Improvements relating to the Closing or Capsuling of Bottles, Jars, _ and the like, and to Keys for Use therewith..
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application. 8th D c., 1393-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Closing or Capsuling of Bottles, Jars,
_ and the like, and to Keys for Use therewith..
I
I, REGINALD HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co. of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Fernand
Dalidet, of 188 Route de Toulouse Bordeaux in the Republic of France, Merchant,.
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The improved means for closing or capsuling bottles jars or the like is principally
intended to provide a hermetic fastening for the preservation of fruit, vegetables.
and other articles of food; and it has been contrived not only to afford a secure-
closing and one adapted for various requirements of wholesale trade such as facility
in packing, but also so that it may be readily unfastened when required and present
no difficulty in opening.
The improved closing device is shown in the annexed drawings in which Fig. 1 is.
a side elevation-Fig. 2 a section on the line 2. 2. Fig. 3-Fig. 3 is a plan view, all
these figures showing the fastener closed and fitted on the mouth of a bottle.
Fig. 4 is a broken plan and Fig. 5 a cross section of a packing ring.
Fig. 6 is a plan and Fig. 7 a cross section of the closing disk.
Fig.
8 is a cross section of the fastening crown and
Fig. 9 is a view of a special form of key for opening the device.
The fastener consists mainly of two parts, the disk C which is of stamped metal
and serves as a lid to make the bottle afterwards of use for domestic purposes and
also as a cover until the contents of the bottle are exhausted, and the fastening.
crown D which is a ring of metal with an inwardly turned edge d' at the upper
edge and is made of a band the ends of which are overlapped as shown in Figs. 1
and 3 and fastened together by a touch of solder E fastened on the tongue d which.
should serve for the unfastening and which has previously been pierced to allow
the solder to meet the other end of the band, thus forming together the crown,
referred to.
In applying this fastener, an annular washer B of cork, rubber, or other substance.
is fitted in the cavity c¹ in the disk C within the flange c of the latter, and the disk.
is fitted on the mouth of the bottle or the like to be closed. The crown D is then.
slid thereover and its lower edge turned under the lip a of the bottle.
To unfasten this fastener, the tongue d is pulled back so as to sever the solder
and the crown is then removed without damaging the disk C.
It is preferable to effect this by means of the key shown in Fig. 9 which consists.
of a stout wire of unyielding nature in the form of a right angle and having in one
of its limbs a slit into which the tongue d may be passed. A twisting of the key
when in position as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 will tear back the tongue and break the
soldering E. The shape of the key permits the bottles to be packed on top of one
another after placing the keys in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The improved closing device comprising the disk or lid C and the crown D
adanted to be secured and unfastened anbatantially as got forth

page_text: 2. The combination of washer B, disk C with recess c² and flange c, and the
crown D with flange d¹ and tongue d secured as described.
3. The key F comprising two limbs at right angles to each other, one of the
limbs forming or having a slit f for the engagement of a tongue for the purpose
described.
Dated this 8th dox of Dacomber 1802
R. HADDAN.