US330812A - Bottle stopper - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. WARD.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

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WHITFIELD WARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO NORBERT R. WARD, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,812, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed April 17, 1885. Serial No. 162,531. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WHITFIELD WARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a stopper for hottles and the like used for holding variouskinds of liquids.

The invention consists in a novel construction of a sliding stopper of the bottle and a novel construction of the mouth of the bottle, whereby the mouth of the bottle is automatically opened or closed by the position of the bottle, as hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of a bottle and stopper provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 embodies my invention, and is a view partly in section arranged in a head. Figs. 3 and 5 are detailed views. Fig. 4 is a detail front view of the stopper and its operating-weight.

' Similar letters indicate similar parts.

The letter A designates the neck of an ordinary bottle; B, a stopper of rubber, and O a tube arranged in an outer tube, 0, forming an air-chamber, 0', between them, both of said tubes being connected at their lower parts by a spider or skeleton frame, 70, and inserted in the stopper B. The upper ends of the tubes 0 and C may be connected in a suitable manner, so as to admit air into the chamber 0 at the upper side of the mouth-piece, but prevent the passage of liquid through said airchamber at the lower side of said mouth-piece. In some cases, instead of having the tube 0 surrounded by another tube to form an airchamber, the tube C may be fitted directly in the stopper, and a groove or channel may be formed on the side of the stopper farthest from the mouth-piece to admit air into the bottle. The outer tube, 0, has flanges a on its lower ends. The outer tube, 0, has a substantially square face-piece, 0', on its upper end, and which is provided with a flange, b, on its top and sides to form ways 0, to be used in the manner to be presently described, while its lower end extends below the bottom of the D D designate two suitably-bent arms pivoted at 0, midway their length, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, and having one of their ends attached to the sliding stopper D and the other end provided with a suitable weight or weights, E. When the bottle is placed in its normal position and stands on its bottom, the weight E, acting on the sliding stopper D by means of the rigid arms D D, causes the sliding stopper D to pass over the face-piece G, and to be held in position by means of the ways 0, and the upper portion of said sliding stopper entering a recess, 8, in the face-piece, provided for the purpose of closely stopping the bottle, the said face-piece being in some instances composed of two kinds of material, such as rubber, to form packing at its top and sides, and metal, with the rubber on the inner side of the metal, and having a projecting lip, i, for entering the recess 8 in the face-piece.

WVhen it is desired to pour out the contents of the bottle, it is suitably inclined, and the weight E, acting on the sliding stopper D, causes it to be withdrawn from the face-piece G, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in full dotted lines in Fig. 2, and when a sufficient quantity is obtained the bottle is returned to its normal position and the weight closes it, thus affording a bottle which is automatically opened or closed, stopped or unstopped, by the position in which it may be placed.

In some instances I inclose my invention in a fancy covering-such as a head, 1?, as shown in Fig. 2for the purpose of concealing its operation, and as an ornamentation. In such cases the lower jaw of the head is pivoted, and is connected to the stopper D, so as to move with it and represent the opening of the mouth when the bottle is inclined in order to pour out the liquid. I

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.-

1. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the tubular mouth-piece having a face-piece either made with 01' at- 3. A mouth-piece constructed as described,

having its working parts inelosed in a cover I 5 representing a head, P, with the lower jaw of said head connected to and moving with the sliding stopper, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 20 presence of two witnesses.

WHITFIELD WARD.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS O. BOWEN, NORBERT R. WARD.

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