Improvements in and relating to Stoppers for Bottles, also adapted for the Application of Medicinal Agents."
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 890-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Stoppers for Bottles, also adapted
for the Application of Medicinal Agents."
We, WILLIAM VIVALDA BENNE PS, SILAS ALONZO HATCH and JAMES
MONROE LEWIS, citizens of the United States of America, all residing at
Bloomington, in the County of Grant, and State of Wisconsin, one of the United
States of America, Gentlemen, 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 :-
Our invention is a cork or stopper for bottles and the like, having provision for
applying medicinal substances, in the treatment of the skin, and particularly in
applying certain fluids to the horn-germs or horn-buttons of calves and lambs for
the purpose of stopping the growth of the horns. As an applicator, the cork is
adapted for chafing the surface to increase its sensitiveness and warmth to receive
the fluid or substance from the chafing surface; and the specific improvement for
this purpose consists in the provision of a cellular, pitted, ridged or ribbed surface
on the inner end of the stopper or cork, whereby to form cavities or pits bounded
by intersecting ridges, or edges or protuberances, to constitute a stopper-applicator
having the function of a brush, a supplier, and a chafe.
The accompanying drawings illustrate our stopper-applicator;
Figures 1 and 2 being views of different sides of the stopper; and
Figure 3 shows the inner or applicator end of the stopper.
In these drawings, A, designates the stopper which is formed with a suitable
handle, B. It is preferably made of india-rubber, but may be made of cork, wood,
or other suitable substance, but in the function of the stopper as an applicator, or
brush, we find rubber to be the best material. a, and b, designate ridges or edges
formed in suitable divisions on the bottom surface of the stopper and which bound
cells, pits, or cavities, c, c, of suitable depth.
In Figure 3 the body of the stopper is seen as terminating in a bottom circumi-
ferential ridge or edge, b, from which the interior ridges or edges extend in parallel
lines intersecting at right angles, but these interior ridges or edges may be disposed
in any suitable way. One set of these ridges may be formed in concentric rings
and the other set formed as radii of the circles; or lines of ridges may be formed
of acute or obtuse angles, or in any direction, or of any form of protuberances
whatever, so long as they constitute the walls of cavities, pits, or cells, which serve
to receive and to hold the substance to be applied, and permit it to flow freely to
the rubbing points or edges. For this purpose the edges are preferably made
quite sharp and connected, the better to excite by friction the warmth and
sensibility of the skin or part to be treated, by giving the stopper a rotary or side-
wise motion over and upon the abraded or chafed surface, and depositing the
substance thereon directly from the cells or cavities.
The stopper may be used not only to apply medicine to horn-germs, but to the
skin of any animal whatever in making application to wounds, sores or disabilities
needing such applications.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. A bottle-stopper having circumferential and intersecting ridges, edges, or pro-
tuberances on its lower face, whereby to form pits, cells or cavities and rubbing or
abrading edges or ridges, for the purpose stated.
2. A rubber cork or bottle-stopper, having a handle on one end, its inner end

page_text: formed with a circumferential ridge bounding a surface of intersecting ridges, edges
or protuberances and pits, cells or cavities, for the purpose stated.
Dated this 16th day of December 1890.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.