US1034721A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

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J. MELIU. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLIoATIoN FILED FEB. 15, 1911.

1,034,721. PatentedAug. 6,1912.

NITED STATES JAMES MELIO, F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES Munro, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bot tles, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved form of combined Valve casing and valve adapted to be sup-V ported in the neck of a bottle to render the bottle non-rellable; to provide an improved arrangement of the liquid passages in such devices; to provide improved means for keeping the valve closed until after the bottle is tipped beyond the horizontal to a pouring position; and to provide an improved construction of the bottle neck for supporting and retaining said valve casing therein. p

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which r- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the neck of a bottle in which is A.supported a valve casing and valve constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the bottle tipped to a substantially horizontal position, illustrating the action of the valve and weight. Fig. 8

is also a similar view, showing the position to which the bottle must be tipped to unseat the valve for pouring the liquid therefrom. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional detail taken on the line A-A of Fig. 1. Fig.

5 is a section t-aken on the line B-B of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary detail of the upper end of the valve casing, showing the arrangement of the spiral passages therein.

In the construction shown in the drawings, the valve casing comprises a pair of telescoping parts 1 and 2, which are adapted to be supported in the neck of a bott-le in the manner shown. The part 2 is provided with a valve seat 3 near its upper end, which coacts with a spherical valve 4 for controlling the passage of liquid through the casing. The top of the valve may be cut away to reduce its weight but the spherical sides should be of suflicient eX- tent to insure tight seating of the valve in any inclined position that it is capable of assuming. The valve 4 is normally held on its seat by a weight 5 depending therefrom Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 15, 1911.

Patented Aug. e, 1912.

Serial No. 608,841.

on an integral stem 6. The shoulder 7 of the weight is conical, and is adapted to coact with the annular shoulder 8 for retaining the valve 4 on its seat until the bottle is tipped to such a posit-ion that the conical shoulder 7 will slide on the shoulder of t-he bottle so as to unseat the valve. This does not occur until the bottle is tipped beyond the horizontal to a substantially in- Verted position.

The valve casing is provided with annular shoulders 9 and 10 formed at the opposite ends, by means of which it is supported in the neck of the bottle. The shoulder 9 is tapered, and has a wedging fit with a conisubstantially equal in diameter to the in terior of the neck and lits snugly therein. Apertures 12 are formed in the part 1 between the valve seat 3 and the partition 18, which partition forms a closure for the upper end of the valve casing. These apertures lead int-o the space between the bottle neck and the casing, from which a plurality of spiral peripheral passages 14, formed in the shoulder 10, lead to the exterior of the valve casing.

The cork 11 is confined in the neck of the bottle between shoulders 15 and 16. The shoulders 16 are arranged in a series around the neck ofthe bottle, as'shown in Fig. 5, and are formed by indenting the exterior of the neck at 17, as shown in Fig. 4, while the shoulder 15 is formed by the annular indenting of the neck at 1S. The neck of t-he bottle is enlarged at 19 between the shoulders 16 and its upper end, so as to provide a suitable space adjacent to the aperliquid.

All of the parts except the cork 11 may be made of glass, and the casing sections 1 and 2 may be cemented together so as to prevent the inner section 2 from being caused to fall into the bottle.

The use and operation ofthe device is as follows After the bottle has been filled with a liquid, the cork 11 is inserted into the neck of the bottle, and by means of a suitable implement is forced into position between the shoulders 15 and 16. The valve sections 1 and 2, after being assembled and cemented together with the valve 4 in place, are then forced into the neck of the bottle until the tapered shoulder 9 is securely wedged into the cork 11 below the tures 12 for facilitating the pouring of the.

cal hollow cork 11 and the shoulder 10 is shoulders 16. The shoulder 10 tting snugly Within the neck and t-he passages 14 being spiral, it is practically impossible for a grip to be obtained with any implement for accomplishing the withdrawal of the casing after it has once been forced into place. lVhen the bott-le is in its upright position, the weight 5 normally tends to hold the valve 4 on its seat 3, but when the bottle is tipped, the weight 5 will swing to one side and the conical part 7 will engage with the shoulder 8 and tend to hold the valve 4 on its seat 3 until the bottle has reached a substantially inverted position. The partition then supports the valve in its unseated position, and the liquid flows out through the apertures 12 into the space between the casing and the neck of the bottle, and finally runs out through the spiral passages 14. As soon as the bottle is tilted back, the conical part 7 acting against the shoulders 8, will tend to draw the valve 4f into engagement with the seat 3 and prevent refilling of the bottle by pouring liquid into it when it is inclined. y

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention is herein shown and described, it will be understood that some of the details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted Without departing from the spirit of this invention, as defined by the following claims.

I claim l. A bottle of the class described com-2` prising, a tubular neck having a shoulder at i its lower end, a valve casing fitted withini` said neck at its upper and lower ends and44 being spaced away from said neck at its middle portion to provide an annular space around it and being constructed of upper and lower parts telescoping each other, a valve seat in said lower part, a spherical valve (zo-acting with said seat and yhaving a depending stem with a conical weight at its end, said conical weight being adapted to engage said shoulder to cause the seating of said valve when the bottle is tipped, the lower end portions of said valve casing having their outer peripheries substantially Hush and in alinement with each other, and a resilient packing ring surrounding said lower end portions of said casing parts and having frictional engagement with both, the material of said bottle neck being indented from the exterior thereof so as to form an annular series of inwardly extending `shoulries of shoulders overlapping said packing ruary 1911.

JAMES MELIO.

Witnesses:

EUGENE A. RUMMLER, EDWIN PHELPS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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