US1479985A - Bottle-stopper shield - Google Patents

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Jan. 8 1924. I 1,479,985

D. ENOMOTQ BOTTLE STOPPER SHIELD Filed Nov. 18. 1922 l/VVE/VTD/i' D. END/V1270 A rf5 Patented Jan. 8, 1924.

UNITED ST DANIEL ENOMOTO, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPEB SHIELD.

Application fil ed la'o vember 18,1922. Serial No. 601,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, DANIEL ENOMOTO, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stopper Shields, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bottle stoppers and has particular reference to shields for ink bottle stoppers, the primary object being to provide a simple and inexpensive shield which will prevent the fingers from coming in contact with the usually inked portion of the cork or stopper and otherwise prevent said inked stopper or cork from soiling objects when placed upon a desk, table or other support.

An object of the invention is to provide a shield which is in the form of a tubular member and is adapted to be readily incorporated with the usual type of ink bottle stopper, which latter comprises a cork with a flat circular top or hand piece, the latter portion being received in one end of the tubular shield in such manner as to hold the shield in place circumferentially spaced from and extended beyond the stopper or cork.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide novel means for securing the tubular shield upon the top piece of the cork or stopper, the shield preferably being corrugated so as to provide for the wedging of the top piece of the stopper in the corrugated portion thereof and to securely fasten the shield in place.

The invention possesses other advantages and features some of which, with the foregoing will be set forth at length in the following description where I shall outline in full that form of the invention which I have selected for illustration in the drawing accompanying and forming a part of the present specification. In said drawing I have shown one form of the construction of my invention, but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form since the invention as expressed in the claims may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the shield constructed in accordance with my invention showing it applied to a stopper with the latter mounted in a bottle.

Fig. 2 represents a sectional view partly in elevation, of the device ofmy invention part of the shield being broken away and in section.

Fig. 3 represents a bottom plan view of the shield as when applied to a stopper.

Referring in detail to the form of the invention shown in the drawing, 1 designates a cork or other similar stopper, in this instance particularly adapted for an ink bottle as shown at 2. The cork or stopper 1 depends from the usual circular top or hand piece 3, which is in the form of a disk and is milled or corrugated as at 4, about its periphery. Ordinarily in mounting and removing a stopper of the character illustrated the fingers come in contact with the stopper portion 1 and are soiled with ink or when the stopper is placed upon a desk or other support the ink thereon will be transferred onto the desk or papers or other objects coming into contact therewith. I propose to provide a tubular cylindrical shield 5 which is open at both ends. The shield may be made of any suitable material such as stiff paper or light sheet metal, and is of such diameter that it will receive the circular head or top piece 3 of the stopper and of such length that one end will extend beyond the free-end of the cork or stopper.

To provide for an economical and effective means of securing the shield in place, the shield is corrugated as at 6 adjacent one end both interiorly and exteriorly, so that the circular top piece 4; may be wedged in the shield and securely held in place by an interfitting of the corrugations. The corrugations on the exterior of the shield will provide for the ready grasping and turning of the stopper when inserting or removing the latter. It will thus be seen that the shield of my invcnion may be employed as an attachment for the standard ink bottle stopper. By placing a shield with the corrugated end downinost and resting on a suitable support, the shield may be readily attached to a stopper by inserting the stopper, head piece down, into the shield and causing the corrugated periphery of the head piece to wedge in contact with the corrugated portion of the shield. The shield in being circumferentially spaced from the stopper and extended beyond the freeend of the latter, will prevent ink from being transferred from the stopper to the hand or other object, regardless of the manner in Which. the stopper is handled or the position into Which the stopper is placed.

Aside from acting as a shield, the outer surface of the device of my invention provides space quite suitable for advertising purposes in that it is Well adapted to re ceive a label or other advertising sticker in such manner that the label will be displayed in an effective and conspicuous manner.

I claim:

1. In combination With a bottle stopper having a top piece of greater diameter than the stopper itself, of a tubular shield being circumferentially spaced from said stopper and receiving in its upper end the circular top piece, said shield extending beyond the free end of the stopper, the top piece and upper end of said shield being substantially flush With one another.

2. In combination With a bottle stopper having a corrugated circular top piece fastened to one end thereof, of a tubular shield being circumferentially spaced from said stopper and receiving in its upper end the circular top piece, said shield extending be yond the free end of the stopper, said top piece having peripheral corrugations, and said shield having a corrugated portion 00- operating With the corrugated portion of the top piece.

DANIEL ENOMOTO.

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