Improved Valve Attachment for Spraying or Squirting Bottles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1899-Accepted, 2nd June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Valve Attachment for Spraying or Squirting Bottles.
1, RIDLEY JAMES URQUHART, of 57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, which has been communicated to me by Dr. Georg
Friederich Henning, of 141, Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, S.W., Germany, Chemist,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:
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In the spraying or squirting bottles for volatile liquids, such as ethyl-chloride
and similar substances, made up to the present, the outlet orifice is formed by
a small capillary tube attached to or formed on the vessel by soldering, fusing
or driving out, and the capillary tube is closed by screwing on a hermetically
tight cap.
This usual closing device of the spraying orifice is not only comparatively
expensive, but also inconvenient to fit on.
The object of this invention is to obviate these drawbacks and it consists in
the arrangement, construction and application of the improved valve attachment
hereinafter described.
On the drawing appended hereunto one form. in which the improved attachment
may be carried out is shewn; Figures 1 and 2, showing the attachment before
it is fixed to a bottle in its closed and opened position respectively:
Figure 3 a perspective view of the same bont into a hoop and Figure 4 a bottle
with the attachment applied thereto.
The attachment consists of a flexible band A, which may be smooth or
ornamented, and is formed at one part with an embossed or tubular enlargement
and at one end with a small slot through which the other reduced end B can
be pushed and bent over. The bossa is provided with an opening large enough
for the capillary tube attached to the bottle or the projection on the bottle con-
taining the outlet orifice to protrude through the opening with its outer end. This
orifice is closed by a lever valve C hinged on two lugs formed on the metal band
and pressed upon the orifice by a spring under its outer end.
To connect this attachment with the squirting or spraying bottle D shewn by
Figure 4, in which the outlet orifice is arranged at the side of the bottle neck.
the metal band A is placed with its boss over the outlet orifice, the band bent
round the bottle neck and fixed thereto by passing the reduced end B of the
The lever
band through the slot in the other end and bending the end B over.
valve C then closes the orifice and in order to open it, only a small pressure
upon the free end of the lever is required while the valve is closed again immedi-
ately on removal of the pressure.
As stated above the arrangement represented, only shows one of the many
possible ways of carrying my invention into effect. Thus the flexible flat band À
might be replaced by one formed of flexible wire, or by an open spring clip.
Instead of the lever valve C any other suitable kind of valve may be mounted upon
a band or its equivalent capable of being placed round the head or neck of the
bottle without requiring any cementing or screwing on.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The arrangement construction and application of a valve attachment for the
outlet orifice of a squirting or spraying bottle consisting of a valve mounted upon
a band or its equivalent that can be attached to the bottle by being bent round
or sprung upon the same substantially as herein before described.
Dated the 20th day of April 1899.
R. J. URQUHART, C.E.,
Chartered Patent Agent,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester.