Improvements in and relating to Cans, Milk-churns, Bottles, Jugs, and other Vessels for Containing Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1896-Accepted, 30th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cans, Milk-churns, Bottles, Jugs,
and other Vessels for Containing Liquids.
We, WALTER MELVILLE of 2 Stanhope Gardens, Green Lanes, Tottenham, in
the County of Middlesex, Builder's Foreman and HERMAN BUDDENBORG of
9 Stanhope Gardens as above Nurseryman do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to improvements in the construction of metallic, stoneware,
and other bottles milk churns beer milk and other cans, and jugs used for con-
taining milk, beer and other liquids, and has for its object, principally, to guard
against fraud the person who may purchase his or her paraffin oil, beer, milk,
vinegar, or other liquid in such vessels, and we attain this by providing in the side
or sides or front or both, and in some cases in the neck of the vessel, a glass or
other transparent panel, upon which are legibly and indeliably marked such
gradations of measure or quantity as the vessel may be constructed to hold, so
that the purchaser may see at a glance if the bottle, can or other vessel contains
the quantity paid for.
Our invention is also particularly useful for chefs, housekeepers, and others for,
culinary purposes, as a means for measuring the quantity of milk or other liquid
taken from the vessel, and for shewing at a glance the quantity remaining therein,
a desideratum for painters and others- using oils, turps, varnish, and the like, in
large quantities, and usually stored in large cans or bottles.
In order that our invention may be fully understood we have hereunto appended
a sheet of drawings, of which :-
Figs. 1 and 2 are two opposite elevations of a metallic can, while Fig. 3 is a like
view of a stoneware bottle constructed according to our invention.
Fig. 4 is a section taken upon the line A B of Figs. 1 and 3.
Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are elevations of a jug, beer-can and milk-can respectively, to
which our improvements have been applied.
In so far as relates to tin or other metal cans or bottles, such as Figs. 1, 2 and 4,
we carry our invention into effect by forming in either or both sides, or the front
or other part of the body of the vessel A, during its manufacture, a vertical
opening, which may extend from the bottom thereof to the shoulder, the edges of
such opening being so constructed as to form slots for the reception of a glass,
mica, or other transparent panel B, as at Fig. 1, which may be fixed liquid tight
therein by pressing down upon this the inner and outer edges of the said slots, or
by the use of suitable cement or both, as shewn by Fig. 4. In the neck of the
vessel A, opposite to the panel B, we form a like opening either parallel or
tapered, into which we fix in the same manner a glass or other transparent panel C,
which may extend from the shoulder to the nose of the bottle as at Fig. 2.
According to the capacity of the vessel A, we provide upon the panels B, and C,
legible and indeliable marks, representing gradations of measure, at the precise part
when the level of any stated quantity of liquid should be, thus showing at a glance the
quantity placed therein, and which also serves to record the quantity subsequently
taken therefrom and remaining therein, and by reason of the transparent panel C,
being opposite to the panel B, a ray of light if permitted to enter the former will
clearly show upon the latter the level of the liquid.

page_text: In Fig. 3 we illustrate our invention as applied to stoneware and like opaque
bottles A¹, in which, during its manufacture, a like opening or openings would be
provided for the reception of a similar panel or panels B or C or both, marked in
like manner, and retained in position by any suitable water, oil or acid-proof
cement.
In Fig. 5 we illustrate the application of our invention to china, stone, or other
jugs D, used for milk, beer, vinegar, or other liquid, purchased and used in given
quantities, this being like the bottle Fig. 3 provided, during its manufacture, with
an opening or openings, at either or both sides, or in the front, for the reception of
a like panel or panels B, marked in degrees of measure in like manner.
In Figs. 6 and 7 we illustrate the application of our invention to tin or other
metal beer cans E, and metallic milk cans F, respectively, in which, during
manufacture openings would be provided for the reception of panels B, and
fixed in position substantially in the same manner as described in relation to
Figs. 1 and 4.
We may find it desirable in order to protect the panels from breakage, to
provide a protecting metal or other plate G, (shewn partly broken away in Fig. 1)
which would be arranged capable of sliding up and down upon the edges of the
opening used for retaining in position the panels B, so that this may be easily
raised for reading the contents of the vessel.
From the foregoing description and by reference to the drawings it will be
easily understood without further illustration, that our invention is equally
applicable in connection with milk churns, metallic oil drums, metallic paraffin
reservoirs for the use of oilmen and other retailers, and indeed any vessel for
holding or containing liquids where the quantity first placed therein, removed
therefrom, or remaining after such removal is desired to be known at a glance,
and in connection with such or other vessels, more or less subjected to rough
treatment, we may employ mica or talk, celluloid, transparent horn or other
unbreakable material in the construction of the panels B and C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
In the manufacture of metallic, stoneware, china and other bottles, and other
vessels, for containing liquids, the use and application thereto, and insertion
therein of glass or other transparent panels, each marked with gradations of liquid
measure, substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.