Improvements in or applicable to Bottles, Jars, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
CODI LEIE DI MOLTIVATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Bottles, Jars, and the like.
I, RICHARD CHARLES BAKER, of 110-112, Southwark Street, London,.
Manufacturer, 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 improvements in or applicable to bottles, jars and
other analogous containers of liquids, (such containers being hereinafter referred
to and intended to be comprehended under the general designation of "bottles").
and is applicable to bottles made of earthenware, glass, papier-maché, metal or
any other substance or material suitable to or ordinarily employed in such
manufacture.
The object of the invention is to arrest and prevent the drip or drips left on the
spout, nozzle or mouth of a bottle, after a portion or portions of the contents of
the latter has or have been poured out, from flowing to and down the sides of the
bottle, so as to keep that part of the bottle upon which labels descriptive of
the contents thereof are ordinarily applied or by which the bottle would be
handled in an ordinary manner, from being soiled and made unclean by the-
flowing thereover of the drip of the liquid contents of the bottle.
To attain such object, the bottle is constructed with a drip-retaining-recess a,
around it, (vide the accompanying drawings) at any convenient part between the
spout, nozzle or mouth of the bottle and the shoulder thereof or where the neck
joins the sides or expands into the body part of the bottle.
The recess a, may be of any conveniently made shape adapted to arrest and
retain the drip as it descends, and it may be made in and integral with the
substance of which the bottle is made (vide Figs. 1, and 2, of the drawings), or
by a separate surrounding part applied to the bottle while being or when
formed (vide Figs. 3. to 5), depending upon the substance or material of which
the bottle is formed. For instance, if the bottle be formed of glass, the recess a,.
may be moulded or formed by suitable tools while the metal is sufficiently plastic,
or the recessed bottle may be spun in suitably shaped or adapted moulds. If the
bottle be formed of earthenware, the recess a, may be turned by a suitable profile
while the bottle is being shaped or formed on a jigger.
The recess may be made in the substance of the bottle by channelling the
same externally, (Fig. 2.) or by raising an annular ridge or rim by continuing the
sides of the bottle above the level of the shoulder thereof, (Fig. 1.) so as to form
an annular recess a, the top edge of which may or may not be incurved (Fig. 3)..
The like result may be obtained in a metal bottle (Fig. 4) by forming the neck
and sides of the bottle in separate parts b. c., slightly flaring the top part of the
sides and recessing a flanged part 6 of the neck into the flared top of the sides,.
and soldering, brazing or otherwise suitably securing the parts together, or by a
flanged part 6 made fast to the neck, Fig. 5. The same may be done in.
earthenware bottles, by cementing the parts together.
Or, a seating c¹ of any other convenient form may be made in the substance of
or at the shoulder of the bottle (Fig. 3) adapted for connection with a separate-
annular flanged conical, cylindrical or other shaped piece 6, serving to form a
drip-retaining recess a, when applied and soldered, brazed, cemented or otherwise
suitably secured to the bottle.
It is advisable, in all cases, to avoid making any projection into the interior of
the bottle which would prevent the free and entire outflow of the liquid contents.

page_text: of the bottle, or beyond the sides or normal widest part of the bottle which would
require more room for the storage of the bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein before described improved means and several ways of attaining the
stated object of the invention.
Dated this 28th day of March 1896.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.