US1063796A - Antirefillable bottle. - Google Patents

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J. M. HOLLBR, Jn. & W. P. EVERHART. ANTIREFILLABLB BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED FEB.1, 1911.

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WITNESSES:

@NITE STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

, JACOB lVI. I-IOLLER, JR., AND WILLIAM F. EVER/HART, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

AN'IIREFILLABLE BOTTLE.

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB M. HoLLnRp J r., and VVILLLAM F. Eviter-MRT, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antirefillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

rFhis invention relates to antireillable bottles, and the primary object of the invention is to provide a bottle with positive and reliable means in a manner as will be hereinafter set forth whereby the bottle cannot be refilled and used without detection.

A further object of our invention is to furnish a bottle with a novel closure or valve that will permit of the contents of the bottle z )being easily removed, but prevent matter from being placed in the bottle after it has been opened.

@ur invention aims to eliminate the nefarious practice of unscrupulous merchants in filling bottles or receptacles that once contained a popular brand of liquid with an inferior article and dispensing the same as the original contents of the bottle. It is a well known fact that bartenders andsaloon keepers often lill bottles that contained a popular brand of liquid with an inferior liquid, and that suoli a practice is also carried on by druggists in connection with patent medicines. Besides eliminating the above practice, we prevent bottles that once contained poisonous matter from being filled with other matter, thereby preventing the loss of life from such'practice.

Our invention will be hereinafter fully considered, particularly he detail construction of the bottle and then claimed, and reference will now be had to the drawing wherein there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that the structural elements thereof are susceptible to such changes as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of a bottle in accordance with our invention, Fig. 2 is a cross section taken on the line II-II of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on the line III- HI of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of disassembled parts of the bottle closure.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1911.

Patented June s, 1013.

Serial No. 666,011.

The reference numeral 1 denotes a portion of a bottle having a neck 2 and an inwardly projecting liange 3 at the juncture of said neck and the bottle, said flange providing an annular seat l for a gasket or resilient ring 5.

6 denotes the depending sleeve of a circular valve support 7, said valve support being mounted upon the gasket 5 with the sleeve 6 extending through said gasket. The valve support 7 is provided with an annular seat 8 at the uper end of the sleeve 6 and adapted to normally seat thereon is an inverted conical-shaped valvular member 9 having an annular flange 10 adapted to normally close the upper end of the sleeve 6, said valvular member being movably mounted upon the seat 8.

11 denotes a housing having the lower edges thereof suitably connected and seated upon the peripheral edges of the valve support 7, said housing having the top thereof provided with a plurality of openings 12 and with a vertical stem 13. rIhe housing 12 is provided with a central depending conical-shaped guide 14 extending into the conical-shaped valvular member 9 to retain the same upon the seat 8 to guide said member when unseated. The guide 14 is surr'ounded by an annular enlargement 15 which prevents the valvular member from completely seating upon the housing.

16 denotes an oblong transverse enlargement intermediate the ends of the stem 13 and this enlargement is" provided with two longitudinal sockets 17 and 18, the socket 17 being open at one end of the enlargement 16 and the socket 1S open at the opposite end thereof. In these sockets are arranged compression springs 19 and pins 20, said springs normally holding the pins 20 in a projected position whereby the ends of said pins will engage in an annular groove 21 provided therefor in an annular off-set portion 22 of the bottle neck 2.

28 denotes a circular head carried by the top of the stem 13 and provided with a plurality of circumferentially arranged vertical openings 2-1. Intermediate the head 23 and the enlargement 16 is an annular deflector 25, and intermediate the enlargement 16 and the top of the housing 11 is a similar detiector 26.

27 denotes an ordinary cork or stopper placed in the upper end of the neck 2.

been assembled and the gasket 5 placed upon the seat- 4, the bottle closure in its entirety canbe `inserted in the bottle neck 2, with the pins in a retracted position on account `of engaging the inner Walls of the neck 2. immediately upon the closure being pushed downwardly to seatupon the gasket 5, the

pins 2O are released and through the me? dium ofthe springs 19, which have been held under tension by the outer ends of the pins engaging the inner Walls of the neck 2, said pins project into the annular groove 21 of the annular off-set portion 22 of the bottle neck 2, thereby locking the closure Wit-hin the bottle. The valvular member 9 will be normally seated by gravity, and its weight is' suflicient to preventsaid member from Heating when liquid is poured into the bottle neck 2, consequently the upper end of the sleeve 6 is closed and the bottle cannot be lled after the closure has been placed in posit-ion.

lVhen the cork 27 is removed and the bottle inverted to remove the contents thereof, the valvular member 9 seats upon the enlargement 15 and the guide 14 and there is sufficient space for the contents of the bottle to pass around the peripheral edges of the flange 10 of said member, through the openings 12 of the housing 11 and the openings 241 of the head 23.

To prevent a piece of Wire or an instrument from being inserted in the bottle neck to elevate the valvular member 9, the head 23 is provided with the small opening or deflectors 25 and 26, these deflectors making it almost impossible for a piece of wire to be inserted in the openings 12 to engage under the flange 10 and elevate the member 9.

It will be noted that the valvular member 9 can shift upon the upper end of the sleeve 6, irrespective of its position upon the seat 8, the upper end of the sleeve 6 is closed.

The bottle closure can be made of light and durable non-corrosive metal, porcelain or other material not susceptible to any chemical action of the part of the contents of the bottle.

lVhatwe claim .is

In an anti-relillable bottle, a valve seat forming member adapted to be arranged within the neck of a bottle, a shiftable valve mounted upon said seat, a housing mounted against and projecting from said member and having its top formed with openings, a depending valve guiding means integral with said top, a stem projecting upwardly from said. top and provided intermediate its ends with a rectangular annularly disposed enlargement, oppositely disposed spring controlled pins mounted in said en largement and adapted to engage in the neck of a bottle for connecting the stem thereto, a perforated head integral with the upper end of the stem and of a diameter to engage the inner face of the bottle neck, and circu ar dellectors integral with the stem,

one of said deiectors interposed between the enlargement and the head and the other between the enlargement and the housing, said defectors of less diameter than the head.

In testimony whereof we aliix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB M. HOLLER, Jn. VILLIAM FA EVER Hi'iRT. litnesses MAX H. Snonovrrz, CHRISTINA T. Hoon.

Gies f this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents` Washington, D. I"

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