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412 I-BDIiBAIi BEPOBTëB. �tached in any mànnerto the upper end of Buch stopper. The body of the bail is preferably staple shaped, being made of two legs or branches whieh bow outwards so as to form springs which bear against the'sides of the throat of the bottle. "The upper part of the bail forms a loop larger in diameter than the interior of the bottle neck, whieh loop serves as a con- venient handle for the operation of the stopper, and also pre- vents the entire device from slipping into the bottle." The re-issued patentincludes a bail rigidly fastened to the stopper, and a bail hinged or jointed to the top of the stopper. The claims are as follows : �"First. The combination of an internai bottle stopper with an upwardly projecting bail, C, said bail having an enlarge- ment, F, which is adapted to suspend the stopper from the mouth of the bottle, and a handle portion above said enlarge- ment, substantially as herein shown and described. �"Second. The combination of an internai bottle stopper with a bail, C, which is constructed to form springs, aa, above the stopper, substantially as herein shown and described. �" Third. The combination of an internai bottle stopper with a bail. G, forming the springs, a, and the enlargement, F, above said springs, substantially as herein shown and described. �"Fourth. The internai bottle stopper, provide d with a hinged or jointed bail, C, which is composed of two elastic legs or branches, a, and of an eye or finger loop, substantially as herein shown and described." �The defendant's stopper is made under re-issued lettera patent of June 17, 1879, to Charles G. Hutchinson, the orig- inal patent having been dated April 8, 1879. The Miller patent was bought by the plaintiff in Ootober, 1879, and waa thereafter re-issued. �The defendant's device consists, in substance, as stated in the specification of the re-issue, "of a laterally or outwardly- yielding spring applied to the stopper or plug proper, and adapted to extend up through, and press against, the interior ôf the neck of the bottle, so that the stopper will thereby be euspended in a position to either close or open the neck as the spring is moved either up or down, and be held in either ����