IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES AND FLASKS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO JARS AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Briscoe Hawes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th May 1869.
I, ARTHUR BRISCOE HAWES, of the India Office, Whitehall, in the
City of Westminster, Captain, Retired Half-pay, Bengal Army, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES
AND FLASKS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO JARS AND OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is so to arrange the cap or stopper of a
bottle that the latter may with ease be opened or shut for the purpose
of filling and emptying, and, when applied to drinking purposes, at the
same time give facility for drinking or pouring out of the bottle without
removing the cap.
The nature of my Invention consists in the following:-The cap or
stopper has two or more grooves, more or less deviating from a hori-
zontal line formed circumferentially near the neck; each of the grooves
is at its lowest point cut right through to the edge of the cap, forming a
notch in the same; in each of the grooves fits a corresponding stud or
projection fastened to or in one with the neck of the bottle, each stud

page_text: and groove together forming a joint somewhat similar to a so-called
bayonet joint. The grooves may in some cases have slight notches or
indentations in their lower edge for the studs to rest securely in. Instead
of the above arrangement the grooves may be formed in part of the
neck of the bottle, and the studs in the cap. The cap, as will be
understood, must be turned one way or the other, for part of its circum-
ference when it is desired to take the cap off, or to put the same on; to
ensure this and at the same time to prevent the cap from being lost or
damaged, the cap and the neck are loosely joined together by a chain
or a chain link, or an S hook or other suitable means of connection, and
they are also provided with staples, or buttons, or eyes, or other suitable
means of attachment for the said chain or link.
When my Invention is applied to bottles or flasks for drinking
purposes, (tourists bottles) the cap is formed with an upper part, the
nipple freely turning in the lower or stopper part which fits the neck of
the bottle, but the two are at the same time securely connected together
by suitable means, such as the nipple having a central pivot, which
fits into a circular socket formed in the stopper, and the two held
together by a washer and a screw tapped into the pivot, or one may
have a groove cut in its circumference and the other have a correspon-
ding overlapping lip or flange fitting into said groove; in any case the
joint between them is tightened up by means of some screwed part of
one and the other, and one or more stops are provided so that the two
can only turn upon each other for a certain part of the circum-
ference. Corresponding with the stop arrangement are two holes that
pass through the nipple and the stopper, firstly, the drinking hole which
from the mouth of the nipple passes down to a point some distance from
the centre where the nipple fits on the stopper, and, secondly, the air
hole which at that place is situate opposite the drinking hole, so that
they are either both open or both shut according to the relative position
of nipple and stopper. The air hole passes off sideways through the
nipple. To form a water-tight joint between the stopper and the bottle
one of them is formed with a circular recess or groove and the other
with a corresponding feather or tongue fitting into it, with or without the
intervention of some packing substance. For the purpose of easily:
turning the cap on the bottle the former is provided with a milled
edge or projecting lugs or other suitable means for taking firm hold of
it. In some cases I provide the tourists bottle near the bottom with
two or more eyes, or other projections for attaching another vessel or

page_text: case to the flask for the purpose of carrying solid food in the said case.
Then the bottom of the flask fits into and forms the lid or cover of the case,
and the two are at will firmly connected together at the aforesaid pro-
jections by hooks, or clasps, or similar suitable means.