Improvements in Fill Bottles or Receptacles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
Improvements in Fill Bottles or Receptacles.
A communication by HERMANN LAMPRECHT, of Marienhütte, near Gnarrenburg
Hanover, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
The improved pill-counting device which forms the object of this invention is
preferably made of glass, and consists of a bottle or receptacle for containing the
pills, and a hollow plug or stopper inserted in the neck of the bottle, into which
stopper the pills are conveyed singly from the bottle by gradually turning the two
parts against one another. The hollow plug or stopper has one or more side-holes,
which, in given positions, when the pill bottle is turned, coincide with recesses,
openings or exit ways in the latter, so that, in this position, one pill at a time can
enter the hollow stopper.
The two parts are preferably so constructed that the pill bottle is provided, at
the lower part of its neck, with one or more channel-like passages or widened parts
running vertically upwards and corresponding in size to the pills which are to be
counted or distributed. These passages are open to the neck of the bottle, and
also to the lower body of the bottle, and are preferably only of sufficient length to
hold one pill in their interior. The hollow stopper is provided with a suitable
channel, the mouth of which may, by turning the stopper, be brought to coincide
with the side openings in the above named passages. If this channel in the stopper
be kept upwards and the pill bottle be turned in an inclined position, one pill will
enter each of the undermost passages of the bottle and will be then raised on the
bottle being further rotated, and will finally be brought in front of the opening in
the stopper. The pill then enters the latter by reason of its own weight, falling
directly through the hole into the hollow interior of the stopper, or it may be
conveyed by means of a channel or passage into another chamber, or even directly
to the outside.
On the accompanying drawing there is shown a form of construction consisting
of the most essential parts of the invention.
Figure 1 is a partial section of a pill bottle:
Figure 2, a view of the hollow stopper from beneath.
Figure 3 is a section on the line of Figure 4.
Figure 4 is a section on the line y y of Figure 2.
Figure 5 is a section on the line z z of Figure 2.
The bottle or receptacle A serves to hold the pills, and has in its neck two
channel-like enlargements B which are not quite deep enough to allow of one pill
entering them.
The hollow plug C, which also serves as a stopper, is inserted in the bottle, the
hole D of this stopper being capable of being brought, by being turned, in front
of each of the side openings of the channels or passages, B. This plug or stopper
may be closed by a cap E screwed thereon, and thus may be used as a storage

page_text: The hollow stopper C is also provided with a channel a, having the depth of
half a pill. The bottom of the stopper has a recess bas deep as or deeper than the
channel a, so that, when this recess coincides with a passage B, one pill can enter
the opening thus formed, as the size of such opening about corresponds to that of
one pill. More pills thus cannot enter. If the stopper be turned, the hole D is
caused to come opposite the passage B and the pill drops into the hollow stopper.
If the bottle A be placed in an inclined position and at the same time the hole D
of the inserted stopper be placed upwards, and the stopper be turned, a pill first
drops into the opening which is formed by the passage B and the recess b, and
then, guided by the wall of the channel, passes into the groove or gutter a to the
hole D and drops through this into the hollow stopper.
Dated this 8th day of May 1894.
A communication by HERMANN LAMPRECHT, of Marienhütte, near Gnarrenburg,
Province of Hannover, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 improved pill-counting device which forms the object of this invention is
preferably made of glass, and consists of a bottle or receptacle for containing the
pills, and a hollow plug or stopper inserted in the neck of the bottle, into which
stopper the pills are conveyed singly from the bottle by gradually turning the two
parts against one another. The hollow plug or stopper has one or more sideholes,
which, in given positions, when the pill bottle is turned, coincide with recesses,
openings or exit ways in the latter, so that, in this position, one pill at a time can
enter the hollow stopper.
The two parts are preferably so constructed that the pill bottle is provided, at
the lower part of its neck, with one or more chaunel-like passages or widened parts
running vertically upwards and corresponding in size to the pills which are to be
counted or distributed. These passages are open to the neck of the bottle, and
also to the lower body of the bottle, and are preferably only of sufficient length to
hold one pill in their interior. The hollow stopper is provided with a suitable
channel, the mouth of which may, by turning the stopper, be brought to coincide
with the side openings in the above named passages. If this channel in the stopper
be kept upwards and the pill bottle be turned in an inclined position, one pill will
enter each of the undermost passages of the bottle and will be then raised on the
bottle being further rotated, and will finally be brought in front of the opening in
the stopper. The pill then enters the latter by reason of its own weight, falling
directly through the hole into the hollow interior of the stopper, or it may be
conveyed by means of a channel or passage into another chamber, or even directly
to the outside.
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On the drawing accompanying the Provisional Specification there is shown a
form of construction consisting of the most essential parts of the invention.
Figure 1 is a partial section of a pill bottle:
Figure 2, a view of the hollow stopper from beneath.

page_text: Figure 3 is a section on the line
Figure 4 is a section on the line
Figure 5 is a section on the line
of Figure 4.
yy of Figure 2.
of Figure 2.
The bottle or receptacle A serves to hold the pills, and has in its neck two
channel-like enlargements B which are not quite deep enough to allow of one pill
entering them.
The hollow plug C, which also serves as a stopper, is inserted in the bottle, the
hole D of this stopper being capable of being brought, by being turned, in front of
each of the side openings of the channels or passages B. This plug or stopper may
be closed by a cap E screwed thereon, and thus may be used as a storage bottle.
The hollow stopper C is also provided with a channel a, having the depth of half
a pill. The bottom of the stopper has a recess bas deep as or deeper than
the channel a, so that, when this recess coincides with a passage B, one pill can
enter the opening thus formed, as the size of such opening about corresponds to
that of one pill. More pills thus cannot enter. If the stopper be turned, the
hole D is caused to come opposite the passage B and the pill drops into the hollow
stopper.
If the bottle A be placed in an inclined position and at the same time the hole D
of the inserted stopper be placed upwards, and the stopper be turned, a pill first
drops into the opening which is formed by the passage B and the recess b, and
then, guided by the wall of the channel, passes into the groove or gutter a to the
hole D and drops through this into the hollow stopper.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An improved pill-counting device consisting in the combination of a pill bottle
having pill passages opening from the sides of the bottle neck, and a stopper having
side passages, so arranged that when the stopper is revolved, its opening coincides
with the pill passages, and when the bottle is inclined and the opening in the
stopper placed upwards, by turning the bottle the passages convey the pills one by
one in front of the opening in the stopper and allow them to drop into this
opening, substantially as herein before described and shown on the drawing.
2. The special form of construction of the pili-counting apparatus described in
Claim 1, characterised by forming
(a) the pill passages as extensions of the body of the bottle in the bottle neck
and open to the latter:
(b) the stopper as a hollow glass body preferably provided with a removable
cap or cover with side passages opening into its interior chamber:
(c) the pill passages of less diameter than the pills, so that they can only
admit a pill when coinciding with the recess in the stopper:
(d) the stopper with a recess at its base of less diameter than a pill, but so
arranged that when in coincidence with a pill passage, it will admit one pill
which may be conveyed into the opening of the hollow stopper by means of
a channel formed on the circumference of the stopper, of a depth of half a
pill, and in conjunction with a pill passage all substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown.
Dated this 1st day of February 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.