IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES APPLICABLE TO BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Southwood Stocker, of 69, Lambs Conduit
Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES APPLICABLE TO BOTTLES AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES."
Sealed the 7th June 1867, and dated the 8th December 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Southwood
Stocker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 8th December 1866.
I, ALEXANDER SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, of 69, Lambs Conduit Street, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES APPLICABLE TO BOTTLES AND
OTHER RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the manufacture of capsules applicable to bottles
and other receptacles by moulding, casting, or otherwise fashioning them out
of a mixture of papier maché pulp, or papier maché and gelatine, or a mixture
of glue, rosin, oil, water, and whiting, or such like or other plastic or mouldable
material or materials capable of taking the desired figures required for the
purposes to which my Invention has reference. In some instances when

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Southwood Stocker in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, of 69, Lambs Conduit Street, in the County of Middle-
sex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Alexander Southwood Stocker, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander
Southwood Stocker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, my 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 Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAPSULES APPLICABLE TO
BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, my executors or administrators, by
'an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
'seals, should 'particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Alexander Southwood Stocker, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
'
My said Invention relates to the manufacture of certain capsules for
bottles and other like receptacles, and consists in moulding, turning, or other-
wise fashioning them out of a plastic composition well known in the market,
the component parts of which being a mixture of glue, resin, oil, water, and
whiting, or such like or other suitable plastic or mouldable material or

page_text: materials capable of taking the desired shape required for the purpose of
receiving therein around the interior of their rims linings or strips of thin
sheet cork or such like or other similar or suitable flexible material or materials
as may be found useful and convenient to be applied thereto for the purpose
of causing them to fit tightly round the neck or mouth of a bottle or other like
receptacle; they may be moulded by the aid of tools composed of wood,.
metal, or other suitable material, or they may be fashioned by turning or
otherwise shaping them in any convenient manner into the desired figures
convenient for receiving the materials before referred to, producing thereby a
cork lined capsule to be applied to bottles and other like receptacles. These
receptacles, to which the capsules are intended to be applied, must be provided
with plain and flat rims, as now generally shaped in common by the trade
when ordinary capsules with cork linings are used for the purpose of stopping
bottles and other receptacles.
A Patent was granted to me on or about the 25th day of November 1851,
for "Certain Improvements in the Stoppering or Stopping of Bottles, Jars,
Pots, or such like Receptacles," in the Specification of which a metallic
capsule and the proper shaped bottle, as far as regards configuration applies,
is therein, both in words and Drawings described, and upon reference thereto
my meaning may be more clearly understood.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.