HutchBook.comCharles G. Hutchinson Bottle Stopper
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
Specification forming part of Letters
Patent No. 213,992, dated
April 8, 1879; application filed
October 28, 1878.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, CHARLES G. HUTCHINSON, of
Figure 1 is a vertical central section of the upper
part or neck of a bottle provided with my improved stopper, showing the
latter in its highest position or when the bottle is closed; and Fig. 2,
a like representation, showing the position of the stopper when the
bottle is open.
Like letters of reference indicate like parts.
In the drawings,
A represents the neck or upper portion of a bottle.
The neck is contracted slightly, as is usual, and as shown,
between its upper or outer end and its lower end or portion, which
merges into the body of the bottle.
B is the stopper, which may consist, as heretofore, of a disk of
rubber.
C is a laterally-yielding spring, to which the stopper is attached.
This spring extends above the stopper and enters the neck of the
bottle, as shown.
In order that the stopper
B may be suspended below or
away from the neck of the bottle, I extend the spring
C upward, and make this upper
part sufficiently large to prevent it from falling down through the
neck, but not so large as to prevent the lower part of the spring from
passing through or below the narrowest part of the neck.
A simple and inexpensive way of constructing a spring
for the purposes set forth, and uniting it in all the advantages now
recited, is to make it of flexible wire, bending the wire so that the
spring will approximate the figure 8 in form, as shown, leaving one end
free, and attaching the other to the stopper.
A small hook may be employed to draw the stopper up
into the neck, the top of the spring serving as a loop to receive the
hook. The stopper, however,
may be drawn up by grasping the spring with the fingers.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim as
new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is –
A bottle-stopper consisting of the plug
B, provided on its upper face
with the continuous flexible wire
C, rigidly attached thereto at one end, and bent to approximate the
figure 8 in form, the other end of said wire being bent back to a point
near the end attached to the plug, and the end so bent back being left
free or loose, in combination with a bottle having a neck somewhat
narrower, interiorly, than the said bent part or extension of the
stopper, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set
forth.
CHARLES G. HUTCHINSON.
Witnesses: F. F. Warner,
Chas. H. Schoff.
Comments:
Charles G. Hutchinson’s five bottle-stopper patents
are included in their entirety to serve as reference sources for
tracking their design evolution.
Also see:
U.S. Patent Number: 285,488 Patented: September 25, 1883