Containing rated Waters or Liquids.
Year: 1885

page_text: Containing rated Waters or Liquids.
I, WILLIAM SAMSON, of Dundee in the County of Forfar, North Britain, Ærated
Water Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for AN
IMPROVED AUTOMATIC STOPPER FOR BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS CONTAINING
ÆRATED WATERS OR LIQUIDS to be as follows:-
This Invention, which relates to an improved stooper for bottles or other vessels
containing ærated waters or liquids, has for its object to produce a floating stopper
with its smaller end at all times situated upwards so that the pressure of the gas
in the ærated water forces it up into the neck of the bottle or other vessel to close
the said neck.
The stopper is fitted with a piece or pieces of metal in such a manner that the.
stopper at all times floats on the liquid with its smaller end upwards. The metal
may be inserted in the form of an annular ring sharpened at one of its edges and
driven into the larger end of the stopper or one, two or more metal wires may be
passed into and transversely through the said stopper at its larger end. The
stopper in its natural condition is necessarily larger than the hole in the neck.
of the vessel, and in order to get it thereinto it is placed in hot water or other-
wise made soft or compressed, and in that state is pushed into the bottle or other
vessel.
In place of using metal in the stoppers as hereinbefore described glass or its
equivalent may be employed to effect the necessary balancing thereof.

page_text: An Improved Automatic Stopper for Bottles or other Vessels
Containing Erated Waters or Liquids.
I, WILLIAM SAMSON, of Dundee in the County of Forfar, North Britain Erated
Water Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED
AUTOMATIC STOPPER FOR BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS CONTAINING ERATED WATERS
OR LIQUIDS, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My Invention, which relates to an improved stopper for bottles or other vessels
containing ærated waters or liquids, has for its object to produce a floating stopper
with its smaller end at all times situated upwards so that the pressure of the gas
in the ærated water, forces it up into the neck of the bottle or other vessel to close
the said neck.
The stopper is fitted with a piece or pieces of metal in such a manner that the
stopper at all times floats on the liquid with its smaller end upwards. The metal
may be inserted in the form of an annular ring sharpened at one of its edges and
driven into the larger end of the stopper; or, one, two or more metal wires may
be passed into and transversely through the said stopper at its larger end. The
stopper in its natural condition is necessarily larger than the hole in the neck of
the vessel, and, in order to get it thereinto, it is placed in hot water or otherwise
made soft or compressed, and in that state, is pushed into the bottle or other
vessel.
In place of using metal in the stoppers as herein before described, glass or its
equivalent may be employed to effect the necessary balancing thereof.
In order that my present Invention may be properly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will now proceed to describe to drawings hereunto annexed.
Figures 1, 2 and 3, are respectively a plan of underside, an elevation, and a
vertical section of one form of stopper constructed according to my present
Invention.
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Figures 4, 5 and 6 and Figures 7, 8 and 9 are respectively similar views of other
forms of stoppers constructed according to my present Invention.
Figure 10, is in part an elevation and in part a vertical section of a bottle fitted
with a stopper constructed in accordance with my present Invention, the said
stopper being therein shewn as previous to the closing or sealing of such a bottle
as hereinafter explained.
Figure 11, is a similar view of the same with the stopper in the position in
which it is when the bottle is closed or sealed.
The stoppers constructed according to my present Invention, and as represented
upon the annexed drawings, are formed conically, or as parts of cones, and my said
invention has specially for its object so to construct such stoppers that they shall
float, with their smaller end upwards, on the surface of the ærated water contained
in the bottles to be stoppered. To effect this balancing of the stopper, a piece
of material of greater specific gravity than that of the cork stopper a, is inserted
into its larger end. This weight may consist, as shewn at Figures 1, 2 and 3, of
the taper plug b, of porcelain or other equivalent material; or, the said weight, as

page_text: shewn at Figures 4, 5 and 6, may consist of a ring c, of metal or other equivalent
material; or, such weight, in the manner shewn at Figures 7, 8 and 9 of the
annexed drawings, may be in the form of metallic wires d, passed into and
transversely therethrough.
The beforementioned stoppers, which, it will be observed, are larger than the
hole in the neck e, of the bottle f, are immersed in hot water, or otherwise softened
or compressed, so as to enable them to be pushed into such bottle. When the
bottles are charged with ærated liquor q, the stoppers are forced into the necks
thereof, the openings through these necks being contracted so as to constitute a
seat in or against which the said stopper becomes wedged.
I desire it to be understood that the necessary balancing of the hereinbefore.
described stoppers may be effected by weights of forms other than those shewn
upon the annexed drawings these three arrangements being merely shewn as
examples.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
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The improved stopper a, of conical or part conical form, in the larger end of
which is fitted a weight of porcelain or other suitable material so that the said
stoppers are caused to float always with their smaller ends upwards all sub-
stantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth with reference to the
annexed drawings.