Improvements in or Additions to Stoppers for Medicine Bottles and other like Vessels.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1890'
Complete Specification Left, 15th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 21st Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Stoppers for Medicine Bottles
and other like Vessels.
I, ROBERT PERKS YATES, of Lyndhurst, Gravelly Hill, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object, a stopper for medicine bottles, and the like, ana
which said stopper, can be used when desired, as a vessel for both measuring and
taking the doses, instead of employing spoons and separate vessels, for measuring
and taking as aforesaid.
Thus my invention consists of a combined stopper, dose measurer, and taking
vessel, which will be found far more convenient than employing separate articles, as
is now commonly the case.
According to my invention, I make the stopper in the form of an enclosed ended
cylinder or sleeve, with a rim or flange at the said enclosed end, which when the
stopper is inverted, forms a base for the same to rest upon, and also a head or
means for tightening the stopper upon the mouth of a bottle.
I provide the said cylinder, which is simply a vessel, with an open mouth and
base, with graduated dose scales, indicative of a tea-spoon full, a desert-spoon full,
and a table-spoon full. I prefer that the said doses, or the scale indicative of
them, should be represented by annular rings, directed circumferentially around
the combined stopper and vessel, although the said markings may be made in
the form of short lines, disposed one above another in the direction of the length
of the said vessel.
The open mouth of the combined stopper and vessel, may be made bell shaped,
or the inside walls may be made to stand away from the sides of the neck of the
bottle, when the same is employed as a stopper, and further, the shape of the said
combined stopper and vessel, may be made in the form of a beaker.
The inside base of the stopper, is fitted with cork, or ground true to the outside
mouth of the bottle, so as to hermetrically fit upon the said mouth, when the same
is employed as a stopper.
Or the mouth of the said article may be made to take upon the head or mouth at
the summit of the neck of a bottle.
If necessary, the stopper may be connected to the bottle, by screwing, or by other
means.. Or the inside bottom of the combined stopper and vessel, may be provided
with a plug, which takes within the mouth of the neck of the said bottle.
The application of my invention to other vessels, differs in no essential respect
from its application to a bottle as described.
Dated this 12th day of May 1890.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Stoppers for Medicine Bottles
and other like: Vessels.
I, ROBERT PERKS YATES, of, Lyndhurst, Gravelly Hill, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, 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 its object, a combined stopper and vessel, or a combined
stopper, drinking vessel, and dose measurer, for medicine and other bottles
and jars.
This said appliance, is particularly adapted for measuring and taking the doses
of physic, without employing spoons and separate vessels for so doing.
This my said invention, consists in combining in one article, a stopper, drinking
vessel, and a dose measurer.
According to my invention, I make the appliance in the form of an enclosed
ended cylinder, or sleeve, with a rim, or flange, at its said enclosed end, and
which rim or flange, forms a rest when the article is directed mouth upwards
for a drinking vessel, and a head when directed mouth downwards as for a
stopper.
I provide the said cylinder, which is simply a vessel, with an open mouth
and base, with graduated dose scales, indicative of a tea-spoon full, a desert-spoon
full, and a table-spoon full. I prefer that the said doses, or the scale indicative
of them, should be represented by annular rings, directed circumferentially around
the combined appliance or article, although the said markings may be made
in the form of short lines, disposed one above another, in the direction of the length
of the said vessel.
The open mouth of the combined stopper and vessel, may be made bell shaped,
or the inside walls may be made to stand away from the sides of the neck of the
bottle, when the same is employed as a stopper.
The inside walls or base of the article, may be fitted with cork, or the same
may be ground true to the outside mouth or flange of the bottle, so as to fit
hermetrically upon the said mouth, when the same is employed as a stopper.
If necessary, the stopper may be connected to the bottle, by screwing, or by other
means. Or the inside bottom of the combined article may be provided with a cork
or like plug, which takes within the mouth or neck of a bottle or vessel.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in side elevation, (with the
neck partly in section) a medicine bottle, provided, with a combined stopper and
drinking vessel, or a combined stopper, drinking vessel, and dose measurer, constructed
and arranged according to one form of my invention. The bottom of the inside
walls of the said combined stopper and drinking, vessel, is provided with a cork
seating, for the purpose of hermetrically sealing the mouth of the bottle, when, the
combined stopper and vessel, is in use as a stopper, although the inside walls of
the said combined stopper and vessel, may be taper ground, and adapted to take
upon a like taper ground lip or flange of the bottle, which may be broadened out
to obtain a greater bearing, and to be more secure when as a stopper.
Figure 2 represents a front elevation of the said combined stopper and drinking
vessel, when employed as a vessel and dose measurer.
Figure 3 is a plan of the same.
Figure 4 represents a larger combined stopper and drinking vessel, applied to
another form of bottle.
Figure 5 represents an elevation of the said vessel, which is preferably made of
glass, or transparent material, and with doses inscribed upon it.
Figure 6 represents a combined outside stopper and vessel, or a combined outside
stopper, vessel, and dose measurer, with a plain interior, and with the flange at the

page_text: summit of the neck, provided with an annular ring, of cork or rubber, alike unto
aërated water bottles, but being upon the outside, instead of upon the inside.
Figure 7 represents a bottle, stoppered by a combined stopper, drinking vessel,
and measurer, or the two former alone, constructed according to another form of
my invention.
In this arrangement, the inside middle of the combined stopper and vessel, has
a cork inserted within it, alike unto a stalk running a part of the way up its
middle, and directed from its base; and which stalk, forms an inside stopper to
the bottle.
In Figures 1 to 5, a is a bottle, and b is a combined stopper and vessel for the
same, or a combined stopper, vessel, and dose measurer. The vessel is made into
a dose measurer, by inscribing upon the same, annular rings, or dose spaces, indicative
of the doses. c is the cork lining, at the inside base, for the purpose of forming a
sound joint, when the appliance is used as a stopper, although the said inside may
be taper ground, or left plain, as aforesaid, thus dispensing with the said lining.
In Figure 6, a is the bottle, a² a flange at the summit of the neck thereof, with
an annular groove a³, running around it, and provided with a cork or rubber
ring c. bis the combined stopper and vessel, 62 the head thereof when as a
stopper, and the base when as a vessel, and 63 a graduated scale, indicative of
the doses.
In Figure 7, the combined stopper and measure is differently constructed to the
preceding figures, inasmuch as the inside of the appliance, has an inside stopper for
the vessel; consisting of a cork plug d, with its inner end fitted into a square
undercut recess 63, in the inside base or head part 63,of the combined appliance. The
cork plug d, is of the shape of the inside of the neck of the bottle a, while by the
base end being forced into the undercut recess, the same is prevented from rotating,
when in use as a stopper.
The application of my invention to jars, and other like vessels, differs in no
essential respect from its application to bottles as herein described.
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 :-
First: A combined stopper, and drinking vessel, (with or without cork seating)
for medicine and other bottles, and jars, as set forth in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Secondly: A combined stopper, drinking vessel, and dose measurer, (with or
without cork seating,) for medicine bottles, as set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Thirdly: A combined stopper and drinking vessel, for medicine and other bottles,
and jars, as set forth in Figure 7.
Dated this 13th day of January 1891
ROBERT PERKS YATES.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.