Improvements in Bottles and other Vessels for Containing Ink and other Liquids.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and other Vessels for Containing Ink and
other Liquids.
I, NINIAN RUTHERFORD JAMIESON, of 32, William Street, Forebank, Dundee,
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in bottles and other vessels for containing ink and other liquids
whereby a large or a small dip of ink or other liquid may be taken with pen,
brush, or other utensil & whereby in many cases the interval of time between
successive refillings of the bottle or vessel may be increased with a corresponding
decrease of trouble.
In carrying out my invention I construct a bottle or vessel with two bases
which I shall call base 1 & base 2 respectively, and I make the internal liquid
containing space of such a shape that when the bottle or vessel rests on base 1
the average horizontal sectional area of this space is considerably greater than it
is when the bottle or vessel rests on base 2, and conversely if the bottle or vessel
contains a certain quantity of a liquid the depth of liquid will be considerably
greater when the bottle or vessel rests on base 2 than it will be with the bottle
or vessel resting on base 1; by using the two bases it is therefore possible to
obtain either a large or a small quantity of liquid at each dip.
My invention also serves another important purpose. The bottle or vessel can
be made to contain more liquid when it rests on base 1 than it can be made to
contain when resting on base 2, therefore when it is an object to have to fill the
bottle or vessel as seldom as possible the bottle or vessel will be filled when in a
position suitable for resting on base 1 but when the depth of the liquid becomes
so small that the pen brush or other utensil cannot take up a sufficient quantity of
it at one dip the bottle or vessel is placed on base 2 and as--for the reasons
already stated--the depth of liquid is greater when the bottle or vessel rests on
base 2 than it is when the bottle or vessel rests on base 1 it is now unnecessary
to refill the bottle or vessel until the depth of the liquid again becomes so small
that the pen brush or other utensil cannot take up a sufficient quantity of it at
one dip.
In order that my invention may be better understood I will now refer to the
following diagrams. Figure is a section of one of my bottles or vessels in
which the contained fluid may be supposed to be ink & which may therefore be
called an ink bottle. It is shown resting on its base A, B,-the base previously
designated base 1. The depth of ink in the bottle has become so small that the
writer is beginning to get an insufficient quantity of it at one dip. Figure 2
shows the same bottle placed on its base BC (Figs. 1 & 2)—the base previously
designated base 2. No more ink has been put into the bottle but the depth of
the ink has been considerably increased and with evident advantage. As the
liquid containing space in this second position tapers towards the bottom the
ink can be used up almost to the last drop.

page_text: The general shape & such like of the bottle or vessel may be varied as also
the angle which the bases make with each other also some one of the bases
or both may form a stand or stands into which the bottle or vessel proper may
fit in some one or both of its positions. If the base A, B is made larger than the
base BC (Figs. 1 & 2) the extra weight of the base BC would serve as a security
against capsizing when the bottle or vessel was resting on its smaller base.
No cork, glass stopper, lid or such like is shown in the diagrams. Neither
is the necessary neck, or lid attachments shown.
A sliding lid may in certain cases be fixed to my bottle or vessel. In the
diagrams (Figs. 1 & 2) this lid would slide upon the are AC being prevented from
falling off by some simple mechanism as for example a central pivot at Bor
grooves in the arc AC & such like.
Dotal this wrth dow f Anonnat 1007
Improvements in Bottles and other Vessels for Containing Ink and
other Liquids.
I, NINIAN RUTHERFORD JAMIESON, of 32, William Street, Forebank, Dundee,
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:
My invention may be described as improvements in bottles & other vessels for
containing ink & other liquids, whereby a large or a small dip of ink or other
liquid may be taken with pen, brush, or other utensil, and whereby in many
cases the interval of time between successive refillings of the bottle or vessel
may be increased with a corresponding decrease of trouble.
In carrying out my invention I construct a bottle or vessel with two bases
which I shall call base 1 and base 2 respectively and I make the internal liquid
containing space of such a shape that when the bottle or vessel rests on base 1
the average horizontal sectional area of this space is considerably greater than it
is when the bottle or vessel rests on base 2, and conversely if the bottle or vessel
contains a certain quantity of a liquid, the depth of liquid will be considerably
greater when the bottle or vessel rests on base 2 than it will be with the bottle
or vessel resting on base 1; by using the two bases it is therefore possible to
obtain either a large or a small dip.
My invention also serves another important purpose.
The bottle or vessel can
be made to contain more liquid when it rests on base 1 than it can be made to
contain when resting on base 2, therefore, when it is an object to have to fill the
bottle or vessel as seldom as possible the bottle or vessel will be filled when in a
position suitable for resting on base 1 but when the depth of the liquid becomes
so small that the pen brush or other utensil cannot take up a sufficient quantity of
it at one dip the bottle or vessel is placed on base 2 and as-for the reasons
already stated the depth of liquid is greater when the bottle or vessel rests on
base 2 than it is when the bottle or vessel rests on base 1 it is now unnecessary
to refill the bottle or vessel until the depth of the liquid again becomes so small
that the pen, brush or other utensil cannot take up a sufficient quantity of it at
one dip.
In order that my invention may be better understood I will now refer to the
following diagrams. (Drawings left with Provisional Specification).

page_text: Figure 1 is a section of one of my bottles or vessels in which the contained
fluid may be supposed to be ink & which may therefore be called an ink bottle.
It is shown resting on its base A B (the base previously designated base No. 1).
The depth of ink in the bottle has become so small that the writer is beginning
to get an insufficient quantity of it at one dip. Figure 2 shows the same bottle
placed on its base BC (Figs. 1 & 2). (The base previously called base No. 2).
No more ink has been put into the bottle, but the depth of the ink has been
considerably increased and with evident advantage. As the containing space in
the 2nd position tapers towards the bottom the ink can be used up almost to the
last drop.
The general shape and such like of the bottle or vessel may be varied as also
the angle which the bases make with each other: also some one of the bases
or both may form a stand or stands into which the bottle or vessel proper may
fit in some one or both of its positions.
If the base A B is made larger than the base BC (Figs. 1 & 2) the extra weight
of the base BC would serve as a security against capsizing when the bottle or
vessel was resting on its smaller base.
No cork, glass stopper, lid, or such like is shown in the diagrams. Neither
is the necessary neck or lid attachment shown. A sliding lid may in certain*
cases be fixed to my bottle or vessel. In the diagrams this lid would slide upon
the arc A. C, being prevented from falling off by some simple mechanism as for
example a central pivot at B, or grooves in the arc AC and such like.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention & in what manner the same is. to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) The bottle or vessel with the two bases constructed as hereinbefore described
with the internal cavity constructed & placed relatively to the two bases as herein-
before described.