Improvements in Drip Preventers for Bottles, Jars, and the like
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, .30th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drip Preventers for Bottles, Jars, and the like.
I, JOSEPH JOHN CANDLISH, Bottle Manufacturer, of The Bottle Works,
Seaham Harbour, in the County of Durham do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in drip preventers for bottles jars and the like
has for its object to provide a drip preventer which can readily be applied to any
bottle or jar to prevent the drops usually formed on the neck of the bottle after
any of the contents have been poured out, from running down the bottle, thereby
disfiguring it and soiling the cloth on which the bottle is placed; and consists
essentially in forming a drip preventer of absorbent material in conjunction with
an elastic material or otherwise so that it can be readily fitted to and retained on
the neck or other desired part of any bottle.
Dated this 30th August 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drip Preventers for Bottles, Jars, and the like.
I, JOSEPH JOHN CANDLISH, Bottle Manufacturer, of The Bottle Works,
Seaham Harbour, in the County of Durham, 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 :-
This invention for improvements in drip preventers for bottles, jars and the like
has for its object to provide a drip preventer which can readily be applied to any
bottle or jar to prevent the drops, usually formed on the neck of the bottle after
any of the contents have been poured out, from running down the bottle thereby
disfiguring it and soiling the cloth on which the bottle is placed; and consists
essentially in forming a drip preventer of absorbent material in conjunction with an
elastic material or otherwise so that it can be readily fitted to and retained on the
neck or other desired part of any bottle.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a drip preventer constructed according to
this invention and Figure 2 is an inverted plan of the same.
Figure 3 represents a vertical section of a drip preventer applied to the neck of
a bottle.
The device comprises a strip a of one or more layers of absorbent material,
such as blotting paper, bent round to form a ring, and to the two extremities is
secured by any suitable cement or other fixing substance a piece of elastic
material to complete the ring and to enable it to be readily fitted to and retained
on the neck or other desired part of the bottle. Instead of the ring shown in the
drawings the drip preventing device may comprise a ring of any absorbent material
ornamental or otherwise, having an elastic strip or band for retaining it on the
bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A drip preventer for bottles and the like comprising a ring of absorbent material

page_text: adapted to be fitted on to the neck or other part of the bottle substantially as
described.
Dated this 30th day of June 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.