Improvements in or relating to Corked Bottles, and in Means for Facilitating and Securing Corks therein.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Corked Bottles, and in Means for
Facilitating and Securing Corks therein.
I, WILLIAM LEYLAND, of 137, Bag Lane, Atherton, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Aerated Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers to improvements in or relating to corked bottles and in
means for facilitating and securing corks therein, and is designed to effect a con-
siderable saving in string, wire, or other equivalents employed for securing corks
in bottles containing aerated and other liquids, also to simplify tieing and reduce
the time to perform the same to a minimum. To effect this I provide each bottle
with two or more nibs or projections of any convenient shape that will allow of the
tieing medium being passed under same to secure the cork in the neck of the
bottle. If desired the nibs or projections can be separate from the bottles, and can
be made of wire or its equivalent twisted and placed under the necks of saine,
leaving two or more ends on each to form the said nibs or projections. After a
cork has been placed in the neck of a bottle the string, wire, or other equivalent is
placed over the top of the cork, from whence it is passed down the outside of the
neck of the bottle and under the nibs or projections, then up and over the top side
of the cork, after which the latter is secured by tieing the string or its equivalent
or twisting the ends of the wire or its equivalent.
Dated the 24th May 1890.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Corked Bottles, and in Means for
Facilitating and Securing Corks therein.
I, WILLIAM LEYLAND, late of 137, Bag Lane, Atherton, and now of 4, Arnold
Street, Patricroft, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Aerated Water
Manufacturer, 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 refers to improvements in or relating to corked bottles and in
means for facilitating and securing corks therein, and is designed to effect a
considerable saving in string, wire, or other equivalents employed for securing
corks in bottles containing aerated and other liquids, also to simplify tieing and
reduce the time to perform the same to a minimum. To effect this I provide each
bottle with two or more nibs or projections of any convenient shape that will allow
of the tieing medium being passed under same to secure the cork in the neck of the
bottle. After a cork has been placed in the neck of a bottle the string, wire, or
other equivalent is placed over the top of the cork, from whence it is passed down
the outside of the neck of the bottle and under the nibs or projections, then up and
over the top side of the cork, after which the latter is secured by tieing the string
or its equivalent or twisting the ends of the wire or its equivalent.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a plan of saine.
Fig. 3 is an outside clevation of the upper or neck end of a corked bottle on my
improved principle provided with a pap, and
Fig. 4 is a plan.
A is the neck or upper end of a corked bottle; B the cork; C the nibs or pro-
jections with spaces between the same, and E the wire, string, or other equivalents
for securing the corks in position after the bottles are filled.
The upper end or neck of the corked bottle A is constructed or manufactured
with the nibs or projections C. The underside of the latter are of such a length
as to allow of the tieing medium E passing under same to secure the cork B in the
neck of the bottle. If desired the upper end of the bottle A can be provided with
the pap G to operate against the yielding or other seat in the mouth of the filling
machine and prevent the upper end of the nibs or projections C being damaged in
the operation of filling. After the cork B has been inserted in the neck A. of the
bottle the tieing medium E is placed over the top of the cork B and down the space D,
then under one of the nibs or projections C and up the space D', and again over the
cork B, then down the space D2 on the opposite side, under the opposite nib or
projection C and up the space D³, to bring the two ends of the tieing medium
together to secure them by tieing in the case of string or its equivalent as in
Figs. 3 and 4, or by twisting them together in case of wire or its equivalent as
in Figs. 1 and 2. By the employment of the nibs or projections C and the means
of tieing herein set forth a saving of about one-half the string, wire, or their
equivalents will be effected, also a great saving in the time of performing the same,
being a much more simple operation than under the old or present system of tieing.
Another advantage is that the bottles are more readily opened; the tieing medium
falling clean off the bottle when released, resulting in a great amount of time and
labor being effected when the bottles are returned for washing and re-filling.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In a corked bottle, the combination of the nibs or projections C with intervening
spaces, and the method of passing the ticing medium E under the nibs or projec-
tions C, through the spaces between the same and over the cork B to secure the
latter in the neck A of the bottle, substantially as described.
Dated the 23rd February 1891
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.