An Improvement in Covers or Caps for Bottles, more especially applied to Ink Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897
An Improvement in Covers or Caps for Bottles, more especially
applied to Ink Bottles.
JOHN GEORGE BETJEMANN and ERNEST EDWARD BETJEMANN both of
2 Newcastle Place Clerkenwell London, Dressing Case and Bag Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved cap for ink bottles whereby the bottle can be opened & used from
all sides without altering the position of the bottle. The cap or cover is hinged on
to a collar in the usual manner but instead of the collar being immovably fixed to
the bottle it is attached in such a way that although it cannot be removed it can
yet be easily moved in a rotary manner so as to revolve round the neck of the
bottle. The collar is constructed to revolve on an inside lining of metal or other
substance cemented or otherwise fastened to the neck of the bottle or by other like
methods.
Dated this 14th day of February 1896.
JOHN G. BETJEMANN.
ERNEST E. BETJEMANN.
An Improvement in Covers or Caps for Bottles, more especially
applied to Ink Bottles.
We, JOHN GEORGE BETJEMANN and ERNEST EDWARD BETJEMANN both of
2 Newcastle Place, Clerkenwell London, Dressing Case and Bag 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:-
The object of this invention is to enable the cap or cover to be raised or opened
in any direction or at any angle without moving the bottle. For this purpose we
connect the collar to the ink bottle in any convenient or usual manner, but instead
of directly hinging the cap or cover thereto we hinge the cap or cover to a loose
collar revolving on the fixed collar, by this means we are enabled to open the cap
or cover in any direction or at any angle. The collar is formed with a suitable
flange or shoulder at the top to prevent the movable collar being removed and with
or without a flange or shoulder at the bottom to form a bearer for the loose collar
to revolve upon. This said cap or cover may also be constructed without the fixed
collar, and the loose collar, with cap or cover attached, made to revolve on the
neck of the bottle itself suitably grooved or otherwise constructed, and the said
cap or cover may also be closed by means of a lock catch or other fastening. And
in order that our said invention may be more clearly understood & readily carried
into effect we will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to
describe the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1 & 2 are elevations showing the cap or cover respectively closed &
opened.
Figure 3 is a vertical section showing the cap or cover opened.
a is the body of the ink bottle a¹ is the neck thereof c is the collar which is
connected with the neck a' of the bottle in any convenient or usual manner, but
according to our invention instead of directly hinging the cap or cover b to the
collar c we hinge it to a loose collar d revolving on the fixed collar c. By this
means we are enabled to open the cap or cover in any direction or at any angle.
The collar c is formed with a suitable flange or shoulder to prevent the loose
collar d being removed, and it may or not have a flange or shoulder c" at the
bottom to form a bearer for the loose collar d to revolve upon.
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
An improvement in covers or caps for bottles more especially applied to ink
bottles whereby the cap or cover is so connected with the bottle as to be capable
of being opened in any direction or at any angle substantially as herein shown and
described.
Dated this 15th day of December 1896.
JOHN G. BETJEMANN.
ERNEST EDWARD BETJEMANN.