Improvements in Fasteners for Bottle Stoppers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 21st Jan.. 1892-Accepted. 23rd Aor., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Bottle Stoppers.
I, ROSE ADELA ELIZABETH MELLER of Rothley Villa Macaulay Road
Clapham S.W. Actress do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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My invention relates to improvements in bottle stoppers and consists of a metal
ring placed around the neck of a bottle and connected by a hinge with a metal strip
passing over the mouth of the said bottle and fastened by means of an eye formed
therein to a movable hook fixed to the ring at a point diametrically opposite the
above mentioned hinge.
Dated this 19th day of September 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Bottle Stoppers.
I ROSE ADELA ELIZABETH MELLER, of Rothley Villa, Macaulay Road,
Clapham, S.W. Actress, 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 an improved fastener for corks or similar bottle
stoppers, and is particularly adapted for bottles containing aërated waters.
Instead of "wiring" or "stringing "the corks as is usual in the case of soda-
water or ginger-beer bottles, I provide a fastener which can be used repeatedly
without requiring any personal skill to manipulate.
The invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying sheet
of drawings,
Fig. 1 of which represents my improved fastener in its earliest stage of con-
struction, or after it has been stamped or cut out of a single strip of metal.
The continuity of the strip although preferable, from economical considerations,
is not an essential feature of the invention, as the device may if desired, be divided
into two parts a, b, connected by hinging, soldering or otherwise.
Still referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that in the upper part of the portion of
the fastener lettered b. a number of eyelets are formed, whilst the lower or
horizontal strip a, is provided with an eyelet a', (the number of such eyelets may of
course be increased) and also with two hooks 1, a', which are stamped out of the
metal, the tongue of the hook being vertical in a², and horizontal in a.
The method of fitting the fastener to the neck of the bottle, is illustrated in
Figs. 2 and 3, which require little explanation.
The bottle is of usual construction, the mouthpiece e being of greater diameter
than the neck c', so as to afford a shoulder, beneath which the horizontal branch a
of the fastener may be secured by hooking the eyelet a' over the hook a³.
The cork d can then be secured by bending the arm b, and hooking one of. its
eyelets over the hook a².
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 [
claim is :-
A fastener for bottle stoppers, consisting essentially of two branches or arms a, b,

page_text: one of which, a, is secured around the neck of the bottle, whilst the
over the cork or stopper, and is secured to the portion a, substa
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of January 1892.
passes
y as described
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.