US658661A

US658661A - Bottle-stopper.

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Publication number: US658661A
Application number: US1979200A
Authority: US
Inventors: Philip Lindemeyr
Original assignee: MARYLAND STOPPER Co
Current assignee: MARYLAND STOPPER Co
Priority date: 1900-06-11
Filing date: 1900-06-11
Publication date: 1900-09-25
Anticipated expiration: 1917-09-25

Description

No. 658,66I. Patented Sept. 25, I900.

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NITE STATES ATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP LINDEMEYR, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE MARYLAND STOPPER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,661, dated September 25, 1900.

Application filed June 11, 1900- Serial No. 19.792. K110 model-J T0 ctZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, PHILIP LINDEMEYR, a resident of Baltimore city, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled. in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to bottle-stoppers, and has for its object to provide an efficient stopper primarily designed for bottles or other vessels holding their contents under a pressure above the normal and which can be conveniently manipulated either to close or open the bottle.

The invention consists in the construction herein described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the bottle-stopper on a bottle-neck. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 comprises three plans of bottle-mouths provided with cap-engaging faces. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the stopper,the cork-holder being shown in raised situation within its case with its screw-threads disengaged from the threads of the case. Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken through the stopper-frainc-supporting band. Fig. 6 is a bottom view of a cap, with plain faces adapted to engage similar faces on a bottle, such as indicated in the left-hand plan of Fig. 3.

Numeral 1 denotes a cork-holder, and 2 a cork.

3 is a case to receive the upper end 4 of the cork-holder, which may have a diameter less The holder has an exterior screw-thread near the upper end of its smaller part 4, by which it is adapted to be screwed in the case, the latter having a suitable interior thread next its lower end. The construction is such that the holderthread can be disconnected from the casethread above the latter and so that the holder has free lengthwise play between the case-top and its thread.

3 denotes a spring opposing this play and holding the lower end of the corkholder thread in situation to engage the upper end of the case-thread, so that the rotation of the case will engage the threads with certainty. Said play, limited by the spring, permits the cork-holder when not connected by its thread to the case to be pushed up in said case, and provision is thus made for easily swinging the cork holder in alinement with the bottlemouth.

6 is a stop to prevent the holder from being screwed out of the case. This stop is conveniently made integral with the case and bent inwardly and against or very close to the holder below its thread.

The corkholder when seated on the bottleneck is locked against rotation thereon by any suitable engagement therewith. In Fig. 3 the bottle-neck is shown provided with plain exterior faces 7, which engage like faces Sin the cap. The number of these'faces may vary, one on each part being operative. By the use of a number uniformly placed a slight rotation of the holder with respect-to the bottle will cause their respective faces to register'. If the bottle-faces are made con vex, as indicated at 7 in Fig. 3, and the holder provided with similar faces, a like effect is produced. Preferably these faces disappear in the surface of the bottle at their lower end and the corresponding faces at their upper end in the holder to avoid lodging-places for refuse.

It is obvious that with the described construction the holder can be placed on the bottleneck by a movement in the line of the axis of the cap. This may be efiected by gravity or by a spring 3 situated between the cork-holder and holdercase.

The holder-case 3 is held on the bottle in operative relation to the holder by wire arms 9, preferably integral with a cross portion 10. The wire arms 9 pass through perforated lugs 11, formed on the case.

l2 denotes shoulders or bonds, which hold the case up against the cross-wire 10. The lugs 11 may be compressed on the wires sufficiently for this purpose Without the use of the shoulders 12. In practice, however, it is preferred after forming the thread in a thin metal case to bend the wires to fit the threads of the case on their exterior, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. The cross-wire 10 will preferably be sunk in asuitable groove 10 ,formed in the holder. By these meansithe case and wire or wires are firmly secured together. They consiit ute a frame to support and carry the cork-holder vertically adjustable in said frame.

The arms 9 are pivotally connected to a band 13, situated in a groove 14, formed in the bottle-neck. In the bottom of groove 14 is a smaller groove 15, which receives the bentand enlarged ends 9 of the wire arms 9, as shown. It also receives so much of the band-closing tongue 16 as lies on the inside of the band. The tongue onone end of the band is passed into the groove15 under the other end of said band and out through a slot 17, at which point it is bent back and its end passed through a slot 18 in the other end of the band, so that its free end lies in groove 15. No loops or oflsets for the tongue are required in the band, the outer surface of which is practically continuous with that of the bottle-neck.

The described devices having been assembled and connected by the band to a bottle or other vessel, the cork-holder being unscrewed from its case with its upper screwthreaded end above the case-threads, and the case and holder swung to one side, the bottle can be stoppered by swinging the caseiand holder over the bottle-mouth and adjusting the holder on the bottle and turning the case to cause its thread to engage the holder-thread, whereupon the case, wire, and band can be turned to screw and force the holder down and firmly seat it upon the bottle and compress its cork upon the bottle-lip. For this last operation the wire, case, and band can be grasped and manipulated as a unit with the advantage of using practically the full power of the hand. The opening of a bottle may be effected in like manner by a reverse movement, and gas may be allowed to escape by degrees and non-explosively.

Cork-holders have heretofore been manipulated by swinging frames. My improvement provides that the holder can be readily adjusted in its supporting-frame so that when swung to register with the bottle-mouth it will entirely clearit, being at such time freely movable lengthwise in the frame. It also provides for a subsequent engagement of the holder with the frame and with the bottle,

the engagement with the frame being a screwthread connection whereby the framecan be used to firmly seat the cork-holder and cork upon the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. For use in closing avessel, a freely-mov- 1 able frame, a cork-holder freely movable.

lengthwise in the frame and adapted to be connected at will to said frame bya screwthread connection, and means to lock the holder against rotation on the vessel, the frame being rotatable and adapted to force the holder upon the vessel-mouth.

3. For use in closing a vessel, a rotatable cork-holder case,.a cork-holder in said case .andhaving interior faces toengage faces on a movable frame operativelyconnecledtothe holder to force the [holder on the vessel, the holder being adapted to be separated from the vessel and moved .to a situation in the frame where it is freely movable either lengthwise or rotarily.

6. A vessel having grooves 14 and 15, a band seated in groove 14, a cork-holder-supporting frame having sidemembers provided with pivots 9 passin g through the band into groove 15.

7. A vessel having grooves 14 and. .15, a

band seated in groove 14, a cork-holderesupporting frame havingside members provided with pivots 9 passing throughthe band into groove 15, said band having its ends connected by a tongue lying in said latter groove.

8. A vessel provided with a groove in its neck to receive a framesupporting band, the frame having pivots, and a cork-holder supported bysaid frame, and said groove having a groove in its bottom to receive the framepivots.

9. A cork-holder, a cork-holder-supporting frame comprising a case for said holder movable With the frame and comprising wires fixed to the sides of the case, said Wires havinginwardly-turned pivots entering a depression in the neck of a vessel.

10. A cork-holder, a cork-holder-supporting frame comprising a case for said holder movable with the frame and wires fixed to the sides ofthe case and having pivots to engage the neck of a vessel, said case having perforated case-lugs to receive the wires fixed therein.

11. A cork-holder, a cork-holder-supporting frame comprising a case having screwthread connection with the holder, and wires adapted to hold the frame to a vessel and fixed to the sides of the case by bends in the Wires conforming to the case-threads.

12. For use in closing a vessel, a. cork-holder having screw-threads near its top, a holdersnpporting case having similar threadsnear its bottom whereby the holder can be screwed into the case and thereupon forced upon a bottle,said holder-threads being adapted to be IIO disengaged to permit the holder to be freely moved end wise between the case-threads and case-top.

13. For use in closing a vessel, a cork-holder having screw-threads near its top, a holdersupporting case having similar threads near its bottom whereby the holder can be screwed into the case and thereupon forced upon a bottle,said holder-threads being adapted to be disengaged to permit the holder to be freely moved endwise between the case-threads and case-top,and a stop to prevent the holder from removal from the case by unscrewing.

14. The combination of a vessel, a corkholder, and a cork-holder case, said holder being non-rotatable and the case rotatable when the former is seated on the bottle.

15. The combination of a vessel, 2. corkholder, a cork holder case, said case and holder having a screw thread connection, means to hold the case to the vessel, and a spring to insure the engagement of the holderthread with the case-thread when the parts are disengaged and preparatory to screwing them together.

16. A vessel having a circular mouth provided with a plurality of faces about said month on its exterior, a cork-holder having corresponding faces, and a rotatable corkholder case to cause the engagement of the similar bottle and holder-faces and seat the cork.

17. In combination with a cork-holder, a cork-holdercase closely embracing the holder and closed at its top to exclude refuse from the connection, said closed holder-case top having a groove in its top to receive a holderframe wire.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

PHILIP LIN DEMEYR.

Witnesses:

G. W. BALLOOH, BENJ. R. CATLIN.