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Roberts Patent Filling Machine Co

From Graces Guide

of 35 Deane Road, Bolton

1894 Thomas Roberts patented "Improvements in Apparatus for Filling Bottles with Liquids."

1916 Advertised in "The Chemist and Druggist"[1]

1936 Company incorporated to acquire the business carried on by Thomas Roberts manufacturing filling machinery.

1939, 1940, 1945 Patents by the company and Albert Bickerstaffe and Knowles Edge, of the company, on " Improvements in or relating to machines for filling bottles and like containers" and similar topics.

1952 Patents by the company and Albert Bickerstaffe, John Henry Edwards and Knowles Edge, of the company, on "Improvements in machines for filling, lidding and marking containers"

1982 "the Roberts Patent Filling Machine Co. Ltd. is still very much in business in Bolton, specialising in equipment for filling containers with problem materials."[2]

Was this later acquired by Elliott Brothers or GEC-Marconi?[3]

See Also

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  • [2] Examples of catalogue

Sources of Information

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  2. Daily Mirror 23 April 1982
  3. The company incorporation documents are filed by Companies House with those of Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd
  • Companies house filing