IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING THE NECKS OF BOTTLES CONTAINING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dobson Allatt, of Montpelier Street,
Walworth, in the County of Surrey, Licensed Victualler, and
James Ansdell Patton, of Queen's Row, Walworth, in the said
County of Surrey, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING THE NECKS OF BOTTLES CONTAINING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dobson Allatt
and James Ansdell Patton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th November 1875.
We, JOHN DOBSON ALLATT, of Montpelier Street, Walworth, in the
County of Surrey, Licensed Victualler, and JAMES ANSDELL PATTON,
of Queen's Row, Walworth, in the said County of Surrey, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING THE NECKS OF BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED and
OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows :-
The Invention consists in apparatus contrived to afford the means of
very rapid opening by hand pressure against and consequent release of
a bridle piece, sling, strap, link, or detent, herein-after referred to simply

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as a strap detent," the lower ends of which are in some cases jointed
or hinged to an anchoring clip or brace fitted or formed for fitting
against the ordinary moulding or projecting rim at or near to the
mouth of a bottle, and the upper part of which in effective use for
closing the bottle spans or arches over and presses tightly against and
holds down a stopple or plug in or at the mouth of the bottle.
The stopple or plug is of metal, partly covered with india-rubber or
elastic material, or cork, and fits partly within the neck (to a shallow.
depth only) and partly against the upper edge. It has also projecting
ledges or rests for the strap detent to bear upon, which are slightly
stilted above other parts, so that when the strap detent is pressed
against and pushed off it allows the stopple or plug to be blown out or
expelled by the force of the gas or aërated or other liquid contained in
the bottle, or by the action of the hand. The strap detent is or may be
of stout wire, threaded, linked, or passed through eye pieces on the
stopple or plug for the purpose of retaining it from being blown away
or lost when so expelled. The brace or anchoring clip passes only half
round the neck of the bottle (or thereabouts), but is tied to the neck
and kept in place by a piece of twine or wire, which completely
girts it.
By cutting the twine, or cutting or breaking the girting wire, the
apparatus is removeable from the bottle; but if at the ends of the
anchoring clip there are provided studs or pivots passing into recessed
seatings or holes on the exterior of the neck of the bottle the girting
wire or twine may be dispensed with, the clip being sprung into its
position as described. Or when studs or pivots are provided to the
ends of the strap detent, with corresponding recessed seatings or
holes on the exterior of the neck of the bottle, within which they may
work or turn, the anchoring clip is not required.
The metal parts, execepting the girting wire, are of iron, and are
tinned to prevent rust. The girting wire is of copper, but this is not a
necessity.
In some cases corks may be employed instead of the stopple or plug

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Dobson Allatt and James Ansdell Patton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
DOBSON ALLATT, of Montpelier Street, Walworth, in the County of
Surrey, Licensed Victualler, and JAMES ANSDELL PATTON, of Queen's
Row, Walworth, in the said County of Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, 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
successors, give and grant unto us, the said John Dobson Allatt and
James Ansdell Patton, Her special license that we, the said John
Dobson Allatt and James Ansdell Patton, our executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Dobson Allatt
and James Ansdell Patton, our 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING
THE NECKS OF BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Dobson Allatt and
James Ansdell Patton, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, 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 John Dobson Allat, on behalf
of myself and the said James Ansdell Patton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :—.
The Invention consists in apparatus contrived to afford the means of

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very rapid opening by hand pressure against (and consequent release
of) a bridle piece, sling, strap, link, or detent, herein-after referred to as
a strap detent" or detent," the lower ends of which are in some
cases jointed or hinged to an anchoring clip or brace fitted or formed
for fitting against and beneath the ordinary moulding or projecting rim
at or near to the mouth of a bottle, and the upper part of which is so
threaded through, linked, or loosely attached to a stopple, or plug, or
cover (berein-after called a "stopple"), as that when in effective use
for closing the bottle it may and will press tightly against and hold
down the stopple in or at the mouth or neck of the bottle; and when
out of use the stopple will remain linked or attached to the " strap
detent," and consequently to the bottle, and be secured against loss.
The stopple is preferably of metal, partly covered, cushioned, or faced
with cork or india-rubber, or elastic material, and fits in some cases
against the upper edge of the bottle, in other cases within and at the
mouth of the neck, and in other cases partly against the upper edge
and partly within, and at the mouth of the neck. And sometimes the
elasticity is provided for by a ring of cork, india-rubber, or suitable
material fitted within the neck instead of to or upon the stopple. The
stopple has also projecting ledges or rests for the "strap detent" to
bear upon, which are slightly stilted above, other parts, so that when
the "strap detent" is pressed against and pushed off it allows the
stopple to be blown out or expelled by the force of the gas or aërated
or other liquid contained in the bottle, or to be removed from its seating
by the action of the hand. The "strap detent," which is or may be of
stout wire, being linked to the stopple, which is provided with eyes,
loops, or links, for the purpose, will retain the stopple from being blown
away or lost when so expelled. The brace or anchoring clip may pass
only half round the neck of the bottle (or thereabouts), and be tied to
the neck and kept in place by a piece of twine or binding wire, which
completely girts it. (By cutting the twine, or cutting or breaking the
girting wire, the apparatus is removeable from the bottle for cleaning
when desired).
But if at the ends of the anchoring clip there are provided studs or
pivots passing into recessed seatings or holes on the exterior of the neck
of the bottle the girting wire or twine may be dispensed with, the clip
being sprung into its position as described. Or when studs or pivots
are provided to the ends of the "strap detent," and corresponding
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page_text: partly within and at the mouth of the neck. This is a combination,
a cushion being provided to the neck, and an elastic ring m within the
neck. Other letters of reference, so far as inserted in the Figure, denote
as before.
In the cases illustrated by the Figures 7, 8, and 9, the method of
detaining and releasing the stopple, and of securing it from being lost,
are the same as in the case firstly above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dobson Allatt, on behalf
of myself and the said James Ansdell Patton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.