To Prevent Accidental Poisoning.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1914, Page 4

To Prevent Accidental Poisoning.

AN INGENIOUS "CORK." FOR POISON BOTTLES.

Recent distressing misadventures by poison brings to mind that many | clever people have been for years j trying to devise a means of pre- : venting such mishaps. j Many clever devices have been patented to minimise the risk of acci- ; dental poisoning, but either owing (o the difficulties of placing the invention successfully (from the financial point of view; on the market, or for some other reason, none of these devices has ever yet been taken up. But at last a possible solution ,of the problem has been achieved.

The secret of its future success lies in its simplicity. The device is merely a tiny brass plate, fastened to any cork, with two sides indented in such a way that the pressure of its "teeth" on the fingers would remind the drowsy or the most careless person that the poison bottle was being handled. Fixed between the cork and the spiked brass is a ribbon, which goes round the neck of the bottle. This is to insure the cork not being lost. Oi" course, the little implement has the great merit over other inventions in that it is simple, cheap, and can be fitted to any size or kind of cork bottle now in stock. Being attached to the neck of the bottle, there can be no interchangin.g, and if the stopper should he left (ml, v reminder is given by a clinking of the indicator against the medicine glass, and dangling round ihe fingers while in the act of pouring out.