Improvements relating to Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1896
Improvements relating to Bottles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Eirm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
Bottles are, as is well known, liable, particularly when being uncorked, to be
spoilt owing to bits of glass bursting from the bottle neck. This drawback not
only spoils the bottle for further use, but involves also a danger, as small bits of
glass get into the beverage that is poured out, and may thus be swallowed along
with the same and be the cause of wounds and disorders in the digestive organs.
This invention prevents the bursting of glass bits by providing the bottle neck
with a thimble of metal or of any other tough and durable material. As shown in
Figure 1 of the annexed drawing, this thimble may have the form of a sleeve A,
tightly fitting to the bottle neck, so that it cannot be moved in any direction. The
outside of the bottle neck may suitably, as shown in the drawing, be made
cylindrical, with a projection around which the sleeve fits, the lower edge B of the
sleeve being bent inwards. The top of the bottle is covered by the flange C of
the sleeve whose inside portion D is conical, thus corresponding with the conical
expansion of the mouth of the bottle. In this manner the thimble is held tight to
the neck and is not liable to be torn off when the bottle is being uncorked, the cork
not getting into contact with the flange C. The form shown in Figure 2 differs
from the first mentioned one by the bottom portion of the sleeve being bent into a
groove E in the enlarged neck of the bottle. The forms of sleeves here described
are of course only intended as samples of construction, as the sleeve may also be
formed and fixed differently. The thickness need not be considerable, 0·5 or 1 mm.
will as a rule suffice. The sleeve may either be cast round the neck, or it may be
drawn or shrunk over it.
Bottles provided with such a thimbled neck are of course generally stronger
than ordinary bottles, hence the use of this thimble involves considerable saving.
It must also be mentioned that this sleeve affords a very convenient space for
inscriptions about the contents of the bottle, about the firm or other particulars
which are preserved intact after the bottle is emptied, this not being the case with
inscriptions on corks or on labels.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A bottle having its mouth or neck provided with a surrounding cap or thimble
of metal or other tough material fixed and tightly fitting to the glass, serving to
protect the glass from being broken by the corking or uncorking of the bottle or
other manipulations of the same.
2. The combination of a glass bottle and a metal cap or thimble fitted to and

page_text: fixed outside of the neck of the bottle surrounding its mouth and serving as an
armour to protect the glass from receiving ruptures.
3. A bottle mouth protector consisting of a tightly fitting sleeve or thimble of
tough material fixed on the outside of the top of the bottle neck and having an
upper flange or rim covering the top edge of the neck.
4. A bottle mouth protector consisting of a tightly fitting sleeve or thimble of
tough material surrounding the outside of the bottle neck and fixed to the same by
means of an upper flange or rim extending over the top edge of the neck, and a
lower flange or rim fitting underneath a shoulder on the bottle neck.
Dated this 16th day of November 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.