A New or Improved Ornamental Bottle-cover.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1594-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Ornamental Bottle-cover.
We, ADOLPH TUCк, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons, of 72 and 73,
Coleman Street, in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, and WASHINGTON
SHAW, of 84, Fetter Lane, in the City of London, Lithographic Artist, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Our invention relates to an ornamental and decorative device for placing round,
or over beer, wine and other like bottles, when the latter are put on the table,
whereby the unsightly and sometimes more or less dirty looking bottle becomes a
tasteful decoration.
According to our invention we form our cover of rather thick paper, or thin
pasteboard, or the like, and color, or print, the sheet, or piece thereof, with some
suitable picture; device, coloring, or the like, and bend it round with the decorative
side outwards so as to form a cylindriform-envelope, of size to fit easily over a
bottle, and by any convenient method, fasten the two edges together.
I prefer to cut or divide the upper portion of it by a series of vertical cuts,
extending some inches downwards from the upper edge, and I may make each of
the tongues, or slips, so found narrower at the top and more or less pointed, so as to
enable the upper part to be compressed over the shoulders of the bottle and to follow
the shape thereof and I may sometimes form two or more of such tongues of greater
size than the others, so as to represent handles, or other devices of an ornamental
character, or otherwise vary the decorative treatment of the shape as well as of
the surface.
The cover may conveniently be printed with a blank space on which may be
inscribed the name of the contained beer, wine, or other beverage, or a detached
I may
label for the same purpose may be suspended, or otherwise, from the cover;
also so cut the paper wrapper as to form, near the edges which meet when it is
round a bottle, tongues and openings, by means of which the edges may be secured
together by the passing of the tongues through the openings, thus enabling the
cover to be opened out and laid flat for storage, packing and transport, and to be
put into shape to cover a bottle quickly and with very little trouble.
Ribbons and bows may be used, if desired, to further decorate the cover and to
draw the upper portion round the bottles neck.
Dhe 17th day of March 1804
A New or Improved Ornamental Bottle-cover.
We, ADOLPH Tuck, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons, of 72 and 73
Coleman Street, in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, and WASHINGTON
SHAW, of 84, Fetter Lane, in the City of London, Lithographic Artist 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:-
Our invention relates to an ornamental and decorative device for placing round

page_text: or over beer, wine and other like bottles when the latter are put on the table,
whereby the unsightly and sometimes more or less dirty looking bottle becomes a
tasteful decoration.
According to our invention we form our cover of rather thick paper, or thin
pasteboard, or the like and color, or print, the sheet, or piece, thereof with some
suitable picture, device, coloring, or the like, and bend it round with the decorative
side outwards so as to form a cylindriform envelope of size to fit easily over a
bottle, and, by any convenient method, fasten the two edges together.
We prefer to cut or divide the upper portion of it by a series of vertical cuts
extending some distance downwards from the upper edge and we may make each
of the tongues, or slips, so formed narrower at the top and more or less pointed,
so as to enable the upper part to be compressed over the shoulders of the bottle
and to follow the shape thereof and we may sometimes form two, or more, of such
tongues of greater size than the others so as to represent handles or other devices
of an ornamental character, or otherwise vary the decorative treatment of the shape
as well as of the surface.
The cover may conveniently be printed with a blank space on which may be
inscribed the name of the contained beer, wine, or other beverage, or a detached
label for the same purpose may be suspended, or otherwise, from the cover; we
may also so cut the paper wrapper as to form, near the edges which meet when it
is round a bottle, tongues and openings by means of which the edges may be
secured together by the passing of the tongues through the openings, thus
enabling the cover to be opened out and laid flat for storage, packing and
transport and to be put into shape to cover a bottle quickly and with very little
trouble.
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Ribbons and bows may be used, if desired, to further decorate the cover and to
draw the upper portion round the bottle's neck.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings:
Fig. 1, is a representation of one of our said bottle covers before it is wrapped
round a bottle.
Fig. 2 represents a bottle with its cover on and ready for the table.
The cover A is printed, or otherwise, decorated, preferably in colours and
generally with reference to the shape design of the upper portion which obviously
affords much scope for artistic treatment both as to shape and surface decoration.
b. b. are slots through which the tongues c. c. are passed when the cover is
to be placed on a bottle, and which serve to keep the two edges of the cover
together.
The ribbon d passed through a series of eyes f,f, in the cover serves to draw it
round the neck of the bottle and also to add to the decorative effect.
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 :
1. Decorative covers for beer, wine and other like bottles, constructed substan-
tially in the manner and for the purpose described.
2. Paper and pasteboard covers for beer wine and other like bottles, such covers
being of an ornamental and decorative character substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown in the drawings.
3. Covers of pasteboard paper, or like material for beer, wine, and other like
bottles arranged to fasten round the latter and contract round the neck thereof
shaped, ornamented and decorated substantially as described and indicated and for
the purpose of increasing the decorative effect of the dining table.
Dated the 22nd day of December 1894.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.