IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE OR MEANS OF STOP- PERING OR CLOSING SUCH BOTTLES.
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Hannan, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid
Lothian, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES
FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE OR MEANS OF STOP-
PERING OR CLOSING SUCH BOTTLES.
Sealed the 7th October 1876, and dated the 13th April 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Hannan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th April 1876.
F
JAMES HANNAN, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain.
* IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE
OR MEANS OF STOPPERING OR CLOSING SUCH BOTTLES."
My Invention relates to an improved construction of bottle for containing acrated
liquids, and to improved appliances to be employed in combination with bottles so
constructed for retaining an internal stopper in its place and maintaining a gas
and liquid tight joint.
I
According to one mode of carrying out my Invention I form a screw thread on
the neck or mouth of the bottle for the reception of a tube or mouth piece, which is
composed by preference of glass or porcelain, and is provided with a female screw
thread so as to admit of its being screwed over the neck or mouth of the bottle.
also form in the mouth of the bottle an annular recess or cavity for the reception
of a tubular washer of india-rubber or other suitable material, the internal diameter
of which is sufficiently swall to retain the internal stopper after it has been once
inserted within the bottle, and on the top of which washer is intended to bear or
press an internal shoulder provided within the outer tube or mouth piece. In
titting the parts together preparatorily to filling the bottle the stopper (which may
consist of a ball, cone, or cylinder of glass or porcelain, or be constructed of any
other suitable shape and material) is first introduced into the bottle, after which the
washer is inserted in its recess and the mouth piece is finally screwed on to the
neck, so as to retain the washer in its place. The bottle may then be filled, when
the pressure of the gas will force the stopper into and maintain it in contact with
the washer.
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According to a modification of the preceding arrangement I dispense with the
screw thread and attach the mouth piece to the neck by means of any adhesive
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page_text: material adapted for the purpose, or I use the screw thread in combination with
the adhesive material.
I may also employ with either of the preceding arrangements for attachment an
outer band round the connection between the mouth piece and the bottle of suitable
material to secure the stopper in its place.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Hannan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th October
1876.
JAMES HANNAN, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE
OR MEANS OF STOPPERING OR CLOSING SUCH BOTTLES."
...
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My said Invention relates to an improved construction of bottle for containing
aerated liquids, and to improved appliances to be employed in combination with
bottles so constructed for retaining an internal stopper in its place, and maintaining
a gas and liquid tight joint.
The several Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings illustrate one mode
of carrying out my Invention, which I shall now proceed particularly to describe.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents a vertical section of a bottle for containing
aerated liquids, constructed according to my Invention, with the internal stopper
and the appliances for retaining tlie stopper in its place and maintaining a tight
joint. Figures 2, 3, and 4 are views of some of the parts detached. a is the neck
or mouth of the bottle on which I form a screw thread a¹, (see the detail of the
neck a, Figure 3) for the reception of a tube or mouth piece b, shewn detached in
Figure 2, which is composed by preference of glass or porcelain, and is provided
with a female screw thread b¹ so as to admit of its being screwed over the neck or
mouth a of the bottle, I also form in the mouth of the bottle an annular recess or
cavity (see Figure 3) for the reception of a tubular washer d, shewn detached
in Figure 4, of india-rubber or other suitable material, the internal diameter of
which is sufficiently small to retain the internal stopper after it has been once
inserted within the bottle, and on the top of which washer is intended to bear or
press an internal shoulder e (see Figure 2) provided within the outer tube or mouth
piece b. In fitting the parts together preparatory to filling the bottle the stopper
(which may consist of a cone f, as shewn, or of a ball or cylinder of glass or porcelain,
or be constructed of any other suitable shape and material) is first introduced into
the bottle, after which the washer d'is inserted in its recess c, and the mouth
piece is finally screwed on to the neck a so as to retain the washer d in its place.
The bottle may then be filled when the pressure of the gas will force the stopper
into and maintain it in contact with the washer.
According to a modification of the preceding arrangement I dispense with the
screw thread, and attach the mouth piece b to the neck a by means of any adhesive
material adapted for the purpose, or I use the screw thread in combination with the
adhesive material.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect,
I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the combination with the neck or mouth of a bottle of a tube
or mouth piece attached thereto by screwing, or adhesion, or by screwing in con-
junction with adhesion, such tube or mouth piece having an internal shoulder which
bears upon a tubular washer of the requisite Nmited internal diameter inserted in
a recess or cavity formed in the mouth of the bottle, the whole being arranged in

page_text: relation to an internal stopper substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before described and as illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Hannan, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of October One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.
J. HANNAN. (L.S.)