IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCK FASTENINGS FOR SMELLING AND OTHER BOTTLES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN COMBINATION THEREWITH FOR CLOSING THE of
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles May, of Curtain Road, Finsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, Smelling Bottle Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCK FASTENINGS FOR SMELLING AND OTHER BOTTLES,
AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN COMBINATION THEREWITH FOR CLOSING THE
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCK FASTENINGS FOR SMELLING AND OTHER BOTTLES
AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN COMBINATION THEREWITH POR CLOSING THE
SAME.
Sealed the 25th April 1865, and dated the 26th October 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles May at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th October
1864.
I, CHARLES MAY, of Curtain Road, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Smelling Bottle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCK FASTENINGS FOR SMELLING AND OTHER
BOTTLES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN COMBINATION THEREWITH FOR CLOSING
THE SAME," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of lock
fastenings to the metal mounts or covers of smelling and other bottles. For
this purpose in place of the spring catch commonly used for the purpose of
securing and holding down the covers of smelling and other bottles which
are released by direct pressure upon a stud on the catch, I arrange the catch
or bolt of the lock so as to move sideways, the instrument by which the catch
or bolt of the lock is released moving to and fro in a slot formed in the collar

page_text: of the mount. The bolt or catch is pressed up by a spiral or other spring,
which is readily acted upon by pressing the thumb upon the front plate or
instrument to release the spring bolt or catch. The mouths of spring mount
smelling bottles are usually closed by a disc of ground glass let into the cover,
which does not effectually close the same, and part of my improvements
consist in placing a disc or ring of cork over the glass or within the cover of
the mount to ensure the perfect closing of the bottle when the cover is locked
down as previously described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles May in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
MAY, of Curtain Road, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, Smelling Bottle
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles May, Her special licence that I, the said
Charles May, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Charles May, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOCK FASTENINGS FOR SMELLING AND OTHER BOTTLES, AND IN THE MEANS
EMPLOYED IN COMBINATION THERE WITH FOR CLOSING THE SAME," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles May, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles May, do bereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: Figure 1 shows a front view of a double smelling bottle furnished with a metal
"mount" at one end, the spring cover a of which is locked and held down by
means of a side lock fastening constructed according to my Invention; Figure 1*
shows part of a similar view with the cover raised; Figure 2 is a side view,
and Figure 3 a plan showing the spring cover a released and open; Figure 4
is a vertical section of the upper end of the bottle and "spring mount";
Figure 5 is a horizontal section through the dotted line 1, 1, of Figure 4 ;
and Figure 6 shows separate views of the side acting spring locking catch b',
and ornamental stud or plate 6 attached thereto. The locking catch b¹ is
fixed to one end of the curved (or spiral) spring 6', the other end of the
spring being fixed to a flanch on the interior of the mount. A circular recess
is formed by the metal mount forming a collar around the neck of the bottle,
in which the curved spring 62 is free to move when the ornamental stud or
plate 6 is pressed sideways to release the catch 6' from holding down the
cover a, a recess being cut in the inner flanch of the cover at a¹, through
which the catch b¹ passes, and is held when the cover a is pressed down upon
the mouth of the bottle; c is a disc of cork placed within the cover of the

page_text: mount in front of a disc of glass or metal, which is acted upon by a spiral
spring at the back, as is well understood, the disc of cork c acting to close the
mouth of the bottle, more perfectly than the disc of ground glass usually
employed for this purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles May, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane.
CHARLES MAY. (L.S.)