AN IMPROVED CAP OR COVER TO BE APPLIED FOR SECURING AND LABELLING BOTTLES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John McGlashan, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CAP OR COVER
TO BE APPLIED FOR SECURING AND LABELLING BOTTLES
"
Sealed the 4th June 1867, and dated the 7th December 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John McGlashan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th December 1866.
I, JOHN MCGLASHAN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "AN IMPROVED CAP OR
COVER TO BE APPLIED FOR SECURING AND LABELLING BOTTLES," to be as follows,
that is to say-
This Invention has for its essential object the doing away with or avoiding
the necessity of performing several operations at present practised in con-
nection with the bottling of aerated waters or liquids, whereby a great saving
in the time employed and cost incurred for conducting such operations is
reduced, and in part altogether avoided.
The Invention then consists in applying [to the outer ends of the corks of
bottles containing the aerated liquids metallic caps or covers on which grooves
are formed for the passage or reception of the wire by which the corks are
held. It is also intended to insert the name of the manufacturers, together
with the quality of the liquid contained in the bottles, on the metallic cap or

page_text: cover. By stamping these labels in dies or matrices suitably formed they
can be produced to combine the two functions of a label and a preserver for
the head of the cork at a much cheaper rate than at present, and the
necessity for using paper labels adhering to the bottles is avoided, as well as
the time required for pasting on the labels, and for taking them off when the
bottles are washed, and the cost of paper and printing. The caps are punched,
by preference, from scrap tin, although they may be made of other suitable
material.
As constituting this Invention it is intended to claim the combination of a
cap or cover for preserving the head of the cork, together with a label, avoiding
the necessity for using a paper label and possessing the other advantages
herein-before specified.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John McGlashan in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MCGLASHAN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
M'Glashan, Her special license that I, the said John M'Glashan, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John McGlashan, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED CAP OR COVER TO
BE APPLIED FOR SECURING AND LABELLING BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John McGlashan, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent,

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John McGlashan do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
...
My said Invention has for its essential object the doing away with or
avoiding the necessity of performing several operations at present practised in
connection with the bottling of aerated waters or other liquids or substances,
whereby a great saving in the time employed and cost incurred for conducting
such operations is reduced, and in part altogether avoided.
The Invention then consists in applying to the outer ends of the corks of
bottles containing the aerated liquid metallic caps or labels on which grooves
are formed for the passage or reception of the wire by which the corks are
held. It is also intended to insert the name of the manufacturer, together
with the quality of the liquid contained in the bottles, on the metallic cap or
cover. By stamping these labels in dies or matrices suitably formed they
can be produced to combine the two functions of a label and a preserver for
the head of the cork at a very much cheaper rate than these objects are at
present effected, and the necessity for using paper labels adhering to the
bottles is avoided, as well as the time required for pasting on the labels, for
taking them off when the bottles are washed, and the cost of paper and
printing. The caps are produced by preference from tin, although they may
be made of other suitable material, and may also be lacquered or varnished
with any colour desired.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I now
proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner under
which the same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, reference
being had for the sake of more complete elucidation to the two Figures
upon the explanatory Sheet of Drawings which I have hereunto appended,
that is to say:-
Figure 1 is a plan of the combined cap and label constructed in accordance
with this Invention; Figure 2 being a transverse section of the same.
The central part of the cap, marked a, situated between the two gutters is
that on which the manufacturer's or seller's name and address may be placed,.
whilst the two outer blank spaces, marked b and c, are those on which the
name, or number, or quality of the liquid contained in the bottle is placed ;
or those arrangements may be reversed, putting the manufacturer's or seller's
name on the exterior spaces, and the number, name, or quality of the liquid
contained in the bottle in the interior space.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be used or. practically carried into effect, I would
observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore
claim as the Invention secured to me. by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the use and application of a cap or cover in which the
purpose of a cap or cover for preserving the corks of bottles together with
that of a label are combined, producing the economy and advantages as herein;
before described..
In witness whereof, I, the said John McGlashan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven..