A NEW OR IMPROVED STOPPER FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I GEORGE THOMAS NEVILLE of Beacon Street Lichfield in the County of Stafford
Writing Clerk do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED STOPPER FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS" to be as follows:-
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In pouring from bottles and other vessels furnished with corks or stoppers of the
ordinary kind, it is scarcely possible to prevent a small portion of the liquid from
running down the outside of the bottle or vessel. In the case of sauce bottles used
at table, the label of the bottle soon becomes stained or defaced by the repented
small portions of the sauce running down the outside of the bottle. The bottle is
rendered unpleasant to handle and the table cloth is frequently soiled from tho
same cause.
The object of my Invention is to obviate these inconveniences and my said
Invention consists of a stopper constructed as herein after described, whereby a
liquid may be poured from a bottle provided with the said stopper without danger
of any of the liquid running down the outside of the bottle.
I will describe my Invention in connection with a sauce bottle. A stopper
constructed according to my Invention consists of a body or plug having the form
of an ordinary cork. The body or plug is surmounted by a head or flange of
somewhat larger diameter than the body or plug. On one side of the head is
a small spout or lip. The stopper is perforated with two holes, one of these holes
is nearly in the axis of the body or plug and is of a size sufficient for pouring out
a small stream of the sauco contained in the bottle with which it is used. This
hole opens at top into the spout or lip described. The other hole is of smaller
diameter and is situated opposite the spout or lip, that is, on the opposite side of
the central holo. Instead of this smaller hole a groove on the body or plug may be
employed.
When the bottle furnished with the stoppor described is inclined with its spout
or lip downwards, air enters at the small hole or groove and a gentle stream of
sauce runs from the bottle down the spout or lip. In order to prevent unnecessary
access of air to the contents of the bottlo when it is not in use, I employ a closer
consisting of a disc preferably of vulcanised india rubber of a size somewhat less
than the bottom of the stopper and having a stem at right angles, the stem not
being concentric with the disc.
When the bottle is not in use the stem of the closer is inserted in the axial hole
in the stopper and the closer is depressed. The central hole is thereby closed by

page_text: the said stem and the disc presses upon and closes the air hole or groove. For
safety in transit and when for any other reason it is wished still more effectually
to secure the bottle from leakage, the position of the closer is reversed, that is, the
stem of the closer is inserted in the bottom of the cork and pressed home until
the disc covers the bottom of the cork closely, when the cork may be inserted in
the bottle and closes it as an ordinary cork.
In making stoppers according to my Invention I employ preferably cork when
they are to be used with ordinary bottles, but when they are to be used with
bottles having cork lined mouths I prefer to make them of glass or earthenware or
other hard material.
My Invention is especially applicable to bottles and vessels from which it
is required to pour small portions of the contents at frequent intervals such as
sauce bottles, perfume bottles, and oil cans but may also be used as a substitute for
corks generally.

page_text: I GEORGE THOMAS NEVILLE of Beacon Street Lichfield in the County of
Stafford, Writing Clerk do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A NEW
OR IMPROVED STOPPER FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:—
In pouring from bottles and other vessels furnished with corks or stoppers of the
ordinary kind, it is scarcely possible to prevent a small portion of the liquid from
running down the outside of the bottle or vessel. In the case of sauce bottles
used at table the label of the bottle soon becomes stained or defaced by the
repeated small portions of the sauce running down the outside of the bottle, The
bottle is rendered unpleasant to handle, and the table cloth is frequently soiled from
the same cause.
The object of my invention is to obviate these inconveniences and my said
invention consists of a stopper constructed as hereinafter described, whereby a
liquid may be poured from a bottle provided with the said stopper without danger
of any of the liquid running down the outside of the bottle.
I will describe my invention in connection with a sauce bottle. A stopper
constructed according to my invention consists of a body or plug having the form
of an ordinary cork. The body or plug is surmounted by a head or flange of
somewhat larger diameter than the body or plug. On one side of the head is a
small spout or lip. The stopper is perforated with two holes: one of the holes is
nearly in the axis of the body or plug and is of a size sufficient for pouring out a
small stream of the sauce contained in the bottle with which it is used. This holo
opens at top into the spout or lip described. The other hole is of smaller diameter
and is situated opposite the spout or lip, that is, on the opposite side of the central
hole. Instead of this smaller hole, a groove on the body or plug may be employed.
When the bottle furnished with the stopper described is inclined with its spout
or lip downwards, air enters at the small hole or groove, and a gentle stream of
sauce runs from the bottle down the spout or lip. In order to prevent unnecessary
access of air to the contents of the bottle when it is not in use, I employ a closer
consisting of a disc, preferably of vulcanised india rubber of a size somewhat less
than the bottom of the stopper and having a stem at right angles, the stem not
being concentric with the disc. When the bottle is not in use the stem of the
closer is inserted in the axial hole in the stopper and the closer is depressed. The
central hole is thereby closed by the said stem and the disc presses upon and closes
the air hole or groove.
For safety in transit, and when for any other reason it is wished still more
effectually to secure the bottle from leakage, the position of the closer is reversed,
that is, the stem of the closer is inserted in the bottle and closes it as an ordinary
cork.
In making stoppers according to my invention, I employ preferably cork when
they are to be used with ordinary bottles, but when they are to be used with
bottles having cork lined mouths I prefer to make them of glass or earthenware or
other hard material.
My invention is especially applicable to bottles and vessels from which it is
required to pour small portions of the contents at frequent intervals, such as sauce
bottles, perfume bottles, and oil cans, but may also be used as a substitute for corks
generally.

page_text: closer illustrated at figure 1 on account of its simplicity of action and cheapness of
construction.
What I consider to be the prominent and important part of my invention is the
stopper formed in the shape of a parallel or tapered plug surmounted with a head
or flange and provided with two holes one to admit air, and the other to pass out
fluid which is conveyed across the face of flange as illustrated on the accompanying
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1 The improved stopper with inlet air hole (or passage) B and outlet liquid
passage A connected with the channel F for the purpose of pouring liquid from
bottles or other receptacles.
2nd The closer either with excentric stems, or with concentric stems as illustrated
at figures 1, 2, 3, 4 for the purpose of closing the passages A. B.
Dand thin 7th day of October 1884
GEORGE THOMAS NEVILLE,
Per Alf. W Turner, Agent.