IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES AND STOPPERS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Evenden, of Portslade, Grocer, and Henry Wade
Stiles, of Brighton, Commercial Traveller, both in the County of Sussex, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES AND STOPPERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Evenden and Henry
Wade Stiles at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th October
1878.
GEORGE EVENDEN, of Portslade, Grocer, and HENRY WADE STILES, of Brighton,
Commercial Traveller, both in the County of Sussex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES
AND STOPPERS."
Also
The improvements relate to bottles intended to be reversible for holding aërated
or other liquids, and to modes of internal stoppering to be used with the improved
or other bottles. The improvements in bottles consist in supplying them with a
permanent detachable stand, so that they may stand inverted when desired.
in forming the neck of bottles intended for aërated liquids with one or more longi-
tudinal channels to serve for outlets past ordinary corks, and so prevent their use.
Also in combination with the reversible or other bottle when intended for aërated
liquids of the mode of stopping by the use of a ring or sheath of rubber placed in
the neck of the bottle so as to form a structure therein, and into and against which
sheath a drop stopper, preferably of glass, may fall and be driven by the aërated
liquid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Evenden and Henry Wade. Stiles in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th April 1879."
GEORGE EVENDEN, of Portslade, Grocer, and HENRY WADE STILES, of Brighton,
Commercial Traveller, both in the County of Sussex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES
AND STOPPERS."
The improvements relate to bottles intended to be reversible for holding aërated
or other liquids, and to modes of internal or other stoppering to be used with the
improved or other bottles. The improvements in bottles consist in supplying them
with a permanent or detachable stand, so that they may stand inverted when
desired, said stand in some cases forming the stopper. Also in forming the neck of
such bottles, or of bottles generally intended for aerated liquids, with one or more
longitudinal channels to serve for outlets past ordinary corks, and so prevent their
effective use. Also in combination with the reversible or other bottles when
intended for aërated liquids of the mode of stopping by the use of a conical sheath
of rubber placed in the neck of the bottle, so as to form a stricture therein, and
into and against which sheath any convenient drop stopper, preferably of glass,
may fill and be driven by the aërated liquid. The accompanying Drawing will
serve to show a convenient and practical mode of performing our Invention; but
we do not limit ourselves to the precise devices therein set forth, as they may be
varied considerably without departing from the nature of our Invention. In the
Drawing like letters represent like parts. B is the bottle; N, the neck; C, the
stand, fixed or detachable; D, the drop stopper; S, the rubber sheath; G, the
groove; V, the rabbitt in the neck of the bottle for holding sheath; W, washer.
Fig. 1 represents in section a bottle intended to be stopped with a cork and without
grooves in the neck with a detachable metallic stand, cup or prong-shaped, or which
may be like either Figs. 5, 6, or 7, or otherwise formed; Fig. 2 represents in section
an improved grooved neck bottle, also with a detachable stand, and shows a sheath
fitted in the rabbitt, and the drop stopper in place; Figs. 2a, 2b, show section of a
rubber sheath apart, in 2b with a slight shoulder thereon; Fig. 3 shows section of
bottle with grooved neck and a permanent cup-shaped stand made of the same
material as the bottle; Fig. 4, plan of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 shows plan and Fig. 5ª
elevation of a metallic stand to be used with a lever arrangement for holding down
a cork or washer; Fig. 6, plan, and Fig. 6a, elevation of a metallic stand intended to
embrace the neck of the bottle by its open and spring ring; Fig. 7, plan, and
Fig. 7a, elevation of another form of metallic stand to be forced on the neck of
bottle; Fig. 8 shows a metallic cup or pronged shaped stand supplied with a
screwed neck intended to fit into or round the neck of the bottle correspondingly
screwed, and to be used as a stopper with or without a washer of rubber, cork, lead,
or other convenient material; Fig. 9 is a plan and Fig. 9a an elevation of a clip
pronged metal stand. The stands, whether made in one piece with the bottle or
separate, need present no difficulty in manufacture, and the same may be said of
the rubber sheath; but the rabbitt V, as also the grooves G if desired, are best
made in a glass bottle by ordinary expanding tools passed into and turned in and
round the neck when the neck is in a plastic state, said tools being furnished with
suitable dies or forms corresponding with the shape of the rabbitt V or groove G
We would remark that the conical shape of the sheath has the advantages of easy
insertion and removal and long wear, as even when worn or if forced upwards
some what it still forins, in combination with the spherical or other suitable drop
stopper made of glass or other suitable-material, a tight stopper; also that the
grooved neck prevents the use of bottles for liquids other than aërated, injurious or

page_text: otherwise. By the bottle being reversed the stopper or cork is always covered and
the contents better preserved; neither can dust and dirt settle on the stopper or
orifice of the bottle.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Evenden and Henry Wade Stiles,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelfth day of April, A.D. 1879.