Improvements in Means applicable to Bottles, Boxes, or Jars for Containing Medicines or Medicaments, to Ensure Proper Indication of the Times at which same shall be Administered to Patients.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means applicable to Bottles, Boxes, or Jars
for Containing Medicines or Medicaments, to Ensure Proper
Indication of the Times at which same shall be Administered
to Patients.
A communication from abroad by LÉONIE KENNIS, of Laekin, and EMILÉ
WARZÉE, of Schaerbeek, both in Belgium, Manufacturers.
I WALTER ALFRED BARLOW of 46 Chancery Lane London W.C. Consulting
Engineer and Patent Expert do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to certain means applicable to bottles, boxes, or jars, for
containing medicines or medicaments to ensure proper indication of the times at
which same shall be administered to patients.
This consists essentially of the application of a time index to the necks of the
bottles or receptacles and to the covers or corks of the same whatever may be the
form of such containers and the point of time will be fixed by arrows or pins which
can be set to the dials or hour scales by turning the lid or cork or cover around.
A circle or partial circle or band may have printed thereon the hour scale and be
placed round the bottle neck or on the side or sides of the box.
The upper part of the boxes or lids will carry a pointer such as an arrow and in
like manner so will the corks or stoppers of bottles.
Pins can be readily stuck in at the point on the dial where the requisite time
has to be indicated.
Dated 10th October 1892.
WALTER A. BARLOW,
46, Chancery Lane, W.C.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means applicable to Bottles, Boxes, or Jars
for Containing Medicines or Medicaments, to Ensure Proper
Indication of the Times at which same shall be Administered
to Patients.
A communication from abroad by LEONIE KENNIS, of Lackin, and EMILÉ
WARZEE, of Schaerbeek, both in the Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturers.
I WALTER ALFRED BARLOW, Consulting Engineer of 7 John Street Bedford
Row London W.C. formerly of 46 Chancery Lane London W.C. 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 improvements in containing vessels for medicines, by
means of which the hour or point of time at which a medicine has been taken or is
to be taken is indicated.
The invention is applicable to any forms of containing vessels for medicines
such as bottles with stoppers or covers, boxes with sliding lids, draw boxes and
the like.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Fig. 1 illustrates a circular box and Fig. 1ª a rectangular draw box of the kind
usually employed for holding pills, powders, pastes granular or other medicines
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page_text: Figs. 2, and 3, indicate bottles with stoppers or corks as usually employed to
contain liquid medicines.
Referring to Fig. 1 it will be noticed that the upper part or lid of the box is
marked with a scale of hours in Roman figures and that on the lower half of the
box are marked, in Arabic figures, the divisions for minutes from zero to 55. On
the inside of the box at the centre of the lid is fixed a thread or cord which will be
caught and held by closing the lid upon the body of the box so that the thread
will hang out at and indicate between the markings of the hour and of the minutes
which are to run or elapse. Thus for indicating ten o'clock precisely the thread
will be held between the figure X and the cipher 0. of the two scales. To set the
indicator at five o'clock and a quarter the thread will be hung out and be held
between the figure V, of the upper scale and the figure 15, of the lower scale.
Fig. 14, represents a containing vessel consisting of a draw-box which in the
specific case indicated bas two scales marked on the front of the drawer the one
scale being for hours and the other scale being for minutes. In this case both
indexes are movable ones and are shown as consisting of ordinary pins thrust
through the card-board of which the containing vessel is constructed. It will be
seen that the time indicated upon Fig. 14, is thirty three minutes past six and that
the time scale might be equally conveniently placed upon other parts of the box
with the like relative juxtaposition.
In Fig. 2 the time scale (hours and minutes divisions) is marked upon the mouth
of the bottle whilst the cork or stopper is marked with the fixed index.
The movable index consisting in this case of a pin is thrust into the cork and as
will be seen the time indicated is eight minutes past twelve.
The case illustrated in Fig. 3, differs from that illustrated in Figure 2 in that
the time scale instead of being marked upon the mouth of the bottle is marked
upon the shoulder thereof.
In this case also it will be seen that the fixed index instead of being merely upon
the upper part of the cork as in Fig. 2 extends to a lower part of the cork so as to
come nearer to the time-scale. It will be seen also that this arrangement is chiefly
suitable for bottles of transparent glass. The movable index in this case consists
of a pin thrust into the cork as before and the time indicated is four minutes past
one o'clock.
