Improvements in Securing Corks in Mineral Water and other Bottles or Jars Containing Gaseous Liquids.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1896-Accepted, 4th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Corks in Mineral Water and other
Bottles or Jars Containing Gaseous Liquids.
ADAM MILLIN 44 Ulsterville Avenue Belfast Co. Antrim Ireland, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in stoppering bottles, and other jars
containing gaseous liquids; and consists of an improved means of fastening corks
in such bottles or jars without the assistance of fastening wire or cord.
The means by which this object is attained is as follows:-
A flanged ring made of tin, zinc or other suitable material with central opening,
round, octagon, hexagon, or a number of points converging towards the centre,
having three or more teeth or projections from the under edge of flange for
securing the flanged ring on the bottle or jar.
The flanged ring is placed loosely on top of a bottle or jar, having a projection
terminating at the under side, at right angle to neck of bottle or jar. The flange
encircling the outside circumference of bottle or jar head, with the three or more
teeth projecting downwards from the under edge. These teeth are compressed or
turned inwards at right angle to the flange by a separate mechanical device.
The flanged ring being now secured on the bottle or jar; the bottle or jar is
applied to a filling and corking machine as in general use, and filled with gaseous
liquid; an ordinary cork of suitable size is then driven through the opening in
flanged ring; the cork being compressed or reduced in diameter in passing through
the corking machine and Hanged ring and expanding afterwards-thus securing
the cork. Or the cork may be only partly driven through the flanged ring.
Dated this Eleventh day of October 1895.
ADAM MILLIN.
Improvements in Securing Corks in Mineral Water and other
Bottles or Jars Containing Gaseous Liquids.
I ADAM MILLIN, of 44 Ulsterville Avenue, Belfast, Ireland, Manufacturer,
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:-
This invention relates to improvements in stoppering bottles and jars containing
gaseous liquids, and consists in adapting to the mouth of the bottle, novel means
for preventing the cork being forced out by the pressure of the gas, in the place
of the usual wire or string.
For the purposes of my invention, I employ a bottle which has a groove in the
external bulge or swelling at the mouth of the neck. This groove, which may be
of any desired contour, is formed on its upper side with a square shoulder, and it
is to the square shouldered bead thus formed, the novel cork-securing device is
attached

page_text: And in order that my invention may be clearly understood, I will now proceed
to fully describe it, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings.
I would here remark that the form of device shewn in the drawings is by way
of example only, as the form may be more or less modified, without in any way
departing from the nature of my invention.
Fig. 1 shews, in plan view, a blank from which the device is formed.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of the device, when shaped.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the same.
Fig. is a plan view.
Fig. 5 shows the device adapted to the neck of a bottle provided with the square-
shouldered bead; and
Fig. 6 shews the same with the cork in position.
The device, in its best and simplest form, consists of a ring A of suitable metal,
having radial lugs or projections A' (see Fig. 1), and this ring being placed in
suitable dies, is shaped to the semi-circular section seen at Fig. 2, so that the device
will fit snugly onto the lip of the bottle, with the inner edge overhanging more
or less the inouth of the bottle, as seen at Fig. 5.
When the device is in position, and by means of a suitable tool, the lugs or
projections A are turned in under the square shoulder of the groove in the bulgo
or swelling of the bottle, and the device is thus securely attached to the bottle
neck.
The cork B, which is preferably first subjected to considerable compression, is
then forced through the device into the mouth of the bottle, and directly it is
clear of the device, it expands, and the top of the cork catches under the over-
hanging edge or lip of the device (see Fig. 6), and is thereby securely held in
position against any ordinary pressure of gas contained in the bottles, without the
aid of wire or string.
The annular holding device is placed on the neck of the bottle before the
bottle is filled, as it will in no way interfere with the filling in the ordinary
machines, a fact which may be considered somewhat important.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what
I claim is
1st. An annular holding device for the cork of a vessel containing a gaseous
liquid, adapted to be clipped onto the neck of the vessel, and to overhang the
mouth, so as to catch over the top of, or embed itself in, the cork inserted in the
bottle, as set forth.
2nd. The means substantially as herein shown and described for securing corks
in vessels containing gaseous liquids, without the aid of string or wire, as
set forth.
3rd. A vessel to contain gaseous liquids having a square shouldered bead at the
mouth or lip, as herein shown and described.
4th. A vessel to contain a gaseous liquid, having a groove of any desired contour
än the external bulge or swelling on the neck of the vessel, such groove being
formed on its upper side with a square shoulder, as and for the purpose set forth.
5th. A device for securing the cork in a vessel containing a gaseous liquid,
which, when attached to the vessel, will permit of the filling and corking of the
vessel, as set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1800
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.