HutchBook.comEdwin S. Piper Internal Bottle Stopper
Edwin S. Piper’s patent application was filed August
28, 1884 and specified:
I,
Edwin S. Piper…residing at Bristol…Connecticut, have invented certain
new and useful Improvements in Removable Internal Bottle-Stoppers…simple
and compact in construction, easy to operate, and durable and efficient
in use…
My
invention consists in a removable internal bottle-stopper in which the
stopping disk is contracted for the removal of the stopper independently
of the bottle…
Figure 1 is a view in perspective of one form which my invention may
assume. Fig. 2 shows the
application of the device to a bottle in which it is shown in its closed
adjustment and with its stopping-disk normally expanded.
Fig. 3 is a view with the stopper in its open adjustment and with
its disk contracted; Figs. 4 and 5 are detached views, partly in
elevation and partly in section, respectively, showing the stopping-disk
expanded and contracted.
In
the construction herein shown an elastic flanged button,
A, forming the stopping disk, is interposed between the lower end of
the frame of the stopper, which frame consists of two spring arms,
B, having their upper ends
united by a cross bar, C, and
their lower ends separated and provided with semicircular bearings
D, which together form a plunger, and the open end of a thimble or
contractor, E, removable
secured to the lower end of a spindle,
F, passing through the button
extending below the frame, journaled in the cross bar thereof and held
between the bearings D, which
are grooved, as at G, for the
purpose.
The upper end of the said spindle projects beyond the cross bar of the
frame and is provided with an eye,
H, or equivalent enlargement, which is normally in conjunction with
the cross bar. The lower end
of the spindle is threaded for the application of the contractor or
spindle aforesaid, which is tapped and threaded, as at
l, for the purpose…
When it is desired to remove the stopper from the bottle, the button is
contracted and displaced into the contractor or thimble by introducing
the lower end of the frame thereinto, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5 of the
drawings. This is preferably
done without disturbing the adjustment of the frame in the bottle by
drawing out the spindle and thus pulling the contractor or thimble over
the flange of the button.
The operation is effected by engaging the spindle by its eye and drawing
it outward against the cross-bar of the frame as a point of
leverage…(permitting)…the stopper to be readily removed…entirely
independently of the bottle.
In
introducing the stopper into the bottle it is simply forced thereinto
without contracting the button, as herein provided for.
The drawing out of the spindle for the purpose described may be
effected by any desired means.
Preferably a special instrument resembling pliers, and having its
jaws adapted to graspe the eye of the spindle and engage with the
cross-bar of the frame as a point of leverage for lifting the spindle,
will be employed.
Comments:
This interesting
patent was included because it was designed as a
removable internal stopper and, judging by the illustrations
included with the patent specifications, it was intended for use with