US1023735A - Bottle-stopper. - Google Patents

Description

J. E. HAGER. BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 13, 1911, I

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

' INVENTOI? Jd/ZZZZWW f I M -Wc WITNESSES ATTORNEYS JOHN EDWARD HAGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

Application filed January 13, 1911. Serial No. 602,390.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN E. HAGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bottle-Stopper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a bottle stopper, and more particularly to a stopper for use on a bottle whereby the bottle is made nonrefillable.

An object of my invention is to provide a new and novel form of stopper, which may be permanently rolled on to the bottle.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device whereby liquid may readily be poured from the bottle, but is so constructed and arranged that it is not possible to refill the bottle.

A still further object of my invention is to so arrange the parts that it is not possible to tamper with the sealing mechanism.

I attain these objects by positioning on the mouth of a bottle, an inner and an outer cap, one telescoping over the other, to close the mouth of the bottle, one of the telescoping members having side outlet apertures, and in order to further seal the opening, a funnel-shaped member is inserted in the throat of the bottle and a cone sealing member falls by gravity into the bottom of said funnel, to shut off communication with the same.

With the above and other objects in view, as will more fully hereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in which Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view taken through the neck of a bottle in a vertical position and showing my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a side view similar to Fig. l, but showing the neck tilted with the sealing cone unseated and the outer cap raised; Fig. 3 is a detailed sectional view of the outer cap taken in a plane through the vertical axis thereof before being applied to the bottle; Fig. 4 is a similar view of the inner cap; and Fig. 5 is a corresponding view of the funnel-shaped sealing member.

In the figures, I have disclosed a preferred form of bottle having a neck 1, the upper portion of which is offset to form a shoulder 2, below which is an integral rim 3. Fitting the upper portion of the neck of the bottle, is an inner cap 4 of a general cylindrical structure, as shown in Fig. 4:, said cap having an open top 5 and having the sides thereof crimped into screw threads 6. This cylindrical inner cap is placed on the top of the neck of the bottle, and is rolled to conform to the configuration of the neck of the bottle, so that when assembled 011 the bottle, the inner cap has a beveled shoulder 7 below the screw threads 6, and the end is rolled over and around the rim 3, thereby firmly iocking this metallic member on to the glass bottle. Telescoping over the inner cap 4 is a cylindrical closed end outer cap 8, having screw threads 9 in threaded engagement with the screw threads 6 on the inner cap. After this outer cap is placed on the inner cap, the inner open end is formed into an inturned flange 10, projecting inward to the cylindrical neck portion 11 between the shoulders 7 and the rim 3, whereby the outer cap may be screwed up on the bottle, thereby opening the passage through the throat of the bottle to the outside through the circumferentially-disposed outer apertures 12 in the upper side of the outer cap 8. Interposed between the tops of the inner and outer caps, is placed a paper or cork washer 13. By this arrangement it will be seen that by rotating the outer cap upward from its position shown in Fig. 1, the apertures 12 will be raised above the outer edge of the top of the neck, thereby permitting a free flow of the liquid through the apertures 12. In order to prevent the refilling of this bottle, I have placed a funnel-shaped member 1 1 within the throat of the bottle with the projecting flange 15 thereof resting on the outer edge 16 of the bottle, whereby it will be seen that this member is held in position on the upper edge by the inner cap member 4. Within this funnel is a cone l7, conforming in shape to the contour of the funnel member, whereby when the bottle is in a'vertical position, the weight of this cone will cause it to fall to the bottom of the funnel, thereby sealing the opening 18 and preventing any liquid flowing into the bottle. In order to facilitate the flow of liquid out of the bottle about all portions of this cone, the latter is provided with grooves 19 on its side, extending from the base to a point just within the meeting line of the cone with the end of the funnel. It will be seen that by this arrangement the liquid can flow freely through the grooves when the device is in tilted position, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby facilitating the outflow of the liquid from the bottle.

Many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope of it. It is intended that all matters contained herein, in the above description, or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted, as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is merely intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween, and that materials, sizes and relativities of parts are non-essential except as called for in the claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A bottle having an outlet neck, a funnelshaped valve housing mounted in said neck and having a flange resting upon the outer edge of said neck, a conical valve mounted in said valve housing, diverging arms eX- tending from said valve, a sleeve rigidly mounted upon said outlet neck and provided with a flange at its outer end resting upon the flange of said valve housing and extend ing partially across said housing, the arms of said valve being adapted to engage said sleeve flange to limit the outward movement of said valve, and a perforated sleeve mounted upon said first mentioned sleeve.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN EDWVARD HAGER.

WVitnesses:

W. S. ORTON, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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