Improved Apparatus for Opening Internally Stoppered Bottles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Opening Internally Stoppered Bottles.
JOSEPH SAUNDERS Muston near Dorchester Dorset Yeoman 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 :-
The machinery consist of a platform A from which rises a curved or perpendicular
Pole B, which has a screw cut, or is telescoped, to allow a cross Bar from right to
left of the said Pole, and on a parallel to the said platform to be moved up and
down it, sufficiently to admit any size bottle being placed under the Rammers a
which is placed through the cross Bar C a little distance from the end of it, and
which works up and down, for the purpose of driving down the Ball in the Bottles
the pressure is obtained by a perpendicular handle or the use of a leaver D or by the
aid of Plain or Cog wheels and the like, a spring E is used to keep the Raminers in
position after the pressure is released.
Small is a rest, to steady Bottles.
The Rammers are made of any kind of wood or metal, Turned, leaving a Round
or square nut F projecting to the size of the outside mouth of the Bottles in the
centre of the Rammers or nearly so, and presenting a flat surface which is covered
by a piece of India Rubber or Cork G, of either shape, which when the Rammers
have sent the Ball of the Bottle down, rest firmly on the top of the mouth of the
bottle, thus preventing any escape of the contents of the bottle, with the only
exception of the gas, which is allowd to escape by the under mentioned means, thus
the Raminers at the nose or the part a that enters the Bottle and touches the Ball of
the Bottle, is cut in holes in the form of cross notches H from side to side, and
from the centre of these notches, a perpendicular hole J runs about three parts
up the length of the Rammer spindle, into which another hole runs from the aforesaid
nut F in an upward slanting position until it crosses it, thus securing a diversified
freedom for escape of the gas, thus insuring a greater safety in opening highly
charged Bottles The platform may be provided with a step I to take the smaller
Bottles.
Having now particulary described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is performed, I declare that what I claim is
the whole of the foregoing to be new-
1st. The position of the platform and the cross bar being in a
parallel line
allowing bottles of any size being put between it and the Rammers, Form J may
be used for same purpose as herein before described on which the aforesaid rammer
works, together with the upward and downward movement with the use of the
aforesaid spring to rise it when the pressure is released the pressure to he obtained
as herein before described.
2ndly. The manner which allows of any size Bottles to be used as herein before
described.
3rdly. But of the greatest importance is the manner the holes and notches are
cut in the Rammer, as herein before described.
Dated this 16th day of May 1889.
JOSEPH SAUNDERS,
Muston, near Dorchester, Dorset.