US313588A

US313588A - Bottle and jar stopper and fastener

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Publication number: US313588A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-03-10
Anticipated expiration: 1902-03-10

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(ModeL) E. HAAS.

BOTTLE AND JAR STOPPER AND PASTENBB. No. 313,588. Patented Mar. 10, 1885.1

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EDWIN I-IAAS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE AND JAR STOPP ER AND FASTENER.

.BPBCIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,588, dated March 10, 1885.

Appication filed September :6, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, EDWIN HAAs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle and Jar Stoppers and Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to that class of bottle and jar covers or stoppers in which the stoppers are connected to a swinging bail by a locking-lever, and to that particular description of bottle-stoppers in which the locking lever is confined in limit to substantially the area of the upper face of the stopper and is adapted to operate between said upper face and the bailpassing over the same; and the invention consists of certain features of construction hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

Referring to thedrawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a bottle provided with my improved stopper and fastener, the same being represented as closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view representing parts in central vertical section, and the stopper, lever, and bail in position to be sprung away from the mouth of the bottle. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the locking-lever detached. Fig. 4: is a similar view of the metallic part of the stopper proper.

Like letters indicate like partsin all the figures.

To the neck of a bottle, A, is secured, in the usual manner, a neck-wire, B, having formed therein eyes B, for the reception of the bail G, which in this instance is bent outwardly to form trunnions O, which project from the bottle, these parts being of the usual construction. The bail passes through alocking-lever, D, which is pivotally connected to the stopper. The lever D is formed in one piece, and comprises a thumb-piece, D, a body portion, D", having two of its sides, D D", arranged at a trifle less than a right angle to each other, projecting bearing-lugs D which may he in cross-section cylindrical or V -shaped, as shown in Fig. 3, and a rib, D, perforated, as at D, for the passage of the bail therethrough.

The advantages secured by constructing the lockinglever as described comprises such a shape and disposition of the parts that the le (Modem greatest strain, and the upper inclination given to the side D relative to the side permits the passage of the bail beyond the straight line passing from its pivot through the pivot of the locking-lever to the point of the pivotal attachment of the bail to said lever, whereby the stopper is locked in a closed position. The stopper comp rises,two piecesthe metallic cap-piece or plug E and the rubber stopper or washer F. The cap-piece or plug E comprises a disk, E, having diametrically-opposite pairs of lugs, E, a cylindrical. shoulder or washer, E", on the lower surface of the dish E, and a projecting cylinder, E having notches extending from its lower end to ward the washer E By the construction de scribed this part maybe cast in a single piece. in which case the lugs E and the cylinder E are cast straight-'i he former as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, and the latter as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 4- -so that by anysuitaole too having a Lil-shaped recess the said lugs E may be bent overthe pivots D ot' the locking-lever D, and so that by any suitable tool the prongs E, formed by notching the cylinder E", as described, may be bent outwardly, so that a properly-recessed rubber stopper may be secured to the cap -piece, as hereinafter described. In this instanee the rubber cap-piece is centrally recessed and out under, as at F, so that it may be buttoned onto the cylinder E". The face, and it may be other portions of the rubber stopper F, is coated, as at G, with paraftine, to prevent contact of the contents of the bottle with the rubber.

This being the construct-ion, the operation is as follows: To withdraw the stopper a thumb is placed againstthe lever D, and said lever is oscillated upon its pivots D", carrying the bail over said pivots, when, by the resiliency of the rubber, said lever is brought to the position shown in Fig. 2, where its face D rests upon the cap-piece or plug E. Aifurther movement of the bail, and a partial rotation thereon of the stopper, removes it completely from the mouth of the bottle. A reversal of these movements serves to close the bottle and lock the stopper in the mouth thereof.

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3. The combination of the bail G, pivotal] y secured to the bottle, the lever D, having the 1 lugs Di-the cast-metal cap-piece E, comprising a cylinder having the bent prongs E and the rubber stopper F, substantially as shown and described. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 20 presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN HAAS.

Witnessesr .J. F. TURNER,

THEO. H. MCGALLA.