IMPROVE- MENTS IN BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES, AND STOPPERS FOR THE SAME, FOR HOLDING AND DELIVERING GUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS OR SOLUTIONS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Henry Saul, of Ironmonger Row, Saint
Luke's, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES, AND STOPPERS FOR THE SAME, FOR HOLDING
AND DELIVERING GUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS OR SOLUTIONS."
Sealed the 13th October 1871, and dated the 18th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Henry Saul at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th April 1871.
I, DAVID HENRY SAUL, of Ironmonger Row, Saint Luke's, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES, AND STOPPERS FOR THE SAME,
FOR HOLDING AND DELIVERING GUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS OR SOLUTIONS," to be as
follows:-

page_text: liquid or solutions. For this purpose I employ a bottle or receptacle
which is throttled or narrowed at the neck, and instead of a cork or
other hermetically closing stopper I employ a piece of sponge or other
absorbent material, which when the bottle or receptacle is charged with
gum or other desired liquid or solution is pressed into the neck of
the bottle or other receptacle with a portion of it passing beyond the
throttled or narrowed portion of the neck, whereby the stopper is
securely held in position and the contents of the bottle or other
receptacle prevented escaping, except when the stopper is pressed on
to a surface to which it is desired to apply the gum, liquid, or
solution.
In order to protect this absorbent stopper from dirt, and to protect the
gum, liquid, or solution from coming into contact with other materials
or surfaces than those desired I apply a cap or cover over the absorbent
stopper to fit a portion of the neck extending beyond a flange or rim,
which acts as a stop to the cap. By theso means I obtain a very
convenient arrangement for holding gum liquid or solution, and for
delivering it in regulated quantities as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Henry Saul in the Great Seal Patent Office 2
on the 18th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
HENRY SAUL, of Ironmonger Row, Saint Luke's, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said David Henry Saul, Her special licence that
I, the said David Henry Saul, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said David Henry Saul, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein

page_text: expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES OR
RECEPTACLES, AND STOPPERS FOR THE SAME, FOR HOLDING AND DELIVERING GUM
AND OTHER LIQUIDS OR SOLUTIONS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said David Henry Saul, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Henry Saul, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in bottles or receptacles,
and stoppers for the same, for holding and delivering gum and other
liquids or solutions. For this purpose I employ a bottle or receptacle
which is throttled or narrowed at the neck, and instead of a cork or
other hermetically closing stopper I employ a piece of sponge or other
absorbent material, which when the bottle or receptacle is charged with
gum or other desired liquid or solution is pressed into the neck of
the bottle or other receptacle, with a portion of it passing beyond the
throttled or narrowed portion of the neck, whereby the stopper is
securely held in position, and the contents of the bottle or other
receptacle prevented escaping except when the stopper is pressed on
to a surface to which it is desired to apply the gum, liquid, or
solution.
In order to protect this absorbent stopper from dirt and to protect the
gum, liquid, or solution from coming into contact with other materials
or surfaces than those desired I apply a cap or cover over the absorbent
stopper to fit a portion of the neck extending beyond a flange or rim
which acts as a stop to the cap. By these means I obtain a very
convenient arrangement for holding gum, liquid or solution, and for
delivering it in regulated quantities as desired.

page_text: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 2 is an outsido view 5
of a bottle or receptacle constructed according to my Invention for
holding and delivering gum and other liquids or solutions.
a, a, is the body of the bottle. The neck of the bottle is throttled
at a'. The stopper which is made of sponge or other absorbent
material is, after the bottle or receptacle is charged, passed into the 1
neck and below the throttled or narrowed portion a¹ thereof where it
is allowed to expand. The stopper 6 also passes outwards beyond the
portion a² of the neck, as shown. The stopper is thus held securely
in position whilst the contents of the bottle are prevented escaping,
except when the stopper is pressed on to a surfaco to which it is 1
desired to apply the gum, liquid, or solution when it acts as a very
convenient brush.
In order to protect this absorbent stopper from dirt, and to protect
the gum, liquid, or solution from coming into contact with other
inaterials or surfaces than those desired, I employ a cap or cover c over 2
the absorbent stopper fitting the part a³ of the neck and resting
against a flange or rim a³.
At Figure 3 I have shown a slight modification in the form and
mode of applying the stopper. The part a' of the neck is fitted with
a cork d, through the centre of which is passed a tube e flattened or a
contracted at its outer end, so as to afford only a narrow opening at
that part. This tube e conducts the gum to the piece of sponge or
other suitable absorbent material 6 which is cemented to the cork d.
By these means the sponge or other absorbent material is moistened
by the liquid from the bottle, and is then ready for usc.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
mode in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood
that I claim, the improved construction and arrangement of bottles
or receptacles, and stoppers for the same, for holding and delivering

page_text: gum and other liquids or solutions, substantially as herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Henry Saul, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
DAVID HENRY SAUL. (L.S.)