IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER ARTICLES HAVING SIMILAR OPENINGS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, THOMAS JONES of 36 Sloane Street, Belgrave Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Surgical Bandage Maker, do hereby declare the nature of said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER
ARTICLES HAVING SIMILAR OPENINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the construction of stoppers for bottles specially
made, so that they and other articles having similar openings that require to be
stopped, or corked, can be closed or opened with great facility.
The Invention is adapted to bottles having a screw moulded or otherwise formed
in the glass itself on the outside of its neck, or upon a metal ferule or sleeve
attached thereto, the interior of the neck being made somewhat taper if found
desirable.
The Invention consists in forming the stopper of a taper cork fixed to a cover
that partially surrounds it and is made of metal or other suitable substance. This
cover has a screw on its interior, the thread being made to correspond with that on
the neck of the bottle.
On inserting the cork in the neck of the bottle and turning the cover, the
female screw of the cover will engage in the male thread of the neck of the bottle,
when by making one or more additional turns, the cork will be forced into the
neck of the bottle and the opening securely closed.
The Invention consists further in moulding or otherwise forming on the outside
of the neck of the bottle a screw having two or more threads, whereby on the
application of the cover made with a female screw to correspond the opening of the
bottle may be closed with greater rapidity than it is ordinarily done, or by the
hereinbefore described arrangement.
The taper stopper may be made of cork, or of metal covered with cork, or india
rubber, or other suitable substance.
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page_text: I, THOMAS JONES of 36 Sloane Street, Belgrave Square in the County of
Middlesex, Surgical Bandage Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES AND OTHER ARTICLES
HAVING SIMILAR OPENINGS," 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 accompanying Drawings and to the letters and Figures
marked thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object the construction of stoppers for bottles specially
made, so that they and other articles having similar openings that require to be
stopped, or corked, can be closed or opened with great facility.
The Invention is adapted to bottles having a screw moulded or otherwise formed
in the glass itself on the outside of its neck, or upon a metal ferule or sleeve
attached thereto, the interior of the neck being made somewhat taper if found
desirable.
The Invention which is shown on the Drawing and is a vertical section of both
stopper and bottle, consists in forming the stopper of a taper cork B fixed to a
cover C that partially surrounds it, and is made of metal or other suitable
substance. This cover C has a screw D on its interior, the thread being made to
correspond with that on the neck E of the bottle A.
On inserting the cork in the neck of the bottle and turning the cover C the
female screw of the cover will engage in the male thread of the neck of the bottle,
when by making one or more additional turns the cork will be forced into the neck
of the bottle and the opening securely closed.
The Invention consists further in moulding or otherwise forming on the outside
of the neck of the bottle a screw having two or more threads instead of one only,
as shown in the Drawing, whereby on the application of the cover made with a
female screw to correspond, the opening of the bottle may be closed with greater
rapidity than it is ordinarily done, or by the hereinbefore described arrangement.
The taper stopper may be made of cork, or of metal covered with cork, or india-
rubber, or other suitable substance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what
I claim is,
Stoppers made of cork, or other suitable substance, taper in shape and partly
surrounded by a metal cover or capsule having a screw on its interior corresponding
to a screw formed on the exterior of the neck of the bottle, as herein described and
shown on the Drawing.