IMPROVEMENT IN STOPPERING BOTTLES
Year: 1885

page_text: I JOHN HALE of 70 Reed worth Street Kennington Road in the County of Surrey,
retired Non-Commissioned Officer of HM 24th Regiment (Boot Maker) do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENT IN STOPPERING BOTTLES to
be as follows:
In making the bottle, I insert horizontally in the neck a stopper which stopper
has a hole or grove made in it, forming a valve, the handle or knob of which
projects outside the bottle this when turned acts as a tap, allowing the liquid to
flow out.

page_text: JOHN HALE 70 Reedworth Street Kennington Road, in the County of Surrey
retired Non-Commissioned Officer of H M 24th Regiment, Boot Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In making the Bottle, I insert horizontally a stopper. To effect this with
preciseness, I cast the top, and neck of the bottle in the mould marked A which
being in two parts, opens and closes in a perpendicular position. This mould
contains a stamp, (a portion in each part) for making a true aperture to receive the
stopper the stamp has a hole or grove perpendiculary cut corresponding in size
with the blow pipe, the mould then being closed the stamp surrounds the blow
pipe to which the molten glass is attached, by this means the upper part of the
bottle is moulded, the remaining body of the mould is then inflated with air, and
the bottle marked B is ready to receive the stopper.
The stopper marked C has a hole or grove cut in it, the blanks of which covering
the aperture in the neck of the bottle, prevent any escape, but when brought into
action, allows liquid to flow out.
NB. The stamp alluded to in the mould A for making the hole to receive the
stopper, is of a circular bar of mettle, sufficiently long to go through the head of
the bottle this bar has a round hole transversely cut through its centre, the size
of the interior of the neck of the bottle, it is then cut through transversely in two
equal parts, one of which are then fixed into each half of the head of the mould,
the round hole in centre (which has been divided) placed perpendicularly so as to
surround the blowpipe when the bottle is being made. The drawing marked A
represents one half of the mould in a frame which being brought together by
a press, moves them perpendicularly, seperating the two halves. This method is
adopted, in place of hinging the two halves, at the bottom of the mould as is usual.
By this means the aperture made by the stamp to receive the stopper, does not
interfere with the opening of the mould when the bottle is made.
The bottle when taken from the mould has a true hole through its head, one side
of which is then plugged up, the other is left open to receive the stopper.
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
1. Particularity of construction in casting the head and neck of the bottle to
gain the desired aperture for the stopper, then blowing the other portion of the
bottle.
2. Instant turning on or off the liquid without removing the stopper from the
bottle, thus preventing evaporation or loss of stopper.