US823355A - Self-fixing protective covering for bottles, jars, or other vessels. - Google Patents

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No. 823,355. PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906. M. G. OLIVIER. SELF FIXING PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR BOTTLES, JARS, OR OTHER VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.1,190G.

' MAURICE GASTON OLIVIER,

UNITED STATES? PATENT OI? PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR SOCIETE FRANGAISE DE LA VISCOSE, OF PARIS, FRANCE. SELF-FIXING PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR- BOTTLES, lARS, OR OTHER VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906'.

.To all whomit may concern: I

Be it known that I, MAURICE -GASTON OLIVIER, engineer, acitizen of the French Republic, residing at Paris, France, have invented certain newand useful ments in Self-Fixing Protective Coverings for Bottles, Jars, or other Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

Bottles containin liquid or other preparations are usually cIosed with a sto per or cork and also generally provided wit a rotective covering, which may be of leat or, skin, metal, pa er, or other suitable material, for the fixing 0 which certain manual or mechanical 0' erations are necessary.

I have f dund that a film of cellulose, such as can be obtained by precepitation from the solution of cellulose known as viscose, can be pre ared into suitable shape or form, and this 'w en laced upon. the bottle, jar, or

other vesse shrinks possible contact, forming a perfectly tight oint. Thus for an ordinary stop red bottle used to put 11 pharmaceutica prepara- (1 these coverings of cellulose hydrate bv coatin the rounded and closed ends of cylindrica and setting the solution by any of the wellknown means. The shaped films are detached, purified and washed, and preservedin contact with water in the hydrate condition. These films are made slightly larger than the neck of the bottle or vessel to be covered, so that they slip on quite easily- The length is also adjusted according to re-v quirements. The film when placed on the bottle or vessel shrinks ontaneously and readily accommodates itse f to the shape of the vessel. 7 Solutions oficellulose other than viscose having similar properties may. of

course be used.

The essence of my invention consists in the fact that the cellulosefilm. in its-hydrated for'm shrinks ve considerably as itparts automaticallywit its moisture, that during its spontaneous shrinkage it. takes the form of, and molds itself upon, the stopper, or'cork on which it is placed, making a perfectly.

Improvey loss of moisture and( attaches itself spontaneously at all. points of tubes with viscose I. tight joint, and that in the air-dry state it possesses the tensile properties necessary to withstand the strains wh1ch are'set u .by the shrinkage. The joint above referre to is so perfect that there is not the slightest leakage with fatty matters or the most mobile liquid, like petroleum. I

In the drawing the figure illustrates in broken elevation a bottle having my improved covering applied thereto.

In said drawing, 1 indicates the body of the bottle; 2, the neck thereof; 3, the cork inserted in said-neck, and 4 my improved coating or covering a plied about the neck of thebottle and over t e top of said cork.

. claim I 1 A self-fixing protective covering for bottles, jars, or other vessels, comprising an apropriately-shaped film or covering of'cellulbse hydrate adapted, when placedupon the bottle or other vessel, to-shrink by loss of moisture and so attach itself firmly at all ointsof possible contact, substantially as hereinbefore described.

2. The method of producing a self-fixing I protective covering for bottles, jars or other vessels, which consists in forming a body of cellulose hydrate into the shapeof the covering desired, but slightly larger than the neck .of the bottle or vessel to be covered, so that itself firmly slightly larger than the neck of the bottle or vessel to be covered.

In testimony whereof I have herelinto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAURICE GASTON OLIVIF' R.

Witnesses PIERRE L. LEIssE,

EMILE KLoBE.

upon application to the bottle it-will shrink.

" lose into the form of acap or covering of a size a

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