A Bottle for Containing Poisonous Ingredients and Preventing Poisoning by Misadventure.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1.899
A Bottle for Containing Poisonous Ingredients and Preventing
Poisoning by Misadventure.
ALEXANDER PATERSON, G, Mornington Place, Regent's Park, London, N.W.,
Compositor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In this bottle both the top and bottom are fashioned similarly, like two tops
of an ordinary bottle joined together, but only on one end is there an opening
for a moveable stopper, the other having merely a fixed imitation thereof. On
the moveable stopper end the neck is made to receive a flat cap corresponding in
circumference to that of the bottle, which, when screwed on, changes the appear-
ance of the bottle to that of an ordinary one with one top, on which the fixed
immitation stopper appears. Thus the opening to the bottle is at what appears to
be the bottom, protected by the cap and stopper, and what appears to be the
top has no opening in it whatever. The bottle cannot stand otherwise than top
downwards, and must be reversed and the cap and stopper removed before the
contents are reached, thus betraying at once the dangerous nature of the ingre-
dients therein.
Dated the 11th dow of Vora 1800
A Bottle for Containing Poisonous Ingredients and Preventing
Poisoning by Misadventure.
ALEXANDER PATERSON, 6, Mornington Place, Regent's Park, London, N.W.,
Compositor, 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 new and useful improvements in bottles and similar
receptacles, and has more particular reference to a bottle for containing poisonous
ingredients and preventing poisoning by misadventure, so peculiarly con-
structed as to attract the attention of the user, and warn him of contents harmful
in character and requiring great care in the use thereof.
My invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, in which like reference characters denote
like parts in the several views, and in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a bottle constructed according to my invention;
and.

page_text: Fig. 2 a vertical section thereof.
Referring more particularly to the drawing, I have shown at 5 a bottle body
cylindrical in form provided with a closed top end 6, from which projects an
upwardly directed cylindrical piece 7, which is decreased in size at its upper
end to form a supplemental cylindrical piece 8. The two pieces 7 and 8 simulate
respectively in exterior formation the neck and cork of a bottle.
The bottom end 9 of the bottle 5 is provided with a downwardly directed
hollow neck 10, into which a cork 11 may be inserted, and which forms the true
neck of the bottle.
The exterior of the neck 10 is provided with screw threads as shown at 12,
and I provide a cap 13, which is recessed as at 14, to fit the cork 11 and bottle
neck 10, and threaded correspondingly to the neck 10, and adapted to be
screwed thereon up against the bottle bottom 9.
The bottle is entirely sealed by the cork 11 and supplementally sealed by the
cap 13, and the only method of gaining access to the contents of the bottle is to
unscrew and remove the cap 13 and extract the cork.
In practice, the bottle body 5 is filled with poison or other dangerous sub-
stance, the cork 11 is inserted into the neck 10, and the cap 13 screwed on to
said neck. The bottle is then stood upon the shelf or other support adapted to
contain it, with the cap 13 as its base, and the end 6 upward.
In this position the cylindrical projecting pieces 7 and 8 will appear as the
neck and cork of the bottle, and a person endeavouring to withdraw the contents
from the bottle would naturally struggle to detach the fixed cylindrical piece S,
mistaking it for the cork. This being impossible, his attention would be directed
to the fact that the bottle in hand was of special form, which would cause him to
examine the same, and discover directions for manipulation and a statement
of the contents, which directions and statement might conveniently be printed
of pasted upon the bottle. It would soon be discovered that access to the con-
tents of the bottle lay through the neck 10 and cork 11 after the removal of the
cap 13.
It is evident that should the public mind be educated to associate the idea of
dangerous or obnoxious substances with a bottle of the peculiar form described,
a person handling the same, even in the dark, would at once be put upon his
guard, and poisoning by misadventure thereby prevented.
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:
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1. A receptacle provided with a closed top having a projection formed thereon
and a bottom adapted to receive a cork, substantially as shown and described.
2. A receptacle provided with a closed top having a projecting piece formed
thereon and decreased in size at its outer end, and with a bottom provided with
a neck adapted to receive a cork, and a cap adapted to be fitted against said bottom
and to be fitted about said neck, substantially as shown and described.
3: A bottle provided with a closed top having a cylindrical projecting piece
arranged thereon, and decreased in size at its outer end to form a supplemental
cylindrical projecting piece, said projecting pieces being constructed and
arranged to simulate respectively a bottle neck and a stopper, a bottle neck
arranged upon the bottom of said bottle and adapted to receive a stopper and screw
threaded exteriorly, and a cap recessed to fit said neck and stopper and adapted
to be screwed upon said neck and into engagement with said bottom, substantially
as shown and described.