Improvements in and in connection with Bottles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1897-Accepted, 31st July,
1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in connection with Bottles.
I, WARWICK WINSTON of Kinkiang Road, Shanghai, China, Doctor of Dental
Surgery, 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 the class of bottles in which stopper retaining wires are
employed, and the invention, briefly stated, consists in a bottle having moulded or
cast in the material of the neck thereof, the stopper retaining wires. The common
manner of applying such wires has been to form a portion of the wire into a band
that encircles the neck of the bottle beneath a projection thereon and the ends of
the wire are then carried over the stopper and secured together.
The chief object of the invention is the prevention of the fraudulent use of bottles,
after being emptied of their original contents, without such fraudulent use being
made apparent.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is an elevation of the neck of the bottle with
wires inserted therein in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 a plan view of the
same. Fig. 3 an elevation of the bottle neck at a quarter. of a turn from the position
of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 a vertical section on line IV-IV of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 shews in out-
line an open mould suitable for use in the construction of the invention.
1 is the neck of a bottle of any common form, and 2 the stopper therein. The
neck of the bottle is provided with an annular rib or enlargement 3.
4 are wires, each one of which is hent at a point near the centre of its length to
bring its two ends together, thus doubling the wire, and the closed end of the doubled
wire is then formed into a twist 5 that produces a loop 6.. The doubled wires are
then in the shape in which they are shewn in the mould in Fig. 5 and they are
inserted in the mould through openings 8 at the point 9 of the mould in which the
rib or projection 3 is formed. With the wires. in this position the mould is closed and.
the bottle formed in the usual manner and the wires 4 will be cast in the rib or
projection 3 of the neck of the bottle.
In securing the stopper 2 in the bottle the ends of the wires 4 are brought above
the stopper and twisted together, when they are held by a seal 10 preferably of soft
metal, such as lead, or the wires may be joined together in any suitable manner.
The advantage of a bottle so constructed is that the wires being blown into the
material of the bottle cannot be removed from the stopper without breaking them,
and when broken they can only be replaced by inending, which, if done, produces
a telltale and affords means of detection of the bottle baving been tampered
with.
Another advantage lies in the fact that the bottle is not impaired for other
purposes, but cannot be used as an original.
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 1
claim is
1. A bottle having a neck formed with a rib, and retaining wires having loons

page_text: moulded within the rib and extending laterally therefrom, substantially as described
and shewn.
2. A bottle having a neck formed with a rib and retaining wires folded upon
themselves and twisted at their inner,euds, providing loops. moulded within the rib
and extending laterally therefrom substantially as described and shewn.
3. A bottle having a neck formed with a rib located at a distance beneath the
mouth of the bottle, and retaining wires having loops moulded within the rib and
extending laterally, therefrom, substantially as described and shewn.
THOMAS R.. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.