An Improvement in Scent Dispersers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1893-Accepted. 14th Oct., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by the Firm of LINGguer and KrafT. of No. 8,
Freibergerplatz, Dresden, in the German Empire, Manufacturers.]
An Improvement in Scent Dispersers.
1, OLIVER IMRAY of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent 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 improvement in scent dispersers for perfumery,
cosmetics, toilet waters and the like..
The dispersers hitherto used are bottles of ordinary forms having pierced
stoppers or corks. The object of the incompletely closed stopper is to prevent
continual outflow of the contents and to permit only a small quantity of liquid
to escape on being forced, an equivalent quantity of air being allowed to enter.
Such dispersers are subject to several objections:
1.) The application of a special spray-stopper is expensive, troublesome, and often
unreliable.
2.) When it is required to disperse some of the liquid, the bottle must be held
inconveniently upside down so that the pressure may be given in the direction of
the bottle's axis, in doing which the hand grasping the bottle being often moist, the
bottle often slips from the grasp and is broken.
3.) The air contained in the upper portion of the bottle and the fresh air which
enters are forced through the whole column of liquid when the bottle is inverted, and
this diffuses all the sediment at the bottom throughout the liquid, and finally, through
repeatedly coming in contact with the finely subdivided air inside the bottle damage
is done to the chemical quality and uniformity of the often very sensitive volatile oils
which are employed.
The object of this invention is to remove these disadvantages by constructing a
bottle in the following manner:
The neck of the bottle is so bent laterally that the outlet is nearly at right angles
to the axis of the bottle and in line with its side. Further the opening of the neck
of the bottle is either directly reduced in diameter in such a way that the liquid in
the bottle can only be ejected in very small quantities, or else it is closed by a disc
or capsule cemented on it which only requires puncturing to provide a proper
spray-outlet.
These improvements combined enable the following new technical results to be -
obtained:
1. The more or less complex spray-stopper is superseded. The new spray-
bottle requires no special opening for filling it as the spray orifice can be used
also for filling in contrast to the old spray-bottles the neck of which was used
for filling, whereas for spraying the special opening in the spray stopper had to
be used.
2. Owing to the direction of the neck perpendicularly to the axis of the bottle,
spraying can be effected with the bottle in a horizontal position by a slight motion
of the hand, and the bottle can be firmly held even by very moist hands.
3. The air necessary for further spraying enters through the upper curves of the
helmet like side of the bottle above the level of the liquid still contained in it, so
that it does not penetrate or mix with it.
The accompanying drawings show: A one of the old spray-bottles in position for
use with spray stopper k, pipe f, showing the air bubbles from ¹ to a¹; and B the.
new spray bottle, in position for use, with bent neck h, punctured capsule, and air
bubbles from y' to y¹.

page_text: 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 :-
1. The construction of a spray bottle with its neck bent at right angles or nearly
so to the axis of the bottle.
2. A neck to a spray-bottle, which is either directly narrowed so that liquid
cannot escape in too large a quantity, or which is covered by a disc or capsule which
has merely to be punctured to furnish a spray orifice..
Dated this 15th day of August 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.