IMPROVED MEANS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES OR LIKE RECEPTACLES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I EDWARD GARDNER COLTON of the firm of Popplewell Colton & Co of Victoria
Chambers Southampton Buildings in the county of Middlesex Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
IMPROVED MEANS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES OR LIKE RECEPTACLES
(a communication to me from abroad by Max Rubin of the City and County of
Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania one of the United States of America to be as
follows:-
:
This invention has reference to certain improvements in stoppers or means for
closing bottles and like receptacles which can be used for bottles containing ink
fermented and spirituous liquors oils and other liquids, and the invention consists
of a bottle stopper the neck band of which preferably formed of sheet metal is
guided on spiral grooves of the bottle neck and provided with a cap which is
pivoted to a neck band guided by the said grooves. An interior elastic disc or
gasket of the cap serves to close tightly the bottle mouth when the cap is lowered
by turning it along the spiral grooves.
These grooves have horizontal extensions or seats at their upper and lower ends
the cap is pivotted to the neck band by pins passing through arms of the cap and
which pins move in the spiral grooves of the bottle neck. Thus on turning the
neck band and cap to open the bottle the cap can be thrown over to leave the
mouth of the bottle fully open.
The spiral grooves are provided at points intermediately between their
horizontal end seats with vertical grooves which extend from the spiral grooves
to the upper edge of the bottle neck and serve to attach the stopper to or detach
it therefrom.
Instead of using vertical grooves the pivot pins may have screwed shanks to
screw into the arms of the cap and project into the guide grooves for the purpose
of attaching or replacing the cap.
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page_text: I, EDWARD GARDNER COLTON of the firm of Popplewell Colton and Company
of Victoria Chambers, Southampton Buildings in the county of Middlesex,
Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for "IMPROVED MEANS FOR STOPPERING OR CLOSING BOTTLES OR LIKE
RECEPTACLES" (a communication to me from abroad by Max Rubin of the city and
county of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania one of the United States of America)
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This invention has reference to certain improvements in stoppers or means for
closing bottles and like receptacles which can be used for bottles containing ink,
fermented and spirituous liquors, oils, and other liquids and the invention consists
of a bottle stopper, the neck band of which (preferably formed of sheet metal) is
guided on spiral grooves formed on the bottle neck and provided with a cap which
is pivotted to the neck band guided by said grooves. -
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An interior elastic disc or gasket of the cap serves to close tightly the bottle-
mouth when the cap is lowered by turning it along the spiral grooves.
In the accompanying drawings Fig 1 represents a side elevation of my improved
bottle stopper.
Fig 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same.
Figs 3 and 4. are side views shewing the same respectively in partly and in
entirely open position.
Fig 5. is a side view of the bottle neck with the cap detached.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
A in the drawing represents a bottle which is provided with a neck B of
cylindrical shape.
The neck B is provided at diametrically opposite points with spiral grooves b. b,
which are provided at their upper and lower ends with horizontal extensions or
seats b. A neckband C. is guided by inwardly-projecting pivot-pins d. d. in
the spiral grooves b. b. To the pins d. d. are pivotted the arms D¹ of cap D
which cap may be provided with a circumferential flange the arms D₁ being made
of (as are also thumb pieces f. f. the better to grasp the cap) sheet metal integral
with the cap D.
An elastic disc D' is arranged at the interior of the bottle cap D. By turning
the neck band C along the grooves until the pivot pins d. d. arrive at the lower
ends or at the upper ends of the grooves b. b. the cap is either rigidly closed on the
bottle mouth or raised sufficiently above the same to be thrown sideways so as to
admit the discharge of the contents of the bottle.
The spiral grooves b. b. are. provided at points intermediately between their
horizontal end seats with vertical grooves 6' which extend from the spiral
grooves b. b. to the upper edge of the bottle neck B and which serve to attach or
detach the bottle stopper to or from the neck B of the bottle.
Instead of making the spiral guide grooves with the vertical grooves 6' at
intermediate points between their end seats the said vertical grooves b³ may be
made or formed at one of the ends of such spiral grooves and this plan may some-
times be desirable as the pivot-pins & are not so liable to enter the vertical
grooves b³ in opening or closing the bottle.
In place of the vertical grooves 6* the pivot pins & may be made with screw-
threaded shanks that screw into the arms D¹ or lower part of the cap D, and
project into the guide grooves.
By unscrewing the screw pivots the cap may be readily detached or replaced.

page_text: Of course if desired the cap may have its pivots so arranged as to merely rise
and fall and not allow of the cap being thrown aside when the bottle is open.
In this manner a strong and durable bottlestopper for bottles of all kinds is
obtained.
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
1. The method of stoppering or closing bottles or like receptacles by forming
spiral grooves in the neck of the bottle or like receptacle and so, in combination
with a cup or stopper provided with pins or pivots to travel in the said grooves,
bring the cap or stopper against or remove it from the mouth of the bottle or like
receptacle, substantially as described.
2. In a bottle (or like receptacle) stopping arrangement the spiral grooves b. b.
formed in the neck of the same and with locking extensions 6' 6' and vertical
extensions 6' substantially as and for the purposes described.
3. In a bottle (or like receptacle) stopping arrangement the cap D provided with
pivot pins d. d to travel in the spiral grooves in the neck of the bottle or receptacle
and allow the same to be raised and thrown back to open the bottle if desired
substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of December 1884