Improved Means of Labelling or Trade Marking Liquids in Transparent Containers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1895--Accepted, 8th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Labelling or Trade Marking Liquids in
Transparent Containers.
I, HENRY JAMES MILLER, of 15, Rue Vignon, Paris, France, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to an improved mode of applying a trade mark to liquids
contained in glass bottles or other transparent receptacles, and it is particularly
applicable to alcoholic liquids, liqueurs, wines, beers, aerated waters, natural or
artificial, and other beverages, whether fermented or not, pharmaceutical, perfumery,
and toilet preparations and dentifrices, and also to animal and vegetable oils,
spirits, and extracts.
The invention consists in suspending in the body of the liquid itself a medal or
coin-like lubel or tablet which is seen by transparence through the body of the
liquid and the containing vessel and which is always immersed to a constant depth
whether the bottle be quite or only partly filled.
The medal-like label or tablet would bear an embossed, impressed, engraved, or
other inscription or device relating to, or indicative of, the nature or quality of the
liquid, and would be composed of a solid substance, not capable of being acted on
by, and of greater specific gravity than, the liquid, and combined with a float also
of a material not acted on by the liquid, the Hoat, however, being either hollow
and inflated with air or being of a material of sufficiently less specific gravity than
the liquid so as to support by its buoyancy the medal-like label which is attached
to it by a fine wire, chain, or thread.
The float may be of spherical or other appropriate form, and the form of the
medal or tablet might be varied to serve to indicate different qualities or sorts of
liquids.
It is obvious that my invention possesses very great advantages over other means
of marking goods at present in use, as it provides against the possibility of fraud
by the substitution of one label for another which may be readily accomplished
when the bottle or container bears an external label or trade mark whether the
latter be applied to the surface of the bottle or attached to its cork or stopper.
By my invention it is impossible to get at the medal or tablet constituting the
trade mark, without withdrawing the cork or stopper and even then the difficulty
that would be experienced in substituting another trade mark would be so great as
to preclude the fraud being attempted.
Dated this 13th day of June 1894.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Labelling or Trade Marking Liquids in
Transparent Containers.
I, HENRY JAMES MILLER, of 15 Rue Vignon, Paris, France, Merchant, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved mode of applying a trade mark to liquids
contained in glass bottles or other transparent receptacles, and it is particularly
applicable to alcoholic liquids, liqueurs, wines, beers, aerated waters, natural or
artificial, and other beverages, whether fermented or not, pharmaceutical, perfumery
and toilet preparations and dentifrices, and also to animal and vegetable oils,
spirits, and extracts.
The invention consists in suspending in the body of the liquid itself a medal or
coin-like label or tablet which is seen by transparence through the body of the
liquid and the containing vessel and which is always immersed to a constant depth
whether the bottle be quite or only partly filled.
The medal-like label or tablet would bear an embossed, impressed, engraved, or
other inscription or device relating to, or indicative of, the nature or quality of the
liquid, and would be composed of a solid substance not capable of being acted on
by, and of greater specific gravity than the liquid, and combined of a float also of
a material not acted on by the liquid, the float, however, being either hollow and
inflated with air or being of a material of sufficiently less specific gravity than the
liquid so as to support by its buoyancy the medal-like label which is attached to it
by a fine wire, chain, or thread.
The float may be of spherical or other appropriate form, and the form of the
medal or tablet might be varied to serve to indicate different qualities or sorts of
liquids.
The invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing
wherein a is the medal or tablet constituting or bearing the trade-mark 6 the float
and c the thread by which the medal or tablet a is suspended.
It is obvious that my invention possesses very great advantages over other means
of marking goods at present in use, as it provides against the possibility of fraud
by the substitution of one label for another which may be readily accomplished
when the bottle or container bears an external label or trade mark whether the
latter be applied to the surface of the bottle or attached to its cork or stopper.
"By my invention it is impossible to get at the medal or tablet constituting or
bearing the trade mark, without withdrawing the cork or stopper and even then the
difficulty that would be experienced in substituting another trade mark would be so
great as to preclude the fraud being attempted.
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
claim is :-
The herein described device for labelling or trade marking liquids in transparent
containers, consisting of a label or tablet of greater specific gravity than the liquid
attached to and pendent from a float of less specific gravity than the liquid, the
material of which the device is made being such that it is incapable of being acted
on by the liquid, substantially as specified.
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Daren του.
A. M. & W. CLARK,
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53, Chancery Lane, London Chartered Patent Agents.