Improvements in Stoppering Bottles and other Liquid Receptacles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles and other Liquid Receptacles.
FREDERICK WIlliam Lacey of 51 Aytoun Road Stockwell London, Clerk,
and GEORGE HAYES MARSHALL, of 12 Effingham Road, Wightman Road,.
Hornsey, Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention is a reversal of the present method adopted in screw stoppers as
the annexed drawing will shew:
Figure 1 represents a sectional view of the neck of a bottle or other liquid
receptacle, the interior of which is perfectly smooth-on the outside of this neck
a screw or male thread is cast or otherwise formed thereon, (indicated by the
letter a): a small ring made of india rubber or other suitable material (marked b)
is affixed on the ridge or ledge (marked c) at the base of the thread of screw.
Figure 2 is a sectional view of the cap or stopper, shewing the female thread of
the screw, cast or otherwise formed upon the interior; this cap, like the bottle, may
be made of glass, or earthenware, or other suitable material.
It is proposed that the exterior of this cap shall be "fluted" for convenience of
fastening and unfastening.
Figure 3 shews the cap in position.
We claim the right of putting the rubber ring and male thread of screw on the
exterior of the bottle neck thus preventing the contents from being tainted by coming
in contact with the rubber ring, and allowing a clear smooth and free passage for
the aforesaid contents of the said bottle, which entirely prevents the secretion of
any superfluous or foreign matter, and of making the cap in the manner herein-
before described.
Dated this 7th day of November 1894.
FREDERICK WILLIAM LACEY.
GEORGE HAYES MARSHALL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles and other Liquid Receptacles.
FREDERICK WILLIAM LACEY of 51 Aytoun Road, Stockwell, London, S.W.
Clerk, and GEORGE HAYES MARSHALL of 12 Effingham Road, Wightman
Road Hornsey N. Clerk 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 consists of a means whereby we are enabled to prevent the
contents of a bottle or other liquid receptacle from being tainted or otherwise
contaminated or affected by coming in contact with the ordinary rubber ring or
band (which has hitherto been placed inside the ordinary bottle neck) and is a
complete reversal of the methods adopted in screw stoppers as the drawings left
with the Provisional Specification doth shew.
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view of the neck of an ordinary bottle, the interior
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page_text: of which is perfectly smooth, (thus allowing a clear smooth and free passage for
the contents of the said bottle, which entirely prevents the secretion of any
superfluous deleterious or foreign matter, there being no ridge, ledge dent, or mark
of any kind in the interior of the said bottle neck)-the male thread of the screw
(shewn by the dotted lines) cast or otherwise formed. upon the outside of the neck
indicated by the letter "a." A ring made of india rubber or other suitable
material (marked "b") is affixed upon the ridge or ledge (marked "c") at the base
of the screw, or on any part of the same.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the cap or stopper, (which may be square, round,
hexagonal, or any other suitable shape), shewing the female thread of the screw,
'cast or otherwise formed upon the interior, (a flat disc or wafer of cork may be
fixed in the under (interior) side of the said cap, in the case of feeding bottles
and like vessels an orifice must be made through the top of the cap for the
insertion of the usual rubber tube. This cap, like the bottle or other receptacle
may be made of glass, earthenware, composition, vulcanite, or other suitable
material.
It is proposed that the exterior of the cap shall be “fluted” or otherwise
indented for securing or unfastening the cap.
Fig. 3 shews the cap in position, firmly screwed down, held or fixed by the ring
of 'rubber or other material which ring not only secures the cap, but also renders
the contents perfectly air-tight and obviating evaporation.
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
laim is
1. The right of placing the ring of rubber or other suitable material ou the
outside of the bottle neck or on any part of the same, (thus keeping or preventing
the contents from being tainted or otherwise contaminated by coming in contact
with the rubber ring).
2. The male thread of the screw also on the exterior of the bottle neck as
shewn in the drawing before described (thus allowing a clear, smooth and free
passage for the contents of the said bottle, which entirely prevents the secretion
of any superfluous, deleterious, or foreign matter, there being no ridge ledge, dent
or mark of any kind in the interior of the said bottle neck).
3. A specially constructed cap, the exterior of which may be square, round,
hexagonal, or any other suitable shape, made in the manner hereinbefore particularly
described, excepting that in the case of feeding bottles and like vessels an orifice
must be made through the top of the cap for the insertion of the usual rubber
tube.
4. A flat disc or wafer of cork fixed in the under (interior) side of the said cap.
Dated this 10th day of January 1895.
FREDERICK WILLIAM LACEY.
GEORGE HAYES MARSHALL.