gas pressure.
Any quality of corks or stoppers can be used with the improved form of bottle
neck.
With the improved bottle neck, the greater the gas pressure, the tighter the
cork is held in place, and, as a consequence, there is little or no chance of liquid or
gas escaping.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Necks of bottles, flasks, vials and the like, made or moulded, substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
Dated thi. 05th day of Maw 1000
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.