CERTAIN IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS TO FACILITATE THE CONTROL OF EGRESS OR DELIVERY THEREFROM.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Brooks, of No. 31, Cumberland Market,
Regent's Park, and No. 138, Hampstead Road, both in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS
TO FACILITATE THE CONTROL OF EGRESS OR DELIVERY THEREFROM.'
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Brooks at the
Office of the Commissioners' of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th April 1870.
I, HENRY BROOKS, of No. 31, Cumberland Market, Regent's Park,
and No. 138, Hampstead Road, both in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS
TO FACILITATE THE CONTROL OF EGRESS OR DELIVERY THEREFROM," to be as
follows:-
The object of the improved receptacles is to afford facility for the
egress or delivery of the contents in quantities capable of being
regulated.

page_text: Vessels constructed according to my Invention have necks or openings
formed at each end or other suitable parts of them, and each of such
necks or openings is formed with a passage or passages with a cover or
covers, which may be moveable with openings adapted to the quantity
of liquid or other matter desired at any time to be delivered therefrom, t
or to the speed of such delivery. The openings are also provided with a
close fitting cover or covers to preserve the contained matters.
If it be desired to obtain a delivery in drops or small quantities when
the cover or covers have been removed, this may be regulated by the
application of the finger or other cover over one aperture or scries of 1
apertures, when air will be prevented flowing into such vessel and there
will be no delivery therefrom, but on the removal of the finger or other
cover from such aperture or apertures air will flow in and the con-
tained matter will flow out until the finger or other cover is again
restored, and in that way may drops or other small quantities be readily |
obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Brooks in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 15th October 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BROOKS, of No. 31, Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, and No. 138,
Hampstead Road, both in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Brooks, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Brooks, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Henry Brooks, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS TO FACILITATE THE CONTROL OF EGRESS

page_text: OR DELIVERY THEREFROM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Henry Brooks, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar monthis next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Brooks, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
-
The object of the improved receptacles is to afford facility for the
egress or delivery of the contents in quantities capable of being
regulated.
Vessels constructed according to my Invention have necks or openings
formed at each end or other suitable parts of them, and each of such
necks or openings is formed with a passage or passages, with a cover or
covers which may be moveable, with openings adapted to the quantity
of liquid or other matter desired at any time to be delivered therefrom,
or to the speed of such delivery. The openings are also provided with a
close fitting cover or covers to preserve the contained matters.
If it be desired to obtain a delivery in drops or small quantities when
the cover or covers have been removed, this may be regulated by the
application of the finger or other cover over one aperture or series of
apertures, when air will be prevented flowing into such vessel, and there
will be no delivery therefrom, but on the removal of the finger or other
cover from such aperture or apertures air will flow in, and the contained
matter will flow out until the finger or other cover is again restored, and
in that way may drops or other small quantities be readily delivered.
But that the Invention may be fully understood I will, by the aid of
the accompanying Drawings, proceed to describe means pursued by me
in carrying the same into effect.
Figure 1 shows the section of a bottle formed of glass or other suitable
5 material, in the neck of which are formed two holes a and b, which, as
shown by this Figure 1, are closed by the stopper c, which may be of

