US350598A - Bottle-stopper - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

B. H. & C. MGRGAN.

BOTTLE STGPPER. y No. 350,598. Patented Oct. 12, 18.86.

@VLM/moo@ 'uit Nrrn rArns EDGAR H, MORGAN AND CHARLES MORGAN, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NoA 350,598, dated October 12, 1886. Application filed February 2.3, i886. Serial No. 192,790. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDGAR H. MORGAN and CHARLES MORGAN, residents of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of' lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Stopping Bottles; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, suchas will enable others skilled inthe art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The object of our invention is to provide means for quickly and securely closing bottles, dispensing with the ordinary long cork and securing-wires, and for readily opening the bottles again without the ,use of 4distinct appliances for that purpose. Our means comprise a layer of cork or other elastic material retained over the mouth of the bottle by an inverted cup-shaped cap and revoluble arms mounted on said cap and adapted to engage with the shoulder formed by the usual en larged neck of the bottle.

ln the accompanying drawings, to which this specification refers, Figure 1 shows the cap and arms in plan. Fig. -2`is an elevation of the same with 'the upper part of a bottle neck. Fig. 3 is a section on the line X Y, Fig. l, looking in the direction a. Fig. 4 is a plan of the bottle with the cap removed. Fig. 5 is a section on the line X Y', Fig. 4t. Fig. 6 shows the cap and arms seen in the direction a', Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A is a cap fitting over the mouth of the bottle and extending somewhat below the enlarged portion G of the bottle-neck D. A cylindrical rod, O, lies diametrically across the upper surface of the cap A, and has each of its ends bent downward to form arms on opposite sides of the cap. The arms are bent inward in their own plane at m, Fig. 6, passing beneath and in contact with the lowerl surface of the projecting portion G of the bottle-neck. They are again bent at right angle to their plane m m C, Fig. 6, and terminate in short straight portions I I', substantially in contact with the surface of the bottle. To allow their inward bending at mm, the side walls of the cap A are eut away at K, Figsl" 2, 3, and 6, and the slot so formed in the cap is enlarged on one side sufficiently to allow the arms to rotate freely in that direction, while the edge of the slot prevents rotation ina contrary direction. The bearing B iucloses the straight connecting portion of the rod betweenthe two arms.

E, Fig. 3. is a layer or disk of cork, rubber, or other similar substance, remaining constantly on the cap, and is of such thickness that when the ends of the arms O are in position beneath the shoulder formed by the enlargement G it must 'be'compressed against the end of the bottle. To insure between the cork and the end of the bottle-neck such contact that no liquid can pass, annular Vgrooves H H are formed in the glass. as shown inFigs. 4 and 5. The grooves are narrower at the bottom than at the top, so that the part of the stopper forced into them may be compressed laterally as well as vertically.

To apply, the cap to a bottle, the arms are thrown back in the direction of the arrow a, Fig. 2, and the cap placed over the mouth of the bottle. It is then pressed down upon the end of the neck by any suitable means until the yielding of the disk E is sufiicient to allow the inwardly-bent arm ends to pass under the shoulder G, when the pressure may beremoved and the bottle is securely stopped. No upward pressure upon the cap can cause the wire or rod O to spring out and disengage the ends from the shoulder G, for the ends I l lie under and are retained bythe lips J of the cap. In removing the cap the rod C is rotated in the direction a, Fig. 2, in the bearing B. Should internal pressure against the cap un- Y der the revolving ofthe rod AC be difficult, the

cap may be rested against any fixed object and the bottle be pressed into it until the internal pressure is overcome.

The layer of cork may be replaced by an ordinary stopper inserted in the bottle and the remaining parts of the apparatus act as a siu1- ple cork-retainer; and if both forms of cork beemployed our entire device operates as has been set forth and gives extraordinary security of closing.

,Having now explained the construction and operation of ourinvention, what we claim isl. In means for stopping bottles, a cork adapted to the neck of the bottle, a cup inverted over said cork and the bottle-neck, diametrically-opposite arms revolubly attached IOO to said clip and adapted to engage suitable projections upon the exterior of said bottleneck, said eup extending hlelow said projections and adapted to receive the ends o1" said armsV and to permit only tangential displaceni en t thereof.

2. In combination with the neel; of a bottle and a cork adapted thereto, the cap A. pro` vided with notches K in its margin, and bear ing revoluble inwardly and laterally bent arms C m1, said arms being adapted by their inwardly-bent portions to engage a shoulder upon the bottleneck and by their laterallybent ends to be retained by the edges of the cap, substantially as set forth.

3. The grooved neel: having a shoulder, the elastic stopper, the cap A, having notches K in its dependent flange, the arms C, having inwardly"bent portions m and laterally-bent ends I, all combined and operating substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof We have signed this speeifieation in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDGAR H. MORGAN. CHARLES MORGAN.

lVitnesses:

Cults. GILBERT, S. A. BUCKMAN.

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