A NEW AND IMPROVED MEANS FOR SECURING CORKS OR SUBSTITUTES FOR CORKS IN THE MOUTHS OF BOTTLES AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS, WHETHER EARTHENWARE, STONEWARE, OR GLASS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED MEANS FOR
SECURING CORKS OR SUBSTITUTES FOR CORKS IN THE MOUTHS OF BOTTLES
AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS, WHETHER EARTHENWARE, STONEWARE, OR GLASS."-
A communication from Jean Adrien de Mestre, residing at Paris,
Rue du Port Mahon, Merchant.
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Sealed the 2nd July 1872, and dated the 19th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonne-
ville at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th January 1872.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for" A NEW AND IMPROVED MEANS FOR SECURING CORKS

page_text: OR SUBSTITUTES FOR CORKS IN THE MOUTHS OF BOTTLES AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS,
WHETHER EARTHENWARE, STONEWARE, OR Glass," communicated to me by Jean
Adrien de Mestre, a person resident at Paris, Rue du Port Mahon,
Merchant, to be as follows:-
This Invention, communicated to me, relates to a wire slot cap and to
special means of ligature by which corks or substitutes for corks are
secured in the mouths of bottles, flagons, and such like vessels, whether
carthenware, stoneware, or glass, designed to contain gaseous or
fermented liquids, and by which the pulling off of the said cap and the
uncorking of the bottle or such like vessel is facilitated.
The said cap consists of one single piece of steel, iron, copper, or
brass wire of a convenient length forming a netting which wraps up the
top face of the cork or substitutes for corks and the top end of the neck
of the bottle or such like vessel. This netting is composed of two sets
of stitches in a smaller or greater number. The stitches of the upper
set, or those which directly lie upon the top face of the cork or
substitutes for corks, are complete, that is to say, that they have four
sides, and are secured to a central link or ring formed by the wire itself.
The stitches of the lower set have but two sides, that is to say, that they
form half stitches and wrap round the top end of the neck of the bottle
or such like vessel. The two ends of the wire after the netting has been
nade are set free, and when the cap netting is put into place they are
twisted round the top end of the neck, of the bottle underneath the
projecting glass ring of the neck being passed through small buckles
formed by twisting the extremities of the stitches of the lower set. The
two ends of the wire are afterwards twisted together and passed through
a small lead rundle having a hole made for that purpose, and then they
are held and pressed near the projecting glass ring of the neck of the
bottle in the little rundle, on whose two faces a trade mark can afterwards
be printed or stamped by an embossing apparatus, which is now usually
done.
In order to break the wire and pull off the cap so as to uncork the
bottle, it suffices by seizing the lead rundle with the fingers to give the
wire a twist so that the breaking be obtained and that the cap be easily
pulled off.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 10th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her
special licence that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter 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 the Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "A NEW AND IMPROVED MEANS FOR SECURING CORKS OR SUBSTITUTES FOR
CORKS IN THE MOUTHS OF BOTTLES AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS, WHETHER EARTHEN-
WARE, STONEWARE, OR GLASS," communicated to me by Jean Adrien do
Mestre, a person resident at Paris, Rue du Port Mahon, Merchant,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be carried into effect, and cause the 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 I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be carried into effect, to be particularly described and ascer-
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forming the cap are incrustated, and on which a trade mark may be
impressed in order to preserve the contents of the recipient from
fraudulent manoeuvres.
In witness whercof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of July, in the 5
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)