IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR DISTINCTIVELY COLOURING THE MOUTHS NECKS OR OTHER PARTS OF COMMON GLASS BOTTLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I DAN RYLANDS of Hope Glass Works, Stairfoot near Barnsley in the County
of York, Glass Bottle Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR DISTINCTIVELY COLOURING THE
MOUTHS NECKS OR OTHER PARTS OF COMMON GLASS BOTTLES to be as follows :—
In a variety of instances it would be of advantage to Mineral Water Manufac-
turers and other users of common glass bottles to have a circular band or other
suitably shaped mark, of a distinctive color from the remainder of the bottle, in
any suitable part of the bottle such as the mouth or neck.
My present invention is for marking on the mouths, necks, or other suitable
part of the bottles a ring or band of a totally distinct or different colour to the
remaining portion of the bottle.
To accomplish this I have specially prepared mixtures of colouring material
which will vary somewhat in their constituent parts according to the specially
distinctive color that it may be desired to mark on the bottle. Where it is more
suitable so to do the colouring material may be passed through a similar operation
or process to that adopted in earthenware or pottery printing and so worked upon
strips of paper or other substance that these strips need only be passed round or
attached to the necks or other parts of the bottles immediately such bottles have
in the process of manufacture been finished ready for sending into the annealing
arch.
Where it is preferred to use this plan any suitable mechanical appliance may be
arranged for more rapidly and efficiently attaching the strips of prepared paper to
the portion of bottle required to be distinctively coloured or the prepared paper
may be in any suitable form besides strips-In other instances however the
colouring matter may be so mixed as to impart the required distinctive colour by
bringing the portion of the bottle required to be coloured in contact with this
mixture whilst the bottle is in the red hot state and before it is passed into the
annealing arch.
It will be distinctly understood that my present invention does not relate to
any special mixture of ingredients for obtaining any special colour but only to the
improvement in the means employed for applying such ingredients to the mouths
necks or other parts of the bottles.
Dated this Thuentufourth day of Dataka- 100A

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, DAN RYLANDS, of Hope Glass Works, Stairfoot near Barnsley, in the County
of York Glass Bottle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR DISTINCTIVELY COLOURING THE MOUTHS, NECKS,
OR OTHER PARTS OF COMMON GLASS BOTTLES and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:- -
In a variety of instances it would be of advantage to Mineral Water Manufac-
turers and other users of common glass bottles, to have a circular band or other
suitably shaped mark of a distinctive colour, from the remainder of the bottle in
any suitable part of the bottle, such as the mouth or neck.
My present invention is for marking on the mouths, necks, or other suitable
part of the bottles, a ring or band of a totally distinct or different colour to the
remaining portion of the bottle. To accomplish this I have specially prepared
mixtures of colouring material which will vary somewhat in the constituent parts
according to the special distinctive colour that it may be desired to mark on the
bottles. Where it is more suitable so to do the colouring material may be passed
through a similar operation or process to that adopted in earthenware or pottery
painting and so worked upon strips of paper or other substance that these strips
need only be passed round or attached to the necks or other parts of the bottles
immediately such bottles have, in the process of manufacture, been finished ready
for sending into the annealing arch.
Where it is preferred to use this plan any suitable mechanical appliance may
be arranged for more rapidly and efficiently attaching the strips of prepared paper
to the portion of bottle required to be distinctively coloured, or the prepared paper
may be in any suitable form besides strips.
In other instances however the colouring matter may be so mixed as to impart
the required distinctive colour by bringing the portion of the bottle required to
be coloured in contact with this mixture whilst the bottle is in a red-hot state
and before it is passed into annealing arch. It will be distinctly understood that
my present invention does not relate to any special mixture or ingredients for
obtaining any special colour but only to the improvement in the means employed
for applying such ingredients to the mouths necks or other parts of the bottles.
In order to make my invention well understood I will proceed to more fully
describe the same.
The invention relates to.. useful means in colouring any particular part or parts
of common glass bottles with a totally distinct and different colour or colours to
the remainder of such bottles. To accomplish this I have prepared special mixtures
of colouring material composed of metallic oxides or minerals in varying pro-
portions according to the colour desired, this colouring material may be applied to
the particular part of the bottle, which requires to be distinctively coloured, by
means of a process analogous to that used in ceramic art, that is to say strips or
pieces of paper or other substance, with the necessary quantity of colouring
mixture attached thereto, are placed on or around any portion or portions of the
bottles immediately such bottles have, during the process of manufacture, been
finished and ready for placing in the annealing arch. As an illustration of this

page_text: part of my invention, suppose it be required to make the mouth of a common glass
bottle of a different colour to the remainder of the bottle, the operation would be
as follows: after the bottle has been blown and subsequently finished in the
ordinary manner, I immediately (during the time the bottle is in a heated or red-
hot condition) attach or place around the mouth thereof a strip or piece of paper of
any suitable shape, having the hereinbefore mentioned colouring material attached
to said strip; in order to place this strip dexterously and rapidly on said bottle a
suitable mechanical appliance may be used. After said strip has been attached to
mouth of bottle, the bottle is placed in the annealing kiln and heated to a suitable
temperature, by which means the strip of paper or other substance is burnt away,
and the glaze or colouring mixture forms a flux and -entirely fuses, and becomes
incorporate with and penetrates the substance of the glass at the place where it
has been applied namely the mouth of bottle, and thus the said mouth partakes of
a totally distinctive and different colour to the remainder of the bottle.
In other instances the metallic oxides and mineral mixtures which compose the
colouring material may be placed in a suitable position and the portions of the
bottles to be distinctively coloured brought in contact with this mixture during
the time the bottles are in a red-hot condition and before said bottles are placed in
the annealing kiln, in this instance the portion of bottle which has come in contact
with the colouring material will take up a requisite quantity thereof, and when
said bottle has been placed in annealing kiln and heated to a suitable degree, the
colouring material will permeate the substance of glass where it has been applied
and promote combination thus producing the required permanent colour on the bottle.
I am well aware of the ancient system of glass-staining and painting, which is
somewhat similar to the process herein described, but my present invention is
more applicable to common glass bottles and what I require to be distinctly
understood as new in the process is in applying the colouring material to the part
or parts of bottles in manner herein before described, before said colouring material
has been fused, and during the time the bottles are in a heated or red-hot condition,
and before they have been placed in annealing arch.
I would have it well understood that my invention does not relate to any.
ingredients used as colouring material, or the special affinity or mixture of such
ingredients, or to any special colour whatsoever, but my invention does relate
solely to the improvement in means employed for applying such colouring material
to the mouths, necks, or other parts of the bottles, so as to placo any suitable design
and colour thereon substantially as herein before described.
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
1. The applying of special colouring material to any part or parts of common
glass bottles by means of strips or pieces of paper or other substance having the
colouring material adhered thereto, during the time the said bottles are in a heated
or red-hot condition, and before such bottles are placed in the annealing arch,
substantially as described.
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2. The applying of special colouring material to any part or parts of common
glass bottles by means of causing said bottles to come in contact with the special
colouring material at the particular place or places on said bottles where it is
required to place a distinctive colour, during the time the said bottles are in a red-
hot state and before they are placed in annealing kiln; substantially as set forth.
Dated this 18th dow of Tul. 1992