Improvements in the Mode and Means for Securing Bottles against the Contents being Interfered with.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
Improvements in the Mode and Means for Securing Bottles against
the Contents being Interfered with.
I, JAMES GRAY, of Bourton House Farm, Dunchurch, Rugby, in the County of
Warwick, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object improvements in the mode and means for securing
bottles against the contents being interfered with which I term "the bottle label
destroyer" by which it is easily ascertained if a bottle has been emptied or uncorked.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and easily carried into
practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which
I have illustrated sufficient examples to show the nature of my improvements.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a bottle showing my improvements applied thereto.
Figures 2 and 3 are similar views to Figure 1 showing modifications of my
improvements.
În carrying my invention into practice I form the cap or capsule A or equivalent
from metal, wood, earthenware or other material with the strip a' either formed out
of or attached thereto which may be of any width and sufficiently thin to allow the
label to adhere to the bottle. This cap is placed over the neck of the bottle B so as
to cover the cork and the strip passed down and lies flush against the sides of the
bottle and is then sealed down under the label C by a cement which would require a
temperature of such a height to get it off that it would destroy the bottle, and this
strip may be roughed like a file so as to enable it to better adhere to the bottle thus
In some
preventing the cap A from being removed without severing the strip a'.
cases I may form the bottom end of the strip a' with the enlargement a² as shown at
Figure 4 which fits under the label and I may if desired form out of or attach to the
cap two or more strips.
In the modification as shown at Figure 2 I secure the cap or capsule in position by
attaching the wire or wires w thereto, which wire or wires are then sealed down
under the label and as an extra security they may be sealed outside the label as shown
at w².
At Figure 3 I have shown the cap or capsule A³ with two, three, four or more
notches or slits a' so as to fit a bottle where the neck is enlarged at the top and this
cap or capsule may be formed from a blank and the arms a bent around the bottle
neck and afterwards secured by the wire or wires w which wire or wires are then
sealed under the label as herein before described. It will be quite evident that I may
use a strip or strips in place of the wire or wires in this case in the same manner as
previously explained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-

page_text: contents being interfered with consisting essentially of a cap or capsule placed on to
the neck of the bottle so as to cover the cork and held in position by a wire or wires
or a metal strip or strips sealed to the bottle under the label in the manner
substantially as herein before described and as shown upon the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Second. Securing caps or capsules or their equivalents on to the necks of bottles
in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein before described and as
shown upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.