AN IMPROVED CAP OR TOP FOR SCENT BOTTLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Watson and Alfred Hamlyn Williams, of
Cornhill, in the City of London, Dressing Case Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED CAP OR TOP FOR SCENT BOTTLES."
Sealed the 5th May 1857, and dated the 19th November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Watson and
Alfred Hamlyn Williams at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 19th November 1856.
We, ALFRED WATSON and ALFRED HAMLYN WILLIAMS, of Cornhill, in the
City of London, Dressing Case Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CAP OR TOP FOR SCENT BOTTLES" to be
as follows:-
Our Invention consists in making perforations or small apertures in the
upper surface of the cap or top, which on being turned or moved are caused
to open up or shut off communication with the interior of the bottle, whereby
scent may be sprinkled upon the handkerchief or otherwise, or may be inhaled
without taking off the cap.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, fil
by the said Alfred Watson and Alfred Hamlyn Williams in the Grea
Seal Patent Office on the 19th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRE
WATSON and ALFRED HAMLYN WILLIAMS, of Cornhill, in the City of Londo
Dressing Case Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letter
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the year of ou
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of He
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, th
said Alfred Watson and Alfred Hamlyn. Williams, Her special licence tha
we, the said Alfred Watson and Alfred Hamlyn Williams, our executors
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Alfred Watson and
Alfred Hamlyn Williams, our executors, administrators,, and assigns, shoul
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 "AN
IMPROVED CAP OR TOP FOR SCENT BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Alfred Watson and Alfred Hamlyn Williams, or one of us,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or
one of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, tho said Alfred Watson and Alfred Hamlyn
Williams, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in making perforations or small apertures in the
upper surface of the cap or top, which on being turned or moved are caused
to open up or shut off communication with the interior of the bottle, whereby
scent may be sprinkled upon the handkerchief or otherwise, or may be inhaled
without taking off the cap.
In the Drawings annexed we shew the manner in which we carry our
Invention into effect.

page_text: Figure 1 is an external, and Figure 2 a sectional elevation of our improved
top or cap for scent bottles. a is a collar, fitted by screwing or otherwise to
the neck of the bottle b; c is a disc extending across the collar, with a central
aperture therein; d is a pipe extending upwards from the disc, and fitted into
the aperture in the disc, or the disc and pipe may be formed in one picce;
e is a recess or space for receiving cork or other elastic packing, which
extends just above the level of the top of the pipe d; fis the cap, made to fit
by screw, catch, bayonet, or other suitable joint on to the collar a. A circular
case or cylinder g is fixed in the inside of the top, and perforations are made
through the top immediately inside the top edge of the circular case or
cylinder. When the top or cap is pressed down and retained upon the
packing in the collar, the packing closes the apertures in the cap, and the cap
itself closes the pipe d, but on turning up the cap the orifices and pipe are
freed, and are open to the passage of scent (on the neck of the bottle being
turned downwards) which flows through the pipe, and finds its way between
the top of the pipe and packing through the perforations in the cap. Thus
by slightly turning the cap, and without removing it from the bottle, passage
for the scent may be opened or closed.
There are many modifications whereby the object of our Invention may be
attained, but we find the method shewn and described to be the most suited
for the purpose.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as our
improved cap or top for scent bottles, the forming of such caps with orifices
or perforations through the same, combined with a contrivance on or fitted to
the bottle, whereby, on simply turning the cap, and without removing it from
the bottle, passage may be opened for the scent through the perforations or
orifices, formed therein, or closed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Watson, for myself, and on
behalf of the said Alfred Hamlyn Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
ALFRED WATSON. (L.S.)