US1043620A

US1043620A - Bottle-closure.

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Publication number: US1043620A
Application number: US53911010A
Authority: US
Inventors: Josef Marian
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-01-20
Filing date: 1910-01-20
Publication date: 1912-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 1929-11-05

Description

J'. MARIAN. vBOTTLE GLOSURE.

APPLIUATION FILED humo, 1910.

1,043,620, Patented NOV. 5, 1912.

JUSEF MARIAN, 0F PRESSBURG, AUSTRAHUNGARY.

FUTTLE-CLOS'URE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.. 5, ilQllZ.

Application filed January 20, 1910. Serial No. 539,110.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOSEF MARIAN, a sub ject of the King of Hungary, residing at Fressburg, in the Empire of Austrialtilungary, have inventedv certain new and useful improvements in Bottle-Closures, of which the following is a specification.

'F he present invent-ion relates to a bottleclosure, more particularly for milk-bottles, and its object is to provide improved means for effecting the closing of a bottle in such a manner that any unauthorized injury to the closure is immediately visible, the closure being, nevertheless, easy, simple, and cheap to produce. l

With the improved closure a bottle is used, pro-vided in the known manner with a groove inv its neck, said closure consisting of a cap which covers the mouth of the bottle and consists of suitable soft material, such 'as parchment, paper or the like with a ring or sleeve of the same or similar material surrounding the depending wall o-f the cap, but not integral with the cap. For closing the bottle, the lower edges of the cap and the' surrounding sleeves are pressed into the groove in the bottle-neck and folded into a U-section in said groove.

'lhis bottle-closure is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a sectional elevation representing the known form of bottle, provided with a groove of rectangular cross-section in the neck. Figs. 2 to 4 are sections of the cap. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation showing a bottle with the cap loose thereon, and Fig. 6 is a similar 1{iew showing the bottle with the cap fastened. y

The bottle (Fig l) has at its neck a a narrow, deep, groove b of rectangular cross-section. This groove serves to take the side wall of the cap, which is folded thereinto with the sleeve.

'llhe cap is formed as a capsule of any suitable material, such as paper, parchment and the like. Fig. 2 shows in cross-section a simple cap c, prior to the placing of the sleeve thereon.,

Fig. 3 shows a cap c1 with the reinforcing ring or sleeve d of metal, card-board, or other strong material placed thereon, the cap having 1n this case a small flange e for supporting the reinforcing ring d, the latter is cut from a thin-walled tube and slipped on tothe cap, the dimensions being so roportioned that the parts t snugly toget er.

flhe wallof the cap may itself be reinforced independently of the ring al which is placed thereon. V Fig. 4C shows a cap 02 the edge of which is inwardly bent, the folded portion j forming the reinforcement, an arrangement which 1s, forV example, suitable 'in the case of caps of very thin material. ft is, however, -obvious that the nature of the reinforcement is not confined to any particular material. v lln order to fold the cap into the groove the former is placed on the bottle as shown 1n Fig. 5 the sleeve d being placed on the cap before or after the latter is placed in i position, whereupon the side wall and the sleeve are pressed into the groove b. To allow of doing this, said side wall and sleeve must overlap .the groove to such an extent that there is sufficient material to enable the edge to enter the groove and to be folded therein into U-shape, as indicated in Fig. 6, but after the folding, no portion of the cap or sleeve remains pendent below the groove, so that no loose edge is available by means of which the folded material can be drawn out of the groove. By the pressing and consequent formation of folds it is rendered impossible to remove the cap without detection, since any tampering with the cap results in partial destruction thereof, so that the attempt is immediately disclosed.

llt will therefore be seen that a simple, quickly and cheaply made closure is provided, which immediately shows evidence of unauthorized tampering, and is fully adequate for the purpose for which it is designed.

'llhe sleeve d slipped over the cap gives the closure a strength which could only be obtained by using a cap of tough and stid material in the absence of the sleeve. With suchmaterial the breaking of the closure would of course be more or less difficult, whereas the sleeve ai can be torn at its upper edge and drawn out of the groove and thus releases the cap without violence and without risk of introducing broken pieces into the bottle in the course of the opening process.

What ll claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentvof the United States is 1 A bottle closure comprising a cap of exible material adapted to be placed over a bottle neck provided with an annular groove,

and a sleeve of flexible materialsurrounding the side Wall of said cap, the said `sidel specification in ythe presence of two Wit- `wall of the cap and slleve being folded tonesses. gether so as to interloc and form a substan'- w tially-U-shaped inwardly projecting annular JOEF- MARIAN' 5 bead snugly ttng in the annular groove of Witnesses:

the body. l HANS PAPPENHEIM, In wtnessfwhereof I have signed this AUGUST FUGGER.