Note 178 — Chapter VII · New Process for the Manufacture of Beer.

[The bottling needle (foret â aiguille) is a contrivance for permitting a cork to be driven into a bottle completely filled with liquid, without bursting the bottle. It consists of a slightly-tapering iron pin about 1/8th inch in diameter and 2 inches in length, somewhat flattened, and slightly curved throughout its entire length, with a groove running down one side from end to end, the pin being jointed with a ring, like a common ring cork-screw. In using it the pin is driven into the bottle alongside the cork, thus allowing the excess of liquid to escape as the cork advances. When the cork is completely home, the needle is withdrawn, and the elasticity of the cork enables it to fill up the space left, so that we have the bottle corked air-tight, and no air left between the cork and liquid.—D. C. R.]