Improvements in or connected with Bottle Fillers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1691-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Bottle Fillers.
I, LAURENCE GLOVER, of 15, Albion Street, Birmingham, Dram Flask
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention has reference to fillers for dram flasks and scent and other
bottles and the objects of my invention are to so construct the said bottle fillers
that they will form stoppers for the bottles with which they are used and thus be
always ready to hand when the bottle is required to be filled; and so that the said
bottle fillers can be used as drinking cups if required.
In carrying out my invention as applied for instance to a bottle filler for a dram
flask, the bottle filler consists of a cup furnished with a small tubular stem which
passes into the neck of the bottle. The cup is so shaped or formed that it can be
temporarily fixed to the mount of the bottle which can readily be done by pro-
viding an outer projecting rim round the lower part of the cup which is screw
threaded inside or otherwise formed so as to fit and connect around the mount.
The top of the cup is furnished with a lid or cover screwed or otherwise fitted to
the cup
The bottle can readily be filled by first removing or lifting the lid and then
loosening the filler from the bottle mount so as to allow the air to escape.
The said cup part may be made in two or more parts fitting together tele-
scopically so as to оссиру less space.
In order to adapt the bottle filler for use as a drinking cup I provide a base or
foot to which the filler can be fixed by its tubular stem fitting thereto and from
which the filler can readily be removed when it is required for filling bottles.
This part of my invention can also be similarly used with ordinary bottle fillers
which are not adapted for fixing to a bottle.
Dated this 19th day of March 1891
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Bottle Fillers.
I, LAURENCE GLOVER, of 15, Albion Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Dram Flask Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention has reference to fillers for dram flasks and scent and other bottles
and the objects of my invention are to so construct the said bottle fillers that they
will form stoppers for the bottles with which they are used and thus always be
ready to hand when the bottle is required to be filled; and so that the said bottle
fillers can be used as drinking cups if required.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 represents a dram flask with bottle filler combined according to this
invention;
Fig. 2 shews the same with top removed ready for filling ;
Fig. 3 shews a sectional elevation of the same and
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of same as when open for pouring from the finsk or
bottle and
Fig. 3 shews a modification of the same; and
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page_text: In carrying out this invention as applied for instance to a bottle filler for a dram
flask the bottle filler consists of a cup a furnished with a small tubular stem b
which passes into the neck of the bottle or dram flask c. The cup a is so shaped
or formed that it can be temporarily fixed to the mount of the bottle which can
readily be done by providing an outer projecting rim d round the lower part of the
cup which is either screw threaded inside (see Fig. 5) so as to screw on to the
mount of the bottle or, and this is what I prefer, the rim has one or more
vertical slots inside (see Fig. 4) and an inclined surface or inclined surfaces g
which, when the cup is placed in position on the mount (as shewn in Fig. 1) and
turned partly round, engages or engage under a corresponding projection or pro-
jections on the mount and force the cup well down on to the mount.
This con-
nection is similar to that used for the lids of some kinds of metal boxes. There is
a cork seating i under the cup a inside the rim d against which the top of the bottle
seats itself and is thus made tight. The cup a may either be entirely separate
from the mount or the cup a may be attached to the mount by a metal ring which
is hinged at k to the mount and fits easily in a groove round the rim d. is a lid
or cover which is screwed, hinged, or otherwise formed for attachment to the top
of the cup and is provided with a cork seating to close the hole in the stem b.
The bottle can readily be filled by first removing or lifting the lid or cover and then
turning the filler a to disconnect it from the mount e and then slightly lifting the
filler (see Figs. 2 or 5) from the mount so as to allow the air to escape from the
bottle as it is being filled.
In order to adapt the bottle filler a for use as a drinking cup provide a base or
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foot m (shewn separately by Fig. 7) to which the filler can as shewn in Fig. 6 be
fixed by its tubular stem & fitting thereto (the base m is by preference formed with
a stem to fit inside the stem 6) and from which the filler a can readily be removed
when it is required for filling bottles. It will be evident that the filler a can only
be used as a drinking cup when constructed (for instance as shewn in Fig. 5) so as
to be entirely removable from the bottle c.
The foot or base m can, as shewn in Fig. 9, be similarly used with ordinary
bottle fillers (such as that shewn separately by Fig. 8) which are not adapted for
fixing to the bottle.
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 :-
:-
1. A bottle filler having an outer projecting rim adapted to secure the bottle
filler to the mount of a bottle so as to form a combined bottle filler and bottle
stopper, the said bottle filler having a removable liquid tight lid or cover for
closing the same substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawing.
2. The combination with a bottle filler of the kind denoted under Claim 1, or
with an ordinary bottle filler, of a foot or base such as m adapted to fix to and close
the stem of the bottle filler and thus form a drinking cup substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination with a dram flask or other bottle of a bottle filler removably
attached thereto and forming also a bottle stopper substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
4. The construction and combination of the parts forming the combined bottle
filler and bottle stopper and for securing the same to the bottle as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of December 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.