US1149068A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

Description

S. E. KINNAN.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 18.1913.

1,149,068. Patented Aug. 3,1915. I

Wifnaooeo COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH (20., WASHINGTON. D. c.

SIMEON' E. KINNAN, OF LAKE HELEN, FLORIDA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Application filed October 18, 1913. Serial No. 796,029.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMEON E. KINNAn, a citizen of the United States, residingat Lake Helen, in the county of Volusia and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N on-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to non-refillable bottles of that type in which it is necessary to break the closure from the bottle neck before dispensing the contents.

One of the objects of this invention is the provision of a plurality of closures which are associated with the bottle neck, said closures being interlocked and rigidly engaged with the bottle neck for performing the desired function.

Other objects as well as the nature, characteristic features and scope of my invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims forming a part of this specification.

Referring to the drawings:-Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of the device constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings wherein is illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention in order to illustrate the application thereof a portion of a bottle '5 is provided which'has issuing from the upper end thereof a neck 6. Upon reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings it is obvious that the bottle and the neck are of the ordinary construction, the neck 6 being provided adjacent the upper end thereof with an annular recess 7 Arranged in the bottle neck 6 subjacent the annular recess 7 is an ordinary stopper 8 which may be made of any suitable material preferably cork in view of its inexpensive nature and durability, the upper end of said stopper engaging with a plate 9. The inner terminal of the plate 9 is arranged subjacent the inner terminal of a plate 10, the latter being identical in configuration with the plate 9. Upon reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings it will be seen that the plates 9 and 10 have the edges 11 thereof preferably of an arcuate configuration conforming to the contour of the annular recess 7 while the opposite edge of each plate has a semicircular portion cutaway as indicated at 12. As above stated the plate 9 lies in engagement with the upper end of the stopper, having the arcuate edge 11 thereof engaging in the annular recess 7, while one end of the plate 10 lies in engagement with the plate 9 so as to provide an opening 13 as advantageously illustrated in Fig. 3.

In order to lock the stopper 8 in the neck 6 which is done through the medium of the plates 9 and 10, I have provided a corkscrew 14 which is preferably formed from a single strand of wire, said wire being helically wound and having the convolutions thereof tapering toward the loody of the bottle, the extreme end 15 thereof being tapered to a point so as to facilitate the entrance thereof into the cork or stopper 8. The upper end of the cork-screw 14: is bent so as to provide a substantially annular ring 16 at the upper end thereof, said ring being provided with a semi-circular depressed portion 17 therein which has ongagement. with a locking element 18, the

6 element in the present instance comprising a single strand of spring wire the opposite ends of which-are slightly beveled for a purpose which will subsequently appear.

Engaging over the bottle neck 6is a closure or cap 19 which is preferably formed of glass and is of an elongated cylindrical shape, one end thereof being open and the opposite end thereof being substantially round, as indicated at 20, and closed. The open end as is obvious engages over the bottle neck while the upper or arcuate end 20 thereof normally lies in spaced relation to the annular ring 16. The cap 19 is provided approximately midway the ends thereof with an annular beveled recess 21 adapted for engagement with the beveled ends of the locking element 18.

In operation the cork 8 is engaged in the bottle neck till the upper end thereof lies flush with the lower portion of the annular recess 7 The plates 9 and 10 are then engaged in the annular recess 7 the semicircular cut-out portions 12 thereof being partially alined so as to provide an opening 13. The pointed end 15 of the cork-screw 14 is then inserted in the opening 13, and pressure exerted on the annular ring 16 so as to force the cork-screw into the stopper 8 and incidentally expand the plates 9 and 10 until the arcuate faces 11 thereof are snugly engaged in theannularrecess 7 in which instance a portion of the cork-screw will lie in engagement with the plate 10, so as to positively prevent any movement of the plates. After this operation the locking element or spring wire 18 is then engaged in the semicircular depressed portion 17, and the cap 19 engaged over the bottle neck the inner periphery thereofsnugly engaging with'the outer periphery of said bottle neck, and the annular beveled recess 21 thereof lying slightly above'the plane of the bottle neckand in engagement with the ends of the spring wire 18.

When it is-desired' to dispense the contents of the bottle the cap 19 is first broken through" the medium of any suitable instrument, thereby allowing access to be'gained to 'the' circular ring 16 so as to allow the cork-screw to be withdrawn from the cork 8, at least a portionof the way therefrom until the plates 9 and 10 can be readily re moved from engagement in the annular recess 7. As soon as the plates 9 and 10 are removed pressure is exerted on the corkscrew 14: causing the cork 8 to be with drawnfrom its'engagement with the bottle neck.

It will be understood that the above description and accompanying drawings comprehend only the generaland preferred embodiment of my invention and that various minor changes in details'of construction, proportion and arrangement of the parts mayf be made within the scope of the appended claims and without sacrificing any of the'advantages of' my invention,

Copies of this patent ma be' obtained for Having thus'fully described my invention what I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent 1'. In combination with a bottle having a neck and an annular recess in said neck, a

stopper in said neck, a pair of plates each a of said plates having a semicircular portion thereof cut-away, a tapering cork-screw adapted for engagement in the cut-out portions of said plates for snugly engaging the same in'said annular recess, a locking ele- 'ment associated with the upperend of said cork-screw for association with the locking means to move the latter into said annular groove and adapted for engagement in the closure, to prevent accidental displacement of the locking means, the latter being disengageable upon a partial removal of the corkscrew simulating means, whereby the closure may be removed from the neck by exerting pressure upon said cork-screw simu lating means. a

In testlmony whereof I affix my signature 1n presence of two witnesses.

SIMEON E. KIN NAN.

Witnesses:

' HENRY ANDERSON, A. H. SMITH;

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. l I I

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