Improvements in Bottles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles.
I JOSEPH CONNOLLY of the Excelsior Glass Works. Withington Street, Pendleton,
in the County of Lancaster, Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to bottles which are adapted to contain liquids and particularly
to the cases wherein there is a tendency for part of the liquid contents to trickle down
the outside of the bottle after a portion of the contents have been poured out of the
bottle as is well understood. The object of my invention is to so form the bottle as
that such trickling liquid shall be intercepted before it reaches the outer surface of
the main body of the bottle in order that labels which are often attached to such
surface shall not become disfigured and that the bottle shall be cleaner to handle and
shall not soil articles upon which it is placed. To this end I form a channel in the
shoulder of the bottle that is to say at the junction of the neck with the body the said
channel surrounding or nearly surrounding the neck and intercepting the aforesaid
trickling liquid. In the cases of moulded bottles the mould is adapted to form the
said channel in the operation of inoulding or blowing the bottle. In some or in all
cases and especially in the cases of moulded glass bottles I should reduce the depth of
the channel at one point or at more than one point or at such point the channel would
die out or end in a raised or inclined or rounded projection which would extend from
the shoulder to the neck. The object of this formation of the outer surface is that a
corresponding inner recess or channel shall be formed in order that the entire
emptying of the bottle may be facilitated. Although 1 have specially referred to
moulded glass bottles I do not restrict the application of my invention to moulded
bottles nor to glass bottles.
Dated this 28th day of Aroust 1888
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles.
I JOSEPH CONNOLLY of the Excelsior Glass Works, Withington Street, Pendleton,
in the County of Lancaster, Glass Manufacturer, 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 and accompanying drawing :—
My Invention relates to bottles which are adapted to contain liquids and particularly
to the cases wherein there is a tendency for part of the liquid contents to trickle down
the outside of the bottle after a portion of the contents has been poured out of the
bottle as is well understood. The object of my invention is to so form the bottle as
that such trickling liquid shall be intercepted before it reaches the outer surface of
the main body of the bottle in order that labels which are often attached to such
surface shall not become disfigured and that the bottle shall be cleaner to handle and
shall not soil articles upon which it is placed. To this end I form a channel in the
shoulder of the bottle that is to say at the junction of the neck with the body the said
channel surrounding or nearly surrounding the neck and intercepting the aforesaid
trickling liquid.
My Invention will be clearly understood when reference is made to the accompanying
drawing which represents a sauce bottle drawn in vertical section. In this example
a is the said channel which surrounds the neck of the bottle. In the cases of moulded
bottles the mould is adapted to form the said chanuel in the operation of moulding or

page_text: blowing the bottle. In some cases and especially in the cases of moulded glass bottles
I may reduce the depth of the channel say at one point so that at such point the
channel would die out or end in a raised or inclined or rounded projection which
would extend from the shoulder to the neck. The object of such a formation would
be to obtain a corresponding inner channel extending from the corner at 6 to the neck
in order that the entire emptying of the bottle might be facilitated. Although I have
specially referred to moulded glass bottles I do not restrict the application of my
invention to moulded bottles nor to glass bottles.
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 11
A bottle formed with a channel a extending around or partly around the base of the
neck of the bottle substantially as and for the purpose set forth and indicated.
Dated this 24th day of May 1889
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.