HutchBook.comJoel B. Miller Bottle Stopper
This patent application was filed
May 20, 1880 by Mrs. Thressa
Miller, administratrix for Joel B. Miller, deceased, and specified:
I, Joel B. Miller, deceased, late of
Figure 1 is a sectional face view of the improved
bottle-stopper. Fig. 2 is a
side view thereof.
This invention relates to a new suspended internal
bottle-stopper; and it consists, first, in combining the disk-shaped
inner stopper with a spring bail or handle that is capable of holding
the stopper properly in position and prevents it slipping into the hold
of the bottle.
The invention also consists in supplying said
bottle-stopper with an additional upper disk for interposing a shield
between the mouth of the bottle and the stopper, to prevent impurities
from reaching the stopper itself; also, in hinging the spring-bail to
the flat or disk-shaped stopper…
In the accompanying drawings, the letter
A represents the flat or
disk-shaped valve or stopper, which is made of India-rubber or
equivalent material and held on a stem,
B, that is preferably made of wire, and that forms an elongated eye,
C, at its upper part.
The lower end or ends of the stem
B are secured in a metal ball
or plate, D, that is in
contact with the lower surface of the disk-shaped valve
A.
This ball or plate D is of such size as to prevent the withdrawal of the stopper or
disk-shaped valve from the bottle after the same has been inserted, but
it will not interfere with its ready introduction into the bottle.
Into the eye C
are hooked the ends of a centrally-contracted spring-loop,
E, which has above the
contraction a an upper
enlargement, b, and below said
contraction a a lower
enlargement, d...The hooks or
eyes, e e, at the open lower
end of the spring-loop E, are
arranged to freely receive the upper cross-bar of the elongated eye
C.
Above the stopper or disk-shaped valve
A, and belong the elongated
eye C, is attached to the stem
B a smaller disk,
F, preferably or rubber or
other elastic material, capable of entering the mouth of the bottle and
of shielding the stopper or disk-shaped valve, so that impurities cannot
reach it. A collar,
f, supports the disk F on
the disk A.
Comments:
This patent is clearly an improved version of Joel B.
Miller’s 1874 patent. Most
likely, Charles G. Hutchinson’s use of a rubber gasket stopper
influenced Miller’s modifications.
The patent was assigned to Henry W. Putnam of
Note: See Miller’s 1874 patent for his original
bottle-stopper design.