Although the bottles illustrated in Figs. 2, and 3, show the time scale as marked
circularly around the vessel it will be obvious that the scale might be vertically
disposed. In this case a movable index consisting of a long pin suitably bent
might be employed.
The fixed indexes and the time scales may be borne upon the containing vessels
in any convenient way, for example they may be painted or marked in ink when
the material upon which the marking is to take place is suitable; or they may be
printed or otherwise marked upon slips of paper or the like pasted or gummed to
suitable parts of the containing vessels; or they may be moulded or cast upon the
parts of the containing vessels; or they may be stamped or marked upon metal
collars or the like affixed to the said vessels. The manner in which the said fixed
indexes and time scales are borne by the containing vessels will as a rule be
determined by the materials of which the said vessels or parts thereof consist and
upon whether the said articles are manufactured in the first place with the said
indexes and time scales thereon or whether the said indexes and time scales are
affixed afterwards say by the druggist or the physician or doctor or nurse in
attendance.
The bottle may also have formed upon its neck an enlargement of greater or less
height so that the time-scale may be placed in one line or in two lines as shown by
Figs. 4 and 5. This arrangement having for object to bring closer together the
indicator of the stopper for the hours so that the eye may not be confused in
realing or noting the set time.
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For the same purpose, that is to render impossible any error of reading the set
time indicated there may be marked upon the bottle guiding lines passing from the

page_text: neck immediately below the stopper and brought to the division lines of the time
scale upon the enlargement of the neck below.
For bottles of small size it will be useful to employ a neck enlargement upon
which the guiding lines aforesaid will be placed sufficiently well apart for clearness
of inspection see Figs. 6 and 7.
The pin constituting the movable index stuck in the flange forming the bottom
of the box may also be stuck in the flange forming the top of the box. Such plan
is of course only applicable when the box is made of perforable material. If the
pot or box be of earthenware, metal or other nonperforable material then the said
pin might be inserted between the lid and the lower part of the box and the lid
be pressed over it to hold said pin; or if the time-scale were marked upon a separate
slip of paper or cartoon pasted upon the containing vessel then the pin might be
thrust through that.
It will be seen that the containing vessels consist essentially of two parts capable of
movement relatively to one another and that in the cases where a fixed index is
employed it is simply a matter of convenience which of the said parts bears the
fixed index and which bears the time scale, so in the Figures 2 and 3 the fixed
index might be borne by the bottle and the time scale be upon the stopper whether
the same were an ordinary cork or a glass stopper as is frequently employed.
In the case of boxes having a hinged lid or boxes with a lid sliding in and out
the method of indicating set forth with reference to Fig. 1A, is most convenient,
as fixed indexes in such cases are inapplicable.
It is unnecessary to further illustrate the application of this invention to forms
of boxes not mentioned herein specifically as the method of doing so will be readily
understood from the foregoing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a containing vessel for medicines the combination of a movable index
and one or two perforable time scales the one for the minuits the other for the
hours the said index being thrust through the said time scale or inserted and held
between the said scales substantially as set forth.
2. As a new article of manufacture a medicine bottle with a time scale moulded
or impressed upon its mouth.
3. As a new article of manufacture a medicine bottle with a time scale cast
moulded or impressed upon the neck or shoulder thereof.
4. As a new article of manufacture a medicine bottle with a vertical time scale
cast moulded or impressed on the body or neck thereof.
5. As a new article of manufacture a medicine bottle with a metal collar fixed
thereon the said metal collar having a time scale printed stamped or moulded
thereon.
6. As a new article of manufacture a cork or stopper for medicine bottles having
an index printed moulded or impressed thereon.
7. As a new article of manufacture a cork or stopper for medicine bottles
7. As a new article of manufacture a cork or stopper for medicine bottles with a
time-scale printed moulded or impressed thereon.
8. As a new article of manufacture a medicine bottle with an index printed
moulded or impressed thereon.
9. The combination of a movable index and a box of perforable material having
a hinged lid and a time scale on any part of the said box or lid substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
10. The combination of a movable index and a box of perforable material
having a lid sliding in a linear direction and a time scale on any part of the said
box or lid substantially as set forth.
11. The application of a neck enlargement of a bottle for medicine serving for
the reception of one or two lines of the time-scale in order to bring the scale in

page_text: direct lines with the stopper index, or allowing of the directing lines being openly
spaced upon the neck as and for the purpose herein set forth and shown by the
drawings.
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WALTER A. BARLOW,
7, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.