Process of and Apparatus for Applying Enamelled or Vitrified Labels to Bottles, Flagons, and the like, during their Manufacture.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Process of and Apparatus for Applying Enamelled or Vitrified
Labels to Bottles, Flagons, and the like, during their
Manufacture.
We, JULES ERNEST BUSSETT and EDMOND PAUL HENRY, Manufacturers, both of
26 Rue Feydean, Paris, in the Republic of France, 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 object of this invention is to apply enamel, or white or coloured bent glass,
labels, to bottles, flagons, etc., in such manner, that the background of the label may
be in one with the bottle, and the label proper may he attached to the background by
taking advantage of the operations of blowing and annealing necessary in the
manufacture of the bottle.
The invention consists in a process whereby the above named object is effected, and
in a particular construction of mould for practically carrying out the said process.
The invention prosents, among other things, the advantages of securing considerable
economy in fuel and manual labour, inasmuch as it is possible to disponse with the
further operations ordinarily necessary for vitrifying, on the one hand, the background,
and, on the other hand, the colours of the label, these vitrifications taking place
(according to the new process) during the blowing and annealing of the bottle.
In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 shews, by way of example only, a vertical
section, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, (taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1) of a mould,
as employed in the process above referred to.
A is an ordinary mould, in the interior of which is formed a raised rib a, constituting
a kind of frame having a contour corresponding to that of the label, which may be
of any shape.
B represents the enamel which is placed in the recess of the mould formed by this
rib, and the mould thus propared is used for the purpose of blowing the bottle in the
ordinary way.
The heat of the molten glass effects the vitrification of the enamel, and causes its
adherence to the body of the bottle.
If desired, the enamel may be replaced by a plate of plain or coloured glass
previously bent to a curve corresponding to that of the bottle. The bent glass is
arranged (like the enamel) in the recess at B, and its adherence to the bottle is effected
in the same way during the moulding of the same. To facilitate this adherence, a
flux may be placed in the hollow part of the curved glass.
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Once the bottle is taken out of the mould and sufficiently cooled, the label proper
secured on the background (whether enamel or bent glass) thus obtained, by the ineans
now employed, and the operation of annealing which is necessary for the manufacture
of every kind of bottle, is taken advantage of to vitrify the colours of the label, and fix
them upon their background.
We may, of course, replace the enamelled part, or the bent glass, by an application
of gold or silver, to constitute the background of the label, which may be subsequently
engraved by any known process.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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