IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1876

page_text: Filed 31st May 1877.
In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to CHARLES ALLEN, of the Firm
of Bedford and Company, of 41, Church Street, Saint Ebbe's, in the City
of Oxford, Soda Water Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED LIQUIDS," dated the 23rd February,
A.D. 1876, and No. 748.
MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION AND DISCLAIMER entered by the said
Charles Allen, pursuant to the Statutes in that case made and provided.
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of
February, in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen
Victoria, Her said Majesty did grant unto me, the said Charles Allen, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED LIQUIDS," within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the
Jsle of Man, for the term of fourteen years:
And whereas since the date of the said Letters Patent and of the filing of the
Specification, I, Charles Allen, have discovered and have been advised that certain
parts of the said Specification may be construed as extending to matters and
things which are not new. I, the said Charles Allen, therefore desire, in pursuance
of the Statutes in such case made and provided, to enter a Disclaimer and
Memorandum of Alteration of certain portions of the said Specification:
And whereas the said Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alteration is not such a
Disclaimer and Alteration as will extend the exclusive right granted by the said
Letters Patent:
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Charles Allen, therefore disclaim (reference
being had to the Queen's Printers' printed copy of said Specification), in page 2, and
from lines 11 and 12, the words "or against the neck of the bottle only, and the
forming between them and the neck of the bottle an hermetic stopper," and from
line 16 the words "or stopper," and to strike out the lines 30 to 46 inclusive:

page_text: And the said specification when so amended will read as follows, that is to
say:-
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES ALLEN,
of the Firm of Bedford and Company, of 41, Church Street, Saint Ebbe's, in the
City of Oxford, Soda Water Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, in the Thirty-ninth year of Her reign,
did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles
Allen, Her special license, that I, the said Charles Allen, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Allen, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, and Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED LIQUIDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Allen, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Allen, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say,-
The improvements consist in the formation of a drop stopper or plug proper,
shaped cylindrical and tapering, with a spherical guide knob; also of annular washer
of elastic material fitted in bottles as at present made or specially made for the
purpose, said stopper being fashioned and intended to be readily received and held
in against the annular washer.
Further, the Invention embraces the application to ordinary bottles of a wooden
or metal annular capsule to be fastened on each bottle and hold the said annular
washer.
Lastly, in forming the necks of bottles specially made for the purpose with a
shoulder, against which the annular washer butts.
The improvements inay be performed by making a bottle for the purpose with a
shoulder in the neck, then forcing in, or otherwise placing within the neck, and to
butt against the said shoulder, an annular washer made in one or more pieces.
The said bottle being furnished with a loose drop stopper, double or single cones of
glass or other convenient material, made with a bulb or sphere at one end and
slightly pointed at the other or both ends; the bottle thus furnished is turned up-
side down and filled with aërated liquid in the ordinary way, an the drop stopper
is forced into place by the pressure, held tight against the washer, projects above it
and about a quarter of an inch above the neck of the bottle.
For ordinary bottles the improvements differ only in the application of the im-
proved annular capsule or plug, which may be of wood, metal, or other convenient
material fastened on to the neck of the bottle in any convenient way, and serving
to form the shoulder against which the washer butts.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Allen, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
CHARLES ALLEN. (L.S.)

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hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named Charles Allen to file
in the Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification to which the same relates,
the above-written Disclaimer and Memorandum of Alteration.
HARDINGE S. GIFFARD.
HARDINGE S. Giffard.
Solicitor-General.
Temple, May 31st 1877.

