Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 2nd May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 8th June, 1888
I FREDERICK WILLIAM CHILD of The Mount Pontefract in the County of York,
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to medicine bottles and it has for its object to enable the
quantity of medicine to be taken to be speedily and accurately measured out and to
avoid the necessity of employing the adhesive direction labels ordinarily applied to
the bottle by the person dispensing the medicine, and which are liable to become
accidentally detached.
According to my invention the medicine bottle bears on its back surface a number
of horizontal lines or divisions which are moulded with the bottle and equally spaced
so that the contents of the bottle may be accurately measured out without the use of
a spoon or other measure. And on its front surface the bottle is moulded with a
tablet of about the size of an ordinary label bearing the words "Doses every hour,"
or other equivalent words. Each division of the back of the bottle is designed to
represent one dose and the number of doses to be taken each time is to be written
on the tablet which is ground so that it may be written on by an ordinary lead
pencil, space being left so that the number of doses and the number of hours or other
intervals of time which are to elapse may be filled in by the dispenser. The bottle
would preferably be cast with the word "doses" opposite the horizontal divisions
so as to make it clear to the patient that the space between each division represents
a single dose.
F. W. CHILD.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I, FREDERICK WILLIAM CHILD, of The Mount, Pontefract, in the County of York,
Commercial Traveller, 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:-
My Invention relates to medicine bottles; and it has mainly for its object to
supersede the use of the ordinary adhesive written and printed slip labels usually
applied to medicine bottles by the dispenser of the medicine, by providing each bottle
with a permanent direction tablet forming an integral part of the bottle and capable
of being written on for the purpose of supplying such part of the directions or other
indications of the patient's name, etc., as are necessarily variable.
In dispensing medicines, mistakes are liable to occur in labelling the bottles with
the ordinary adhesive slip labels which are apt to become detached, defaced, or other-
wise illegible. The permanent tablet of my invention is partly adapted for use in
connection with permanent graduations on the bottle, as the tablet may be varied at
will to indicate that one or more such parts of the capacity of the bottle corresponds
to a dose. Other incidental advantages are also obtained by the use of the permanent
tablet of my invention-namely that dispensing can be done more quickly, and the
cost of the printed and gummed labels is saved. When so used, accuracy of dose is
ensured as in lieu of tea or table spoonfuls as measures of the intended dose, the
capacity of the bottle is accurately divided into-say-half ounce parts which are.
indicated by graduations on the bottle, whereas the ordinary spoons vary in fluid
capacity and are therefore inaccurate measures for medicinal doses.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specifi-
cation, which represent two modifications of my invention. Figure 1 shews the
bottle having a tablet adapted for use in conjunction with the whole system of
measurement by tea or table spoonsful. Figure 2 shews the tablet used in conjunction
with a bottle graduated as shewn in figuro 3. The same letters of reference indicato
the same parts in all the figures.
According to my invention, the front panel of the bottle has blown or otherwise
moulded or engraved upon it such portions of the directions as are unalterable, and it
is provided with a tablet a upon which the patient's name, number of prescription,
and other variable portion of the directions may be easily written either, with ink, or
with a copying ink or lead pencil.
In figure 1, the words constituting the stock portion of the directions are
engraved on the bottle by sand-blasting with the aid of a stencil in the ordinary way,
so as to shew clearly and legibly in comparatively white letters, or they may be
moulded thereon so as to be clear and distinct. In this case, the ordinary measure
of capacity is retained and the words so appearing on the bottle constitute the full
directions as to the administration of the medicine. These directions may of course,
be varied as required in practice, bottles bearing different directions being in that

page_text: case, kept in stock. The tablet a forms an integral part of the bottle, and has a
tolerably smooth yet roughened surface, which may be easily written on, produced
by sand-blasting with very fine sand. It is about the same size as the ordinary
adhesive label.
In figure 2, the permanent part of the direction requires to be supplemented by
written indications prescribing the number of parts of the bottle which correspond
to the intended dose, and the intervals of time at which it is to be administered, it
being intended that these indications shall be filled in by the dispenser. The roughened
tablet a in this case, extends in proximity to the permanent part of the direction, to
enable these modifications of the directions to be inscribed. The other side of the
bottle is graduated as shewn at b (figure 3) by means of cross-ribs moulded on the
surface of the bottle and has the words "Doses" moulded upon it alongside of
the graduations, so as to make it clear to the patient that each part into which the
bottle is thus divided corresponds to a single dose.
.
The glass of which it is preferred to make these bottles is of the quality known
in the trade as "next best to a flint," as by using this quality, the lettering on the
tablet which is part of the bottle, can be engraved much better, and this glass is
colored a palish blue so as to cause the writing on the tablet to shew up boldly
thereon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The application, to a medicine bottle, of a roughened white tablet forming an
integral part of the bottle and adapted to be written on with ink or pencil, in com-
bination with an engraved, moulded, or otherwise permanently applied direction or
partial direction, as and for the purpose specified.
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