IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR VESSELS FOR PERFUMES, MEDICINES, AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE STOPPERS OF SUCH BOTTLES OR VESSELS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Fred Lewis, of the Firm of Fred Lewis and
Company, of the City of Dublin, in Ireland, Manufacturing Per-
fumers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR VESSELS FOR
PERFUMES, MEDICINES, AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE STOPPERS OF SUCH
BOTTLES OR VESSELS."
Sealed the 14th September 1869, and dated the 4th June 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Fred Lewis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th June 1869.
I, FRED LEWIS, of the Firm of Fred Lewis and Company, of the City
of Dublin, in Ireland, Manufacturing Perfumers, do hereby declare tho
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR VESSELS FOR
PERFUMES, MEDICINES, AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE STOPPERS OF SUCH BOTTLES
OR VESSELS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in constructing bottles or vessels for per-
fumes, medicines, or other liquids, and the stoppers thereof, in such
manner that the liquid contents of such bottles or vessels may be

page_text: sprinkled, scattered, dropped, or distributed without removing the
stopper. This may be performed as follows:-One or more holes are
made in the neck of the bottle or near the mouth of the vessel, and the
shank or body of the stopper is grooved, channelled, or recessed at one
or more parts thereof. When the stopper is so turned as to present its
grooves, channels, or recesses to the holes in the neck, passage is
afforded to the liquid, so that by shaking, inclining, or moving the
bottle the liquid may be sprinkled, dropped, scattered, or supplied. Or
the stopper may be wholly or partially hollow with holes in it, which
when brought against the holes in the neck allow the liquid to pass.
These holes are closed by turning the stopper so as to bring the plain
or closed part of the stopper against them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Fred Lewis in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM, THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRED
LEWIS, of the Firm of Fred Lewis and Company, of the City of Dublin,
in Ireland, Manufacturing Perfumers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Fred Lewis, Her special licence that
I, the said Fred Lewis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Fred Lewis, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man,, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR VESSELS, FOR
PERFUMES, MEDICINES, AND OTHER LIQUIDS, AND IN THE STOPPERS, OF SUCH BOTTLES.
OR VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Fred
Lewis, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
י

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Fred Lewis, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:
This Invention consists in constructing bottles or vessels for per-
fumes, medicines, or other liquids, and the stoppers thereof, in such
manner that the liquid contents of such bottles or vessels may be
sprinkled, scattered, dropped, or distributed without removing the
stopper. This may be performed as follows:-One or more holes are
made in the neck of the bottle or near the mouth of the vessel, and
thic shank or body of the stopper is grooved, channelled, or recessed at
one or more parts thereof. When the stopper is so turned as to present
its grooves, channels, or recesses to the holes in the neck passage is
afforded to the liquid, so that by shaking, inclining, or moving the
bottle the liquid may be sprinkled, dropped, scattered, or distributed.
Or in another arrangement the stopper may be wholly or partially
hollow with holes in it, which when brought against the holes in the
neck allow the liquid to pass. These holes are closed by turning the
plain or closed part of the stopper against them.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify arrangements wherein my
improvements are carried into effect.
In all the Figures A, a, is the bottle; A. being the body of the bottle,
and a the neck thereof; and, B, B*, is the stopper.
Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figure 2, a vertical section of a bottle
constructed according to one of my improved arrangements; Figure 3
is an clevation of the stopper B, B*. b, b, are small holes in the neck a,
they pass through the neck; c is a groove or channel formed in one side
of the stopper in the lower or plug portion B*, B*, thereof, that is to
say, the part. which enters the neck of the bottle.
When the stopper
is in the bottle and so turned that its groove c meets or comes
against the holes b, b, then on tilting and shaking the bottle portions
of the liquid which it contains will be dropt or sprinkled through
the holes b, b, which they attain from the body of the bottle by

page_text: passing along the groove c. When the stopper is so turned in the neck
that a solid or blank portion thereof (that is, a part in which the groove
is not situated,) is presented to the holes b, b, the groove c necessarily
comes against a solid blank or non-perforated part of the neck a, and
the bottle is then completely stopped, and the holes b, b, are closed.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of the bottle shewing a modification;
Figure 5, a vertical section of its stopper. Here b is a hole formed
through the neck of the bottle, as in Figure 1. The lower or plug
portion B of the stopper B is hollow, and there is no channel or
groove c therein, but instead thereof a hole d is formed through the
part B*.
When the stopper is so turned that the holes b, d, come
together the liquid can be sprinkled through the thoroughfare thus
formed. The holes b, d, are closed by turning the stopper so as to
separate them or bring them apart from each other.
Figures 6 and 7 shew another modification. Figure 6, vertical section
of the bottle; Figure 7, elevation of the stopper. Here the stopper,
which is solid, has a groove c in it, like the modification shewn in
Figure 3, except that the long portion of the groove, Figure 7, terminates
in a round portion c*. There are no holes b in the neck a of the
bottle A, but instead thereof there is a groove f on the inner surface
of the neck a. When the grooves c and fare brought together or against
each other by turning the stopper accordingly part of the liquid contents
of the bottle can be dropt or sprinkled, a way for the same being
made by the channel formed by the grooves f, c.
Figure 8 is a vertical elevation of a bottle and stopper, and Figure 9, 1
vertical section of bottle shewing a modification of the last-described
arrangement; Figure 10, transverse section of the bottle through the
line x, y, of Figure 9; Figure 11, elevation of the stopper. The difference
between this modification and that shewn in Figures 6 and 7 consists
in a slight variation in the positions of the grooves c, f, and also the
groove fis formed by or in a recess, swelling, or projection g at the side
of the neck a. h, Figures 3, 8, and 11, is a knob on the stopper directly
in a line with and over the groove c, it is intended to enable the
user to ascertain, even in the dark, when he has turned the stopper into
proper position for allowing the contents of the bottle to be dropt or
scattered as above described.
Figure 12 is a vertical elevation, and Figure 13, plan of a modification
of a stopper in which f*,*, are semi-cylindrical grooves formed in the

page_text: lower or plug portion of the stopper and extending to the top edge
thereof. There
There may be corresponding grooves on the inner side of the
neck of the bottle, but these are not essential. When the stopper is in
the bottle the top of the channels f*, f*, extend to or nearly to the
top edge of the neck of the bottle, and when the bottle is tilted and
shaken the contents can be dropped or distributed through the channels
thus formed by these grooves f*,f*. The holes b and channels f, c, f*,
may be made of any determined sectional areas, so that the quantity of
liquid discharged through them may be regulated as desired.
The stoppers in all the Figures except Figure 5 are solid at the plug
portion B*.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that my Invention relates
to bottles or vessels for holding perfumes, medicines, and other liquids,
and in the stoppers of such bottles or vessels, and I declare that I claim
as of my said Invention, forming, producing, constructing, or manu-
facturing the said bottles or vessels, and the stoppers thereof in such
manner that the liquid contents of the bottles or vessels may be
sprinkled, scattered, dropped, or distributed without removing the
stopper, substantially in the manner and for the purpose above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fred Lewis, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
GEORGE W. LEWIS.
FRED LEWIS. (L.S.)