A New or Improved Guard for use in connection with Poison Bottles and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 20th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Guard for use in connection with Poison Bottles
and the like.
I, MAURICE FARIALL, of 18, Market Place, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire,
Gentleman, 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:
This invention relates to a new or improved guard for use in connection with
poison bottles and the like, the object being to provide a simple device capable
of being readily applied to bottles of various kinds that are designed to contain
poison, the arrangement of the guard upon such bottles being intended to draw
attention to the nature of their contents, and it further prevents the cork or stopper
being removed until the said guard has been operated in a certain manner,
while after the bottle has been used, the guard automatically replaces itself in the
required position.
In order that this invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the guard as applied to a bottle, Fig. 2 showing the
position into which the guard is turned to allow of the cork or stopper being
removed.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the guard and
Fig. 4 is a plan of the said guard.
This improved guard for use in connection with poison bottles and the like
consists of a suitably curved plate a, the lower end of which is weighted as at 6 for
the purpose of normally retaining the guard in the position shown (Fig. 1).
The upper end at of the plate a is bent over as shown, so as to cover the cork or
stopper of the bottle when in the normal position, and is furnished with an
extension upon each side. A forward extension of the plate a is bent back so
as to form a loop c to allow of the guard being readily connected to the bottle
during transit. The curved plate a is provided with a longitudinal tapering slots,
to allow of the guard being slipped over the neck of the bottle, while a projecting
spring tongue is also formed out of the substance of the plate a, the object of
which is to prevent the ready removal of the device, by coming against the ring or
flange of the neck of the bottle.
In the normal position as shown in Fig. 1 the top plate a and the side
extensions b¹ cover the cork or stopper, while when it is required to remove the
latter, it is only necessary to turn the guard into the position shown at Fig. 2, when
the cork or stopper can be readily removed, while as soon as the guard is released
the weighted extremity 6 automatically restores it to the position shown at Fig. 1 so
as to cover the cork or stopper of the bottle.
The extremity may be weighted in any convenient and suitable manner, but
preferably by bending the end of the plate a around a bar or core of suitable heavy
material, such for instance as lead.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1/. The new or improved guard for use in connection with poison bottles and the
like, comprising a curved plate such as a weighted at its lower extremity 6 and
furnished with a longitudinal tapering slots; turned over upper part at having
side extensions b₁, a loop such as c and a projecting spring tongue such as g, the
whole arranged and operating substantially as herein described and shown with
reference to the accompanying drawings, and for the purposes specified.
2. In a guard for poison bottles and the like, the automatic replacement of same
by means of a weighted part or extremity, substantially in the manner set forth and
for the purposes specified.
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.