IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAM-FLASKS, DRINKING FLASKS, OR BOTTLES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN ARTICLES USED FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Hall, of Sheffield, in the County of York, for
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAM-FLASKS, DRINKING FLASKS, OR
BOTTLES AND
OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN ARTICLES USED FOR
SIMILAR PURPOSES,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Hall at the Office
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAM-
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th March 1881.
JOSEPH HALL, of Sheffield, in the County of York.
FLASKS, DRINKING FLASKS, OR BOTTLES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND, IN;
ARTICLES USED FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to dram flasks, drinking flasks, or bottles, and to similar
articles, and to articles used for similar purposes.
This Invention consists in so forming the neck of the flask or bottle as that it
can be readily used for drinking from, and thus obviate the use of a separate
drinking cup as ordinarily used with dram flasks or drinking flasks or bottles.
In carrying into effect my Invention the orifice of the bottle is made at the side
instead of at the end, and a division is made across the neck of the bottle or flask
where the neck joins the body of the flask or bottle, and this division is pierced with
a hole of less area than that into which fits the cork or stopper, and this neck is
used for drinking from.
The neck can be screwed on the outside for an external cap or cover, or screwed
on the inside for an internal screwed stopper, or the stopper can be plain and have
a screwed projecting pin which will screw into the bottom of the neck, or the plain
stopper may have a projecting nut which will screw onto a screwed projecting pin
fixed in the bottom of the neck.
The flask can have one of my improved neck cups at each end thereof, a
division being made in the body thereof so that two kinds of liquids can be
stored therein and extracted therefrom.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Hall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th September
1881.
JOSEPH HALL, of Wharncliffe Chambers, Bank Street, Sheffield, in the County
of York, Accountant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRAM FLASKS, DRINKING FLASKS, OR
BOTTLES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN ARTICLES USED FOR SIMILAR
PURPOSES."
My said Invention relates to "Improvements in Dram Flasks, Drinking Flasks,
or Bottles, and other similar Articles, and in Articles Used for similar Purposes."
In carrying into effect my Invention the orifice of the neck of the flask or
bottle where the cover or cap is screwed on is made at the side instead of at the
end, and a partition or division is made across the neck of the flask or bottle where
the neck is joined to the body, and a partition or division is pierced at the under
side to allow the liquid in the flask to flow into the neck.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood,
I shall now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Figure (1) of the accompanying Drawings is a plan view of the flask or bottle;
Figure (2) is a longitudinal section thereof as taken through the dotted line A, B,
(Figure 1); Figure (3) is a cross-sectional view of the neck of the flask as taken
through the dotted line C, D, (Figure 2). H is the body of the flask; N is the
neck; E is the cover or cap; F, is the partition between the body and neck of
the flask; G is the hole in the lower part of the partition.
I claim the construction of a combined cup and flask as shown in the said
Drawings, and hereinbefore described, or any mere modification thereof, that is to
Bay, the body of flask H, neck or cup N, partition F, with orifice G, and cap or
cover E.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hall, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord 1881.