An Improvement in Bottles or other Receptacles that are Used .to Contain Liquids.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1888
1
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Bottles or other Receptacles that are Used .to
Contain Liquids.
JOHN FREDERICK APPLETON 12 Baker Street Chorlton on Medlock Manchester
Lancashire Sauce & Pickle Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
I have cast arround, the neck, shoulder or body of bottle, carboy, Demijohn, or
other receptacles that contain liquids one or more Channels or Grooves.
My object in this improved bottle is that when the liquid is poured out the drop or
drops that run down the outside of the bottle runs into the channel or Groove and
is there retained. Thereby preventing the drop or drops running down the body of
the bottle.
Dated this 17th day of April
1000.
DAVID APPLETON,
28, George Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester,
Agent for John Frederick Appleton.

page_text: I JOHN FREDERICK APPLETON of 12 Baker Street Chorlton-upon-Medlock,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Sauce and Pickle 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 :-
My improvement in Bottles or other receptacles that are used to contain liquids is
as follows.
I have cast moulded or otherwise formed around the shoulder neck or body of
bottles, carboys, demijohns, or other receptacles that are used to contain liquids, one
or more channels or grooves.
The object of my invention is that when the liquid is poured out, the drop or drops
that run down the outside of the bottle will run into the said channel or groove and
will there be retained thereby preventing the drop or drops from running down the
outside of the bottle or other receptacle.
The manner in which my said invention is to be performed or carried into practical
effect will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying drawings and the
following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 represents for the sake of illustration a vertical section of an ordinary
sauce bottle with my invention shewn as applied thereto, but it will be easily com-
prehended that the same invention is equally applicable to other forms of bottles and
to other similar receptacles (made of glass earthenware or other materials) that are
used to contain liquids.
On Fig. 1a is the body of the bottle and is a sunken channel or groove cast,
moulded, or otherwise formed in the shoulder of the bottle for the purpose above
specified.
On Fig. 2. the channels or grooves are shown as formed by raising a rim c all
round.
In this Fig, there are three channels or grooves shown one upon the neck another
upon the shoulder and a third upon the body of the bottle at or near the bottom,
and I wish it to be understood that I do not wish to confine myself to a single channel
or to any other exact number or form of the channels, nor to their exact position, or
positions upon the exterior of the bottle or other receptacle.
Fig. 3 shows the edge of the rim e turned inwards the better to retain any liquid
which may have accumulated in the channel but this form is more readily adapted to
bottles of an oval or square section.

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 :-
Casting moulding or otherwise forming around the shoulder, body or neck of
bottles, carboys, Demijohns or other receptacles that are used to contain liquids one
or more channels or grooves substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.