US583949A

US583949A - Stopper for bottles or jars

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Publication number: US583949A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 1914-06-08

Description

(No Model.)

O. SELG.

STOPPER FOR BOTTLES 0R JARS. f No. 583,949. Patented June 8,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO SELG, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

STOPPER FOR BOTTLES OR JARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,949, dated J une 8, 1897'.

Application led December 26, 1896. Serial Noi 617,013. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OTTO SELG, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Stopper for Bottles or Jars, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to a stopper for botties and jars which can be quickly manipulated and by which an air-tight closing of the bottle or jar may be effected.

in the accompanying' drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved stopper, showing it applied to a bottle. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation at right angles to Fig. l; Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the cam-ring c, and Fig. l a similar view of the cap af.

My improved bottle-stopper is composed, essentially, of three parts-viz., a central cap or disk, a cam-rin g re voluble around said disk, and a bail engaged by the camming.

The letter a represents the cap or flanged disk containing a suitable packing b, which is adapted to bear upon the mouth of a bottie or jar A to produce a tight joint. The cap d is surrounded by a revoluble ring c, the central aperture of which is of a diameter sufficient to admit the cap and permit the ring to be peripherally revolved around the same. The upper edge of the cap is provided with a pair of cams or upwardly-extending wedges c'. The ring is revolubly held around the periphery of the cap by means of a guide extending laterally from the periphery of the cap andhas a greater radius than the same. Such a guide is formed, for instance, by means of radial projections or burs o', that pass from the cap into an annular bead c2 of the ring, or by means of a flange that projects laterally from the base of the cap, Fig. 4. Diametrically across the cap and ring there extends a bail d, having inwardly-bent or hook-shaped ends d. These hooks engage grooves e, ex-

tending upwardly along the sides of the bottle or jar A and terminating at their lower ends in horizontal sections or pockets e. Then the hooks d' engage the upright sections of the grooves e, the bail d is vertically movable, but when the hooks engage the pockets c vertical displacement of the bail is prevented.

The bail d is preferably attached to the cap d, though such an attachment is not absolutely essential. The connection between bail and cap may be effected by means of a pair of curved lips a2, struck up from the cap and embracing the bail, as shown.

In use the stopper is placed upon the hottle-neck and the bail is lowered and caused to engage with its hooks d the pockets e. The cam-ring c is now revolved to cause the wedges c to bear tightly against the horizontal arm of the bail and to thus force the cap and its inclosed packing tightly upon the bottleneck. A reverse turn of the cam-ring will loosen the stopper, permit the hooks to be Withdrawn from the pockets e', and the bail, cap, and ring to he raised.

It will be seen that my improved stopper can be easily manipulated, and that by it a tight closing of a bottle or jar may be effected.

What I claim is- A stopper for bottles and jars, composed of a cap having vertical and horizontal flanges, and a pair of lips forming a bail-rest, and a cam-ring of a diameter to nt the cap on said flanges and be revoluble around the same, combined with a bail engaged by said lips and adapted to be connected to the bottle; the cap being provided with a packing between the vertical iianges to form a tight joint with the mouth of the bottle, substantially as shown.

OTTO SELG. W'itnesses:

F. v. BETEsEN, XVILLIAM SCHULZ.