Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 1st July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1887.
I JOHN THORNTON of Westgate Cleckheaton in the county of York Machine Maker
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
I construct my bottles with projecting threads outside the bottle necks, the thread
being wanting, or cut away vertically, at two or more points, on the bottle neck, a cap is
made to fit over the bottle with corresponding threads and portions cut away vertically,
inside the cap or cover is a washer of leather, cork, indiarubber, paper or other suitable
material, or the thread may be reversed, and formed in the same manner inside the
bottle neck, and on the stopper, which fits inside the neck, the washer being around
the stopper instead of inside the cap, the caps or stoppers may be made of any suitable
substance, and the threads may be of any pitch, the action is as follows: on putting
on the cap or stopper, it slips down the portions cut away until the washer rests on the
bottle mouth, when by giving it a slight turn the threads on the stopper or cap engage
with the threads in or on the bottle, and the bottle is instantly sealed, without screwing
round and round, as in the ordinary screw stoppered bottles.
Dated this Twenty ninth day of September 1886.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Fig. 1. is an elevation shewing bottle neck and stopper detached, the thread being
within the neck.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the bottle neck and stopper detached, the thread being
outside the neck of the bottle.
Figs. 3 and 4 are plans of Fig. 1, stopper inverted.
Figs. 5 and 6 are plans of Fig. 2. stopper being inverted.
A are the bottle necks, with projecting threads B outside the bottle necks (see
Figs. 2-5 and 6.) the threads being cut away vertically or a slot J. being formed at
one, two, three or more points on the bottle neck; a cap D is made to put over the
bottle neck, with corresponding threaded projections E to pass within the slots J, inside
the cap, or cover is a washer F of leather, cork, indiarubber, paper, or other suitable
material; or the thread may be reversed and formed in the same manner within the
bottle neck (see Figs. 1, 3, and 4) and also upon the stoppers, which fit inside the bottle
neck, the washer being around the stopper instead of inside the cap, or vice versa, the
stoppers may be recessed and the projecting thread upon the bottle, the caps or stoppers
may be made of any suitable substance, and the threads may be of any pitch, and of
any suitable shape, the threads on the bottles and stoppers may be either moulded on
the bottles and stoppers or may be separately attached to the bottles and stoppers and
be made of various substances such as metal, cork, composition, wood, paper or other
suitable substances. The action is as follows:-on putting on the caps or stoppers
they slip down the portions cut away, until the washers rest on the mouths of the
bottles, when by giving the stoppers a slight turn the threads engage with the threads
in or on the bottle, and the bottle is instantly sealed, without screwing round and
round, as in the ordinary screw stoppered bottles, the stoppers may be secured to the
bottles by short chains or other suitable fastenings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
Stoppers and caps (for bottles and other. vessels) having internal or external
threaded wings, fitting into corresponding recesses in or on the bottles (or vice versa)
as and for the purposes shewn and described.
Dated this Thirtieth day of June 1887
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.