Drop Catching Device for Bottles and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
Drop Catching Device for Bottles and the like.
I, ADOLPH SCHRÖDER, of 1, Petrosilienstrasse, Göttingen, in the German-
Empire, Inventor do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained.
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is a drop catching device which has for its object
to catch the drops left at the mouth of the vessel or bottle containing a liquid
when the latter is being poured out. Owing to this device not only is the loss
resulting from the liquid running down outside the vessel from the mouth of the
latter but the bottom of the bottle is prevented from getting soiled.
The subject matter of this application is shown in the accompanying drawings
wherein
Figure 1 is a bottle provided with my improved drop catching device, Figure 2 is
a longitudinal section of the latter,
Figure 3 is a side view of the stopper and
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Figure 4 is a cross section of the stopper on line x x of Figure 1.
This device consists of an ordinary ring formed by thickening the walls of the
neck of the bottle or other vessel, this ring forming a groove or gutter upon a
screw like inclination around the neck of the vessel. At the deepest part of this
inclined groove or gutter the side of the neck of the bottle is radially broken off..
The liquid running down the neck of the vessel is caught by this slantly arranged
ring and runs through the aforesaid radial breach 6 of the neck back into the
vessel.
The size and the form of the opening & depend upon the consistency of the
liquid and the object for which the bottle or vessel is intended. This opening is
small and has the form of a slit for thin and readily moveable liquids; it is larger
and has a cuneform shape when the liquid is heavy and somewhat viscous.
To permit the catching of drops by means of such rings when they are applied
to bottles provided with stoppers as illustrated in the example shown in the
drawings. The stopper which closes the bottle is provided at its lower half with
a recess extending to the same height as the breach or cleft in the neck of the
bottle. When the stopper is so placed in the neck of the bottle that its recess is.
opposite the opening in the walls of this neck the drops can readily run down into
the bottle through the gutter formed, from the middle of which protrudes a
protuberance, of prismatic form. To protect the contents of the vessel from the
outer air it is merely sufficient to give a slight turn to the stopper. In vessels
made of opaque material such as porcelain or stoneware for instance it will be
advisable to indicate outside the position of the recess in the stopper by means of
a dot or dash. It may be moreover remarked that instead of one breach 6 several
breaches may be provided which obviously implies that the ring a would be partly
composed of several single screw liked formed rings, at the lowest point of which
the above mentioned holes would be found.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A ring or drop catching device for catching the liquid running down sidewise

page_text: from the neck of a vessel containing a liquid, which ring is formed slantly around
the neck of the vessel and communicates through an opening with the inside of
the vessel or bottle.
Dated this 24th day of February 1897.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.