IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER VASES, AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Joseph Baranowski, former Under Secretary
of the Bank of Poland, and John Skwarcow, Civil Engineer, both
of 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris, France, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER VASES,
AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Joseph Baranowski
and John Skwarcow at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 9th November 1871.
We, JEAN JOSEPH BARANOWSKI, former Under Secretary of the Bank
of Poland, and JOHN SKWARCOW, Civil Engineer, both of 13, Rue
Gaillon, Paris, France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER
VASES, AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE," to be as
follows:-

page_text: the extremities of two shafts in such a manner that the central part is
covered, whilst the remainder of the disc or sheet (annular projecting
part) is raised up by a series of articulated blades arranged in a
horizontal plane, and which radiate from the centre or from near the
centre of one of said shafts in such a manner that on cach blade
being raised it enters a groove cut or fixed for that purpose on the
extremity of one of the said shafts, and forms a pleat on the capsule,
a succession of which is thus formed round the entire outer surface of
the capsule.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John Skwarcow in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JEAN
JOSEPH BARANOWSKI, former Under Secretary of the Bank of Poland,
and JOHN SKWARCOW, Civil Engineer, both. of 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris,
France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-onc, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski
and John Skwarcow, Her special licence that we, the said Jean Joseph
Baranowski and John Skwarcow, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and
John Skwarcow, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
tiino agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times therc-
after 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, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER
VASES, AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE,'
upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski
and John Skwarcow, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
"

page_text: should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause tho
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 we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and
John Skwarcow, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say :-
For the manufacture of our capsules we take a blank or disc
of sheet metal, paper, or any other appropriate material, which we
place between the extremities of two shafts in such a manner that
the central part is covered whilst the remainder of the disc or sheet
(annular projecting part) is raised up by a series of articulated blades
arranged in a horizontal plane, and which radiate from the centre or
from near the centre of one of the said shafts in such a manner that on
each blade being raised it enters a groove cut or fixed for that purpose
on the extremity of one of the said shafts, and forms a pleat on the
capsule; a succession of which is thus formed round the entire outer
surface of the capsule.
And in order that our said Invention may be more fully understood
and readily carried into effect, we will proceed, aided by the accompany-
ing Drawings, more particularly to describe the manner of performing
the same.
The principle upon which the above-named machine is founded
consists in using discs cut out of metal or any other suitable material
sufficiently flexible to be pleated around its own circumference, and thus to
be transformed automatically into a goffered capsule, with either straight
pleats radiating to the centre or oblique ones folding regularly one
towards the other.
The principal mechanical organs or means employed to obtain this
result arc,-
First. A cone of hard wood or metal provided with as many grooves,

page_text: Second. The same number of metallic blades, knife shaped, as the
cone has grooves, properly fixed in a round hinged stand having a ring
lodged therein which serves as a pivot or axis to the blades, which are
arranged horizontally, radiating directly to the centre, or with a slight
deviation to the centre, and placed under the cone in such a manner that
on each blade being raised it must necessarily enter into a corresponding
groove of the cone, and form upon the disc of metal or other suitable
material, placed exactly in the centre between the cone and the blades,
a pleat corresponding to the angle and the depth of the groove above
mentioned

page_text: Fourthly. The general arrangements of machinery for manufacturing
utomatically goffered or pleated capsules, as above described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John
Skwarcow, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth day
of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two.
Witness,
D. H. BRANDON,
13, Rue Gaillon,
Paris.
J. BARANOWSKI.
(L.S.)
JOHN SKWARCOW. (L.S.)