Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
I JONATHAN BOOTHMAN of Oak Villa Brideoak Street Cheetham Manchester
Boot Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to my said invention. I form in the neck of a bottle one or more
longitudinal passages and on the stopper I form a corresponding projection or
projections which when the stopper is held in a certain position may slide through
the said passage or passages when the stopper is inserted. Under the neck of the
bottle is formed a recess or shoulder to receive the projections when the inserted
stopper is partially rotated and thus prevent its withdrawal except when the
projections on the stopper and the passages in the neck of the bottle are in line
with each other.
On the stopper I place a ring of indiarubber or other elastic or semi-elastic
material in such a way that when the stopper is pushed home the said ring is
compressed between the rim of the bottle neck and the head of the stopper or of a
shoulder formed on the stopper for the ring to bear against.
Dated this 11th day of December 1893.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
I, JONATHAN BOOTHMAN, of Oak Villa, Brideoak Street, Cheetham, Man-
chester, Boot 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 and accompanying drawings
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a bottle when stoppered.
Figure 2 is a sectional plan through x-x of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a section of the bottle neck on the same plane as Figure 1.
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Figure 4 is a section of the bottle neck in a plane at right angles to that of
Figure 3.
According to my said invention I form in the neck of a bottle a one or more
longitudinal passages b and on the stopper c I form a corresponding projection or
projections which when the stopper is held in a certain position may slide
through the said passage or passages when the stopper is inserted. Under or in the
neck of the bottle is formed a recess or shoulder d to receive the projections when
the inserted stopper is partially rotated and thus prevent its withdrawal except
when the projections on the stopper and the passages in the neck of the bottle are
in line with each other.
On the stopper I place a ring e of indiarubber or other elastic or semi-elastic
material in such a way that when the stopper is pushed home the said ring_is
compressed between the rim of the bottle neck and the head of the stopper or of a
shoulder formed on the stopper for the ring to bear against.

page_text: To ensure and retain the compression the recess or shoulder d is slightly inclined
downwards so that the act of partly rotating the stopper causes it to be drawn into
the neck of the bottle.
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.-
The combination of a stopper having one or more lateral projections thereon the
neck of a bottle provided with longitudinal and transverse recesses and an elastic
ring substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shown in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 30th day of August 1894.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.