Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Making or Forming the Necks of Bottles, Jars, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Jan., 1896-Accept:d, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Making or
Forming the Necks of Bottles, Jars, and the like.
I, MARTIN JUDE, of Marsh End, Knottingley, in the County of York, Bottle
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for making or
forming the necks of bottles, jars, and the like so as easily and readily to form a
screw or other thread on the outside thereof without the use of the ordinary moulds,
that is to say, to make or form the thread on the outer periphery of the neck by
means of a hand tool.
According to this invention instead of blowing the glass into the ordinary mould
so as thereby to form the thread on the outer periphery of the neck of the bottle,
jar, or the like, I partially make or form the bottle, jar, or the like in the ordinary
way up to and placing it on the stand or in the "puntey."
I then either cast on to
the partially formed neck sufficient glass, or 1 "warm in "the neck of the bottle,
jar, or the like so as to get a sufficient heat for finishing the neck by the hand tool
constructed as follows.
The hand tool I employ is very similar in general construction to the ordinary spring
tong tool usually employed for forming the necks of bottles. On its central table
or plate, which is employed for forming the top of the neck, I mount and retain in
position thereon by any suitable means a ring of any suitable diameter and thickness.
In the inner periphery of the said ring is cut or formed any desired number of
circumferential screw like grooves or screw threads of the shape and size required
to be formed on the outer side of the neck of the bottle, jar, or the like. On the
outer periphery of the ring may be cut or formed any desired number of teeth or
recesses, or projections, or holes or their equivalents at suitable distances apart
into which pass, engage, or mesh, when the tool is in its normal or open position,
any suitable stop or checking motion, such as for example a spring, or pin, or
ratchet or the like, actuated say by the leg or legs of the tong like portion of the
tool, for preventing the ring rotating and for enabling it to be screwed or worked
off the neck after completing its formation.
When the tool is closed onto the neck of the bottle the ring is free to revolve.
Working in a slot or slots in the said central table or plate and projecting from
its surface within the ring is a split plug operated say by the tong portion of the
tool so as to press the neck outwards into the screw like grooves in the said ring as
well as for completing the formation of the inside of the neck.
When the neck of the bottle, jar, or the like is presented to the action of the said
tool its orifice or mouth may have previously been turned inwards by any convenient
means.
In some cases it may be found advisable to employ in combination with the said
ring a pair of dies fixed to the tool for completing the outer formation of the neck
below the screw.threads.
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page_text: Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Making or
Forming the Necks of Bottles, Jars, and the like.
I, MARTIN JUDE, of Marsh End, Knottingley, in the County of York, Bottle
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 relates to improvements in means or apparatus for making or
forming the necks of glass bottles, jars, and the like so as easily and readily to form
a screw or other thread on the outside thereof without the use of the ordinary
moulds, that is to say, to make or form the thread on the outer periphery of the
neck by means of a hand tool.
According to this invention instead of blowing the glass into the ordinary mould
so as thereby to form the thread on the outer periphery of the neck of the bottle,
jar, or the like, I partially make or form the bottle, jar, or the like in the ordinary
way up to and placing it on the stand or on or in the " puntey." I then either
cast on to the partially formed neck sufficient glass, or I warm in" the neck of
the bottle, jar, or the like so as to get a sufficient heat for finishing the neck by the
hand tool constructed as follows.
The hand tool I employ is very similar in general construction to the ordinary
spring tong tool usually employed for forming the necks of bottles, and is illustrated
in the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a part transverse section
on line a Fig. 1; Figs. 4 to 9 are elevations and plans of details.
A is the tong like portion of the tool by which it is held in one of the hands of
the operator; B the central stem or stay on or to which the slotted table or plate
(hereafter termed the table C) is mounted and fixed. All these parts are of a
similar construction to those of ordinary tools.
On the central table C is mounted and retained in position thereon, or against it,
by any suitable means, such as for instance by the bolts D, a ring E of any suitable
diameter and thickness. On the face of the table C is a guide ring or a number of
projections carranged in a circle at intervals apart. The guide ring or
projections (Fig. 4) are arranged to pass into a circumferential groove e (Fig. 6)
formed in one of the ends of the ring E. In some cases the guide ring or
projections c¹ may be dispensed with and the ring E held in position wholly by the
bolts D. In the inner periphery of the said ring E is cut or formed any desired
number of circumferential screw like grooves F (see Fig. 6) or screw threads of
the shape and size required to be formed on the outer side of the neck of the bottle,
jar, or the like. On the outer periphery of the ring E may be cut or formed any
desired number of teeth or recesses, or projections, or holes or their equivalents, in
the drawings slots or recesses G are shown at suitable distances apart into which
pass, engage, or mesh, when the tool is in its normal or open position, as shown
nt Fig. 1, any suitable stop H or checking motion, such as for example a spring, or
pin, or ratchet or the like, actuated say by the leg or legs of the tong like portion A
of the tool, for preventing the ring E rotating and for enabling it to be screwed or
worked off the neck after completing its formation.
In the drawings a convenient stop H is shown in the form of a bent rod or bar,
as clearly shown at Figs. 1 and 3, one end of which is made fast at a (Fig. 3) to
one of the legs A, whilst its opposite end h¹ after passing through the bearing a is
bent at a right angle and then again turned parallel or nearly so to the main portion
of the stop so that the said end may pass under the leg a² (Fig. 3) and engage with
the recesses G of the ring E for the purposes described.

page_text: When the tool A is closed onto the neck of the bottle the stop H will be pressed
by the leg of the tool A in the direction of arrow (see Fig. 1) when its end h' will.
he disengaged with recess G and the ring E is then free to revolve.
Working in a slot c, (Fig. 5) or slots, formed in the central table C and
projecting from its surface as well as within and beyond the ring E is or are the
pieces I hereinafter termed the split plug I, the ends of which are respectively
fixed to legs of the tool A at A' A so as to be operated say by the said legs of
the tool for pressing the neck of the bottle, jar, or the like outwards into the screw
like grooves F in the said ring E as well as for completing the formation of the
inside of the neck. By attaching the ends of the split plug to the legs at A³ A+
I am enabled to readily change the plug as often as required either in case one of
different shape is desired to be used, or should the plug become damaged it can
easily be replaced.
When the neck J (see Fig. 1) of the bottle, jar, or the like is presented to the
action of the said tool its orifice or mouth may have previously been turned inwards.
by any convenient means, or the circular portion J may be cast on or otherwise
formed as shown at Fig. 1. By arranging the mouth or orifice in the form shown
the inner portion of the circular portion J¹ instead of being forced into the inside.
of the neck by the split plug I, as is ordinarily and usually the case, will be forced
outwards into the screw grooves F of the ring E by the split plug 1.
In some cases it may be found advisable to employ in combination with the said.
ring a pair of dies of the usual and ordinary construction, these may be fixed to the
tool for completing the outer formation of the neck below the screw threads; but
they are not shown in the drawings as they will be seldom required.
The tool constructed as above described is used and the glass is worked in the
ordinary manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A tool constructed and arranged substantially such as herein described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings for making or forming the necks of
bottles, jars, and the like with a screw thread on the outside thereof.
2. In a tool for making or forming the necks of bottles, jars, and the like
substantially such as herein described the combination with the tong like portion
of the tool A and its stem B and table C of the ring E mounted upon or fixed to
the said table and retained thereto by bolts D, said ring having screw threads or
grooves F cut in its internal periphery, and slots or recesses G, or their equivalents,
formed in its outer periphery with which a stop or checking mechanism such as H
is arranged to engage when the tool is in its normal position, but which by the tong
like portion of the tool is disengaged therewith when the split plug I is pressing
the glass into the screw like recesses F of the ring as set forth.
Dated this Seventh day of January 1896.
MARTIN JUDE,
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
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