Codd Bottle Marbles

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These bottles had to be manufactured in two parts. Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than canadian dollars and are approximate conversions to canadian dollars based upon. A codd neck bottle is a type of bottle used for carbonated drinks. It was an ingenious way to maintain the fizz in fizzy drinks initially soda water by using the pressure of the carbon dioxide to push a marble against a washer in the neck of the bottle.

First invented by hiram codd in 1872 this innovative design incorporated a glass marble within a chamber usually in the neck of the bottle. The codd marble bottle was born from the need to keep carbonated drinks from going flat. St helens vintage codd neck bottle aqua blue marble embossed schofield bros liverpool 9 17 99 1d 5h 15 39 shipping. Originally effervescent drinks were contained in stoneware bottles but these allowed the gas to leak and the drink would indeed go flat.

At the age of 23 he worked as a salesman for the british and foreign cork company. Codd marbles retrieved from the sea on a solitaire board hiram codd from london invented and patented the codd bottle in 1872. He licensed his patent to several manufacturers including ben rylands. Marble bottles or codd s patent bottles were by far the most popular used patent throughout the british colonies.

5 from bury st edmunds suffolk england fig. Codd bottles were ingeneous replacements for the cork stopper bottles. Rubber rings cork stoppers soda bottles antique bottles marbles food art dining room history antiques. The problem was solved in 1872 with the invention of the codd marble in the neck bottle by hiram codd 1838 1887 fig.

It has a closing design based on a glass marble which is held against a rubber seal which sits within a recess in the lip. It was an ingenious way to maintain the fizz in fizzy drinks initially soda water by using the pressure of the carbon dioxide to push a marble against a washer in the neck of the bottle. Codd in his early working life became a mechanical engineer. Design in 1872 british soft drink maker of.