Improvements in Stoppering Bottles to Prevent Fraudulent Re-filling of the same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1894
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles to Prevent Fraudulent Re-filling
of the same.
I, PIERRE TREY, of 51 Rue St. Remy, Bordeaux, in the Republic of France,
Merchant Tailor, 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 :—
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My invention relates to improvements in safety corks for preventing the
falsification of liquids in bottles, which consists of a tube with a crown and screwed
stopper, and inside the tube is a perforated cylinder and ball to regulate the flow
of the liquid. The apparatus is fitted into the neck of a bottle and secured to the
said bottle by string, cord, chain or wire.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is the plan of the top of Fig. 4.
Fig. 2, is an elevation of the tube and stopper.
Fig. 3, is a vertical section.
Fig. 4, is an elevation of the perforated tube.
Fig. 5, is an elevation of the stopper fixed to the neck of a bottle. The bottle is
broken off for convenience.
This invention is constructed with a tube a fitted to crown b to which it is
adherent, and is destined to offer resistance on the extremity of the neck of the
bottle, its hollowed out part, externally, serves to hold the string, cord, chain or
metallic wire k of attachment tied above or below the neck and of which the two
ends are attached to a sealed medal j.
The bottom & destined to receive the lower part of tube a contains at its centre
a tube e with perforated openings in order to let the liquid pass which the bottle
contains, holding at the same time in a straight line the movement to and fro of the
ball, this open tube is closed at its upper extremity by a flanged plate a destined
to stop the ball f, and, by its dentation, to allow of the egress of the liquid escaping
by the open parts of the tube e; this latter is soldered at its lower extremity to
the centre of the bottom d.
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The object of the ball fis to close the aperture at the base of the tube e when
the bottle is placed in an upright position.
The stopper c screwed on to the upper part of the tube a is fitted with a washer i
of cork or other resisting and elastic material held to its ceiling which hermetically
closes the tube a and in the case that specialists or merchants still wished to close
the extremity of the tube with an ordinary cork, this cover would preserve this
latter from the contact of the air and damp.
Covering or casing of cork, wood, or of any other elastic and resisting material
is inserted inside of the neck of the bottle so that the tube a will be rigid when
fixed thereto.
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 :-
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1. In safety corks for preventing the falsification of liquids in bottles, the
combination of the tube a crown b screwed stopper c perforated tube e ball fand
cork washer i, substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.

page_text: 2. The tube e with perforations / bottom d and flanged plate 9, substantially as
herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
3. The string, cord, chain or wire k fixed to the neck of the bottle and the
crown with a sealed medal j, substantially as herein described and according to
Fig. 6, of the accompanying drawing.
4. The covering or casing h of cork, wood, or of any other elastic and resisting
material inserted inside the neck of the bottle, substantially as herein described and
for the purpose specified.
Dated this 21st day of December 1893.
J. P. BAYLY;
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.