An Improvement in Bottles and Bottle-shaped Vessels Used in Bars and Restaurants to Contain Wines and Spirits for Retailing to Customers.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1888
Specification Accepted, 17th Aug., 1888
An Improvement in Bottles and Bottle-shaped Vessels Used in
Bars and Restaurants to Contain Wines and Spirits for Retailing
to Customers.
I, HENRY MUNDAY CLARK, of 38 and 39 Cowcross Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Coppersmith, 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 relates to the manufacture of hottles more especially for containing
spirits and still wines, and to the bottle-shaped vessels which commonly stand on
shelves at the back of bars and restaurants, and contain a limited quantity of such
liquors for retailing to customers, these vessels for this purpose being provided with
a draw-off cock.
So far as bottles are concerned, the object of my invention is to avoid risk of
breakage which is so liable to occur with glass bottles, more especially in transit, and
to enable a number of bottles to be more conveniently packed in a smaller compass
than the glass bottles at present employed; and to this end 1 make the bottles
entirely of metal preferably of brass, or copper. The body and neck of the bottle is
spun in the well known manner from a single piece of metal while the bottom is a
disc of metal soft soldered to the body. The interior of the bottles is tinned to prevent
the contents from being injuriously affected by chemical action.
The Invention has also for object to avoid the liability of breakage to which the
bottle shaped vessels above referred to are also subject. Such vessels are at present
made of glass. They are of a more or less ornamental character and are somewhat
expensive; As they are not fixtures but merely stand on shelves they are liable to be
accidentally knocked down and broken. This however, is not the only objection to
such glass vessels, for as they are transparent it is necessary that they should be kept
nearly full otherwise the appearance of such vessels only partially filled would be
detrimental from a commercial point of view-and it is not always convenient to
attend to the filling of them.

page_text: To obviate these objections, I also make these vessels entirely of metal (preferably
of copper, brass, or German silver.) as hereafter described, and either silver or nickel
plate them exteriorly and tin them inside.
In order that this part of my invention may be understood, I have in the accom-
panying drawings, represented a vessel of tho kind last referred to, and will now
explain the method of construction.
In the case of large vessels of this character it is not possible to spin the vessel
from a single piece of metal as in the manufacture of metal bottles above described
and they are therefore built up in sections, that is to say, the hody a and the neck b
are separately wrought or hammered up to the desired form from sheet metal, the
meeting edges being brazed or soldered together to form a longitudinal seam or joint,
and the two sections are then attached by brazing or soldering. The bottom is a
fat metal disc soft soldered into the body . is a ring of solid metal, to forin the
rim or lip, and a tablet bearing the name of the spirit or wine, both soldered or
otherwise attached to the vessel. d is a draw-off cock for retailing the liquor,
securely attached to the lower part of the vessel.
The metal of which these vessels are made, may be of any desired thickness, but
for a vessel of a capacity of two gallons, No. 12 B, W, S would suffice.
All the joints are carefully finished off before the vessel is finally plated.
In the case of small vessels of this character, they would be spun as described for
making hottles, the making the vessel in two portions being only required for vessels
of comparatively large capacity.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
The manufacture of metallic bottles and metallic bottle-shaped vessels of the kind
referred to for containing liquors, as herein specified.