Bottle for medicine, &c.

(Application filed Feb. 18, 1902.) (No Model.)

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ATTORNEY.

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United States ___

CHARLES W. McSHANE, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

BOTTLE FOR MEDICINE, &amp;.C.

SPECIFICATION forming· part of Letters Patent No. 710,708, dated October 7, 1902.

Application filed February 18, 1902. Serial No, 94,643. (No model.)

To all whom It may concern:

Be it known that I,Charles W.McShane,a eilizenof theUnited States, residing at Zanesville, in the county of Muskingum, in the State 5 of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Bottle for Medicine, &amp;c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a medicine-bottle, and with which I combine a scale of the full, io half, and quarter hours from 12 to 11.45 o’clock, together with an indicator to indicate the time of taking the medicine therein contained; and the object of my invention is to provide a practicable, an accurate, and a con15 venient means of keeping account of the time or times to give one kind or more kinds than one of medicine. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which—

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal plan view of mj⁷invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective view in detail of my time-indicator. Fig. 4 is a horizontal plan view of my invention, showing 25 variation in indicator.

Similar numerals represent similar parts throughout the several views.

is a bottle provided on one of its moldseamed sides along about the line of the seam 30 where the faces of the molds come in contact with each other with a flat-topped ridge 2, provided on its sides with grooves 3, which are adapted to receive gripping-claws 4 of indicator 5, provided with resilient gripping35 index 6, which forms toward its base a thumb and finger hold 7. On the top of ridge 2 is located a time-scale of the full, half, and quarter hours from 12 to 11.45 o’clock. Grooves 3 are open at one or both of their ends to re40 ceive gripping-claws 4, not by springing said claws over the broad top of ridge 2, but by sliding said claws into the open ends of grooves 3. The inner ends of said claws do not butt squarely up against and grip the innermost 45 surfaces of grooves 3 to help support indicator 5 on ridge 2, but said claws enter grooves 3 without gripping ridge 2 until said indicator 5 is slid so far onto ridge 2 that resilient gripping-index 6 grips the top of said ridge 2, 50 thereby drawing said gripping-claws 4 up against the under sides, respectively, of the edges of ridge 2, which are formed by grooves and the top of said ridge 2, thereby causing gripping-claws 4 to grip from beneath the two edges of said ridge and, together with grip- 55 ping-index 6 above, adjustably to support indicator 5 on said ridge 2, and said grippingclaws 4 can grip said grooved ridge by butting squarely into said grooves 3, in which case resilient index 6 does not grip the top of said 60 ridge, as shown in Fig. 4. Said ridge 2 can be located on said bottle in any position; but I prefer to form said ridge on a mold-seamed side of said bottle, so that the molds will fall out of grooves 3 and away from ridge 2 with- 65 out tending to damage said grooves and ridge.

Time-scale 8 can be molded in the top of ridge 2.

The operation of my invention is as follows, to wit: A dose of the medicine in a particular 70 bottle is given, for example, at 7.45 o’clock, to be repeated every three-quarters of an hour. In this case upon giving the dose indicator 5 is moved up the scale until the edge of index 6 stands at the 8.30 o’clock line, thus indi- 75 eating the next time to repeat the dose.