AN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING SQUARE-HEADED CORKS, AND FOR CORKING BOTTLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jozé Luis, of No. 1º, Welbeck Street, (Cavendish
Sqr) London, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING SQUARE-HEADED CORKS, AND FOR CORKING BOTTLES
Sealed the 22nd September 1858, and dated the 26th May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jozé Luis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th May
1858.
I, JOZE LUIS, of No. 1B, Welbeck Street, (Cavendish Sqr) London, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING SQUARE-HEADED CORKS, AND FOR CORKING BOTTLES
WITH THE SAME," (a communication,) to be as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
A, is composed of a blade of sheet iron (a), of an iron wire buckle (b), and
of two little pieces of wood (c). The upper part is applied to the cork before
the compression, and after being enveloped by the buckle (6), then the wholo
is placed on the bottle, and by turning the press the cork is forced into about
half the upper part. The two little pieces of wood are fixed on the projecting
edge of the neck, and are firmly held there by the buckle which is slipped
B, press for forcing the corks in the bottles; the bottle is represented
corked, the cork being pressed in half way, that is to say, about one inch; C,
a cylindric piece of steel as small as possible (thicker near the edge and a
little more than half an inch in length, as much in the interior as the exterior,
to facilitate the cork freeing itself, & longer or shorter according to the length

page_text: of cork to be made,) for making corks; it is moved by a lathe, the axle of
which is pierced through & through for the disengagement of the cylindrical
corks. The square-headed cork does not enter in the tube further than is
desired; it is withdrawn by the workman after being subjected to the knife D.
D, knife for cutting the cylindrical part of the cork, leaving the head square;
Dbis, support for the knife; E, a wooden slide to rest, on the support (d)
and on the lower part of C, for guiding the hand of the workman; F, a
grinding stone, removing at one revolution the fastening of the cork, fastened
to facilitate the entry into the bottle; G, corks completed; X, X, a little
wheel, which by a motion backwards & forwards removes the cork cuttings.
The square-headed corks (Figures G) used in this system are integral parts
of the Invention, and are indispensable to the apparatus above described.
A good workman can make from 4 to 5,000 corks, & even more, per day.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jozé Luis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
October 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOZE
LUIS, of No. 1º, Welbeck St., Cavendish Sqr, London, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Jozé Luis, Her special licence that I, the said Jozé Luis, my exceu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jozé
Luis, 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 "AN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING SQUARE-
HEADED CORKS, AND FOR CORKING BOTTLES WITH THE SAME," (a communication,)
upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Jozé Luis, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their bands 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

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jozé Luis, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (and accompanying Drawings) that is to say :—
A, is composed of a blade of sheet iron (a), of an iron wire buckle (6), and
of two little pieces of wood (c). The upper part is applied to the cork before
the compression, and after being enveloped by the buckle (b), then the whole
is placed on the bottle, and by turning the press the cork is forced into about
half the upper part; the two little pieces of wood are fixed on the projecting
edge of the neck, and are firmly held there by the buckle, which is slipped
over. B, press for forcing the corks in the bottles; the bottle is represented
corked, the cork being pressed in half way, that is to say, about one inch; C,
a cylindric piece of steel as small as possible (thicker near the edge and a
little more than half an inch in length, as much in the interior as the exterior
to facilitate the cork freeing itself, and longer or shorter according to tho
length of cork to be made,) for making corks, moved by a lathe, the axle of
which is pierced through & through for the disengagement of the cylindrical
corks. The square-headed cork does not enter in the tube further than is
desired, it is withdrawn by the workman after being subject to the knife D;
D, knife for cutting the cylindrical part of the cork, leaving the head square;
Dis, support for the knife; E, a wooden slide, to rest on the support (d)
and on the lower part of c for guiding the hand of the workman; F, a
grinding stone, removing at one revolution the fastening of the cork, fastened
to facilitate the entry into the bottle; G, corks completed; X, X, a little
wheel, which by a motion backwards and forwards removes the cork cuttings.
The square-headed cork (Fig. G) used in this system is an integal part of
the Invention, and is indispensable to the apparatus above described.
A good workman can make from four to five hundred corks, and even
more, per day.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jozé Luis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
JOZE LUIS. (L.S.)