Improvements in and relating to Bottles for Holding Aerated, Fermented, Alcoholic, or other Liquids.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1898-Accepted, 7th May, 1898
Improvements in and relating to Bottles for Holding Aerated,
Fermented, Alcoholic, or other Liquids.
I, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS BIRD, of Copeley Hill, Gravelly Hill, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in and relating
to bottles for holding aerated, fermented, alcoholic or other liquids whereby the
stoppering and unstoppering may be effected in a quick and cheap manner. The
mouth of the bottle is provided with a particular form of thread to take either a
cork or screw stopper. The nature of my invention will be more clearly under-
stood from the accompanying drawings the same letters of reference indicating
similar parts throughout. Figure 1 represents an elevation partly in section of an
aerated water bottle before being stoppered, and Figure 2 shows the same bottle
with a stopper in the mouth. Figure 3 shows a similar bottle with an ordinary
cork in the mouth. Figures 4 and 5 show in elevation and plan and vertical
section a stopper. Fig. 6 is a diagram showing the formation of special screw
threads on the stopper and in the mouth of the bottle which also represents the
shape of the die by which the screw threads in the mouth are formed. A represents
the double screw threads tapered or bevelled at a comparatively small angle to the
axis, the side A2 being perpendicular thereto. The taper or bevel terminates at A',
the space A3 between the threads being flat that is to say between the sides A³ of
one thread and the edge of the other thread A. C shows the taper of the orifice
of the mouth to allow for the insertion and lead of the cork D or stopper E. In
Fig. 6 the particular formation of the taper A¹ and the side A² of the screwthreads
of the bottle are shown which enables a cork D being easily forced into the bottle
mouth or the stopper E having similar screwthreads thereon being inserted and
fixed by a simple turn or twist. The cork D or stopper E is held firmly in the
bottle mouth by the perpendicular part A2 of the threads in the bottle against any
pressure of the bottles contents without the aid of wire or the like. The cork is
easily and quickly withdrawn by slightly gyrating and the stopper by a turn or
twist.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
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1. The particular formation of the taper or inclined screw-threads on the inside
of the neck of a bottle whereby either a cork or screw stopper may be used for
stoppering against the pressure of the bottles contents substantially as described.
2. In combination with an aerated or other bottle the screw threads for holding
cork or screw stopper against the pressure of the bottles contents substantially as
described and illustrated.
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page_text: 3. The particular formation of the screw threads on the stopper as described
and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
'Dated this 1st day of March 1898.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.