IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hermann Grauel, of Magdeburg, in the Kingdom
of Prussia, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR
BOTTLES."
Sealed the 2nd May 1876, and dated the 15th December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hermann Grauel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th December 1875.
I, HERMANN GRAUEL, of Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to afford means for stoppering bottles
quickly, and in a more perfect manner than with cork stoppers.
The bottles to which these stoppers are applied must be formed with
a groove round the outside of the neck. A tinned, brass, or iron wire,
is fixed in this groove, and is at one side carried up in the form of a loop
or staple, to which the upper part or cover of the stopper is jointed.

page_text: The stopper consists of a cover of tinned brass or iron, to the under
side of which the porcelain stopper proper is rivetted, a groove is formed
all round the latter and an india-rubber ring is slipped into it, forming
the joint in the bottle neck. The stopper is held down in place by
means of a lever or catch jointed to the wire at its lower end, and
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SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Hermann
Grauel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th July 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERMANN
GRAUEL, of Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Hermann Grauel, Her special
licence that I, the said Hermann Grauel, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Hermann Grauel, 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 Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Hermann Grauel, 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 performed, 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 Hermann Grauel, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: This stopper c has a groove across the top wherein the wire a rests,
which is held by a half circular cover staple 6 provided with hooks
under the flange on the bottle neck.
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Bottling by means of the here described stoppers is much cheaper and
more expeditious than by the ordinary corking; the bottles can be kept
both upright and in a lying position, as the carbonic acid does not
escape through porcelain and india-rubber as is the case with porous
corks the consumer gets rid of the troublesome unwiring and un-
corking, the danger thereby incurred is done away with, the bottles arė
unstoppered with the greatest ease, and with one hand also similarly
stoppered again when required without wasting or spoiling the re-
maining contents of bottle. The bottles may also be filled without
leaving an empty space, which is thereby injuriously filled with air.
These stoppers are chiefly applicable for mineral waters, aërated
waters, beer, scents, essences, athereal oils, and preserves.
And having thus fully described the nature of this Invention, and the
mode of carrying the same into effect I declare that I claim, the.
'porcelain stopper with india-rubber joint ring in combination with the
lever and staple appliances therefor, all substantially as described and
.shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hermann Grauel, have hereunto
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
set my
HERMANN GRAUEL. (L.S.)