A NEW STOPPERED BOTTLE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mason Gill, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, Dentist, for the Invention of "A NEW STOPPERED BOTTLE."
Sealed the 7th September 1875, and dated the 2nd June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mason Gill at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd June 1875.
I, MASON GILL, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Dentist, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW STOPPERED
BOTTLE," to be as follows:-
This Invention is intended to supply a want felt by bottlers, vendors, and
the public with regard to fermented and other liquors, other than aerated
waters, so that time, the expense of corks, &c., may be saved; also the
stopper is confined in a position that causes it to skim the froth by the
liquid passing under it in pouring, and prevents disturbing the sediment
by gargling in allowing the air to pass over it; at same time it is
more expeditious, and its shape enables it to be easily cleaned.

page_text: To carry out my Invention I place a double flange in both stopper
and bottle neck, by which a recess is formed to receive a washer, which
in use binds in both. The outer flange of stopper being smaller than
the outer or smallest opening in bottle neck, the inner flange or bulb
of stopper being larger than the smallest or outer whereby it is confined
within the bottle, but smaller than the opening left by inner flange
whereby washer is held in neck of bottle, which allows the bulb or
larger flange of stopper to pass the inner flange of neck, and press
against washer, causing washer to be pressed against outer or smaller
flange or opening in neck. When the gas presses against it, or when it
is tightened by means of wire or peg passed through a hole in that part
of stopper that projects through neck of bottle bearing upon top of
neck, which is inclined so that turning the stopper round with wire
through causes any degree of tension that may required upon washer.
When the wire is used it must be removed before the stopper can be
pressed in and contents used. The washer can be sufficiently sunk into
either bottle neck or stopper, whichever is found most practicable to
retain it in the required position, or it can remain by chance in either
when pressed open.
In corking the smaller flange of stopper has to be forcibly drawn
past the washer, which when the washer closes upon the recess in
stopper so holding it in position while the gas generates in the case of
fermented liquors, and so tightens it against washer, or while if
necessary the wire is adjusted and inclined plane on outer edge of neck
made use of by turning stopper to increase the tension to any desired
pitch, or a wedge could be introduced into hole and so tightened.
In order to retain stopper midway in bottle, so as to skim and allow
the air to pass over while the liquid passes under, the bottle is shaped
somewhat to shape of stopper.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters 30
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Mason
Gill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th December 1875.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters 30
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Mason
Gill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MASON
GILL, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Dentist, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
3 give and grant unto me, the said Mason Gill, Her special licence,
that I, the said Mason Gill, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Mason Gill, 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 "A NEW STOPPERED
BOTTLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Mason
Gill, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Mason Gill, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
This Invention is intended to supply a want felt by bottlers, vendors,
and the public with regard to other than aerated waters, so that time,
the expense of corks, &c., may be saved; also the stopper is confined in
a position that causes it to skim the froth by the liquid passing under it
in pouring, and prevents disturbing the sediment by gargling in allowing
the air to pass over it; at same time it is more expeditious, and its
shape enables it to be easily cleaned, a necessity in fermented liquors.
To carry out my Invention I place a double flange in both the stopper
and bottle neck, by which a recess is formed to receive a washer, which
in use binds in both. The outer flange of stopper being smaller than
the outer or smallest opening in bottle neck, the inner flange or bulb of
stopper being larger than the smallest or outer whereby it is confined
within the bottle, but smaller than the opening left by inner flange
whereby washer is held in neck of bottle, which allows the bulb or

page_text: larger flange of stopper to pass the inner flange of neck and press against
washer, causing washer to be pressed against outer or smaller flange or
.opening in neck, when the gas presses against it or when it is tightened
by means of wire or peg" passed through a hole in a part of stopper that
projects through neck of bottle bearing upon top of neck which is
inclined to that; turning the stopper round with wire through causes
any degree of tention that may be required upon washer. When the
wire is used it must be removed before the stopper can be pressed in
and contents used. The washer can be sufficiently sunk into either
bottle neck or stopper, whichever is found most practicable to retain it
in the required position, or it can remain by chance in either, when
pressed open.
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In corking the smaller flange of stopper has to be forcibly drawn past
the washer, which when the washer closes upon the recess in stopper so
holding it in position while the gas generates in the case of fermented
liquors, and so tightens it against washer, or while if necessary the wire
is adjusted and inclined plane on outer edge of neck made use of by
turning stopper to increase the tention to any desired pitch, or a wedge
could be introduced into hole and so tightened.
In order to retain stopper midway in bottle, so as to skim and allow
the air to pass over while the liquid passes under, the bottle is orificed
somewhat to shape of stopper.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention I
declare that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-
before recited Letters Patent is, the new stoppered bottle made in the
manner substantially as herein-before described, or any mere modi-
fication thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mason Gill, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of December, in the year of our