IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE CASES FOR INKING OR MARKING THE LINNEN
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Gustave Toiray, of Paris, Boulevard de
Strasbourg, No. 23, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOTTLE CASES FOR INKING OR MARKING THE LINNEN."
Scaled the 23rd May 1876, and dated the 10th December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Gustave
Toiray at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th December 1875.
I, CHARLES GUSTAVE TOIRAY, of Paris, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
No. 23, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE CASES FOR INKING OR MARKING THE LINNEN," to
be as follows:-
"
The small phials which are used to contain ink for marking linen are
generally enclosed in wooden cases, on the covers of which the portions
of linen to be marked are usually laid, these covers forming rests for the
linen while it is marked.
In order to produce a neat and precise mark on the linen it must be
well stretched.

page_text: My Invention relates to means of effecting the required stretching of
the linen over the cover of the phial case and to the arrangement of the
case in such a manner that the marking liquid can be shaken in its phial
without spilling or breaking the phial.
For the purpose of stretching the linen I shape the cover of the phial
case to the form of a conical frustrum flat on the top, and having a
little under the top a rounded groove cut in its periphery. I lay the
linen on the flat top of the case and then force down on it by hand a
caoutchouc ring until the said ring seats itself in the rounded groove,
which has the effect of straining the linen tightly on the top of the case
presenting a flat surface for marking.
.
To prevent the liquid in the phial from being spilt when it is shaken;
and to save the phial itself from shocks, I make the phial case some-
what deeper than the phial, and place in the bottom of the case a
helical spring, on which the phial rests, and which presses the phial
upwards against the cover of the case when that is put on, the cork
of the phial being thus kept tightly in and the phial itself being
prevented from shaking within the case when the latter is shaken.
Around the phial holes or recesses can be formed in the case to receive
marking pens or penholders.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Gustave Toiray in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
GUSTAVE TOIRAY, of Paris, Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Gustave Toiray,
Her special license, that I, the said Charles Gustave Toiray, my.exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles

page_text: which has the effect of straining the linen tightly on the top of the case,
presenting a flat surface for marking.
To prevent the liquid in the phial from being spilt when it is shaken,
and to save the phial itself from shocks, I make the phial case some-
what deeper than the phial, and place in the bottom of the case a
helical spring, on which the phial rests, and which presses the phial
upwards against the cover of the case when that is put on, the cork of
the phial being thus kept tightly in and the phial itself being prevented.
from shaking within the case when the latter is shaken. Around the
phial holes or recesses can be formed in the case to receive marking pens
or penholders. .

page_text: Second. The use of a helical spring situated below the phial in the
case for holding the latter securely, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Gustave Toiray, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
CH. ARMENGAUD,
Civil Engineer,
Boulevard de Strasbourg, 23,
à Paris.
C. G. TOIRAY. (L.S.)