IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPERS OF BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AËRATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1885

page_text: Aörated Liquids.
I, IVY RILEY SHARPE of 81 Preston Street Bradford in the County of York,
Aërated Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPERS OF BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AËRATED
LIQUIDS" to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the stoppers of bottles for containing
aërated liquids and the improvements consist in placing upon such stoppers as
hereinafter described a ring, washer or cone of india rubber or other elastic
material to cause the stopper to fit gas and water tight inside the upper portion of
the neck or inside the mouth of the bottle.
To carry out my invention I shape the inside of the upper part of the neck or
the inside of the mouth of the bottle in the form of a hollow cone with straight
or curved sides tapering towards the mouth of the bottle, whereby a seating is
formed for the reception of the conical stopper.
I form the stoppers for such bottles with a conical or tapered head and at the
base of such head I form an elongated tail or spindle for the purpose of preventing
the stopper from turning the reverse way in the neck of the bottle.
After the stopper has been placed in the bottle an india rubber or elastic ring,
washer, or cone is forced upon the conical or tapered head of such stopper, and is
held in the required position by being fitted into a groove cut or formed in the
head of the stopper for that purpose.
It will be seen that a stopper of the form and construction herein described will
fit tightly in the neck or mouth of a bottle formed with a conical or tapered
seating as hereinbefore described and when held in its place by the pressure of the
contained aërated liquid will prevent the escape of either gas or liquid.
The stopper herein before described may be used either with bottles having
internal projections in the lower part of the neck for the purpose of preventing the
stopper from falling into the body of the bottle, or it may be used with bottles
having no such projections, in which latter case, when the bottle is reversed, the
head of the stopper being the heavier part thereof, the stopper will drop into its
required position head downwards thereby closing the mouth of the bottle.
The stopper may be made of heavy or weighted wood, glass, earthenware,
vulcanite or other suitable non-corrodible material.
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TURNER & BAKER,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Aërated Liquids.
I IVY RILEY SHARPE, of 8.1 Preston Street, Bradford, in the county of York,
Aerated Water Manufacturer, 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:
My invention relates to improvements in the stoppers of bottles for containing
aërated liquids, and the improvements consist in placing upon such stoppers, as
hereinafter described, a ring, washer or cone, of india rubber or other elastic
material to cause the stopper to fit gas and water tight inside the upper portion of
the neck or inside the mouth of the bottle.
To carry out my invention I shape the inside of the upper part of the neck, or
⚫ the inside of the mouth of the bottle, in the form of a hollow cone, with straight
or curved sides tapering towards the mouth of the bottle, whereby a seating is
*formed for the reception of the conical stopper.
:
I form the stoppers for such bottles with a conical or tapered head and at the
base of such head I form an elongated tail or spindle, for the purpose of preventing
the stopper from turning the reverse way in the neck of the bottle.
After the stopper has been placed in the bottle, an india rubber or elastic ring,
washer or cone is forced upon the conical or tapered head of such stopper, and is
held in the required position by being fitted into a groove cut or formed in the head
of the stopper for that purpose.
It will be seen that a stopper of the form and construction herein described will
fit tightly in the neck or mouth of a bottle formed with a conical or tapered
seating as hereinbefore described and when held in its place by the pressure of the
contained aërated liquid, will prevent the escape of either gas or liquid.
The stopper hereinbefore described may be used either with bottles having internal
projections in the lower part of the neck, for the purpose of preventing the stopper
from falling into the body of the bottle or it may be used with bottles having no
such projections in which latter case, when the bottle is reversed, the head of the
stopper being the heavier part thereof, the stopper will drop into its required
position, head downwards, thereby closing the mouth of the bottle.
The stopper may be made of heavy or weighted wood, glass, earthenware,
vulcanite or other suitable non corrodible material.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 represents a
sectional elevation of a bottle with one form of my improved stopper applied
thereto. Figure 2 represents an elevation and figure 3 a sectional elevation of the
said stopper. Figure 4 represents a sectional elevation of a bottle shewing a
modification of the stopper shewn in figures 1, 2 and 3 applied thereto; the neck
of this bottle has internal projections formed in it which projections prevent the
stopper, when displaced from its seat from falling into the body of the bottle.
Figure 5 is an elevation and figure 6 a sectional elevation of the stopper. Similar
letters refer to similar or corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

page_text: The body of the bottle to contain the aërated liquid is represented at A, and the
neck at B. The upper part C of the neck of the bottle, adjoining the mouth is in
the form of a hollow truncated cone and forms a seat to receive the conical or
tapering washer of the stopper, or the flat washer upon the bevilled or conically
formed stopper (which washer adapts itself to that form) and thereby fits gas and
water water tight.
The stopper consists of two main parts, the head D formed with a bottom flange
or base D¹, and the tail or spindle E.
Upon the head D is placed the conical elastic washer F, shown in figures 1, 2
and 3, resting upon the flange D₁, or the flat washer F, shewn in figures 4, 5
and 6. The upper part of the head of the washer is formed with a shoulder for
the purpose of retaining the india rubber cone or washer F, in position upon the
head of the stopper, and preventing such cone or washer from being displaced when
the stopper is forced into the bottle to liberate the contents thereof. The bottom
flange D, which is the widest part of the stopper, is of a rather smaller diameter
than the narrowest part of the conical seat C in the neck of the bottle, and when
the stopper has been passed into the neck or body of the bottle A, the elastic cone
or washer F, is placed in its proper position upon the head of the stopper, by
means of apparatus suitable for that purpose.
The tail E, of the stopper is for the purpose of preventing the stopper from
being reversed in the neck of the bottle, and causes the head of the stopper to be
presented to the mouth of the bottle whenever the bottle is reversed, thereby
causing the elastic cone or washer F, to fall into the conical seat C provided for it.
The stopper represented in Figures 4, 5 and 6 is provided with a flat washer F,
which adapts itself to the conical form of the seat C in which it rests, when the
pressure of the contents of the bottle is exerted upon the base or bottom flange D',
of the stopper, and the edge of this flange is bevilled to assist the washer in
assuming the conical form to fit in the seat herein before referred to.
It will be seen that the forms of stoppers herein described and represented may
be applied with equal advantage to bottles which have internal projections at the
bottom of the neck, for the purpose of preventing the stopper from falling into the
body of the bottle, or the same forms of stoppers may be applied to bottles which
are not provided with such projections.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improved stopper for bottles for containing aërated liquids such stopper
being of the form and construction herein described and provided with a flat or a
conical elastic washer, all in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set
forth and represented in the accompanying drawing.
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TURNER & BAKER,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.