IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF BOTTLES, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH ARE WITHDRAWN BY MEANS OF AN ABSORBENT MATERIAL TO PREVENT SAID MATERIAL BEING OVERCHARGED.
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Savage, of New Kent Road, in the County of
Surrey, Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF BOTTLES, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH ARE
WITHDRAWN BY
MEANS OF AN ABSORBENT MATERIAL TO PREVENT SAID MATERIAL BEING
OVERCHARGED.'
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Savage at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd February 1881.
ALFRED SAVAGE, of New Kent Road, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH
ARE WITHDRAWN BY MEANS OF AN ABSORBENT MATERIAL TO PREVENT SAID
MATERIAL BEING OVERCHARGED."
This Invention relates to new or improved means for withdrawing from a bottle
a sponge or equivalent absorbent material charged to a limited extent only with
the liquid contents of the bottles, and is particularly applicable in cases where
varnishes or coatings have to be used by those who are not experts, and where
such varnishes or coating would do injury to the articles to which they are applied
if the coating be too thick. For example, liquid compounds now sold, as blacking,
or dressing for boots and shoes and other purposes, should be applied very sparingly.
They are however.used by unskilled domestics, and although explicit directions
may be printed on the bottle, these receive but little attention, and the value
and usefulness of the compound is deteriorated accordingly. The object of my
Invention is to render it impossible for the sponge by which the liquid is applied
to be withdrawn from the bottle too fully or heavily charged with the liquid.
I accomplish this by contracting some part of the neck of the bottle to very small
dimensions, and using, attached to a wire, a sponge or other equivalent absorbent
material of such size that in being drawn through the contracted line of the neck
of the bottle so much of the contained liquid will be expressed as will leave the
sponge charged only with such quantity of the liquid as is best adapted for the
particular application of the particular liquid.
The wire to which the sponge is attached I prefer to be passed through the cork
of the bottle with a tight fit. The object of this is that the wire may be drawn
through the cork, and so cleaned before the latter is extracted, thus preventing
dripping. The cork may be removed by being taken hold of separately, or the
withdrawal of the wire niay be continued, and by a stop thereon above the sponge
made by the one continuous movement to withdraw the cork.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Alfred Savage in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th September 1881.
ALFRED SAVAGE, of New Kent Road, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOTTLES, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH
ARE WITHDRAWN BY MEANS OF AN ABSORBENT MATERIAL TO PREVENT SAID
MATERIAL BEING OVERCHARGED."
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of bottles, the
contents of which are withdrawn by means of an absorbent material to prevent
said material being overcharged, and is particularly applicable in cases where
varnishes or coatings have to be used by those who are not experts, and where
such varnishes or coatings would do injury to the articles to which they are applied
if the coating be too thick. For example, liquid compounds now sold, as blacking,
or dressing for boots and shoes and other purposes, should be applied very sparingly.
They are however used by unskilled domestics, and although explicit directions
may be printed on the bottle, these receive but little attention, and the value
and usefulness of the compound is deteriorated accordingly. The object of my
Invention is to render it impossible for the sponge or other absorbent material by
which the liquid is applied to be withdrawn from the bottle too fully or heavily
charged with the liquid. I accomplish this by contracting some part of the neck
of the bottle to small dimensions, and using, attached to a wire, a sponge or other
equivalent absorbent material of such size that in being drawn through the
contracted line of the neck of the bottle so much of the contained liquid will be
expressed as will leave the sponge charged only with such quantity of the liquid
as is best adapted for the particular application of the particular liquid.
In the accompanying Drawings two sectional elevations are shown of bottles
constructed according to my Invention. A is the bottle; B, the stopper or cork;
C, the wire; D, the sponge or other absorbent material, and E, the bandle.
The wire to which the sponge is attached I sometimes prefer to be passed
through the cork of the bottle with a moderately tight fit, and attached to a handle
on the outside. The object of this is that the wire may be drawn through the cork
and so cleaned before the latter is withdrawn, and thus preventing dripping. In
this form the cork may be removed by being taken hold of separately, or the
withdrawal of the wire may be continued, and by a stop thereon above the sponge
made by the one continuous movement to withdraw the cork. This combination
is shown at Fig. 2.
I claim as my Invention to be secured by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent,
1. Contracting the necks of bottles, as and for the purpose set forth and
described.
2. The combination shown in Fig. 2 of stopper or cork B, wire C, sponge D,
and handle E.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Savage, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
ATLAR
A. SAVAGE.
(D.N.)