Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 11th May, 1889
A communication from Dr. ERNST ALFRED PAUL HENNIG, of Dresden, in the
German Empire.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The present invention relates to improvements in me licine bottles and the like,
and its object is to measure the quantity of medicine or other fluid to be taken or
withdrawn without the aid of another instru.nent or vessel and to take it without
having to ponr it into another vessel or spoon.
The arrangement consists of a cap of glass or any other suitable material which
is placed on the neck of the bottle and either fits round the neck which is then
surrounded by a packing ring of india-rubber cork or the like, or it fits into the
neck of the hottie like a stopper also with a packing ring if required. This hollow
stopper or cap is formed with a lateral downwardly extending enlargement commu-
nicating with the body of the stopper or cap by a narrow opening. This enlargement
has a cubic capacity of exactly the quantity of medicine to be taken and the action of
the arrangement is as follows:-
The bottle is tiltal until the enlargement is filled with the contents. The bottle is
then placed upright again when the superfluous quantity of the contents which were
in the hollow stopper or cap will flow back into the bottle, while the fluid contained
in the enlargement will remain therein and will be of the exact quantity to be taken.
The cap or hollow stopper is now removed from the bottle and reverted when the
fluid contained in the enlargement will flow into the body of the cap or hollow stopper
whence it can be taken without pouring it into a spoon or other vessel, the cap or
hollow stopper being formed with a kind of spout for the purpose. On the top the
cap or hollow stopper is formed flat and the material preferably rather thicker so as
to enable it to stand easily.
Dated this 30th day of June 1888.

page_text: J, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.L.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The present invention relates to improvements in medicine bottles and the like,
and its object is to measure the quantity of medicine or other fluid to be taken or
withdrawn from the bottle without the aid of another instrument or vessel and to take
it without having to pour it into another vessel or spoon.
In the accompanying drawings are reprosented in section three different forms of
the devico constructed according to this invention.
The arrangement consists of a cap A of glass or any other suitable material which
is placed on the neck of the bottle B and either as shown in figures 1 and 2 fits round
the neck which is then surrounded by a packing ring c of india-rubber, cork or the
like, or as shown in figure 3 it fits into the neck of the bottle like a stopper also with
a packing ring if required. This hollow stopper or cap A is formed with a lateral
downwardly extending enlargement C communicating with the hody A of the stopper
or cap by a narrow opening d. This enlargement has a cubic capacity of exactly the
quantity of medicine to be taken and the action of the arrangement is as follows;
the bottle is tilted until the enlargement C is filled with the contents. The bottle is
then placed upright again, when the superfluous quantity of the contents which were
in the hollow stopper or cap A will flow back into the bottle B while the fluid
contained in the enlargement. C will remain therein and will be of the exact quantity
to be taken. The cap or hollow stopper is now removed from the bottle and inverted,
when the fluid contained in the enlargement C will flow into the body A of the cap or
hollow stopper whence it can be taken without pouring it into a spoon or other vessel
the cap or hollow stopper being formed with a kind of spoul or lipe for the purpose.
On the top the cap or hollow stopper is formed flat and the material is proferably
rather thicker at u so as to enable it to stand easily.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
In medicine or other bottles the arrangement of a downwardly extending enlarge
ment such as C on a hollow stopper or cap adapted to fit into or over the neck of the
bottle for the purpose of measuring off a certain quantity of the liquid and enabling it
to be taken or used without the aid of a spoon or other measure substantially as herein
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.