MILITARY WATER BOTTLE
Year: 1884

page_text: I WALTER JOHN BOYES, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, residing at Hadham
Road, Bishop's Stortford, Herts do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for MILITARY WATER BOTTLE to be as follows:-
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The water bottles at present in use, are, more or less, clumsy and heavy, and do
not contain sufficient water.
The object of this invention is-by employing light material for construction―
to ensure increased bulk and capacity, without adding materially to the weight
to be borne.
The bottle to be made of patent pulp, or papier mache, and to be moulded, or
cast, in two separate pieces, an upper and a lower half; the former to contain a
mouth for a cork, and to be constructed so as to fit tightly over, and on to, the rim
of the lower half, to which, also, it is to be cemented.
Loops for straps, to be fixed on to the sides of bottle.
Exact dimensions, pattern, and other details, to be hereafter fully described in
complete specification.

page_text: 1 WALTER JOHN BOYES of Hadham Road Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire 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:-
:-
My invention consists in making military water bottles from a material never
heretofore employed for making such vessels.
This material is a pulp moulded to form in the manner described in the speci-
fication of a patent granted to Edward Charles Vickers and Edward William
Knowles No 2854 in the year 1878.
The bottle is made in two halves or parts fixed together and a neck or mouth
piece is provided to receive a stopper. The bottle is finished with japan or black
tar varnish or other varnish and is stoved.
.
In order that my said invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a military water bottle constructed according to
my invention. Figure 2 is a plan. Figure 3 an underside view and Figure 4 is a
vertical transverse section of the same. Figures 5 and 6 show separately in side
view and plan one of the parts of moulded pulp from which the bottle is formed.
Figures 7 show the neck or mouth piece separately.
The two parts a¹ a having been separately prepared and moulded and pressed
into form as described in the specification herein-before mentioned are brought
together and their flanges aro cemented together. Shellac dissolved in spirit is a
suitable cement. The mouth piece b which is of metal is enclosed between the
parts and it also is attached by shellac cement and rivets may also be employed.
The edges of the flanges of the parts a' and a² are also clipped and held together
by a strip of the plate c, bent to a trough like form and closed together over them.
The rings or eyelets to receive the strap or cord for carrying the bottle which rings
or eyelets are not shown in the drawing may be attached by soldering rivetting
or otherwise to the strips c. The flanges of the parts a¹ and a² may also if thought
desirable be sewn or rivetted together.
Before the parts are put together as described they are coated within and
without with japan black tar varnish or other varnish and stoved. I can apply a
thin coating of shellac dissolved in spirit over the tar varnish which effectually
prevents the latter from imparting taste to the water.
This treatment renders the bottle perfectly tight and waterproof.
The bottle is closed by a cork through which a leather thong is passed longi-
tudinally and by this the cork is connected with a fixed ring or eye b¹ on the
mouth piece of the bottle. In place of applying the mouth piece internally it may
be put on externally and secured by rivets and cement which with the japan
and varnish will effect a water tight connection. Or the parts a¹ and a² may be

page_text: moulded with somewhat longer neck portions and the neck then may be completed
with an edge of sheet metal clipped on in the same way as the strip c, at the sides
of the bottle. The bottle may be made also with two moulded parts the one
forming the upper and the other the lower part of the bottle and the joint passing
around the bottle horizontally.
In this case the lower part of the bottle is formed with a socket at its upper
edge and the lower edge of the upper part of the bottle enters this socket and is
secured in it by cement and also if necessary by rivets.
.
The construction illustrated by the drawings is that which I prefer.
By employing this light strong and durable material in the construction of
military water bottles I am enabled to reduce the weight and bulk which the
soldier has to carry whilst at the same time I provide him with a somewhat
increased quantity of water.
Such bottles will preserve the water fresh and cool as the material is heat
resisting in a high degree.
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
A military water bottle made from parts moulded in pulp and combined and
completed substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of October 1885.
WALTER J. BOYES.
Carpmael & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant