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(Fig. 4) Wlliam Henry Hamilton Trood, "A Surprising Result," 1887
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Codd Bottle
The problem with the pointy-ended Hamilton
bottle was its tendency to roll off counters or shelves. The
problem was solved, in 1872, with the invention of the
Codd (marble-in-the-neck) bottle by Hiram Codd (1838-
1887) – (Fig. 5) from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
(Fig. 6).
Codd in his early working life became a
mechanical engineer. At the age of 23 he worked as a
salesman for the “British and Foreign Cork Company”
where he recognized a need for better bottle filling
machines and a new type of closure to alleviate the need
for the very items he sold – corks.
In 1862 he conceived and patented a device for
measuring the flow of liquids; in 1870 devised and
patented a machine for filling bottles. To understand the
mineral water trade better and to prove the worth of his
(Fig. 5) Hiram Codd
1872 Patent bottle