Improved Gummed Label for Indicating on Bottles of Medicine and Food the Time to Repeat the Dose.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Gummed Label for Indicating on Bottles of Medicine and
Food the Time to Repeat the Dose.
We, THOMAS BODEN MERRY, of 3, Chapman's Buildings, Cardwell Street, in
the City of Adelaide and Province of South Australia, Painter, and EDWARD
BENJAMIN OVERBURY, of Dixon Street, Clarence Park, in the Province of South
Australia, Merchant's Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for
Improved gummed label for indicating on bottles of medicine and food the time
to repeat the dose" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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It is well known that various methods have been tried for assuring the
administration of medicines and foods at correct and regular times. These
methods may be classified as first memoranda made with a pen or pencil second
scale of times with sliding pointer third detached clock faces with rotatable
hands. These methods are subject to serious disadvantages all of which by our
invention are entirely overcome in as much as it involves practically no expense
is an attachment to the bottle and is operated by the finger needing no expensive
clock face and no pen or pencil.
Our invention consists in an improved method and means for incorporating
a clock face and hands with the gummed label placed upon the bottle so that at
a very nominal expense every bottle of medicine can have the dose indicator
gummed thereon.
In carrying out our invention we provide a specially devised label having a
clock face printed thereon and a hole formed in the centre thereof through
and by means of which rotatable hands are pivotted. The label is gummed at
the back round the outer edge and by moistening is attached to the bottle. A
space is provided round the exterior of the clock face upon which suitable ad-
vertisements are printed and the like may also be printed on the space within
the figures.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood we will now describe and
ascertain the same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which,-
Figure 1 is a front view showing our label gummed upon a bottle.
Figure 2 is a section showing the method of attaching the hands over the
clock face.
In the drawing A represents our specially devised label with the clock face
and advertisements printed thereon. In the centre of the clock face is a hole
through which the pivot or axis (preferably formed of a hollow rivet) B is
inserted. C is the hour hand and D the minute hand which turn upon the pivot B.
The clock face is printed of the size desired upon ordinary paper. The hands
are formed of stiff material such as thin card or metal with holes to take the
expanding clip or pivot fastener. The hands are placed upon the clip or fastener
which is then placed in the centre hole of the label expanded and clamped thus
forming a rotatable pivot attachment for the hands.
After a dose of medicine or food has been administered the hands C and D

page_text: or one of them are adjusted forward to indicate the hour and minute at which
the next dose should be given.
The attachment of this invention to the bottle also serves the additional
useful purpose of distinguishing medicine for internal from lotion for outward
application.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
:-
1. The improved method of indicating on bottles of medicine the time to
repeat the dose by gumming thereto a label having thereon a clock face and
rotatable hands and after the administration of every dose moving such hands
forward to positions which indicate the hour and minute when the next dose
should be administered substantially as described.
2. The means of indicating on bottles of medicine the time to repeat the dose
consisting in a paper clock face gummed to the bottle with a central hole and
rotatable hands pivotally secured thereon capable of being moved forward after
the administration of every dose to positions which indicate the hour and minute
when the next dose should be administered substantially as described.
3. The combination of a label having a clock face printed thereon an hour hand
and a minute hand of stiff material such as card and means such as an expanding
clip or rivet of attaching the hands rotatably on the gummed label substantially
as described.
Doted thi 00th day of Santambor 1900