Improvements in or connected with Corks or Stoppers for Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1896-1ccepted, 28th Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Corks or Stoppers for Bottles.
I, ARNOLD JOSEPH COLBERT of 60 Rue Lepic in the City of Faris and Republic
of France, Mechanician, 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, reference being had to the drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say -
The object of my invention is to assure to tho consumer the genuineness of the
liquid which is to be used by rendering inviolable the bottle or receiver which
contains the liquid.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a bottle neck provided with my cork or stopper.
Figure 2 is a similar view but showing the cork or stopper in full.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a bottle neck provided with my cork or stopper.
Figure is a horizontal section taken on the line X-X of Figure 1.
Figure 5 is a horizontal section of part taken on the line Y-Y of
Figures i and S.
Figure 6 is a similar view to Figure 1, but showing the parts in the
position they would assume whilst the liquid is being poured out.
Figure 7 is a vertical section of the pouring out valve.
Figure S is a similar view of the air inlet valve.
Figure 9 is a horizontal section of the cork or stopper separately.
According to my system of corking or stopping bottles, flagons, or the like, the
liquid contained therein can be poured out, but it cannot be replaced by any other
liquid, or by the same liquid, but the bottle must be destroyed when once
it is emptied.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference,
but. Figures 5, 7, and 8 are drawn to an increased scale with respect to the other
figures of the drawings.
A represents a bottle neck which may be of any suitable character; the cork B
is introduced into the bottle neck A and is surmounted by a resisting washer or
dise C and a hollow plug or cap D of glass or other friable or frangible material.
The whole device is surrounded by a light envelope of cork or similar material E
and performs the office of an ordinary cork or stopper.
This stopper is coated with a material which will cement it to the inner walls
of the bottle neck A.
That part B of the cork or stopper is provided with two holes, the first F¹
receives a pouring out valve F formed by a conical part a terminating at its
bottom in a hemispherical or conical chamber in which is placed a ball G
forming a valve on the seat. S constituted by the contracted lower end of F.
The second hole H carries a tube J for the admission of air which opens at the
upper level of the hollow plug or cap D and it is continued below the stopper B
where it carries a chamber K in which a ball L which constitutes a kind of valve
rests on a seat formed by the lower opening of the said chamber.
The seats of the valve chambers a and K are both formed conical or hemispherical,
in order to allow the balls G and I always to lio on their seats in the normal
position of the parts.
Above the cork or stopper B is placed a resisting washer pierced by an
opening m (Figure 4) permitting the liquid to run out, but preventing the ball G
from falling out of the pouring out tube F.

page_text: Above this washer is placed a cap or plug D which is formed preferably of glass
and with a conical hollow or mouth, the upper part of which is closed by a kind of
button of glass R forming a projection in the centre of the hollow plug or
cap 1).
This button It being slightly bulged out and very friable can be easily broken off
or detached from the cap D, either with pincers or with an instrument in the form
of a blado.
The bottle provided with the complete cork thus formed can be transported without
risk of loss of the liquid contents.
To pour out the contents of the bottle ile button It is broken off, and the hole or
hollow is then open to the free air.
Upon inclining the bottle (Figure 6) the liquid takes the direction indicated by the
arrows, and the air enters by the tube J in the direction indicated by the arrow.
The balls and . which by this act travel to the upper part of the
chambers a and K, are prevented from escaping by the grating in the form of a
cross T (Figure 5) in the one case, and by the dise C in the other case. with which
these chambers are furnished and which prevents the complete stoppage of the
stream of flowing liquid.
It will be seen that the liquid can be poured out a little at the time or all at
once as desired, but it cannot be replaced, since the balls cut off communication
between the outside and inside of the bottle when the laiter is not in a horizontal
position.
In order to guard against the introduction of powders or any foreign matter, the
botile neck can be covered by a capsule of any suitable shape, material, and
dimensions as is well understood.
The cork or stopper formed in this manner can be inserted by means of the
ordinary method of bottling.
The upper part of the stopper being a little below the mouth of the bottle, all
attempt at fraud is impossible.
At the top of the hollow plug or cap D can be placed a mark guaranteeing the
brand of the contents of the bottle, and the hollow plug or cap D and consequently
the mark must be destroyed before the bottle can be emptied.
I reserve to myself the right of making my cork or stopper of any suitable
materials, shapes, and dimensions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is my inviolablo cork or stopper characterised by:-
1. A cylindrical part B carrying the pouring out tube F, and the air inlet tubo.
substantially as herein shown and described.
2. An intermedinte washer or disc forming a grating for preventing the valve
lall G escaping from the pouring, out tube F substantially as herein shown and
described.
3. A hollow plug or cap of friable material provided at the top with a
projecting and friable button, the breaking of which opens the conical hollow or
mouth by which the liquid runs out ma continuous jet, and also opens the air
inlet tube substantially as herein shown and described.
4. An envelope E covering the whole device and forming a kind of ordinary
cork adapted to be inserted by any known method substantially as herein shown and
described.
5. The peculiar combination and arrangement of parts substantially as herein shown
and described.
Dated this 27th day of February 1896.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27 Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.