US330712A - Bottle-stopper fastening - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

KALLING, Jr.

BOTTLE STOPPER FASTENING.

Patented Nov. 1 '7 l 885.

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UNITED STATES FFICE. I

PATENT BOTTLE-STOPPER FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,712, dated November 1'7, 1885.

Application filed September 19, 1885. Serial No. 177,517. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS KALLING, J r., of the city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Bottle- Stopper Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

In the description of the said invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings,forming apart hereof,andin which- Figure I is an exterior side view of a bottle and stopper provided with my invention, and showing the stopper fastened in place. Fig. II is a similar view, except that the bottle is seen from a different point and that the stopper is in place,but not fastened. Fig. III is a section taken on the dotted line w m, Fig. I. Figs. IV, V, and VI illustrate details of the invention as hereinafter described.

A is the bottle, and B the stopper,which consists of a flanged washer of india-rubber or other flexible material.

C is a semicircular wire having trunnions a fastened around the neck of the bottle by means of the tie b, as is common in bottlestopping devices. (See Fig. VI.)

D is a circular cap having a boss, 0, on its under side,provided with a stem,d, with a head, e, by means of which it is connected to the stopper B. The stopper has a hole slightly less in diameter than the stem d, and it is forced over the head 6, which insures a close connection. The cap D has strapsf f, which extend from its periphery and at a right angle with reference to the face of the stopper, (see Fig. IV, in which two views of the cap and its attachments are shown.) The ends of straps ff are slotted, the slots being denoted by g, and they are placed over the trunnions a, as shown particularly in Figs. I and II. The slots admit of the cap and its stopper being raised so as to bring the latter entirely out of the bottle-neck, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. II, and when the stopper is thus raised it can be thrown down to the position indicated by the broken lines, same figure.

E is a clamp,(see Fig. V, .in which two views of it are shown) pivoted to the trunnion a and adapted to be forced over the cap D to drive the stopper B tightly within the bottle-neck, as shown in Figs. I and III. The boss 0 being smaller in diameter than the stopper D, it is forced into the latter in the closing of the bottle and the flange of the stopper turned up. (See Fig. III.) By this construction of the cap greater flexibility is given to the stopper than if its entire surface werein contact with the cap before compression. One side of the straps f f is provided with stops h, which come in contact with the clamp E and prevent the same from passing beyond a central position in closing the bottle. The clamp E has a thumb-piece, i, to be used in moving the clamp to and from its position over the cap.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a bottle and its stopper, a cap attached to the said stopper, slotted straps extending from the cap, trunnions which project from the neck of the bottle and through the slotted straps, and a clamp pivoted to the said trunnions and adapted to be forced over the said cap, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with a bottle and its stopper, the cap D,having the slotted straps f, arranged diametrically opposite to each other and provided with the stops h, the trunnions a,which project radially from the neck of the bottle and through the slotted straps, and the swinging clamp E, pivoted to the said trunnions and arranged to be moved over the said cap and in contact with the said stops, substantially as specified.

LEWIS KALLING, JR.

Witnesses:

CHAS. W. ARNoLD, DANL. FIsHER.

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