Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 24th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 26th Jan., 1887.
I HIRAM CODD of 41 Gracechurch Street in the City of London Bottle Manufac-
turer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
At the present time screw stoppers are commonly used for closing the mouths of
bottles more especially bottles to be used for containing beer. The screw stoppers are for
the most part all formed with their screw stems of about the same diameter and with a
right handed screw of the same form and pitch of thread. The users of such bottles
commonly know which bottles are theirs by the form of the stopper or by the name or
device marked .upon them.
Bottles belonging to one owner frequently get mixed with the bottles of other owners
and great difficulty is experienced in sorting the one from the other. The result is
that the bottles are appropriated indiscriminately and when they have been fitted with
new stoppers it is very difficult for the original owner to detect which bottles are his
and which are not.
My object is to provide a bottle which can at once be known from any of the
bottles now in common use so that an owner of such bottles may be able to say quickly
and with certainty which bottles are his and which are not. To do this I form the
bottles with a left handed screw thread in the mouth in place of with a right handed
screw thread as heretofore and form a corresponding thread on the stem of the screw
stopper. The bottles therefore would be absolutely useless to the owner of bottles with
right handed screw stoopers as he could not use his own stoppers with them-and
could not use the bottles with the original stoppers because frequently they would be
marked with some other name or device than his own and even if not it would be
known that he was using bottles that did not belong to him.
חוזות
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in the Means Employed for Closing Bottles.
I, HIRAM CODD, of 41 Gracechurch Street in the City of London, Bottle Manufac-
turer, 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:-
At the present time screw stoppers are commonly used for closing the mouths of
bottles more especially bottles to be used for containing beer. The screw stoppers are
for the most part all formed with their screw stems of about the same diameter and
with a right handed screw of the same form and pitch of thread. Tho users of such
bottles commonly know which bottles are theirs by the form of the stopper or by the
name or device marked upon them.
Bottles belonging to one owner frequently get mixed with the bottles of other
owners and great difficulty is experienced in sorting the one from the other. The
result is that the bottles are appropriated indiscrimately and when they have been
fitted with new stoppers it is very difficult for the original owner to detect which
bottles are his and which are not.
My object is to provide a bottle which can at once be known from any of the bottles
now in common use so that an owner of such bottles may be able to say quickly and
with certainty which bottles are his and which are not. To do this I form the bottles
with a left handed screw thread in the mouth in place of with a right handed
screw thread as heretofore and form a corresponding thread on the stem of the screw
stopper. The bottles therefore would be absolutely useless to the owner of bottles with
right handed screw stoppers as he could not use his own stoppers with them and could
not use the bottles with the original stoppers because frequently they would be marked
with some other name or device than his own and even if not it would be known that
ho was using bottles that did not belong to him.
The annexed drawing shows a stopper such as is now in common use but with the
screw thread in accordance with my invention left handed in lieu of right. A stopper
of this make can not possibly be mis-matched with a bottle intended to receive an
ordinary stopper.
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 screw-stopper with a left hand thread substantially as described.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.