US1108996A - Bottle-cap. - Google Patents

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F. G. KOLLBNBERG. BOTTLE 0112' APPLICATION FILED DEG.15, 1913.

1,108,996. 7 Patented Sept. 1,1914.

Witnesses Attorneys WMMM/k WW' Y FREDERICK G. KOLEENBERG, OF OWENSBORCB, KELl'TUCKY, ASSIGNOR QF ONE-HALF T WILLIAM E. DANEAUER,

OF OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY.

BOTTLE-CAP.

1,108,99&

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

Application filed December 15, 1913. Serial No. 806,87

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK G. KOLLEN- Imus, a citizen of the United States residing at Owensboro, in the county of baviess andl tate of- Kentucky. have invented a new and useful Bottle-Cap, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionaims to provide a cap for bottles or other receptacles which may be easily and readily removed therefrom without the use of tools.

With the above and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a plan of the blank from which the cap is formed; Fig. 2 is a section showing the cap in place on a bottle; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the cap; Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the lap. f The cap herein disclosed is fashioned from a metal blank shown in Fig. 1 and denoted by the numeral 1, the blank 1 ordinarily being of circular contour. Projcciing from the periphery of'the blank 1 is a transverse tongue At the point where the tongue 2 merges into; the blank 1, the blank is slit along diverging lincsas shown at 3 to define cirouhiferentially extended tongues 6. By a rocess well known in the art, the blank 1 is ormed into a cap 4 having :1 depending, inwardly extended fiange'h. The tongue 2 projects below the loweredge of the flange 5 and the tongues 6 are overlapped circumferentially of the tongue 2 as'shown in Fig. 3. If desired, the lower, pointed end of the tongue 2 may be rolled into a finger hold 7. The cap 4 may be equipped In operation, the cap 4 is mounted upon a bottle indicated at 9 in Fig. 2, the flange 5 engaging beneath bottle and the tongue 2 outstanding slightly from the bottle as shown in Fig. 2, although, obviously, if desired, the'tongue 2 may be bent down flat against the bottle. In any event, when the tongue 2' is pulled outwardly by means of the finger hold 7, the tongues 6 will be crowded laterally, away from each other, and thus the flange 5 will be loosened from beneath the bead 10.

is claimed is A receptacle cap fashioned from a blank having a central tongue projecting from its periphery and provided'with slits extended inwardly from its periphery and defining the base and the central tongue and defining a pair of lateral tongues located upon opposite sides of the central tongue, .the periphcry of the blank being bent to form a receptacle engaging flange, the slits being disposed in inwardly diverging relation to cause the lateral tongues to overlap the outer face of the central tongue when the flange is formed, the free ends of the lateral tongues being spaced from each other to facilitate the separation of the lateral tongues and the release of the flange when the central tongue is flexed outwardly.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atlixed my signature in the resence of two witnesses. l

FREDlEREGK G. KOLLENBERG."

Witnessesli the bead 10 on the with the usual compressible an"; 8.

Having thus described the invention, what i

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