Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles and other Receptacles, by which such Stoppers are applicable to Measuring Liquids or Powders.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov.,
1895
Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles and other Receptacles, by
which such Stoppers are applicable to Measuring Liquids or
Powders.
We, WALTER BEACALL BISHOP, and ALFRED BISHOP, both of Specks
Fields, 48 Spelman. Street, Mile End New Town, in the County, of Middlesex,
Manufacturing, Chemists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates more especially to the stoppers of ordinary glass or other
bottles, such as medicine bottles, or bottles the contents of which are used in
measured or prescribed quantities
We provide, such bottles with stoppers of any suitable material, preferably glass,
which are fitted into the mouth of, the bottles in the usual way, either with the
intervention of a ring of cork or other soft substance, or by grinding or other
means.
It has been usual heretofore, in some cases, to fit an inverted wooden cup which
may be of determined capacity, over the stopper and neck of such bottles, the cup
being removed when required and used as a measure, to receive the required
quantity of the contents of the bottle after the stopper has been withdrawn. By
our present invention we make, the stopper itself constitute the measure, but
without making it unduly prominent or unsightly.
For this purpose, assuming that our invention is to be applied to a glass stopper
baving a somewhat tapered plug fitting into a cork or rubber ring fitted in the neck
of the bottle, and having an upper flange by which the stopper can be readily
removed and replaced, we make the plug. of the stopper, hollow, that is to say,
having a recess or depression in its upper side, of sufficient size to contain the
requisite quantity of the contents of the bottle, whether liquid or powder, which
it is desired to withdraw. The recess described is preferably narrower at its lower
end and at its upper part may be increased in diameter so as to extend partly. into
the flange at the upper end of the stopper. Or, the, recess, may. be contained in
such upper, end, only. The stopper, cau be marked at the side to indicates any
smaller,dose or prescribed quantity.
For measuring liquids or powders of strong odour: or of unusual. delicacy,
especially where wide-mouthed bottles are used; the. recess may be made in the
lower side of the stopper instead oft in the top, so that it is inverted and its mouth
contained in the bottle when the stopper is in its place in the latter..
It is evident that by this means the required quantity of the contents of the
bottle can be readily poured into the recess in the stopper, after the latter has been
removed from the bottle, and can be used as may be desired, the stopper.being then
replaced, whilst. there is no possibility of the measure being mislaid, (as may be
the case if it is separate from the stopper), and at the same time it does not
protrude in an unsightly or inconvenient way.
Our invention is applicable to every kind of, bottles vases, jugs, decanters, tins
or other receptacles.
The stopper, of which the measure forms a part as described, may be made of
glass, earthenware, metal, wood, papier maché, vulcanite or other suitable material,
and of any desired size or shape, according to the particular purpose to which it

page_text: is intended to be applied. The combination of the measuring device with the
stopper is very simple and effective, and does not add to the cost or interfere with
the efficiency of the stopper.
Dated this 30th day of January 1895.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, Loudon, Agents for the Applicants.
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CODEBELE SI MOITIUATION.
Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles and other Receptacles, by
which such Stoppers are applicable to Measuring Liquids or
Powders.
We, WALTER BEACALL BISHOP, aud" ALFRED BISHOP, 'both of Specks
Fields, 48, Spelman Street, Mile End New Town, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturing Chemists, 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, and accompanying drawing, that is
to say :-
Our invention relates more especially to the stoppers of ordinary glass or other
bottles, such as medicine bottles, or bottles the contents of which are used in
'measured or prescribed quantities.
.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of our invention.
We provide bottles a, Figure 1, of the kinds described with stoppers 6 of any
suitable material, preferably glass, which are fitted into the mouths of the bottles
in the usual way, either with the intervention of a ring of cork or other soft
substance c, or by grinding or other means.
It has been usual heretofore, in some cases, to fit an inverted wooden cup which
may be of determined capacity, over the stopper and neck of such bottles, the
cup being removed when required and used as a measure, to receive the required
quantity of the contents of the bottle after the stopper has been withdrawn. By
our present invention we make the stopper itself 6 (shewn separately in section in
Figure 2, and in side view in Figure 3) constitute the measure but without making
it unduly prominent or unsightly.
For this purpose, assuming that our invention is to be applied to a glass stopper
having a somewhat tapered plug d fitting into a cork or rubber ring fitted in the
eck of the bottle, and having an upper flange e by which the stopper can be
readily removed and replaced, we make the plug d of the stopper hollow, that is
to say, having a recess or depression. in its upper side, of sufficient size to contain
the requisite quantity of the contents of the bottle, whether liquid or' powder,
which it is desired to withdraw. The recess f described is preferably narrower at
its lower end, and at its upper part may be increased in diameter so as to extend
partly into the flange at the upper end of the stopper. Or, the recess niay be
contained in such upper end only. The stopper can be marked at the side to
indicate any smaller dose or prescribed quantity.
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For measuring liquids or powders of strong odour or of unusual delicacy,
especially where wide-mouthed bottles are used, the recess may be made in the
lower side of the stopper (as shewn in Figure 4) instead of in the top, so that it
is inverted and its mouth contained in the bottle when the stopper is in its place in
the latter.
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It is evident that by this means the required quantity of the contents of the
bottle can be readily poured into the recess in the stopper, after the latter has been
removed from the bottle, and can be used as may be desired, the stopper being
then replaced, whilst there is no possibility of the measure being mislaid, (as may

page_text: be the case if it is separate from the stopper), and at the same time it does not
protrude in an unsightly or inconvenient way.
Our invention is applicable to every kind of bottles, vases, jugs, decanters, tins,
or other receptacles.
The stopper, of which the measure forms a part as described, may be made of
glass, earthenware, metal, wood, papier maché, vulcanite, or other suitable material,
and of any desired size or shape, according to the particular purpose to which it
is intended to be applied. The combination of the measuring device with the
stopper is very simple and effective, and does not add to the cost or interfere with
the efficiency of the stopper.
We do not confine ourselves to the exact details or proportions of the stoppers,
which may be varied more or less according to the material of which they are
made, and the purpose to which they are to be applied,―but
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 :-
The improved stopper for bottles and other receptacles, consisting of the
combination with the stopper itself of a recess in it adapted to receive a determined
quantity of the contents of the bottle or other receptacle, substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated this
day of October 1895.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.