Improved Means and Appliances for Indicating by Touch or Sight the Difference between Poison, Lotion, and other Bottles or their Equivalents.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances for Indicating by Touch or Sight
the Difference between Poison, Lotion, and other Bottles or their
Equivalents.
I, FREDERICK HOWARD ROSHER, of Ambleside, Croydon Road, Beckenham,
Kent, Cement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention relates to improved means and appliances for indicating by
touch or sight the difference between poison, lotion, and other bottles, or their
equivalents.
To carry my invention into practice, I provide a tablet, label, ticket, or stamp
preferably with a corkscrew attached for insertion into the cork of a bottle to
project above and constitute part of the cork, so that both can be moved together.
The tablet, label, ticket, or stamp may be formed of any material but I prefer an
enamel face which may be of round, square, oval, or other shape, or of ring
formation, and having a word, or an initial, or some other indication of what the
bottle, or like vessel contains, be it a poison, a lotion, or other chemical, or medical
production.
The tablet, label, ticket, or stamp with its cork or stopper may be in connection
with a cap or capsule, the intention being that in no case can a bottle containing an
injurious ingredient be mistaken, if properly corked and labelled as suggested, and
the contents given to a patient.
Instead of a corkscrew the label may be otherwise affixed to the cork.
The invention is chiefly intended to apply to patent medicines and similar
decoctions supplied by chemists.
:
Dated this 0th 1
7.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Frederick Howard Rosher.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances for Indicating by Touch or Sight
the Difference between Poison, Lotion, and other Bottles or their
Equivalents.
I, FREDERICK HOWARD ROSHER, of Ambleside, Croydon Road, Beckenham,
Kent, Cement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what mauner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improved means and appliances for indicating by
touch or sight the difference between poison, lotion, and other bottles, or their
equivalents.
To carry my invention into practice, I provide a tablet, label, ticket, or stamp
preferably with a corkscrew attached for insertion into the cork of a bottle to
project above and constitute part of the cork, so that both can be moved together.
The tablet, label, ticket, or stamp may be formed of any material but I prefer an
enamel face which may be of round, square, oval, or other shape, or of ring
formation, and having a word, or an initial, or some other indication of what the
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page_text: bottle, or like vessel contains, be it a poison, a lotion, or other chemical, or medical
production.
Examples of my invention are shown in the annexed drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, 4
and 5.
A, A, are the corks or stoppers. B, B, the tablets, labels, or equivalents
secured by screw or other means, or by moulding as in the case of glass or pottery
stoppers as to constitute a single article for identification by touch, or by sight
when the bottle C is handled for the cork or stopper to be removed.
According to Figure 1, the tablet of metal foil or stamped brass is rimmed on a
wire D which is twisted and wormed like a corkscrew for passing into and through
a cork, its end being turned up to fix the cork.
Figure 2 represents the tablet secured to the cork by a pin D and washer E.
Figure
is supposed to be a moulded glass or pottery stopper A and label B
combined, and Figure 4 a view of a tablet B with a capsule F secured by splayed
out wires D to a cork A.
Figure 5 represents a glass or moulded stopper A with a tablet or label B secured
to its neck by a wire D.
Any indication of the contents of the bottle can be stamped, or otherwise
applied on or to the tablet, such as raised letters, numerals, or symbols, and if
desired the tablet or label holder can be loosely connected to the bottle neck by a
cord or a chain G, so that should the cork be accidentally not returned to the neck
of the bottle, the next person could readily detect the omission and easily read the
label to prevent a mistake as to the bottle's contents.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The application, use, or employment of tablet corks, or stoppers of the kind
described and substantially as represented on the annexed drawings for bottles, so
that by sight, or touch the nature of the contents can be readily detected, as
set forth.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Frederick Howard Rosher.