Improvements in or relating to Bottles or like Vessels.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 19th Oct, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
Improvements in or relating to Bottles or like Vessels.
I, BURNHAM ROSWELL BENNER, of No. 48 Kirk Street, Lowell, Massa-
chusetts, United States of America, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention aud in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to bottles or like vessels of that class having a device or
apparatus carried by the stopper or cork, by which a predetermined amount of the
liquid contents of the bottle may be withdrawn, the said bottles being especially
designed to contain medicines.
The object of this invention is to provide bottles of the class referred to with a
novel construction of measuring apparatus, by which a predetermined amount of
the medicine contained in the bottle may be measured off without contact of the
medieme with the finger or hand of the nurse or operator, which is especially
desirable in the sick-100m for the sake of cleanliness and also to avoid danger
of injury to the use or operator from poisonous mediemes, and also by means
of which device substantially the entire contents may be withdrawn from the
bottle.
In accordance with this invention the stopper or cork of the bottle is provided
with a suitable hole through which extends a tube, preferably of glass, having
communicating with it a chamber located outside of the cork, the said chamber
being provided with a nipple having a capillary opening, foi a purpose as will be
described The nipple and the walls of the chamber ieferied to will preferably
be made of glass in one piece with the tube, which, for the best results, projects it
substantially short distance below the cork or stopper into the neck of the bottle
and terminates above the liquid and preferably within the neck of the bottle, so
that substantially all of the contents of the bottle may be withdrawn.
These and other features of this invention will be pointed out in the clauns at
the end of this Specification
Figure represents a bottle embodying this invention in its normally elevated
position
Figure 2 represents the bottle shown in Figure 1 as invented and shows a
sufficient portion of a hand to enable the operation of withdrawing a predetermined
quantity of liquid contents to be understood, and
Figure 3, represents in elevation the stopper or cork with its attached measuring
device the normally elevated position ready to discharge the predetermined
quantity of the liquid
The bottle a, of glass or other suitable material and of any desired size, is
provided with the usual cork or stopper a¹, which, in accordance with this invention,

page_text: 18 provided with a suitable hole or opening extended through it, and into and
through which hole or opening is inserted a tube b, preferably of glass, having an
enlarged portion or bulb above the stopper to form a chamber b³, which
commumcates with the bottle a through the tube &
The bulb is provided with an air inlet opening, which, in accordance with this
invention, is made as a fine or capillary opening on passage b³, extended through
a nipple attached to the bulb bi The bulb and the tube & may be made of
any desired or required size o capacity to hold a predetermined quantity or amount
of the quid contained in the bottle, which liquid may and is supposed to be
medicine Normally the bottle a stand upright in the position shown in Figure 1,
but when it is desired to administer a dose of medicine to a patient, the Durse or
other operator places a finger over the nipple and inverts the bottle substantially
into the position represented in Figure 2.
When the bottle a is inserted with the finger on the capillary opening o
apple, the medicine & flows through the tube into the chamber and fills the
same, forcing the contained a back into the bottle; but the air in the capillary
opening on nipple is not forced out, but remains to form a bubble, which acts as a
buffer or oushion between the liquid in the chamber and the finger of the nuise or
operator, as represented in Figures 2 and 3 by the blank space in the capillary
opening. The effect of this is three fold, insuring cleanliness of the operator,
preserving the medicine on other liquid from contamination, and preventing possible
injury to the nurse or other operator when administering medicine of a poisonous
nature, thereby insuring safety to the nurse in the performance of hier or B duty,
which results are exceedingly desirable with an apparatus of this character. The
measing device has now been filled and may be emptied into a tumbler or other
suntable receptacle or permitted to run directly into the mouth of the patient by
removing the cork a' from the bottle while still holding the finger on the nipple, as
represented in Figure 3, and when the cork and the measuring device catied
thereby have been removed into the proper or desued position for discharging its
contents, the finger is removed from the nipple and air admitted into the capillary
opening, which permits the medicine to How by gravity into the tumbler of other
receptacle. The measuring device herein shown may be supposed to hold an
amount of medicine equal to a teaspoonful, and the said device insures the proper
or picscribed quantity of medicine being administered to the patient The
measuring device, by reason of the mapple, also possesses the additional, and to me
incidental, function of being used to administer the medicine in drop, and when it
is desired to use the device as a dropper, the device, after being filled or partially
filled, is tipped or inclined with the mpple downward, and the medicine permitted
to be discharged in drops from the capillary opening in the nipple.
In order that the bottle a may be emptied of substantially its entire contents, it
is necessary that the tube b should not be of such length as to extend to near the
bottom of the bottle, as in the case of oilets and diappers, in which the contents of
the bottle, are withdiawn by the insertion of a tube into the bottle and then with-
drawing the tube from the bottle; but, on the other hand, it is desuable that the
tube b should be made short, and, for the best results, the end of the tube may be
substantially flush with the bottom of the cork, and it may even be made of such
length that it will not project through the cork or stopper, so that the bottle may
be entuely emptied of its contents though the said tube.
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
claun is:-
1. The combination, with a bottle provided with a cork or stopper having an
opening extended through it, of a measuring device cared by the stopper or cork
and consisting of a tube inserted in said opening and terminating above the body
portion of the bottle so as to permit substantially the entire contents of the bottle
to be withdrawn through the said tube as described, a bulb attached to the said

page_text: tube and in communication therewith, and a nipple attached to the bulb and
provided with a capillary opening extended the length of the said nipple, for the
purpose specified.
2. The combination, with a bottle provided with a cork or stopper having a hole
01 opening extended through it, of a liquid-neasuring device consisting of a glass
tube inserted through said opening to attach the device to the cork or stopper and
terminating within the neck of the bottle to permit substantially the entire contents
of the bottle to be removed through the said tube, and a bulb integral with the
said tube forming a liquid-receiving chamber, and provided with an air-inlet,
substantially as described.
Dated the 19th day of October 1895.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.