IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR MEDICINES AND POISONS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Savory, of 143, New Bond Street, Chemist and
Druggist, and William Robert Barker, of the same Place, Chemist, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR MEDICINES AND POISONS."
aled the 22nd July 1859, and dated the 24th January 1859
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Savory and William
Robert Barker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 24th January 1859.
We, JOHN SAVORY, of 143, New Bond Street, Chemist, and Druggist, and
WILLIAM ROBERT BARKER, of the same Place, Chemist, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR MEDICINES AND
POISONS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of bottles used for medicinal and
other purposes so as to prevent persons using the same taking poisons or
strong medicines in mistake for other medicines.
The outer part of the bottle may be formed of six, eight, or more sides, and
fluted vertically, horizontally, or diagonally; or may be embossed or otherwise
ornamentally raised on the outer surface, leaving a blank space for placing
the label, with instructions, &c., so that a person taking hold of it either in
the dark, or thoughtlessly, must immediately find that the bottle is unusually
strange to the feel of the hand.
Another important feature in this Invention is the narrowing of the lower
part of the neck of the bottle, or forming a lip or flange in the interior of the
neck of the bottle, immediately under the stopper or cork, so that in pouring
out the liquid contained therein, it will be found that instead of its flowing

page_text: freely, as from the ordinary kind of bottles, it will run in drops, or slowly,
according to the size of the opening or the impediment caused by the flange
or lip in the lower part of the neck of the bottle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Savory and William Robert Barker in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd July 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
SAVORY, of 143, New Bond Street, Chemist and Druggist, and WILLIAM
ROBERT BARKER, of the same Place, Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said John Savory and William Robert Barker, Her special licence
that we, the said John Savory and William Robert Barker, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Savory and
William Robert Barker, our 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 "Iμ-
PROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES FOR MEDICINES AND POISONS,"
upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Savory and William Robert
Barker, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and caused the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Barker, 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:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of bottles used for medicinal and
other purposes so as to prevent persons using the same taking poisons or
Estrong medicines in mistake for other medicines.

page_text: The outer part of the bottle may be formed of six, eight, or more sides, and
fluted vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, or may be embossed, or otherwise
raised on the outer surface, leaving a blank space for placing the label
with instructions upon, so that a person taking hold of it either in the dark, or
thoughtlessly, must immediately find that the bottle is unusually strange to
the feel of the hand.
Another important feature in this Invention is the narrowing of the lower
part of the neck of the bottle, or forming a lip or flange in the interior of the
neck of the bottle, immediately under the stopper or cork, so that in pouring
out the liquid contained therein it will be found that instead of its flowing
freely as from the ordinary kind of bottles, it will run in drops, or slowly,
according to the size of the opening or the impediment caused by the flange
or lip in the lower part of the neck of the bottle.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our said Invention of
Improvements in Bottles for Medicines and Poisons," together with the best
means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, we
would remark in conclusion that we do not confine or restrict ourselves to any
particular shape or size of the bottles before mentioned, as both the shape and
size will be altered according to the nature of the fluid contained therein; for
instance, mild medicines being kept in any kind of plain bottle, whereas strong
medicines, acids, or poisons, are to be kept in the bottles before mentioned;
but what we claim as our Invention, intended to be secured to us by the
herein in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of bottles of a
peculiar construction in the manner before mentioned, and for the purposes
herein fully described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Barker, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
0 Witness,
WILLIAM ROBERT BARKER. (L.S.)
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.