Improvements in and relating to Bottles and similar Vessels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 2nd May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Bottles and similar Vessels.
We, ANTOINE LECHENICH, and BRUNO SCHOMANN, trading together in
co-partnership as Schomann and Co., of 17 Devonshire Square, in the City and
County of London, Wine an 1 Spirit Merchants and Cordial Manufacturers, 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 :-
This invention relates to bottles or vessels made in the shape of sections of a
cylinder so that two or more, as the case may be, of such sections can be fitted
together into a cylindrical stand or holder with their spouts or pouring apertures
at different angles, thus forming a cylindrical vessel from which the different liquid
contents can be drawn off as and when required.
In the accompanying drawings we have illustrated two forms of our invention
one in which the combined vessel is made up from two sections of a cylinder and
the other from three sections.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the duplex form of our invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view
of same and Fig. 3 a plan section.
Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively plan and plan section of the triplex form.
The same letters of reference where they occur are used to denote the same or
corresponding parts in all the figures.
In the form shewn in Figs. 1 to 3 the bottles or vessels A and B are made
semi-cylindrical in shape and with their spouts or pouring apertures C and D
inclined in diametrically opposite directions; c and d are stoppers for the spouts,
of any ordinary and suitable kind. These two semi-cylindrical vessels A, B, are
fitted together with their flat sides contiguous so as to form a cylinder as shewn in
Figs. 2 and 3, and are secured together by any suitable means. In Fig. 1 we have
shewn the cylindrical sections secured together by means of a ring or band E and
a cylindrical foot stand or holder F having a flat base, on which the duplex vessel
can be stood upright upon a table or other horizontal support.
The form shewn in Figs. 4 and 5, differs only from that already described
in being made so that the completed cylindrical vessel is formed of three
bottles G, H, and J, suitably secured together and each in section of the shape of
one third of a cylinder, the spouts or pouring apertures K, L, and M, being
arranged 120 degrees apart instead of 180 degrees as in the former case.
We wish it to be understood that we do not limit our invention to the production
of a cylindrical vessel composed of two or three bottles each being made in the
shape of similar sections of a cylinder; nor do we wish to confine our invention to
a vessel composed of only two or three bottles shaped as sections of a cylinder;
but in all cases the bottles should be made and fitted together in such a manner
that their spouts or pouring apertures are so disposed, relatively to each other, that
when the vessel is tilted to pour out the contents of one section, the contents of
none of the other sections can possibly pass off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;-
1. A combination vessel formed of two independent bottles of semi-cylindrical
section fitted into a cylindrical stand or base substantially as described with

page_text: reference to Figs. 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawings and for the purpose
stated.
2. A combination vessel formed of three independent bottles shaped as sections
of a cylinder and fitted into a cylindrical stand or base substantially as described
with reference to Figs. 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings and for the purpose
stated.
3. A combination bottle or vessel made up of two or other suitable number of
independent bottles shaped as sections of a cylinder and having spouts arranged at
convenient pouring angles the sections being connected together in any suitable
manner and fitted into a cylindrical stand or support substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawings and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 28th day of March 1896.
F. W. GOLBY,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicants.