Improvement connected with Ebonite Bottles, Flasks, Drinking and Storage Vessels, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1900-Accepted, 23rd June, 1900
Date of Application, 17 July, 200
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1900-Accepted, 23rd June, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement connected with Ebonite Bottles, Flasks, Drinking and
Storage Vessels, and the like.
We, STEPHEN WINCKWORTH SILVER, of 67, Cornhill, City of London, Merchant,
and WALTER FLETCHER, of the same place, Gunsmith, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the construction of bottles, flasks, and other
vessels from ebonite with screw or other stoppers.
The bottles are preferably of oval shape and the shell and also the edges and
meeting seams are strengthened by mesh or other wire embedded therein to
resist internal pressure such as from aërated drinks.
The meeting seams at top and at bottom may be rounded and project, and the
top may be dome shaped and carry a rising neck for the reception of the stopper
which by a rubber washer can be made to fit tight, said stopper may have a valve
to enable the contents to be drawn off as desired.
We have referred to an oval shape and this may be curved to rest against the
hip of the wearers but it may be of round or other shape according to the use or
contents for which such vessels are intended.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said S. W. Silver and W. Fletcher.
Improvement connected with Ebonite Bottles, Flasks, Drinking and
Storage Vessels, and the like.
We, STEPHEN WINCKWORTH SILVER, of 67, Cornhill, City of London, Merchant,
and WALTER FLETCHER, of the same place, Gunsmith, 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 has for object, the construction of bottles, flasks, and other
vessels from ebonite with screw or other stoppers.
The bottles are preferably of oval shape and the shell and also the edges and
meeting seams may be strengthened by mesh or other wire embedded therein to
resist internal pressure, such as from aërated drinks.
The meeting seams at top and at bottom may be rounded and project to be used
alone without wires, and the top may be dome shaped and carry a rising neck
for the reception of the screw or other stopper which by a rubber washer can be

page_text: made to fit tight, said stopper may have a valve to enable the contents to be
drawn off as desired.
The annexed drawings represent examples of how our invention can be carried
into effect.
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation, and Figure 2 a top elevation of a bottle
in which wires A are embedded in the material forming the bottle for strengthen-
ing purposes, wires A also being embedded in the strengthening strips B which
are secured to the meeting seams.
Figure 3 is an exterior elevation of a bottle showing the strengthening strips B
applied to the outside of the bottle as well as to the meeting seams for strengthening
purposes.
Figure 4 is a sectional side elevation of a bottle with the strengthening strips B
applied to the meeting seams only, the wires being dispensed with.
We have referred to an oval shape and this may be curved, as at Figure 2, to
rest against the hip of the wearers but it may be of round or other shape according
to the use or contents for which such vessels are intended.
By this invention, a bottle of great strength is produced and when it is
covered with felt or other material as usual the strengthening strips B will not
be seen and by adding the strengthening strips to the meeting seams all fear of
the bottom or top being "blown off" by the pressure within the bottle is
obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
Strengthening the seams of ebonite bottles or flasks by securing thereto strips
of the same or other material, as set forth.
way of April 1900.
R. CORE GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Stephen Winckworth Silver and Walter Fletcher.