US1027112A - Bottle-stopper. - Google Patents

Description

w.- A. EOKERT.

v BOTTLE STOPPEB. APPLICATION FILED 21112115, 1910.

Patented May 21, 1912.

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WILLIAM A. ECK'ERT, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IBOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedMay 21, 1912.

Application filed September 15, 1910. Serial No. 582,141.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. ECKERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

'This invention relates to an improved bottle stopper, which is adapted to be fitted in a bottle in place of the usualcork, and when so inserted therein constitutes a spraying or sprinkling nozzle for the bottle.

The principal object of the invention is to produce a comparatively simple, cheap and durable article of this class.

The invention also relates to certain details of construction of the device which will be hereinafter described and claimed,-

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which, I 1 Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved bottle stopper. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the improved stopper. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the improved stopper. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the improved stopper. Fig. 5 is a detached central section through the perforated metal top of the stopper. Fig. 6 is a detached central vertical section .through the tubular metal member of the stopper. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the same. i

In referring to the drawings in detail, like numerals designate like parts.

This improved bottle stopper is designed to be fitted. in the opening in the neck of a bottle in place of the usual cork or stopper,

and is provided with an enlarged perforated spraying or sprinkling head through the perforations of which the liquid within the bottle is sprayed or sprinkled when the bottle is inverted.

The improved stopper, as shown in the drawings, consists of a top metal member 1 which is preferably of a convex shape and is perforated, a metal tubular lower member and a cork annulus or ring 2 fitted around the lower end of the lower member.

The metal tubular lower member has an lar portion 5 with its top surface against I the shoulder 4. The lower tubularportion 5 is considerably smaller in. diameter than the bell shaped portion 3 and in practice the lower end thereof may be made to flare, as

shown in Fig. 4, or may be otherwise enformed from suitable metal, such, for instance, as sheet aluminum; the perforated convex top member and the tapering or bell shaped lower member being formed to the desired shape in suitable dies and the top margin of the bell shaped portion 3 being bent inwardly upon the edge of the concavoconvex top, as shown in Fig. 2, thus rigidly securing the two metal members of the stopper together;

The inwardly extending;- bent marginal edge or top flange of the bell shaped portion 3 is indicated in Fig. 2 by the numeral 6, and it will be observed by referring to said Fig. 2 that that portion of the upper part of the lower metal member lying be-v tween and connecting the outer termination of the flange 6 with the top termination of thebell shaped portion 3 is substantially of a circular form having vertical outer and inner surfaces of appreciable width, as shown at 7 in said Fig. 2. This provides a fairly wide surface for the convenient grip for the fingers of the operator when,1nserting' the stopper in or removing it from the opening in the neck of the bottl The usual practice in fitting a stopper in or removing it from a bottle is to glve it a turning or twisting movement. With this improved stopper it will be noted that owing to the fact that the lower tubular member is formed in one integral piece of metal and has its upper portion shaped to fit around the upper member and form a grasping portion for the fingers of the operator there is no possibility of a turning or twisting movement loosening or opening any joints between parts.

The principal advantage of this improved stopper resides inits simplicity, durability and cheapness which is due to the fact that the metal parts oft-he stopper are but two in number and that one of these metal parts is so constructed'that a cork annulus may be fitted on its lpwer portion while its upper end is bent to form an exterior flange around the outer edge of the other part.

I claim,

A device of the class described consisting of a perforated top member having a downwardly extending verticalflange, a lower member havinga tapering or bell shaped portion, a flanged top portion comprising an upwardly extending vertical flange in- Qclosing the vertical flange 011 said top member and an inwardly projecting horizontal flange engaglng said top member, an ntermediate shoulder extending inwardly from the termination of the bell shaped portion and a lower reduced tubular portion depending from the inner termination of the intermediate shoulder, and a cork annulus fitted around the lower reduced tubular portion and having its upper annular edge against the intermediate shoulder. 1

WILLIAM A. ECKERT.

lVitnesses L. M. SANos'n-m, GEORGE A. Nnonamun

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