Patent dan rylands valve6/13/2023 Codd held 20 percent stake in the business, which was renamed Rylands & Codd.ĭemand for Codd bottles soon exceeded the capacity of the original works. Glassware from this period is marked ‘B Rylands Bottle Works near Barnsley.īy May 1877 Codd had issued more than 400 ‘bottle usage’ licences to drinks bottling companies and it was at this time that Ben Rylands took him into partnership at the Stairfoot works ‘to further the invention’. Codd has already granted about 20 licences to various bottle manufactures when in April 1874 he granted a licence to Rylands on condition that Rylands buy marbles and seals from Codd, use Codd’s patented groove making tool, and sell only licenced bottling to companies. In 1873 Ben Rylands met Hiram Codd and the two collaborated on experiments with Codd’s patented ‘globe stoppered’ mineral water bottle with the aim of perfecting the method of manufacture. A factory was built alongside the canal at Stanley Road, producing glass jars and corked bottles. Rylands first appeared at Stairfoot in 1867 when Ben Rylands a partner in the South Yorkshire Glass Company at Swinton-looked to establish his own glass-making business in Barnsley. This ‘bottle with a marble’ was made under licence by a host of companies, the most important being Rylands of Stairfoot, at the Hope Glass Works. First patented in 1872 by Hiram Codd (an engineer and soda water bottler), the Codd bottle in its various forms became the vessel of choice for carbonated drinks, a position it held for 60 years.
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