5 Matthews gravitational glass stoppers

[RED Matthews]

Hi you all, Well I escaped the big knife and saw, so far. The surgery was done today and I still have my toe. I have to take six weeks of IV antibiotics every day. If it heals, I can keep it. X-fingers and pray! Thanks for them - I feel they have to have helped. RED M

 

[blobbottlebob]

Congrats Red on one hurtle! Prayers, hopes, and best wishes that all turns out well.

 

[sweetrelease]

sorry bob i should have emailed you on this before i posted .not tring to jump your post ,but i will get my wife to scan and post the pics of the ads and so on. seems to me the stopper's are the same ,but than again what do i know[]~matt oh yea glad everything went well RED ,good luck!!

 

[capsoda]

Great Red. Hope all keeps going your way.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Sweetrelease. I'm glad that you jumped into the discussion. Don't worry about a thing. I'm also curious as to what those stoppers are. There was a lot of competition out there to invent and sell the perfect closure. Somebody on this forum probably knows the number, but there were thousands of patents used on bottle closures. Some companies (like the Hutchinson patented stopper co) tried vigorously to defend its patents against look-a-likes.

Maybe you could take a digital picture of the page and post that? I don't know much about scanning but a magazine would seem harder to scan unless you cut it up?

 

[sweetrelease]

here you go bob. the pics are bad but you can read some of it. notice the one pic of the stopper in the bottle ,looks just like the matthews stopper ~matt

 

[sweetrelease]

sorry about all the post ,it won't let me copy and paste[] . this is the picture of the stopper in the tucker bottle.

 

[sweetrelease]

more!

 

[sweetrelease]

you can almost read it [:-]

 

[blobbottlebob]

Pretty cool! Is there a patent date? Matthews is Oct. 11, 1864. I've never seen a bottle that displayed this type of closure (at least around here). You're right, though. It is very very similar to the Matthews stopper. Some differences that I can see after a quick look. One - the bottle has very strong shoulders like a hutch. The Matthews bottles have this 'transitional' torpedo sloping shoulder. It allowed for the stopper to sink down (if I understand this correctly) when the bottle was held upside-down. That is, the stopper - which was inside the bottle - would not get hung up on the shoulders of the bottle on the inside because they curved towards the opening. Two- the rubber gasket looks much smaller. The Matthews seal is like a little black rubber hat with a large brim around it. The seal on this Roorbach one looks like a ring of rubber that only fits around the neck of the stopper. Interesting stuff!