INK-BOTTLE RIG This contraption allows me to dip my nib just inches from my drawing, thereby avoiding an exhausting reach of a foot or so waaaay over to the side table.
By 1989, the liquid in a bottle, rather than the contraption on the nozzle, was being called a body wash.
When the man wasn't looking, Luca quickly pulled one up and saw that it held a fish trap made from a plastic bottle, nearly identical to a contraption the kids use to catch minnows in our backyard creek.
Along with a partner, Rebecca Bray, she developed the Windowfarm, a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption with plastic water bottles, hoses and an air pump that can be hung in an apartment window to grow herbs and vegetables.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but the awkwardness of the contraption was jarring: the bottles shaped like bullhorns, the tubes like tethers, the rhythmic gasping and grinding of the small motor, the inescapable sense of being a cow on an industrial farm.
Our day began with basic safety instruction and practice ascending fixed lines (the easiest route to the portaledge, and no climbing experience required) before the mystery of midnight portaledge pee protocol was revealed: an empty bottle for Monsieur and a funnel like contraption called a she-pee for Madame.
Carbonated drinks made with real juice must be bottled in a machine called a tunnel pasteurizer, a contraption Marlin describes as "sort of like a car wash for bottles that kills the bacteria".
The experts recommend building a contraption out of an empty soda bottle, filling it with soapy water, and drowning the stinkbugs inside, but I am dubious.
Like the asses they irrigate, douches come in all shapes and sizes, from readily available Fleet brand saline bottles to complicated shower contraptions for seasoned vets.
He invented a contraption to extract corks from wine bottles, the corkscrew, which was patented by the industrialist Matthew Boulton in 1795.
