Improvements in Stoppering or Closing the Mouths of Bottles, Jars, Cans, and other Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering or Closing the Mouths of Bottles, Jars,
Cans, and other Vessels.
We, GRACE MORBY of 2 Park Grove Villas, Park Grove Road, Leytonstone,
in the County of Essex, Machinist and CHARLES BUTCHER of 25 Old Jewry, in
the City of London, Solicitor 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 :—
Our invention relates to an improved method of constructing the mouths of bottles,
jars, cans and similar vessels and utensils, intended to contain liquid, or semi-liquid
substances, such as bottles for beer, wine, or other fermented liquors, or spirits,
ginger beer, lemonade, or other liquids stored under pressure, in glass or stone, jam,
pickles or other jars containing semi-liquid perishable goods, hot-water bottles,
travellers flasks, workman's tins, carboys for containing acids, and in fact any vessel
or utensil having a circular mouth, or opening through which the contents thereof
must pass when being filled, or emptied, and has for its object the total abolition of
the use of corks, stoppers and the like, as hitherto employed for this purpose.
In order that our invention may be fully understood we have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings, in which we have chosen to illustrate the manner
of constructing the mouths of bottles, such as are used for beer, wines, spirits and
similar liquids, and this may be taken as clearly illustrating the method forming the
subject of our invention, without entering into detail as to size, or material employed
in the construction thereof.
Fig. 1 is a view of the mouth and part of the neck of a bottle constructed
according to our invention, and illustrating one of the ways of pouring the contents
therefrom.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the forms of caps, or covers employed with
Fig. 1 in carrying out our invention.
Fig. 3 is an elevational view of Fig. 1 with a different form of cap in position
thereon.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig. 1 shewing the use of our invention as a retainer
of sediment when pouring out the contents.
Fig. 6 is a plan view of the mouth of a bottle with cap thereon, shewing how
the contents may be poured or otherwise taken out without removing the cap from
the bottle.
Fig. 7 is a similar view to Fig. 6 shewing the manner in which the cap encloses
the opening in Figs. 1 and 5 when screwed hone thereon.
Similar letters of reference to corresponding parts are used throughout the
drawings.
In carrying our invention into effect, we cast, or blow, or cast and blow in any
coloured, transparent or opaque glass, or mould, or form in earthenware, stone, china,
delf or the like, or cast, forge, mould, or otherwise construct of any metallic
substance, a bottle, jar, can, or other vessel A. of any size, or dimensions, and of any
shape suitable for the purpose of holding the particular kind of liquid, or semi-liquid
substance intended to be placed therein, in such a manner that a certain portion of
the mouth thereof is blocked, or stopped, as at B Figs. 1 and 5, and the sectional
view Fig. 4, preferably for about one half of its diameter. The neck of the vessel
is formed with an external thread C, or an external and internal thread C and D,
the inner and outer convolutions of which accommodate each other as shewn more
particularly by the sectional view Fig. 4. We form a cap, or cover E, Fig. 2, of
wood, glass, metal, vulcanite, vulcanized fibre, or any other suitable substance, or

page_text: material, with an internal, or female screw thread F by which it may be screwed
upon Con A, and may be either plain externally as at Fig. 2, or with outer
convolutions corresponding to said internal thread as shewn at Figs. 3 and 4, the
latter formation more particularly applies when said cap, or cover is made of thin
metal. In the upper surface of E we form an opening G, preferably slightly less
than half its diameter, so that when E is screwed home upon C the opening G
would be over B in the mouth of A, and the solid part H of E would be over and
tightly covering or scaling the opening in the mouth of A as shewn at Fig. 7, and
by the sectional view Fig. 4. Upon the inner surface of H we provide a lining I,
of cork, asbestos, or any other substance or material most suited for the purpose
according to the contents of A, the object of which is that when H is covering the
mouth, or opening Gas at Figs. 4 and 7 a perfectly air and fluid tight seal is
attained and maintained as long as E remains in this position, and the contents of A
consequently preserved thereby.
When it becomes necessary to remove the contents of A, E may be turned until
G exposes the opening in the mouth of A. as shown at Fig. 6, when the contents, if
fluid may be poured out as at Fig. 6, or as much thereof as may be needed, and E
replaced as before. If the contents be semi fluid, such as jam, pickles, syrup, or
the like, and the vessel be a jar, or can, the same may be removed with a spoon,
or fork in the usual way, the opening G being of course of a size to permit this.
In the case of bottled beers, lemonade, or the like, with which is a certain amount
of gas, our invention becomes a great acquisition, as the quick replacement of E
when sufficient has been withdrawn, which may be less than the whole, retains a
sufficient quantity of gas to keep the remainder in good order, and if the whole of
the contents is needed E may be entirely removed as at Fig. 1 and the contents
poured out, and if any sediment exists, as in beer or wines, the bottle may be held
in the position shewn by Fig. 5, the block B holding back the sediment and,
permitting the clear liquid.only to pass into the glass, decanter, or other vessel.
When the bottle or other vessel A. contains champagne, lemonade, or other liquid
likely to exert an internal pressure upon H, in order to further guard against the
possibility of the involuntary removal of E from A, we form a collar, or ring K
upon A. so that a wire, or string may be used engaging with K and E as in
champagne, or lemonade corks, and we may in such cases form E externally so as
to resemble such corks, and grooved, or indented to receive said wire, or string.
Referring to the vessel A, we may in certain cases construct this so that B may
not form part thereof, or be made integrally therewith, but may be forced, cr
screwed into A until in the proper position and retained therein by the internal
thread in A. The plug or stopper B would in such cases be made of wood,
vulcanite, or the like, and when such is used, we may construct E of similar material,
to that of B and we may in like cases dispense with the lining I in H, the junction
of the trued surfaces of H and B being sufficient for the purpose of rendering the
seal perfect.
It will be understood from the foregoing description that our invention may be
employed in the construction of any vessel having a circular head, or neck capable
of receiving a cap or cover screwed thereon as set out in the preamble hereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
1st. For improvements in stoppering, or closing the months of bottles, cans, jars
and other vessels, the manner of constructing said vessels and covers of any material
or substance, combined, connected and operating substantially as, and in the manner
herein described and for the purposes specified and shewn by the drawings hereunto
appended.
2nd. In the construction of bottles and other vessels A the employment of an
external thread C, or external and internal threads C and D, in combination with
a block B connected to, or forming part of A, with or without a collar K

page_text: substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth and shewn by the accompany
drawings.
3rd. In the construction of vessels for containing liquid or semiliquid substances
as set out in the preceding claim, the construction and use in combination therewith
of a cap or cover E, with internal thread F and opening G, with or without the
lining I, operating with and upon the screw C, and in conjunction with the plug B
in A. effectual sealing the contents, substantially for the purposes and in the manner
herein described and shewn by the appended drawings.
Dated this 28th day of March 1891
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.