US1127694A - Bottle. - Google Patents

Description

M. E. STERRETT.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6. 1913.

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MANFORD E. STERR-ETT, OF BURROWS, INDIANA.

BOTTLE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

Application filed December 6, 1913. Serial No. 805,075.

To aZZ 10/tom it may concern Be it known that I, MANFORD E. STERRETT,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Burrows, in the county of Carroll and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is .to provide a bottle for fluids and the like and which must be partially mutilated in order to withdraw the original contents so that the bottle cannot be conveniently refilled with a spurious or inferior fluid and sold as the genuine article.

The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of a bottle adapted to contain a fluid or the like, with suitable air-tight sealing means, the said bottle having a frangible portion which must be broken away to remove the air-tight sealing means, thus mutilating the bottle to an eX- tent which will prevent the fraudulent reusing of the bottle inasmuch as a customer will readily note, if the bottle has been spuriously refilled, that the contents of the bottle is not original on account of the fact that the upper portion of the bottle must be mutilated in order to withdraw the original contents, and the fact that the same has been mutilated will be an indication that a bottle filled with fluid contains one which is spurious and in all probability inferior to the original contents.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in'which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view of the bottle, showing the same sealed; Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the frangible portion of the bottle broken away; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view of a slightly modified form of bottle.

Referring more particularly to the views, I disclose a bottle body 10 including an integral neck 11 having an annular and flared ange 12 providing a flat ledge 13 at its upper portion and from which projects up wardly a circular frangible neck 14 having a restricted opening 15, as shown.

A tapered stopper 16 is adapted for insertion in the neck 11 to be encircled by an enlarged flared flange 12 and which is preferably enlarged in order to strengthen the bottle body at this point so that that portion of the neck encircling the stopper will not be broken away when the frangible neck 14 is broken away, as will be hereinafter more fully disclosed. A wafer 17 is arranged to lie on the stopper 16 and lies in the horizontal plane of the point of formation of the frangible neck 14, the interior of the frangible neck 14 being preferably filled with a cementitious material 18. Now when it is desired to remove the original contents of the bottle a blow is struck on the frangible neck 14, thus shattering the same so that the cementitious material 18 can be removed, after which the wafer 17 is removed and the stopper then taken from the neck 11 to permit of pouring out the contents of the bottle body. The wafer 17 can be made of paraffin or formed of cardboard and coated with stearin or the like in order that the cementitious material 18 will not adhere to the upper face of the wafer when the frangible neck 14 is broken away from the neck 11 and with which it is initially formed.

In Fig. 3 I disclose a modified form of my device and in which the neck 11, at the point of formation of the frangible neck 14 and on the inner face thereof, is provided with a circular ledge 19 forming a seat 20 for the wafer 17, the said ledge 19 preferably having an inclined wall with the edge of the wafer 17 also inclined so that the wafer will securely repose upon the seat and protect the stopper 16.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that my bottle is of a simple and durable construction, can be cheaply manufactured and must be mutilated in order to withdraw the original contents therefrom so that when the bottle is subsequently filled with a spurious or inferior fluid the consumer will readily note that this has been done inasmuch as the bottle, when containing the original contents, will not be in anv way mutilated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a bottle, the combination with a bottle body and an integral enlarged neck thereon, said neck having a flared inner wall with a flat ledge formed on the top of the neck, of a circular frangible neck projecting upwardly from the ledge of the first mentioned flared neck, with the entrance to the frangible neck restricted to a less diameter than the diameter of the interior of the frangible neck and the diameter of the flared neck at its upper portion, a tapered stopper 5 for insertion in the flared neck, With its up- 10 ledge, said Wafer being tapered, and a cem- Gopies o f this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

entitious material arranged in the frangible neck to lie Wholly Within the frangible neck and cover the said Wafer.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

MANFORD E. STERRETT.

Witnesses:

G. E. HILTON, HARRY B. CUsTER.

Washington, D. G.

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