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UNITED STATES 7 PATENT OFFICE j] GEORGE L. WAITT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE. ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE GERMANIA BOTTLE COMPANY, OF

SAME PLACE.

I BOTTLE-STOPP'ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,919, dated March 20, 1888. Application filed March 29, 1887. Serial No. 232,909. (No model.)

. To. all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. WAITT, a

citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to make and practice the same.

The present invention relates to that class of bottlestoppers in which a swinging bail carries the stopper which closes the mouth of the bottle.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of devices hereinafter claimed, whereby I attain great simplicity, cheapness, and ease of operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a bottle-neck,

; I showing one form of pivoted locking-lever and the stopper seated on the mouth of the bottle and locked. Fig. 2 is a corresponding view showing anotherform of locking-lever. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with the stopper thrown back. Fig. 5 is a sectional View of a bottle-neck having two biting-rims for the stopper. Fig. 6 is a detail side view of the stopper holder or cap, the stopper, and the back-stop forthe locking-lever. Fig. 7 is a sectional view showing the manner of pivoting and attaching the locking-lever to the stopper-holder.

The reference-numeral 1 designates a portion of a bottle, which, in the present instance, is provided with inner and outer biting-rims,

1 and 1", around the bottleniouth, as is claimed in my Patent No. 342.051, dated May 18, 1887. A cap or holder, 2, for the cork or stopper proper (marked 6) is struck up from sheet metal, or it may be made of cast metal, which probably is the preferable mode of .formation. The cap is formed with a cavity, which receives acork or piece of rubber, 6, serving as a stopper, and made large enough to have the bitingq'ims on the bottle enter the substance of the stopper when the latter is pressed into or upon the bottle-mouth. The metal cap or holder 2 is formed with a transverse groove or channel, 2, on its upper surface, which serves as the curved bearing or fulcrum surface for a rocking lever, 3. Furthermore, the top of the cap is formed with a fixed post, -7, which serves as a back-stop for said lever 3. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the lever 3 is formed from a piece of wire,

erly coiling said wire. The bottom of the loop rests in the groove in the top of the cap, and is held therein by means of a fasteningclasp, 10, made of some ductile or flexible metal. which receives the bottom of the lever 3, and allows the latter to rock or turn in the groove which is bent into a loop form, and has an eye, 3", formedat'the top by propr w This clasp 10 has an eye at the top,

in the cap. The legs of the clasp 10 are passed through a hole, 2", made in the top of the cap, and are then bent around or clinched on the under side of said top, as is clearly shown in Fig. 7. It will be seen that the clasp is the medium for attaching the lever 3 to the cap 2, and that the cork or rubber forced or held in the cap will contribute to prevent the unbending of the clinched ends of the clasp.

In Fig. 2 I have shown substantiallythe same construction as has already been de scribed. I 3 is made of a wire which has a top eye, two vertical legs brought close together, and bent at the bottom to form two journals, 3. These journals turn in the groove in the top of the cap 2, and two clasps 10, instead of one, serve to hold the lever in place. A bail or yoke, 4, pivoted or hung on a wire ring, 5, surrounding the neck of the bottle, receives the eye poition of the lever 3, and consequently carries all the movable parts of the stopper-fastening. The bail or yoke 4 swings in the manner common to stopper-fasteners of the swing-stopstopper will be uns'eated, and the lever and swinging bail can then beswung away from In this instance, however,thelever the bottle in the manner indicated in Fig. 4. lever seated and turning in the groove in the As shown more fully in Figs. 3 and 4, the cap 2, and the clasp 10, passed through the back-stop 7 has a rounded groove, 7, which slot in the cap and clinched on the under side receives the eye 3 on the swinging bail when of the latter, with the cork or stopper 6 and 15 5 the lever is in the upright orlocked position. the swinging bail 4, mounted on the bottle- Having thus described my invention, what I neck, substantially as herein set forth.

claim as new, and desire to secure b Letters Patent, is; Y GEORGE L. WAITT.

The combination of the cap 2, having a Witnesses: go rounded groove, 2, in its top and a slot th rough J. DANIEL EBY,

the latter, the back stop or post 7, the rocking S. LLOYD WIEGAND.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 379,919, granted March 20, 1888, upon the application of George L. Waitt, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Bottle Stoppers, was erroneously issued to the Germania Bottle Company as sole owner of the patent; Whereas the said letters should have been issued to 8'. Lloyd Wiegand, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and said Germania Bottle Oompam, jointly,

said Wiegand and the Germania Bottle Company beingassignees by direct and mesne assignments of the entire interest in said invention .as shown by assignments of record in the United States Patent Office; and that the proper correction has been made in the files and records of the case in the Patent Office, and should be read in the Letters Patent that the same may conform thereto.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 27th day of March, A. D. 1888.

n. L. HAWKINS, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Oountersigued BENTON J.HALL,

' Commissioner of Patents.

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