page_text: cork or of other suitable material so long as it is capable when pressed
down the neck of the bottle below the apertures a and b of closing those
apertures to prevent either the escape of fluid from the bottle or vessel
or the admission of air thereto, and then when raised, as shown by
Figure 2, of still closing the upper part of the neck of the bottle or
receiver, and yet admit when so raised and the bottle is tilted of the
liquid flowing in drops or otherwise from one of the holes a or b; and
in most cases the smaller holo will be used for the passage out of such
liquid in small quantities, whilst the other or larger one will admit of
air flowing in to supply the displacement. The size of thcso passages a
or b will vary with the outflow desired.
Figures 3 and 4 show by two similar views to those just described
a modification of Figures 1 and 2, in which the closing of the apertures a
and is effected by a lining of cork or other suitable material d applied
to an outer cap or cover e; but the closing or opening of the passages a
and is effected in this case as in the last by the lowering or raising of
the means for covering the apertures.
Figures 5, 6, and 7 show a modification of the improvements in which
the means employed to close the neck of the bottle in place of being
raised or lowered for the opening or closing of the apertures a and b is
simply turned partially round for that purpose. Figure 5 shows a vertical
section of the botile or receiver and parts thereof. Figures 6 and 7 show
by horizontal sections the ucck of the bottle with the cover of it in two
positions. It will be seen that the cover to the neck of the bottic and
the lining thereto (which may be of cork or other suitable elastic
material) are both perforated at g and h in positions adapted to come
opposite the openings a and b in the neck of the bottle, as shown by the
Figures 5 and 6, whereas in the previous cases the liquid contained in
the bottle may when the bottle is tilted pass out by one opening in
drops or other quantities, and air may at the same time flow therein by
the other opening, but when the cover is turned partly round on the
neck of the bottle so that the holes g, h, in the cover and those in the
neck of the bottle are not coincident the passages a and b therein will
be closed, as shown by Figure 7. The covers e and may be formed of
glass, metal, or other suitable material.
Figure 8 shows by sectional view another modification of the im-
provements in which there is an extra neck ¹ to the bottle, forming
a double neck. In this case the ordinary neck is pierced with but

page_text: one hole a, and that is closed by the stopper c being pressed down the
neck of the bottle, as shown, or is opened by the raising of this stopper c
in the neck of the bottle, as shown by Figure 10, and air is admitted to
the bottle when required by the removal of the cap ³ from the neck h³,
as shewn. The cap h³ is lined with cork or other suitable material as
better scen by the separate view of it, Figure 9.
Figure 11 shews by a sectional view another modification, in which
the closing of the opening a is effected by the use of an outer cover e
similar to that employed in the illustration, Figures 3 and 4, and the
opening of the respective passages a and h¹ is effected by the raising of
the cover e above the passage a and the removal of the stopper h³ from
the opening ', as shewn by Figure 12. In all these illustrations the
filling of the bottles or receptacles may be more readily effected by the
removal of the stopper or cover closing the neck of the bottle.
Figures 13 and 14 shew another modification in which the outlet for
the escape of the fluid is formed at in the small screw cap i, and
when it is desired to close the passage through this small opening i¹
the closing thereof is effected by the application of the outer cover ³.
These parts so far as regards the double cap to this neck arc in this case
constructed similarly to that described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to me bearing date the 21st day of October 1869,
No. 3064. The neck /¹ may have a hole pierced or drilled in its side
similar to those in the necks of the bottles shown by Figures 1, 2, 3, 4,
and 5, and have applied thereon a cover with a corresponding hole in
it and be capable by partial turning on that neck so as to cause the
respective holes to be coincident of opening a passage for air to the
bottle, or by turning that cover partially round in either direction of
closing that opening.
Figure 15 shews another modification of the improvements in which
a small aperture is formed in the metal cover; to the bottle or vessel,
so as to admit of liquid passing out therefrom, and this aperture is
capable of being closed when desired by a metal screw cap k, cork or
other suitable material being employed as a packing between the parts.
Another opening is formed at in the bottom of the bottle, and that
opening is closed by the application thereto of the cover A.
Figure 16 shows the bottle, Figure 15, with the covers k and ♬
removed to allow of liquid passing therefrom. In every case whilst the
contents of the bottle or vessel may be allowed to pass out by one

page_text: opening the extent of flow may be regulated by the application of the
finger to the other opening when the cover thereto is removed.
Figure 17 shows a slight modification of the last arrangement by the
opening at each end or part of the bottle or vessel being formed in a screw
cap m to the moveable neck m³, and the closing thereof for the security
of the contents is by application thereon of the screw covers or caps ».
The necks m' are formed each with a screw thread to screw on to corre-
ponding threads formed on the necks of the bottle or vessel. The filling
of the bottle or vessel may be effected at either end by the removal for
the time of one of the moveable necks with the caps m and n
thereto.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the forms and combinations shewn, as these may
be varied, and where only one small aperture or passage is shown more
may be used; but what I claim is, the construction of receptacles for
containing liquids with separate openings or passages therein capable of
being opened or closed to facilitate the control of egress or delivery
therefrom, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Brooks, have hereunto set 2
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.