Improvement in Bottles and other Receptacles for Measuring Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 9th Oct., 1897
Improvement in Bottles and other Receptacles for Measuring
Liquids.
We GENERAL SIR WILBRAHAM OATES LENNOX, K.C.B., of East Pallant House,
Chichester, in the County of Sussex, and GERALD WILBRAHAM STUART LENNOX,
of 39 Baker Street, in the County of London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to so mark bottles and other receptacles that
the amount of liquid poured from them will be indicated whilst they are still
held in the position for pouring, thus obviating the necessity of bringing them
into an upright position to ascertain this, as has heretofore generally been
necessary.
For this purpose we mark the bottle, or other receptacle with lines, ridges, or the
like so arranged that each will coincide with the surface of the liquid remaining
in said bottle or receptacle whilst still held in its inclined position when the
quantity of liquid indicated by said line or the like has been poured out.
The lines, ridges, or the like, will thus radiate from. a common point situated on
a line coincident with the axis of the outlet from the bottle, or other receptacle
where this is circular, and the distance between each pair will vary according to
the shape of said bottle or other receptacle and the quantities of liquid into which
its contents are intended to be divided.
1000
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Bottles and other Receptacles for Measuring
Liquids.
We, JOHN MAITLAND LENNOX of 49 Claverton Terrace, St. George's Road,
GERALD WILBRAHAM STUART LENNOX of 39 Baker Street, both in the County of
London, AMYOT MAITLAND AUGUSTUS LENNOX, Royal Artillery, Weymouth,
Executors of the late General Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox, K.C.B., of East l'allant
House, Chichester in the County of Sussex, and GERALD WILBRAHAM STUART
LENNOX, late of 39 Baker Street, in the County of London, but now of The
Bungalow, Chertsey Bridge, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby
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page_text: 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 has for its object to so mark bottles and other receptacles that
the amount of liquid poured from them will be indicated whilst they are still
held in the position for pouring, thus obviating the necessity of bringing them
into an upright position to ascertain this, as has heretofore generally been
necessary.
For this purpose we mark the bottle, or other receptacle with lines, ridges, or the
like, so arranged that each will coincide with the surface of the liquid remaining
in said bottle or receptacle whilst still held in its inclined position when the
quantity of liquid indicated by said line or the like has been poured out.
The accompanying drawing illustrates a bottle of ordinary construction for
containing liquid medicine a having a number of lines b, c, d, e, f, g, raised or
otherwise marked thereon, dividing the said bottle according to our invention,
into seven divisions, each one of which contains a dose of medicine. When it is
required to pour the first dose from, the bottle, the contents thereof are poured out
by tilting or inclining the battle in the usual way, until the free surface of the
liquid coincides with the line b, the required dose being thus immediately
indicated; for the second dose, the liquid is poured out until the free surface of the
liquid coincides with the line c, and so on, with each dose, until the bottle is empty.
It is obvious that the exact position of the indicating lines, ridges, or the like,
will vary with the shape or configuration of the bottle or other liquid-containing
vessel, and also according to the quantities of the liquid into which the contents of
such vessel are to be divided.
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:
(1) The method of dividing bottles or liquid-containing vessels into any given
number of equal or unequal divisions by means of lines, ridges, or the like,
marked thereon, the said lines, ridges, or the like being so arranged
that each one will coincide with the surface of the liquid remaining in
the said bottle or receptacle whilst still held in its inclined position when the
quantity of liquid indicated by such line or the like has been poured out,
substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
(2) Bottles or liquid-containing vessels having lines, ridges, or the like marked
thereon, so as to divide the said vessel into any required number of equal or other
required divisions, the said lines, ridges, or the like, being so arranged that each
one will coincide with the surface of the liquid remaining in the said bottle or
receptacle whilst still held in its inclined position, when the quantity of liquid
indicated by such line or the like has been poured out, substantially as herein
described.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.