Year: 1898

page_text: JAMES CONNOR, 3, Johnson Street, Old Trafford, near Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Mineral Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
The object of this invention is to prevent the rolling of internal stoppers, and
to prevent the stopper from getting across the bottle neck when filling, and the
better to guide the stopper to its seat. For this purpose I have formed two vertical
half partitions in the bottle neck, which rises upwards 2 inches from the base
of the bottle neck, one from each side of the neck, and extending towards each
other leaving a distance of half an inch between the two. This makes the bottle
have, as it were, two compartments in the neck, with a passage from one to the
other of half an inch wide.
1000
I, JAMES CONNOR, of 3, Johnson Street, Old Trafford, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Mineral Water Manufacturer, 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:
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The object of this invention is to prevent the rolling of internal stoppers, and
to prevent the stopper from getting across the bottle neck when filling, and the
better to guide the stopper to its seat. For this purpose I have formed two vertical
half partitions in the bottle neck, which rises upwards for about 1 and 3 inches,
from the base of the bottle neck, one from each side of the neck, and extending
towards each other, leaving a space about half an inch wide between the two.
makes the bottle have, as it were, two compartments in the neck, with a passage
from one to the other, half an inch wide.
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DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
This
Fig. 1 is an outside elevation of bottle showing the stopper b in one of the
compartments or divisions of the bottle neck.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of same at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a

page_text: A is the bottle; B stopper; C the vertical half partitions or guides which
divide the bottle neck and thus forming two compartments in the neck of bottle.
Fan india-rubber ring fitted in the usual manner in the circumferential groove g
in the bottle mouth.
The stopper is made of glass, or hard wood, earthenware, or other suitable
substance or material that will not contaminate the liquid contained in the bottle,
and of the form and shape as the stopper. indicated in the drawing of Fig. 1.
When the bottle is filled with aerated water, the pressure inside the bottle forces
the stopper B against the india-rubber ring. F and thus effectually closes the
bottle, the guides or partitions C in the bottle neck having directed the stopper
to its seat:
The particular shape of this bottle neck makes it have, as it were, two compart-
ments for the stopper to move into and out off; there being just sufficient room
in each to allow the stopper to move up and down. When the stopper is in either
of the compartments, it cannot roll about and crack the bottle.
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. An aerated water bottle having a neck so shaped as to form on the inside,
central vertical guides or partitions.
2. An aerated water bottle having a neck divided into two compartments for
stopper to work in, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth and
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of November 1898