AN IMPROVED METALLIC CAP OR COVER TO GLASS OR OTHER BOTTLES OR VESSELS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Brooks, of 31, Cumberland Market,
Regent's Park, and 138, Hampstead Road, both in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METALLIC CAP OR COVER TO GLASS OR OTHER BOTTLES OR VESSELS."
Sealed the 14th April 1870, and dated the 21st October 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Brooks at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st October 1869.
I, HENRY BROOKS, of 31, Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, and 138,
Hampstead Road, both in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METALLIC
CAP OR COVER TO GLASS OR OTHER BOTTLES OR VESSELS," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is when metallic caps or covers are
applied to bottles or other vessels, adapted particularly to the delivery of
the contents in limited quantities, to forming such caps or covers so as
to facilitate the refilling of the bottles or vessels without injury to the
cap or cover to the bottle or vessel, or to the bottle or vessel to which it
Price Sd 1

page_text: is applied, and the Invention is particularly applicable to when scent or
other liquid or matter to be contained in the bottle is required to the
delivered therefrom by sprinkling or in a fine stream or in small quan-
tities. For this purpose the cap or cover is applied by squeezing on to
the neck of the bottle or other vessel in the usual way of applying
capsules, aided if desired by the use of a little gum or other cement, or
it may be applied by screwing to the neck of the bottle or vessel or
otherwise, and the neck of the cap or cover which is tapped to receive a
screw outer cover in place of being formed with an opening through it
simply of the size of that required for delivery is formed with an opening
through it sufliciently large to admit of the bottle or vessel being readily
refilled when required, and this opening is tapped to receive an internal
screw plug, which is perforated with a hole or holes of the size required
for the ordinary delivery of the contents of the bottle or vessel when
the outer part of the screw cover is removed. The parts may be packed
with cork or other suitable material to insure their being tight. The
parts of the cover may be connected otherwise than by screwing. When
screwed I prefer that the thread of the plug incline in the opposite
direction to that of the outer cover, or one to have a right and the other
a left handed screw.
The Invention will be found applicable not only to bottles or vessels
for containing scents but also for containing disinfecting or deodorizing
liquids and other matters in liquid or powder
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Henry Brooks in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BROOKS, of 31, Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, and 138, Hampstead
Road, both in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Brooks, Her special licence that I, the
said Henry Brooks, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such

page_text: others as 1, the said Henry Brooks, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METALLIC CAP OR COVER TO GLASS OR
OTHER BOTTLES OR VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henry Brooks, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Brooks, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
The object of the Invention is when metallic caps or covers are applied
to bottles or other vessels, adapted particularly to the delivery of the
contents in limited quantities, to forming such caps or covers so as to
facilitate the refilling of the bottles or vessels without injury to the
cap or cover to the bottle or vessel, or to the bottle or vessel to which it
is applied, and the Invention is particularly applicable to when scent or
other liquid or matter to be contained in the bottle is required to be
delivered therefrom by sprinkling or in a fine stream or in small quan-
tities. For this purpose the cap or cover is applied by squeezing on to the
neck of the bottle or other vessel in the usual way of applying capsules,
aided if desired by the use of a little gum or other cement, or it may be
applied by screwing to the neck of the bottle or vessel or otherwise,
and the neck of the cap or cover which is tapped to receive a screw outer
cover in place of being formed with an opening through it simply of
the size of that required for delivery is formed with an opening through it
sufficiently large to admit of the bottle or vessel being readily refilled
when required, and this opening is tapped to receive an internal screw
plug, which is perforated with a hole or holes of the size required for the
ordinary delivery of the contents of the bottle or vessel when the outer
part of the screw cover is removed. The parts may be packed with cork.
or other suitable material to insure their being tight. The parts of the

page_text: cover may be connected otherwise than by screwing.
When screwed
I prefer that the thread of the plug incline in the opposite direction t
that of the outer cover or one to have a right and the other a left hande
screw.
The Invention will be found applicable not only to bottles or vessel
for containing scents, but also for containing disinfecting or deodorizing
liquids, and other matters in liquid or powder.
But that the Invention may be fully understood, I will by the aid
of the accompanying Drawings proceed to describe means pursued by
me in carrying the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows by a sectional view to a somewhat enlarged scale
a. bottle with one modification of my improvements applied thereto
Figures 2, 3, and 4, show the parts separately. In this case a re-
presents a bottle, which may be of any desired shape or form, and may
be produced of glass or other suitable material; b represents a metallic
cap or cover applied thereto by squeezing on to the neck of the bottle
and secured there by gum or other suitable cement, or it may be
applied in other suitable manner. The neck b¹ of the cap is tapped to
receive a similarly tapped external cover c, so that when this external cap
or cover is screwed tightly on to the part 6 the contents may be secured
and the close or tight fitting of the cover c may be insured by the
application of cork or other suitable packing as is well understood, but
in place of the outer end of this neck being as is usual in caps of this
description simply pierced with a very fine hole adapted to let out the
contents of the bottle in very fine quantities when the bottle is turned
up for the purpose, such hole is formed in a separate plug d, or there
may be a series of these holes in such internal plugs depending on the
purpose to which the distribution is intended. This plug d is in this
modification formed with an outer thread to screw tightly into a female
thread formed in the neck b¹ of the bottle, so that by removing this
internal plug da larger opening may be obtained for more free admission
for the filling, emptying, or cleansing of the bottle when required. Cork
or other suitable packing may also be applied between the part's 61
and d if desired. Whilst the external cover or plug e may be formed
with a right-handed screw, I prefer that the internal plug or cover d
be formed with a left-handed screw, but these may be varied.

page_text: Figure 5 shows another modification, and Figures 6, 7, and S the
parts thereof separately, in which the internal plug or cover d like the
external cover c is applied to embrace a portion of the neck b¹.
Figure 9 shows another modification, and Figures 10, 11, and 12 the
parts thereof separately, in which the internal plug d is held in its
place tightly by a ring of cork or other suitable elastic material applied
between it and the interior of the neck b of the bottle. But it will
readily be understood that considerable variations may be made in the
form and manner of applying these parts.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise form or arrangements shown and described
so long as the apertures for the escape of the contained liquid or matter
are formed in an internal cover or plug capable of removal to enlarge
the orifice to the bottle or vessel when required, and the whole is
enclosed by an external cover, thus forming a metallic cap or cover to
glass or other bottles or vessels, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Brooks, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
HENRY BROOKS. (L.S.)