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(No Model.)

F. S. TOWLE. BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 499,898. Patented June 20, 1893.

TOHNEY.

9 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX S. TOWLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JAMES E. HAMMIILL,

OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,898, dated June 20, 1893. Application filed January 23, 1893- Serial No 45 9,402. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern: the manufacture, showing a raised central Be it known that I, FELIX S. TOWLE, a cit-iportion containing a transverse groove to rezen of the United States, and a resident of New ceive the middle portion of the wire bail; Fig.

York, in the county of New York and State of 3 a central vertical section of same on the New York,haveinvented certain new and use dotted line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 a top view 55 f ul Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which of same showing the Wire bail in place, this the following is a specification. view representing the tin cap after it has The invention relates to improvements in been subjected to the second operation in the bottle stoppers or caps, and particularly to manufacture, viz: the moving of the opposite the class of stoppers or caps in which the sides of the central elevated portions of the 60 stopper consists of a tin disk secured to a cap toward each other to close the transverse swinging bail and adapted to be looked upon groove over the wire bail; Fig. 5 a central the mouth of the bottle or jar by a lever. vertical section of same on the dotted line Heretofore the tin cap has been secured to 55 of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a detached centhe swinging bail by means of a grooved disk tral vertical section on an enlarged scale of 6 soldered at its opposite edges to the top of the the central portion of the sheet metal cap cap and inclosing between itself and said cap showing by solid lines the form of same afthe middle portion of the bail. It is intended ter the first operation in the manufacture and that the tin cap shall be loose on the bail so by dotted lines the condition of the transverse as to be capable of turning freely thereon. groove after the second operation in the manu- 70 My present invention relates particularly facture. to a new means for securing the tin cap to the The essential features of the invention remiddle part of the swinging bail, and its oblate to the sheet metal cap A and the wire ject is to obviate certain defects in the caps bail B, and these will preferably be secured 2 5 or stoppers as heretofore made. to the neck of the bottle or jar by the well 5 The method heretofore in use of securing known form of lever shown. The cap A is the tin cap to the swinging bail by a soldered formed from a single piece-of metal with the disk is defective in many particulars, and it elevated central portion a, the transverse may be mentioned that the preparing and solgroove 1), andthe encompassing bearing dering of the disk involves an undue expense flange d, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, which 80 and that in applying said disk the solder freshow thecondition of the cap after the first quently enters the groove for the bail and operation in its manufacture. The transfastens the latter so that thecap will not turn verse groove 19 is of a size adapting it to thereon, thus rendering the structure useless. freely receive the middle portion of the wire In accordance with my invention I remedy bail B, whose lower depending ends are piv- 85 the foregoing defects and objections and prootally secured in the usual manner. duce a stopper in which the soldered disk is After the cap A has been produced in the wholly dispensed with the wire bail secured form shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the bail B is by integral portions of the tin cap being placed in the transverse groove 19 and there closed over its middle portion. properly secured by pressing the opposite 0 The invention will be more fully undersides of thecentral elevated portion a toward stood from the detailed description hereinafeach other, thus closing the groove b around ter presented, reference being had to the acthe bail and firmly securing the latter in place, companying drawings, in which as shown'by dotted lines in Fig. 6 and solid Figure 1 is a central vertical section of the lines in Figs. 4 and 5. The pressing toward upper portion of a bottle or jar having apeach other of the opposite sides of the cenplied thereto a stopper or cap constructed in tral elevated portion aconstitutes the second accordance with and embodying the invenand final operation in the manufacture, and tion. Fig. 2 is a detached top View of the tin hence it will be seen that by the two opera- 5o cap as it appears after the first operation in tions the cap is formed and secured to the hail without the use of solder or the extra disk heretofore employed to hold the bail and cap together.

By means of my invention the method of 5 manufacturing the stopper is rendered more eflioient andlgreatly simplified and cheapened,

and the stopper as an article of manufacture:

is improved and enhanced in value.

What I claim as my invention, and desire ,m to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a bottle stopper and cap having the central portion a and closedtransverse groove 1) the whole being formed of one piece of metal, combined withthewire bail B held in said groove; substantially as and for the purposes I 5 set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 26th day of.

November, A. D. 1892.

FELIX s. 'TOWLE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. C. GILL, E1). D. MILLER.

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