Improvements in Bottles and Stoppers therefor.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Mar.. 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and Stoppers therefor.
I ALFRED MARTIN of No. 23 Bridge Terrace Lower Woolwich Road East
Greenwich in the County of Kent Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
This Invention has for its object improvements in bottles and stoppers therefor
whereby the inconvenience of lifting and turning a bottle containing two or three
gallons of liquor (more or less) up when emptying it as now in use is obviated.
It dispenses with the employment of corks and at the same time the bottles are
perfectly air tight the contents are easily drawn off and all virtues and the gases
retained. This invention consists in moulding or otherwise forming a bottle or jar
of suitable material shape and design the neck being formed similar to the barrel of a
cock or tap having a free passage from the body of the bottle through the neck as at
present in use. At or near the centre of the neck thereof a straight or tapered circular
opening or passage is formed for the reception of a plug corresponding in shape to
the opening in the neck of the bottle said plug may be solid having a passage or port
formed therein parallel with the neck of the bottle, thus allowing the liquor to flow from
the nozzle of the bottle. Or the plug may be made hollow with one opening formed
therein thus allowing the liquor to flow from the bottom of the plug. The plugs
may be constructed of any suitable material and either straight or tapered as desired
a suitable handle being formed at the upper part of the plug for convenience of
turning.
It will be readily understood that my invention may be used for scent bottles and
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and Stoppers therefor.
1 ALFRED MARTIN of No. 23 Bridge Terrace Lower Woolwich Road East
Greenwich in the County of Kent Engineer 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 :-
This invention has for its object improvements in bottles and stoppers therefor
whereby the inconvenience of lifting and turning up a bottle such as the stone
bottles or jars now in use by publicans containing iwo or throe gallons (more or
less) of liquor when emptying it is obviated as the bottles would if desired lay on
their sides and the contents would be drawn off by the tap or cock as hereinafter
described. It dispenses with the employment of corks and at the same time the
bottles are perfectly air tight the contents are easily drawn off and all virtues and
the gases retained." This invention consists in moulding or otherwise forming a
bottle or jar of suitable material shape and design, the neck or outlet being formed
similar to the barrel of a cock or tap having a free passage from the body of the
bottle through the neck as at present in use.. At or near the centre of the neck
thereof a straight or tapered circular opening or passage is formed for the reception
of a plug corresponding in shape to the opening in the neck of the bottle said plug
may be solid having a passage or port formed therein parallel with the neck of the
bottle thus allowing the liquor to flow from the nozzle of the bottle. Or the plug
may be made hollow with one opening formed therein thus allowing the liquor to flow
from the bottom of the plug. The plug may be constructed of any suitable material

page_text: and either straight or tapered as desired, a suitable handle being formed at the upper
part of the plug for convenience of turning.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect have appended hereto a sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1. is an elevation of an ordinary glass bottle having my invention applied.
Fig. 2. is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3. is an elevation of a bottle having the mouth formed in the shape of a glass
and
Fig. 4. is an elevation and plan of another form of plug.
The bottle A has its neck or outlet B, enlarged to receive the tapered plug C which
is fitted into the opening formed in the enlarged portion of the neck or outlet B the
plug may be provided with a cork or other washer or bush shewn in dotted lines
Fig. 3 to form an air tight joint and a suitable handle D being formed on the
end thereof for turning on and off, the plug D may be provided with a split pin or
other suitable arrangement to keep it in position.
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If desired the mouth or opening of the bottle A may be enlarged to form a glass E
as shewn in Fig. 3. for convenience when drinking or for travelling purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is.
1. The enlargement of the neck or outlet of a bottle or jar and inserting a plug or
its equivalent therein for drawing off the contents substantially as herein described
and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
2. The enlargement of the neck or outlet of a bottle and inserting therein a tapered
or other shaped plug or its equivalent and the enlargement of the mouth of the said
bottle to forin a glass shaped vessel for drinking and travelling purposes substantially
as.herein described and shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this 20th day of March 1890
ALFRED MARTIN.