IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS AND FOR REMOVING THEM THEREFROM.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry James Cole, of Lambeth, in the County
of Surrey, Traveller, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
CLOSING BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS AND FOR REMOVING THEM
THEREFROM.
"
Sealed the 26th October 1875, and dated the 5th June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry James Cole at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 5th June 1875.
I, HENRY JAMES COLE, of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey,
5 Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
** IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS AND
FOR REMOVING THEM THEREFROM," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is a stopper for closing bottles containing
aërated liquids, through which without the necessity of removing any

page_text: cork or plug the whole or any amount of the liquid can be instan-
taneously withdrawn.
My Invention consists in forming a hollow plug so as to fit the neck
of the bottle to which it is to be applied; near the top of the plug it is
formed with a collar which rests upon the top of the bottle neck, and so
supports the hollow plug within the latter. Beneath the collar the
hollow plug is surrounded with india-rubber, cork, or other elastic
material, so as to make the hollow plug fit the interior of the bottle
neck in a perfectly air-tight manner. The bottom of the hollow plug is
closed by a valve formed of a round piece of any elastic material secured
at one side to the bottom of the plug, while the other side is acted upon
by a wire which leads from the top of the hollow plug to the valve. The
top of the hollow plug may be screw-threaded, so as to receive a nut by
which it may be drawn up well within the bottle neck and securely held
in its place. The top of the wire projects from the top of the plug,
and is suitably formed to be turned by the finger or in any convenient
manner.
By my Invention when it is desired to remove any portion of the
aerated liquid the wire is pushed down, thus opening the valve when
the aerated liquid will flow out, and this flow may be immediately
stopped by releasing the wire, when the valve will be immediately closed
and of course completely shut off the liquid.
I prefer that the collar should be separate from the hollow plug, and
the india-rubber or other elastic material should be attached to the
collar; the plug is then formed somewhat scooped out towards the
middle, and with its bottom which carries the valve larger than its other
portions, while the wire before spoken of is lodged in a groove at its
outside. The surrounding of india-rubber or other elastic material
attached to the collar will then when the plug is screwed up by the nut
expand over the enlarged bottom, and becoming squeezed between the
latter and the bottle neck form a perfectly hermetic closing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry James Cole in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JAMES COLE, of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Traveller, send.
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of June, in the year of:
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry James Cole, Her special license,
that I, the said Henry James Cole, my executors, administrators, and;
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry James Cole, 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 Invention for "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR CLOSING BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS AND FOR
REMOVING THEM THEREFROM," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Henry James Cole, 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
Invention, 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 Henry James Cole, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
The object of my Invention is a stopper for closing bottles containing
aerated liquids, through which without the necessity of removing any
cork or plug the whole or any amount of the liquid can be instan,
ر

page_text: My Invention consists in forming a hollow plug so as to fit the neck
of the bottle to which it is to be applied; near the top of the plug it is
formed with a collar which rests upon the top of the bottle neck, and so
supports the hollow plug within the latter. Beneath the collar the
hollow plug is surrounded with india-rubber, cork, or other elastic
material, so as to make the hollow plug fit the interior of the bottle neck
in a perfectly air-tight manner. The bottom of the hollow plug is closed
by a valve formed of a round piece of any elastic material secured at
one side to the bottom of the plug, while the other side is acted upon by
a wire which leads from the top of the hollow plug to the valve. The
top of the hollow plug may be screw-threaded, so as to receive a nut by
which it may be drawn up well within the bottle neck and securely held
in its place. The top of the wire projects from the top of the plug,
and is suitably formed to be turned by the finger or in any convenient
manner.
By my Invention when it is desired to remove any portion of the
aerated liquid the wire is pushed down, thus opening the valve, when
the aerated liquid will flow out, and this flow may be immediately
stopped by releasing the wire, when the valve will be immediately closed
and of course completely shut off the liquid.
I prefer that the collar should be separate from the hollow plug, and
the india-rubber or other elastic material should be attached to the
collar; the plug is formed somewhat scooped out towards the middle,
and with its bottom which carries the valve larger than its other
portions, while the wire before spoken of is lodged in a groove at its
outside. The surrounding of india-rubber or other elastic material
attached to the collar will then when the plug is screwed up by the
nut expand over the enlarged bottom, and becoming squeezed between
the latter and the bottle neck form a perfectly hermetic closing.
My Invention is clearly represented in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional view of my apparatus in a
complete form, and as ready to be inserted into the neck of a bottle.
a is a hollow stem (preferably of some non-corrodible metal) whose
lower end b is enlarged, and has a tapered side to make it wedge shape,
of annular form for the spreading of a rubber tube thereon, as hereafter
explained. The upper portion c of the stem a is screw-threaded, as more
"

page_text: as
particularly shown in the detached view Figure 2, for the reception of a
threaded nut d, Figure 3. This nut in action is caused to bear upon an
intermediate collar e, Figure 4, whose shoulder covers the edge of the
bottle. mouth and embraces the bulge g on the head of the neck h, a
shown in Figure 5, where one of my stoppers is represented in position
in the mouth of a bottle i. The ring portion ĵ of the intermediate
collar e has one end of a short length of rubber tubing k, Figure 6,
sprung over it, the other end being free to be expanded by contact with
the wedge-shaped end of the stem on the nut being screwed down.
The bottom end of the stem has either a flat round valve attached, as
in Figure 1, which can be shifted from its seat on pressure being applied
to a wire, shown separately in Figure 7, from the outside, as shown by
the dotted lines, or the wire / may have a sphere valve p, as in Figure 8,
upon it, which can be bodily removed from the seat by a depression of
the wire; the wire in this case passing down the stem in a diagonal
manner instead of in a straight one, as in Figure 1.
I form the top end of the wire, Figure 7, with a disc m, so that when
the pressure of the gas within the bottle is on and the valve closed, the
disc by a turning of the wire by hand can rest across and close up the
mouth of the stem, thereby preventing the entrance of dust into the
stem, and also any accidental removal of the valve from its seat. The
disc when turned outwards or away from the bottle neck can then be
depressed, the crook n of the wire being guided in its downward
direction by a slot which I form in the top of the stem.
If I use a flat round valve, as in Figure 9, I prefer to form a raised
bulb q upon its upper face to more effectually close the bottom
of the stem, and to give additional thickness and strength to that
part of the valve subject to the greatest strain from the inward
pressure.
Figure 10 represents a stopper of my construction with a flat headed
intermediate collar, upon which the nut is caused to bear in a similar
manner to that already described.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
Firstly. The combination of appliances forming an apparatus as

page_text: described, for closing bottles containing aerated liquids and for removing
them therefrom.
Secondly. I claim the apparatus shown in the annexed Drawings, as
and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry James Cole, have hereunto i
set my hand and seal, this Third day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
JAMES CHAPMAN.
HENRY JAMES COLE. (L.S.)