Year: 1885

page_text: I, JOSEPH DEEKS of 15 Grove Road, Brixton in the County of Surrey Bonded
Carman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the Specification of a former patent granted to Hiram Codd on the
22nd August 1871 No. 2212 was described a bottle closed by a glass ball held by
the pressure within the bottle against an elastic ring held in a groove formed
around the mouth. This bottle was also contracted at the base of the neck on two
opposite sides so that the passage between the neck and the body of the bottle was
brought to an oblong form of less width than the diameter of the ball. The oblong
base of the neck of the bottle was also at each end made to form a hemispherical
recess in which when the ball had been pushed inwards and caused to drop away
from the elastic ring the ball could rest whilst the contents of the bottle were being
poured out.
According to my invention I form the oblong base of the neck with a hemi-
spherical recess for the ball to rest in at one only of its ends so that at the opposite
end there is nothing to prevent the ball rolling back from the base of the neck to
the mouth.
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By forming the bottle in this way it can more readily be closed after being filled
in that class of filling machines in which the bottle is inverted in order to cause the
ball to roll up to the elastic ring at the mouth before withdrawing the bottle from
the nozzle as it would only be necessary to turn the bottle into a position slightly
beyond the horizontal to cause the ball to roll up to the mouth if the side of the
bottle on which there was no hemispherical recess were kept downwards.
The bottle could also be filled with an ordinary filling machine in which no
inversion of the bottle is provided for and when full be taken away from the filling
nozzle as the ball would then be carried upwards by the outward rush of gas from
the liquid in the bottle and would thereby be at once brought up to the elastic
ring.
To facilitate the closing of the bottle in this way the oblong contraction at
the base of the neck might be made somewhat lower at its centre than at its ends
so that the ball when resting above it should come to rest in a central position
vertically below the mouth.

page_text: Improvements in Bottles for Containing Aerated Liquids.
I, JOSEPH DEEKS of 15 Grove Road, Brixton in the County of Surrey, Bonded
Carman 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:-
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to Hiram Codd on the
22nd August 1871 No. 2212 was described à bottle closed by a glass ball held by
the pressure within the bottle against an elastic ring, held in a groove formed
around the mouth. This bottle was also contracted at the base of the neck on two
opposite sides so that the passage between the neck and the body of the bottle was
brought to an oblong form of less width than the diameter of the ball. The oblong
base of the neck of the bottle was also at each end made to form a hemispherical
recess in which when the ball had been pushed inwards and caused to drop away
from the elastic ring the ball' could rest. whilst the contents of the bottle were being
poured out.
According to my invention I form the oblong base of the neck with a hemi-
spherical recess for the ball to rest in at one only of its ends so that at the opposite
end' there is nothing to prevent the ball rolling back from the base of the neck to
the mouth.
By forming the bottle in this way it can more readily be closed after being filled
in that class of filling machines in which the. bottle is inverted.in order to cause
the ball to roll up to the elastic ring at the mouth before withdrawing, the bottle
from the nozzle as it would only be necessary to turn the bottle into a position
slightly beyond the horizontal to cause the ball' to roll up to the mouth if the side
of the bottle on which there was no hemispherical" recess were kept downwards:
The bottle could also be filled with an ordinary filling machine in which no
inversion of the bottle is provided' for and when full be taken away from the filling
nozzle as the ball would' then be carried' upwards by the outward rush of gas from
the liquid in the bottle and would thereby be at once brought up to the elastic
ring.
To facilitate the closing of the bottle in. this way the oblong contraction at the
base of the neck might be made somewhat lower at its centre than at its ends Bo
that the ball when resting above it should come to rest in a central position
vertically below the mouth.
The drawing annexed shews various views of a bottle formed as above described.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bottle.. Figures 2 and 3 are vertical sections
and Figure 4 is a horizontal section through the line A B Figure 2.
A is the oblong contraction-at-the base of the neck, B a recess at one side of the
neck above this contraction for the internal stopper C to rest in whilst the contents
of the bottle are being poured out. The stopper shown is a spherical ball but it
might be of other convenient form.

page_text: 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
A bottle with an oblong contraction at the base of the neck and a recess on one
side only of the neck above this contraction for the stopper to rest in whilst the
contents of the bottle are being poured out substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of Santamban 1906