IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL
DRECITATION
I, HENRY FINCH of Queen's Hotel, Hollinwood, Oldham in the County of
Lancaster, Hotel Keeper, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES" to bo as follows:—
In bottles with screwed stoppers at present in use, the liquor inside frequently
acts upon the elastic washer to their mutual injury. Now by my present Invention
all communication between the liquor and the elastic washer is cut off, and any
injury thereto is saved and avoided. In carrying my Invention into effect I form
the neck of the bottle with an external screw and fit a washer of indian rubber or
other clastic material upon the shoulder thereof. The stopper is formed hollow
and fitted with an internal screw and is also provided with a cork padding at the
bottom thereof. So that when the stopper is screwed down on its place, the cork
padding therein will fit tight against the top of the bottle neck and the bottom lip
of the stopper will also fit tight against the elastic washer upon the shoulder of the
bottle. All communication between the liquor and the elastic washer is thus cut
off and at the same time an air tight joint is secured.
Deted this 26th day of August 1001
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY FINCH of Queen's Hotel Hollinwood, Oldham, in the County of
20 Lancaster, Hotel Keeper do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES" and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY FINCH of Queen's Hotel Hollinwood, Oldham, in the County of
0 Lancaster, Hotel Keeper do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES" and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
screwed stoppers at present in use, the liquor inside frequently
5 acts upon the elastic washer to their mutual injury. Now by my present Invention
all communication between the liquor and the elastic washer is cut off and auy
injury thereto is saved and avoided.

page_text: In carrying my Invention into effect I form the neck of the bottle with an
external screw and fit a washer of indian rubber or other clastic material upon the
shoulder thereof. The stopper is formed hollow and fitted with an internal screw
and is also provided with a cork padding at the bottom thereof. So that when the
stopper is screwed down on to its place, the cork padding therein will fit tight i
against the top of the bottle neck and the bottom lip of the stopper will also fit
tight against the clastic washer upon the shoulder of the bottle.
All communication between the liquor and the elastic washer is thus cut off and
at the same time an air tight joint is secured,
In order that my said Invention may be more fully understood I shall now 1
proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose I shall refer to
the several figures on the sheet of Drawings annexed.
Figs I and II are partial sectional and top views respectively of the bottle.
Figs III, IV and V are sectional, top and bottom views respectively of the
stopper.
Fig VI is a sectional view of the bottle with the stopper screwed down into its
place.
All the Drawings are full size.
1 Fig I, A is the body of the bottle, B is the shoulder, C is the external screw
formed on the neck and D is the indian rubber or other elastic washer fitted upon
the shoulder thereof.
In Fig III, E is the hollow stopper, G-the-internal-screw_fitted therein,_and_F
the cork padding fixed in the bottom thereof.
Fig VI shows the bottle A with the stopper E screwed down on its place and
with the cork padding F therein fitting tight against the top of the bottle neck 2
and the bottom lip of the stopper E also fitting tight against the elastic washer D
upon the shoulder thereof. All communication is thus cut off between the liquor
inside the bottle and the elastic washer by the close contact of the cork-padding-
-in-the-bottom-of-the-stopper-with-thic top of the bottle neck, at the-same time an
air tight joint is secured by the close contact of the bottom lip of the stopper with 3
the elastic washer-upon-the-shoulder-of-the-bottle-
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
The hollow stopper with its internal screw and cork padding in combination 3
with the bottle with its external screw and indian rubber or other elastic washer
when used substantially in the manner and for the same purposes as herein before
described, set forth and illustrated..
Dated this 31st day of October 18S-L