IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES INTENDED TO CONTAIN AËRATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE OF STOPPERING THE SAME AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles William Fuller, of 85, Gracechurch
Street, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES INTENDED TO CONTAIN AËRATED AND OTHER
LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE OF STOPPERING THE SAME AND OTHER SIMILAR
VESSELS."
Scaled the 17th June 1870, and dated the 1st February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Oharles William
Fuller at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 1st February 1870.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM FULLER, of 85, Gracechurch Street, in the City
5 of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES INTENDED TO CONTAIN AERATED
AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE OF STOPPERING THE. SAME AND OTHER
SIMILAR VESSELS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates, first, to the construction of bottles intended to
▸ contain aërated and other liquids, such as soda water, lemonade, seltzer

page_text: water, ginger beer, stout, ale, and such like beverages, and consists in
forming such said bottles with an additional outlet for discharging the
contents thereof, that is to say, I propose to form an outlet from the
side of the neck of the bottle as well as the ordinary outlet at the top
thereof, and employ the aforesaid side outlet for discharging the contents E
of the bottle by fitting it with a stopper of the following construction,
the said stopper being self-acting as regards that part of the said
stopper that is inside of the said bottle for preventing the escape of
liquid contained therein during and after the filling of the said bottle
therewith, the liquid being discharged therefrom as presently described. 1
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The following is the mode of stoppering bottles and operating such
said stoppers according to this Invention: The stopper is composed of
a stem of wood or other suitable material, to the lower end of which
a washer of vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable elastic substance is
affixed, the size and form of the said washer being such as to close the 1
orifice at the lower part of the neck or shoulder of the bottle air-tight.
Within the neck of the bottle, and just above the aforesaid side outlet
therein another elastic washer is intended to fit closely. The stem of
the-stopper passes through this. last-mentioned washer, and around the
upper part of the said stem a helical spring is placed, and the top end 2
of the said stem has a ball of wood or other suitable material screwed
thereonto so as to be a short distance from the top of the neck of the
bottle.
"
In order to discharge the contents of a bottle fitted with a stopper of
the above construction it is only necessary to exert pressure on the 2
aforesaid ball, the effect of which will be to force away the lowermost
washer, by which the liquid will have free vent and escape by the side
outlet in the neck of the bottle, the uppermost washer aforesaid
preventing the liquid from passing out in any other direction. Upon
removing the pressure from without the elastic force of the spring 3
before referred to will lift up and close the stopper and prevent the
flow of the liquid from the bottle, and in this manner and by these
means the whole or any portion of the liquid may be discharged from
the bottle.
In some cases the before-mentioned spring is not necessary. In other 3
cases it may be found desirable to have a catch affixed to the stopper at
the outside of the neck of the bottle to render unnecessary the holding
down of the stopper by hand.

page_text: Bottles constructed and stoppered as above described are intended to
be filled at the before-mentioned side outlet, the pressure of the liquid
forcing down the stopper until the bottle is filled, the stopper rising
when the pressure is removed from without.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles William Fuller in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WILLIAM FULLER, of 85, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles William Fuller, Uer special licence
that I, the said Charles William Fuller, my exccutors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles William Fuller,
my exccutors, administrators, or 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 THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES INTENDED TO CONTAIN AËRATED
AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MODE OF STOPPERING THE SAME AND OTHER
SIMILAR VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the:
said Charles William Fuller, 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.

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is to bo performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and. by
the following statement, that is to say:-:
3.3
This Invention relates, first, to the construction of bottles intended to
contain aërated and other liquids, such as soda water, lemonade, seltzer
water, ginger beer, stout, ale, and such like beverages, and consists in t
forming such said bottles with an additional outlet for discharging the
contcuts thereof, that is to say, I propose to form an outlet from the side
of the neck of the bottle as well as the ordinary outlet at the top thereof,
and employ the aforesaid side outlet for discharging the contents of the
bottle by fitting it with a stopper of the following construction, the 1
said stopper being self-acting as regards that part of the said stopper
that is inside of the said bottle for preventing the escape of liquid
contained therein during and after the filling of the said bottle therewith,
the liquid being discharged therefrom as presently described.
:
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"
The following is the mode of stoppering bottles and operating such 1
said stoppers according to this Invention The stopper is composed of
a stem of wood or other suitablo material, to the lower end of which a
washer of vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable clastic substance
is affixed, the size and form of the said washer being such as to close
the orifice at the lower part of the neck or shoulder of the bottle air- 2
tight. Within the neck of the bottle and just above the aforesaid side
outlet therein another elastic washer is intended to fit closely. The
stem of the stopper passes through this last-mentioned washer, and
around the upper part of the said stem a helical spring is placed, and
the top end of the said stem has a ball of wood or other suitable material 2
screwed therconto so as to be a short distance from the top of the neck
of the bottle.
In order to discharge the contents of a bottle fitted with a stopper of
the above construction it is only necessary to exert pressure on the
aforesaid ball, the effect of which will be to force away the lowermost 3
washer, by which the liquid will have free vent and escape by the side
outlet in the neck of the bottle, the uppermost washer aforesaid
preventing the liquid from passing out in any other direction. Upon
removing the pressure from without the clastic force of the spring
before referred to will lift up and close the stopper and prevent the 3
flow of the liquid from the bottle, and in this manner and by these
means the whole or any portion of the liquid may be discharged from
the bottle.

page_text: In some cases the before-mentioned spring is not necessary. In other
cases it may be found desirable to have a catch affixed to the stopper at
the outside of the neck of the bottle to render unnecessary the holding
down of the stopper by hand.
Bottles constructed and stoppered as above described are intended to
be filled at the before-mentioned side outlet, the pressure of the liquid
forcing down the stopper until the bottle is filled, the stoppor rising
when the pressure is removed from without.
And in order to explain this Invention more fully I now proceed to
describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures
and letters of reference marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents an outside elevation of a bottle and stopper as they
would appear when constructed according to. this Invention; Figure 2
is a transverse and vertical section of the bottle and stopper; Figure 3,
the stopper detached from the bottle. At each of the foregoing Figures
similar letters of reference are employed to denote corresponding parts.
A, marks the body of the bottle; B, the neck thereof formed with an
additional outlet C at the side of the neck as well as the ordinary outlet
at top.
The mode of stoppering a bottle thus constructed is as follows:-
D marks a piece of wood, glass, or other suitable material on which
are placed two elastic washers E, G; that marked E is intended to press
against the shoulder of the bottle when it is filled, and that marked G
against the part a of the neck of the bottle for closing the top outlet
when the stopper is pressed down from the top and the washer E forced
away from the shoulder of the bottle, and held in that position while the
contents of the bottle are being discharged at the outlet C. I would
here remark that if desirable a catch may be affixed to the top of the
piece D or the bottle to hold the stopper down by pressing against the
neck while the contents of the bottle are being discharged.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
my said Invention for " Improvements in the Construction of Bottles
intended to Contain Acrated and other Liquids, and in the Mode of

page_text: Stoppering the same and other similar Vessels," together with the best
means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect,
I would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare my Invention to
consist in and I claim, the means above described with reference to the
accompanying Drawing of stoppering bottles and discharging the 5
contents thereof as above stated.
In witness whercof, I, the said Charles William Fuller, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.