IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF EARTHENWARE BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AËRATED OR EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hiram Codd, of Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF EARTHENWARE BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AËRATED OR EFFERVESCING
LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 12th March 1875, and dated the 8th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hiram Codd at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th October 1874.
I, HIRAM CODD, of Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EARTHENWARE BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AËRATED OR
EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
In the Specifications of former Patents granted to me I have described
the manufacture of bottles for containing aërated and effervescing liquids
to be closed by a globular stopper held by the pressure within against
an elastic ring contained in a groove formed around the neck of the

page_text: bottle, and I have also described the making such bottles smaller at the
mouth than the ball itself so that the ball cannot escape from the bottle.
My present Invention relates to the manufacture of bottles of this
description from earthenware. For this purpose a bottle is moulded
from clay in the ordinary manner, such bottle when moulded being of
much larger dimensions than the bottle after it has been baked or burnt.
After such moulded bottles have been allowed to dry for a few days they
are placed into a lathe, and a groove is cut around the interior of the
neck. A globular ball of clay in a drier state than the clay forming the
bottle is also dropped in. The bottle and stopper may then be still
further dried until they are ready for baking or burning. After the
bottles have been baked or burnt in the ordinary manner the orifice of
the neck of the bottle will by reason of its having contracted more than
the ball have become smaller than the ball so that the ball cannot
escape. When an elastic ring has been introduced into the groove
formed around the neck the bottle is ready for filling.
The shoulder of the bottle or that part where the neck joins the body
is made at right angles, or nearly so, with the body, so that in emptying
a bottle the ball after having been pushed back from the mouth shall
not again roll back to it but shall be arrested by the shoulder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hiram Codd in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HIRAM CODD,
of Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Hiram Codd, Her special license
that I, the said Hiram Codd, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Hiram Codd, 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

page_text: 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 THE
MANUFACTURE OF EARTHENWARE BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AËRATED OR EFFERVESCING
LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Hiram
Codd, 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.
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 Hiram Codd, 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, that is to say:
:-
In the Specifications of former Patents granted to me I have described
the manufacture of bottles for containing aërated and effervescing
liquids to be closed by a globular stopper held by the pressure within
against an elastic ring contained in a groove formed around the neck of
the bottle, and I have also described the making such bottles smaller at
the mouth than the ball itself so that the ball cannot escape from the
bottle. My present Invention relates to the manufacture of bottles of
this description from earthenware. For this purpose a bottle is moulded
from clay in the ordinary manner, such bottle when moulded being of
much larger dimensions than the bottle after it has been baked or
burnt. After such moulded bottles have been allowed to dry for a few
days they are placed into a lathe and a groove is cut around the interior
of the neck. A globular ball of clay in a drier state than the clay
forming the bottle is also dropped in, the bottle and stopper may then
be still further dried until they are ready for baking or burning. After
the bottles have been baked or burnt in the ordinary manner the orifice
of the neck of the bottle will by reason of its having contracted more
than the ball have become smaller than the ball so that the ball cannot
escape. When an elastic ring has been introduced into the groove
formed around the neck the bottle is ready for filling.
.
The shoulder of the bottle or that part where the neck joins the body

page_text: a bottle the ball after having been pushed back from the mouth shall
not again roll back to it but shall be arrested by the shoulder; or to
prevent the ball thus rolling back when the contents of the bottle are
being poured out the neck may be shaped in the manner described in
the Specifications of former Patents granted to me.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim, the
manufacture of earthenware bottles for containing aërated or effervescing
liquids, substantially in the manner herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hiram Codd, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.