US66270A - Improved bottle-stopper - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

y TEEononE A. WEBER, oE NEw Yoan, N. Y.

IMPRovi-:D BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. (6,270, dated July 2, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEoDoRE A. WEBER, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bottle-Stopper 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view of one side of the stopple applied to a bottle. Fig. 2 is another view of the stopple. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the center o f the stopple and its fastenings applied to a bottle. Fig. 4 is a top view of the stopple. Fig. 5 is a bottom view of the stopple, showin g the elastic diaphragm.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the several figures.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the llin g of bottles with liquids which are highly charged with gas, and which require to be thus preserved for use, by so constructing a movable stopple with an elastic selfclosing diaphragm that when secured over the mouth of a bottle a liquid under pressure of gas can be conveniently drawn from a reservoir into the bottle and retained therein withf out losing its gas, as will be hereinafter described.

'Io enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I 4will describe its con- A circular piece of india-rubber, b, is applied to the bottom of the cap e and suitably stretched over a ring, e, which latter is conned in place by closing the rim of the cap around it, as shown in Fig. 3. Thus the indiarubber diaphragm, the ring, and the cap are secured rmly together.

`Surrounding the hole which is .through the the funnel c small holes are made through the rubber diaphragm b, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, through which holes the liquid is forced into the bot-tlc, when that portion of the diaphragm which closes the opening through the cap a is pressed inward. A wire, h, is passed through the ears or lugs g of the cap a, and bent as shown in Figs. l and 2; and this wire is fastened to the neck of the 'bottle A by means of a wire, r, which latter is so bent around the hooked ends of the wire h as to allow the latter to vibrate laterally. Thus, by sliding the stopple upward on wire h, the whole can be slipped sidewise from the top or mouth of the bottle. rIhe central portion of the wire h is bent in theA form of a half-circle, to allow of the insertion, through the funnel c, of the delivering-spout of the reservoir containing the liquid under pressure. Another wire, m, is so bent as to form an eccentric, as shown, which, in the position of Figs. l, 2, and 3, holds the stopple lirmly upon the top of the bottle, and when turned over, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, will release the stopple and allow it to be slipped laterally from over the mouth of the bottle. The curved ends o of the eccentric should press upon the cap a a little on one side of the center, about which they turn, so that the pressure of the gas in a bottle will tend to make said ends hold iirmly.

To till a bottle covered with the stopple the reservoir containing the charged liquid must be provided with a suitable faucet having an india-rubber ring surrounding its nozzle, which will form a tight joint between the outside of the faucet and the stopple; and, furthermore, it would perhaps be desirable to have lateral channelsl cut into the nozzle of the faucet, through which, when the point or end of this faucet is forced down upon lthe diaphragm b, the liuid can pass laterally and escape into the bottle through the holes which are through the diaphragm; otherwise the force of the fluid must separate said diaphragm from the nozzle of the faucet, and thus find its passage into the bottle. Vhen the point of the faucet is withdrawn the diaphragm will instantly close the opening through the cap a by its con traction and the internal force of gas against it. The fluid is drawn from the bottle by pressing down the diaphragm b, or by remov4 ing the stopple laterally, as beforeexplained.

It will be seen, by reference to Fig. 3, that the india-rubber diaphragm b not only serves to close the hole through the cap a by pressing and being pressed against the opening which is through the funnel c, but this diaphragm also forms a perfectly tight joint between the cap a and the mouth of the bottle to which the stopple is applied.

Having described my invention7 what I claim as new7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s

l. The combination of the cap a and elastic diaphragm I), the latter being perforated and applied to said cap, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination of a perforated cap, a, a perforated diaphragm, b, and a ring, e, when adapted for being held down tight upon a bottle, substantially as described.

i 3. The cap a, diaphragm b, with or Without ring e, stirrup h, and eccentric m, all combined and adapted to serve the purpose explained.

THEODORE A.' WEBER.

fitnesses ROBERT OREUZBAUR, ADOLPH MAHLER.

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