IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF COLORED ORNAMENTAL OR OTHER DEVICES TO METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES OR OTHER RECEPTACLES AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hermann Kaltwasser at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1882.
HERMANN KALTWASSER of Hamburg in the Empire of Germany Manufacturer
and Merchant. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF COLORED ORNAMENTAL
OR OTHER DEVICES TO METALLIC CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES OR OTHER RECEPTACLES
AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN.
This invention relates to ornamenting in colors a circular part (or two or more
parts) of the sides of metallic Capsules for bottles and receptacles of any description
which part afterwards is stamped with a name monogram, trade mark or other mark
or design required.
To effect this object I take a conical cylinder formed of iron steel or other suitable
metal the top or smaller end of which bears a support to which another small conical
iron or other metal cylinder is affixed so that the side of the same is in vertical
position against the top of the aforesaid larger conical cylinder I then take a white
or colored metallic capsule which previously may be stamped on the top with any
name trade mark or design and place it on the surface of the small vertical cone so
that it is well and smoothly affixed particularly on the upper side of this cone
the curve of which is at that part a little taken off to afford a securer working.
I then place the cylinder with its hollow end on a rotating axis turned by a
handle or by other suitable means.
By the rotating movement of the axis the centre of this axis is easily to be seen
and I then take a small color brush (suitable for this purpose) filled with the
required color and apply it to the capsule as it is rotating beginning at that point
of the upper side of the capsule opposite to the visible centre of the rotating axis
and going from this centre-point with the brush so far to the side as the size of the
required colored circle needs
After this very quick manipulation I take the cylinder off the rotating axis and
remove from its surface the capsule which now presents the colored circle and which
circle I now get stamped in the ordinary way with the monogram, name trade mark
or other mark or design required.
By these means the circular colored stamp on the sides of metallic capsules
corresponds more to the stamps on the top of the capsules than other previous

page_text: systems and represents at the same time the seals or round labels which originally
were put on the top of bottles for wine or other liquids before capsules were applied
at all.
The general usage in opening capsuled bottles is to cut the top of the capsule off
and throw it away while the sides of the capsules remain on the bottle, my circular
colored side stamp will always clearly and distinctly show the name or trade mark
and prove the origin of the contents and thus this invention will protect the public
more than other systems of capsules against a fraudulent imitation of trade marks
or other indications.
The application of ornamental or other devices to metallic capsules as herein
explained is by these means simply and quickly effected.