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Allen, of the Firm of Bedford and Company, of
41, Church Street, Saint Ebbe's, in the City of Oxford, Soda Water Manufac-
turer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED
LIQUIDS."
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Sealed the Sth August 1876, and dated the 23rd February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Allen at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd February 1876.
CHARLES ALLEN, of the Firm of Bedford and Company, of 41, Church Street,
Saint Ebbe's, in the City of Oxford, Soda Water Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED LIQUIDS."
The improvements consist in the formation of a drop stopper, or plug proper shaped
cylindrical and tapering with a spherical guide knob; also of an annular washer of
cork, fitted in bottles as at present made, or specially made for the purpose, said
stopper being fashioned and intended to be readily received and held in and against
the annular washer, and the forming between them and the neck of the bottle an
hermetic stopper. Further, the Invention embraces the application to ordinary
bottles of a wooden or metal annular capsule to be fastened on such bottles and
hold the said annular cork washer. Lastly, in forming the necks of bottles specially
made for the purpose, with a shoulder, against which the annular cork washer butts.
The improvements may be performed by making a bottle for the purpose with a
shoulder in the neck, then forcing in or otherwise placing within the neck and to
butt against the said shoulder an annular cork washer made in one or more pieces.
The said bottle being furnished with a loose drop stopper of glass or other con-
venient material, made with a bulb or sphere at one end and slightly pointed at
the other; the bottle thus furnished is turned up side down and filled with aerated
liquid in the ordinary way, and the drop stopper is forced into place by the pressure,
hield tight against the cork washer, projects above it and about a quarter of an
inch above the neck of the bottle. For ordinary bottles the improvements differ
only in the application of the improved annular capsule or plug, which may be of
wood, metal, or other convenient material, fastened on to the neck of the bottle in
any convenient way, and serving to form the shoulder, against which the cork
washer butts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Allen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th August
1876.
CHARLES ALLEN, of the Firm of Bedford and Company, of 41, Church Street,
Saint Ebbe's, in the City of Oxford, Soda Water Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOTTLE STOPPERS FOR AERATED LIQUIDS."
The improvements consist in the formation of a drop stopper or plug proper,
shaped cylindrical and tapering with a spherical guide knob; also of an annular
washer of elastic material fitted in bottles as at present made, or specially made for
the purpose, said stopper, being fashioned and intended to be readily received and
held in and against the annular washer, or against the neck of the bottle only, and the
forming between them.and.the.neck of the bottle an hermetic stopper. Further, the
Invention embraces the application to ordinary bottles of a wooden or metal annular
capsule, to be fastened on each bottle and hold the said annular washer. Lastly,
in forming the necks of bottles. specially made for the purpose with a shoulder,
against which the annular washer or stopper butts.
The improvements may be performed-by making a bottle for the purpose with a
shoulder in the neck, then forcing in, or otherwise placing within the neck, and to
butt against the said shoulder, an annular washer made in one or more pieces. The
said bottle being furnished with a loose drop. stopper, double or single coned, of
glass or other convenient material, made with a bulb or sphere at one end and
slightly pointed at the other, or both ends; the bottle thus furnished is turned up
side down and filled with aërated liquid in the ordinary way, and the drop stopper is
forced into place by the pressure held tight against the washer, projects above it
and about a quarter of an inch above the neck of the bottle. For ordinary bottles.
the improvements differ only in the application of the improved annular capsule or
plug, which may be of wood, metal, or other convenient material fastened on to the
neck of the bottle in any convenient way, and serving to form the shoulder, against
which the washer butts.
For the better performance of my Invention I have designed a tool specially for
the manufacture of the inner shoulder.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to illustrate my Invention.
Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are tool for forming the neck of the bottle F with an inner
shoulder, better seen at S, Fig. 4. ·
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Fig. 5 is a double drop stopper, g being a sphere, and g¹, g, upper and lower
rounded cones; the position of a single drop stopper wlien the bottle is charged is
shown in Fig. 4; though not shown in the Figure a washer of rubber or other
material may be used.
Fig. 1 is a front view; Fig. 2 a side view, and Fig. 3 a sectional plan of the
tool for forming the inner shoulder S of the neck of the bottle, and is composed of
moveable spring arms A, B, and stationary supports E, with projections and cup
D, D, as shown for embracing the neck of the bottle, the parts A¹, B', are intended
for insertion in the neck of the bottle, being squeezed together for that purpose;
when in they open and the apparatus is turned, and so an inner shoulder is formed
to the bottle. The neck of new bottles can be made this way, and old bottles
altered by rendering the necks plastic.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Allen, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand