US1176624A - Antirefillable bottle. - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. 21

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

ANTIREFILLABL-E BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed April 9, 1914, Serial No. 830,647. Renewed February 14, 1916. Serial No. 78,326.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GODDARD TUoK, mechanic, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at.Arcadia, Bristol Road, Hurstville, in the State of New South Wales, in the Commonwealth of Australia, have invented a new and useful Antirefillable Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention does not really constitute a non refillable bottle, because the bottle, when empty,- may be slowly refilled under somewhat difficult conditions but it will make the labor of re-filling the 'bottle a somewhat onerous task.

The main features of the invention are (a) a perforated cap resting upon an elastic washer surrounding the mouth of the bottle (b) a stayed or guided cone valve seated within the mouth of the bottle; (0) a guided disk lying between the cap and the cone valve; ((5) a disk that lies externally over the perforations in the cap; (6) a soft metal disk overlying the external disk above the cap; and (f) a strong capsule with a central orifice, the edges of which overlie the soft metal disk, and is secured skin tight to the neck of the bottle below the flange, near the mouth, by any approved means.

In the accompanying drawings ;-Figure 1 is a vertical section of all the appliances fitted to the mouth of a, bottle. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the cap. Fig. 3 is an underneath plan of the same. Fig. 4: is an underneath plan of the guided cone valve. Fig. 5 is a plan of the guided disk above the cone valve. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 7 is a similar view to Fig. 1 but drawn to half thescale, and shows how the liquor will escape when the bottleis tilted.

A is the neck of a bottle, the inside of the neck of which must be ground to the proper angle, as at a, in order to form a true seat for the cone valve B. The flange that surrounds the neck of the bottle near the mouth is shown at G.-

D are radial guides to keep the valve B properly centered within the mouth when the bottle is tilted, E is the cap perforated with a circle of holes 6, through which the liquor will be enabled to escape when the bottle is tilted the requisite amount. In the center of the inner surface of the cap E is a recess 6 into which the projection or stud f of the disk F can enter and have a limited play. The combined effect of the stud f and the recess 6 will be (when the bottle is tilted) that there will be an annular passage around the cone valve B and the disk F, which latter will be prevented from cover- 1ng the circle of perforations e in the cap FJ, thus impeding the flow of liquor through the perforations.

WVhen the cone valve B, the disk F, and the annular washer G have been placed in position the cap E will be placed with its lower edge upon the washer G, the disk H will then be laid over the perforations c in the cap, a soft metal disk J will be laid over the disk H and, finally the capsule K with a circular orifice in its top, will be laid over the edges of the soft metal disk J, and will be secured (in any appropriate manner) skin tight to the neck of the bottle below the flange C. The disk J is made of soft metal and protrudes beyond the edges of the orifice in the capsule K, in order that it may be easily cut with a knife and the two disks H and J removed so that the liquor may escape when the bottle is suitably tilted.

When the cone valve B and the disk F are unseated by the tilting of the bottle, an annular space will be formed around the peripheries of the two unseated parts through which the inclosed liquor will pass and escape through the holes 6 in the cap E. The disk F has another very special function, viz: It will prevent a wire being inserted through one of the holes 6 and introduced between the valve B and its seat, whereby the empty bottle may be fraudulently refilled with liquor entering through the holes 6. When suflicient liquor has been poured from the bottle, the latter will again be placed upright on its bottom, the valve B and the disk F will again re-seat themselves. The centering appliances or guides D of the cone valve B and the stud f of the disk F, will prevent those parts from getting on the skew, and a uniform annular passage for the liquor will be automatically maintained.

In combination, a bottle having a flange near'the mouth, and a ground valve seat within the mouth, a cone valve seated on a ground seat within the mouth of the bottle, radial centering appliances or guides projecting downward from the valve, a cap the lower edge of which rests on an elastic washer laid on the flange of the bottle near the mouth, a circle of holes in the cap, a

recess in the center of the undersideof the tight to the neck of thelbottle below the cap, a disk with a central projection or stud flange as and for the several purposes speci- 10 between the valve and the cap, a disk exfied.

ternally coverin the circle of holes in the cap, a soft metal disk above the disk cover- HENRY GODDARD TUCK' ing the holes, and a strong capsule with a 'Witnesses: circular orifice adapted to overlie the edges T. C. ALLEN, of the soft metal disk and be secured skin AMY GAUDER.

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