US378007A

US378007A - Cork-retainer

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Publication number: US378007A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-02-14
Anticipated expiration: 1905-02-14

Description

' yNIT'ED STATES 'PATENT l EEICE.

FREDERICK E. HEINIG AND SAMUEL LEIDIGH, or LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

CORK-RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,007, dated February 14, 1888.

Application tiled December 27, 1887. Serial No. 259.074. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, FREDERICK E. HEINIG and SAMUEL LEIDIGH, citizens of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and Statel of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cork-Retainers for Bottles; and we do hereby deelare the following to. be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to that class of corkretainers for bottles which retainers pass over the cork and down around the neck of the bottle to hold the cork in the bottle against the pressure of gas contained in the bottle; and its object is to produce a complete retainer in one piece at a single punching from sheet material-such7 for example, as tin-and to shape it so that one portion, called a cap,7 may rest flatly over the top of a cork in a bottle, While other portions rest vertically against the sides 'of the head .of the bottle, and yet another portion surrounds the neck of the bottle beneath the head, having but one pair of ends to be fastened together.

To this end the invention consists in a corkretainer for bottles comprising in ope piece a cap, a neck-band, and two diagonally-crimped side `straps joining the said band and cap, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I represents the blank form of our retainer as it is made by punching from sheet metal. Fig. II is aside elevation of the same with the bandhalf bent. Fig. III is a perspective View of the same after the headstalls are crimped. Fig. IV is a perspective View of the same with the crimps 'dattened down all ready to be applied to a bottle, and Fig. V :represents our retainer in service on the head of a bot-tle. i

5 represents the cap, which We prefer to make of a circular form suitable to rest on top of a cork.

6 represents the band, which is of suitable vlength to pass around the neck Vof a bottte beneath the head. This band may have any suitable fastening to keep its ends together when'around the neck of the bottle. IThe simplest fastening whichwe now think of is -represented by the tongue 7 at one end of the band and the eye 8 at the other end adapted to receive the tongue, the lattertobe bent over back when inserted to keep it in place.

9 represents the side straps, which connect the sides of the cap with the band. The side straps rise vertically from the edge of the band at a distance apartequal to half the circumference of the neck of the bottle, and at a point, l0, each makes a right-angular offset toward the other and joins the cap at its opposite edges. Now the band is. to be bent to the semicircle of thebottles neck, as in Fig. Il. Then by making a diagonal crimp or fold at the lines ll the cap will be turned to its upright position, and ears formed by the crimp- In folding the crimped ears l2 down against` l the face of the side strap the fold may be made exactly at the base of the crimp or above or below it, so that a little variation in the length of the side strap maybe made to tit bottles with heads of different heights. A variation of one-eighth of an inch is enough to meet any irregularity in bottles of a lgiven size. By means of our diagonal cri'mps in the side straps we tip the'cap from its normal plane, which isthe plane of the unbent band, to a plane at right angles therewith and parallel with the plane of the circle of the band when bent, thus avoiding the necessity of Ytwoopenings in the band andv two pairs of ends to ybe joined. While We now suppose lthat tin is the most economical material for making our retainers, any other suitable sheet metal or material may be used. It is not necessary that the cross portion comprising the cap should be-of circular 'form midway. The cap may be lozengeshaped, or even a mere straight-edged crossstrip parallel with the band. The cap may be perforated, as shown in Fig. IV,` for the ad- IOO mission of a goose-neck pipe in some styles of Having thus fully described our invent-ion, what we desire to protect by Letters Patent is the following:

1. In a bottle-cork retainer, asheet-metal blank comprising in one piece a band adapted to encircle the neck of a bottle and having one pair of ends adapted to be secured together, a cap to cross over the cork in a bottle, and side straps permanently connecting two opposite edges ot' the cap with one edge of the band, substantially as shown and described.

2. A blank for a bottle-cork retainer, comprising in one piece a band7 a cap located at a little distance from one edge thereof, and side straps each having a side offset and connecting the cap with the band7 substantially as shown and described.

3. `Abott1ecork retainer comprising in one piece a band to encircle the neck of a bottle, a cap to cross over a cork in the bottle, and diagonallycrimped side portions joining the cap with the bandsubstantially as shown and described.

4. A blank for a bottle-cork retainer having a band, a cap portion, and side portions with 25 angular offsets and adapted to be crimped diagonall y at the angle of the Giset,sl1bstantially as shown and described.

5. In a bottle-cork retainer, side straps formed with angular offsets and crimped di- 3o agonally at the angles and the crimp folded down against the strap to bring the two por tions of the strap into line, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures 35 in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK E. HEINIG. SAMUEL LEIDIGH.

Witnesses:

W. D. TYLER, JOHN P. SAoKsLEDnR.