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Description

(No Model.)

J. M. KERR.

BOTTLE STOPPBB.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. KERR, O NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'ro HIMSELF, AND WILLIAM H.

I HUNTER, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,660, dated May 11, 1886.

(Yo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. KERR, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bottle'Stopper,

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my new and improved bottle-stopper applied to a bottle, the neck of the bottle being broken away. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the tube with the cork, cap, and valve removed; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged inverted plan view of the cap.

The invention will first be described in con nection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

The stopper is composed of the tube a, cork I), placed upon the tube, the cap 0, and the ball-valve d, placed in the cap to close the tube a. The upper end of the tube a is made concaved or countersunk to form a seat, 6, so

the ball d will accurately fit the tube and close.

the passage therein air-tight, and so the ball will always rest upon the tube, closing the same when the bottle is upright, and the upper end 0 of the tube a is externally screw-threaded to receive the cap 0, which is'internally screwthreaded at its lower edge. The cap is by preference conical in form and formed with a shoulder, f, to retain the cork I), placed upon the tube, and to limit the insertion of the stopper into a bottle. The cavity in the cap 0 is somewhat larger than the ball-valve d, so

that when the bottle is slanted to either side the ball will uncover the passage through the tube a, and the cap 0 has the aperture 0', for 0 the escape of liquid from the bottle. To prevent the ball (1 from closing the aperture 0. when the bottle is turned or inverted, I pass through the cap 0 the small wire 0 which always keeps the ball from interfering materially 5 with the use of the bottle. In case, however, the bottle is simply tipped upon its side, the conical shape of the cap 0 will cause the ball d still to close the tube a, and prevent almost altogether the escape of liquid.

A stopper constructedin the manner described automatically closes airtight, and at the same time permits the escape of the liquid in suitable quantities by inverting or slanting the bottle. Besides, the stopper is cheap, and in all respects practical.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a bottlestopper composed of the tube a, cap 0, cork I), placed upon the tube, and the ball-valve (Z, placed in the cap to close the tube a, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The tube a, countersunk at e, and provided with the cork b, in combination with the apertured cap 0, containing the ball-valve d, screwed upon the tube and provided with the wire 0, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES M. KERR.

\Vitnesses:

VVOLFGANG KiJ'FFNER, H. A. WEs'r.

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