IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING SUCH STOPPERS FROM BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Ogden Dixon, of Steeton in Craven, viâ
Leeds, in the County of York, Bobbin Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES,
AND IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING SUCH STOPPERS FROM
BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 20th December 1864, and dated the 21st June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Ogden Dixon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on.
the 21st June 1864.
I, THOMAS OGDEN DIXON, of Steeton in Craven, viâ Leeds, in the County
of York, Bobbin Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES, AND IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING SUCH STOPPERS FROM
BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists, firstly, in forming a screw plug of wood or other
suitable material, and introducing it into an ordinary cork, which is bored
out for the purpose. The cork is secured thereon by glue or other suitable

page_text: The head of the plug is made large enough to project beyond the
cork, forming a cap to the bottle, jar, or other article.
Secondly, the means of withdrawing such stoppers from bottles, which
consists of a pair of levers connected together by a binged rod, one lever being
formed to clip and fit under the cap of the stopper and the other to clip the
neck of the bottle or jar, and rest on the shoulder thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Ogden Dixon in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
OGDEN DIXON, of Steeton in Craven, via Leeds, in the County of York,
Bobbin Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Ogden Dixon, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Ogden Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Thomas Ogden Dixon, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING SUCH STOPPERS FROM BOTTLES, JARS,
AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Thomas Ogden Dixon, 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 Thomas Ogden Dixon, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is
to say):-
This Invention consists, firstly, in forming a screw plug of wood or other
suitable material, and introducing it into an ordinary cork, which is bored
out for the purpose. The cork is secured thereon by glue or other suitable
cement. The head of the plug is made large enough to project beyond the
cork, forming a cap to the bottle, jar, or other article.
Secondly, the means of withdrawing such stoppers from bottles consists of a
pair of levers connected together by a hinged rod, one lever being formed to
clip and fit under the cap of the stopper and the other to clip the neck of the
bottle or jar, and rest on the shoulder thereof.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, wherein Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 are sections of my improved
stoppers. The part marked A may be made of any kind of hard wood or
other suitable material. A screw thread is formed on the plug or pin. The
part B is of cork, which is bored out so that the screwed plug or pin
can be screwed into the cork, and secured therein by glue or any other
suitable cement or adhesive substance.. The cap part is large enough to
project beyond the bottle neck so as to be taken hold of by the apparatus or
instrument herein-after described.
Fig. 4 is a stopper suitable for a suckling bottle, having a hole through it
to receive the tube.
Figs. 5 and 6 are plan and elevation shewing the construction of an
apparatus for withdrawing such stoppers, which is composed of two levers C
and D, having jaws to fit the neck of the bottle under the head or cap of the
stopper, and to rest on the shoulder of the bottle, being connected together by
a pair of links E, which allows the top jaw to keep in position as the stopper
rises.
Another apparatus suitable for withdrawing this kind of stopper is shewn in
section at Figs. 7 and 8, which is composed of a pair of jaws to fit the bottle
as in the previously described apparatus. Instead of the levers there is a
handle F fixed on a screw spindle, and the top jaws clip it betwixt a pair of
collars 9 and g¹. This screw fits into a screw-box H, forming part of the lower
jaw. By turning the handle the jaws are forced assunder, thus withdrawing
the stopper. The top jaw of this apparatus is in two parts, and capable of
being adjusted to the size of the bottle neck by means of screws i and j.
The top jaw of the lever apparatus may also be constructed as shewn

page_text: at Figs. 9 & 10, so as to be capable of adjustment to the size of the
bottle neck.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Ogden Dixon, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.
THOMAS OGDEN DIXON. (LS.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Thomas Ogden Dixon,
in the presence of
W*. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.