US716165A

US716165A - Bottle-stopper.

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Publication number: US716165A
Application number: US9883302A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joseph Alsfasser
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-03-18
Filing date: 1902-03-18
Publication date: 1902-12-16
Anticipated expiration: 1919-12-16

Description

` Patented Dec. I6, |902.

J. ALSFASSER.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

, \App1ication lad Mar. 1S, 1902.) (No Model.)

Unsinn STATES PATENT Prion.

JOSEPH ALSFASSER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

" BOTTLEHSTOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,165, dated December 16, 1902.

Application filed March 1B, 1902. Serial No. 98,833. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.; i

`Be it knownthat I, JOSEPH ALsFAssER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county ofCook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Im-L provements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is; a specification, and which are illustrated in the .accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a stopper which is especially intended for use with bottles and other receptacles for containing beverages bottled under pressure, such as carbonated liquids, although it may be employed in lieu `of the ordinary attached stopper.

In bottling liquids under pressure the common type of stopper, connected by a bail to the neck of the bottle, is impracticable, inasmuch as the bail would be in the way of the plunger of the bottling-machine and interfere with the proper 'sealing of the bottle. For this reason it has generally been the practice to employ an independent or non-attached cap or stopper adapted tobe fixed in place by crimping or compressing it around the lip of the bottle and which after once being removed is not intended to be used again, no means being provided for securing it in place. This type of stopper is objectionable, owing to the fact that it cannot be employed for reclosing the bottle after it has once been unsealed, so that the contents remain open to the atmosphere and soon become flat and stale, and a new cap or stopper must be used each time the bottle is returned for refilling. These difculties are overcome in the present invention, which consists of a cap or stopper of peculiar construction adapted to be engaged and secured by the yoke or bail of an ordinary stopper-fastener attached to the bottle and which is so arranged that while it maybe removed from the fastener during the bottling operation the said fastening device may be secured `to the `stopper to hold the same in place and to permit of its being used in the manner of the ordinary attached stopper.

The invention consists of the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully stopper. Fig. 2 is a section on the line .fr a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of the cap for securing the yoke or bail of the fastener to the stopper. Fig. 4 is a section on the line Y Y of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the stopper secured to a bottle by an ordinary bail and closing-lever. Fig. 6 is a vertical diametrical section of a modification of the bottle-stopper. Fig. 7 is a top View of the same with the bail-retaining cap removed, and Fig. 8 is a vertical diametrical section of another modification of the stopper.

Referring to the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, 10 indicates a cylindrical casing, preferably provided with a flaring upper end 11 and having Vertical slots 12 at diametrically opposite points. Seated in the upper end of the cylindrical casing is a cup-shaped disk or member 13, also provided with vertical slots 14, adapted to register with the slots 12 of the cylindrical casing. In order to secure the cup 13 in the casing, the latter is provided with tangs or flanges 15, which are designed to be bent inwardly through the

registering slots

12 and 14 and about the Walls of the slots in the cup. The cylindrical casing 10 below the cup 13 is provided with an internal annular rib 1.6 for securing in place a sealingdisk,of cork or rubber,adapted to rest against the lip of' the bottle when the stopper is secured in place.

For retaining the stopper on the bottle I employ any of the usualstopper-fasteners designed to be permanently attached to the bottle, such as that shown in Fig. 5, where 17 designates the bail or yoke and 18 the lever attached to the bottle and connected to the bail for drawing the latter down to hold the stopper over the mouth of the bottle.

In use the stopper is held to the lip of the bottleJoy the bottling-machine in the usual manner, and the bail 17 is then placed in the registering slots of the cylindrical casing and cup contained therein and drawn down by the closing-lever 18 to secure the same. A

cap 19 is then placed over the fiaring top of the cylindrical casing and secured thereto by crimping or in any other suitable manner. As thus arranged the stopper is, in effect, permanently attached to the bottle, and after the latter has once been opened the stopper may be used to close the same until the con- IOO tents have become exhausted. When the bottle is returned for refilling, the cap 19 is removed, so that the bail-fastening device may be detached in order not to interfere with the operation of the bottling-machine when the bottle is recharged, and the same stopper may be used over and over again.

The invention is susceptible of various modifications, andl do not limit myself to the exact construction heretofore described. For instance, the stopper may be made as shown in Figs. 6 and '7, where 10iL indicates the cylindrical casing, 12a the vertical slots therein to receive the stopper-fastenin g bail or yoke, and 19a the cap for retaining the bail in the slots. In this construction the sealing-disk 16 is retained in an inverted-cup-shaped member 13, placed in the bottom of the cylindrical casing and provided with an annular rib for securing the cup 13L in position, and seated in the upper part of the cylindrical casing is a disk or ring 20, held in position by iianges 2l, extending from the casing through the slots thereof and into grooves 22 in the top of the ring or disk 20.

In the modification shown in Fig. 8 the cylindrical casing 101 and Jthe inverted cup 13a, in Which the sealing-disk 16a is seated, may be stamped from a single piece of metal. In other respects this construction is similar to that shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a bottle-stopper, in combination, a cylindrical casing, a sealing-disk therein, a disk located Within the casing and over the sealing-disk, slots in the cylindrical casing and which are designed to receive the bail or yoke of a stopper-fastener, the casing being provided With iianges extending through the slots for securing the latter disk in place, and a removable cap for the cylindrical'casing and for holding the bail or yoke against removal from the slots.

2. In a bottle-stopper, in combination, a cylindrical casing, a sealing-disk therein, vertical slots in the opposite Walls of the cylindrical casing, a cup seated in the casing above the sealing-disk and having vertical slots coinciding With the slots in the casing, flanges extending from the casing through the slots therein and bent about the Walls of the slots in the cup, and a removable cap for the casing and for closing the upper ends of the slots.

3. In a bottle-stopper, in combination, a bottle, a cylindrical casing, a sealing-disk therein, vertical slots in the opposite Walls of the cylindrical casing, a cup seated in the casing above the sealing-disk and having vertical slots coinciding with the slots in the cylindrical casing, means for securing the cup Within the casing, a bail resting in the slots, a closing-lever attached to the bottle and for moving the bail to secure the stopper in the bottle, and a removable cap for the cylindrical casing and for holding the bail against removal from the slots thereof.

JOSEPH ALSFASSER.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR B. SEIBOLD, Louis K. GILLsoN.