Improvements in and relating to Bottles and other Vessels for Containing Poisons.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1896-Accepted, 18th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in and relating to Bottles and other Vessels for
Containing Poisons.
I CATHERINE CRIGHTON of Invercloy, Ashton-on-Mersey, in the County of
Chester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My said invention relates to improved means for more readily differentiating and
distinguishing bottles and other vessels containing poisons from other vessels the
contents of which are harmless. My invention may be used either separately and
apart from the distinguishing means at present in use, or it may be used as an
auxiliary and intensified warning. Although many fatalities which take place
from the accidental imbibing of poison are the result of gross carelessness, it may
be said that a very large proportion of such accidents occur during the night
or in the dark when the usual distinguishing characteristics of poison bottles are
not so easily appreciated. To guard against this class of accident, I make use of
luminous 'paint or paste or other phosphorescent compound having the property
of giving out in darkness light imbibed during the day. I might apply such
luminous paint to poison vessels in a variety of ways. For instance 1 might
entirely or partially coat the bottle with it or I might apply it to the cork; or
print the label with the luminous compound. I might also have recessed letters
in the glass or material of the bottle or vessel for example the word "poison" and
fill in such letters with luminous paint or paste or might form the vessel with
a similarly recessed or other design such as a skull and cross bones or the like,
picked out in luminous paint. In short my invention consists in the application
of luminous paint or material to such bottles or vessels containing poison or to the
corks or labels or other parts or appendages thereof so that even in the dark no
mistake can possibly be made. The said luminous paint may either be used alone
with bottles of special design or it may be used in conjunction with bottles having
distinguishing characteristics easily recognised in daylight.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Bottles and other Vessels for
Containing Poisons.
I CATHERINE CRIGHTON of Invercloy, Ashton-on-Mersey, in the County of
Chester, 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 that is to say :-
My said invention relates to improved means for more readily differentiating and
distinguishing bottles and other vessels containing poisons from other vessels the
contents of which are harmless.

page_text: My invention may be used either separately and apart from the distinguishing
means at present in use, or it may be used as an auxiliary and intensified
warning.
Although many fatalities which take place from the accidental imbibing of
poison are the result of gross carelessness, it may be said that a very large propor-
tion of such accidents occur during the night or in the dark when the usual
distinguishing characteristics of poison bottles are not so easily appreciated. To
guard against this class of accident, I make use of luminous paint or paste or other
compound or substance having the property of giving out light in darkness.
I might apply such luminous paint or substance to poison vessels in a variety of
ways. For instance I might entirely or partially coat the bottle with it or apply
it in strips between the ridges usually found on poison bottles or I might apply it
to the cork, or print the label with the luminous compound.
I might also have recessed letters in the glass or material of the bottle or vessel
for example the word "poison" and fill in such letters with luminous paint or paste
or I might form the vessel with a similarly recessed or other design such as a skull
and cross bones or the like, picked out in luminous paint.
In short my invention consists in the application of luminous paint or material to
such bottles or vessels containing poison or to the corks or labels or other parts or
appendages thereof so that even in the dark no mistake can possibly be made.
The said luminous paint or substance may either be used alone with bottles of
special design or it may be used in conjunction with bottles having distinguishing
characteristics easily recognised in daylight.
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.
The application of luminous paint or luminous substance to bottles and vessels
containing or intended to contain poisons or to the corks, parts or appendages of
such bottles and vessels whereby the same are more easily distinguished in the
dark
Dated the 16th day of June 1890.
For the Applicant,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5 John Dalton Street, Manchester, Chartered Patent Agents.