US1224393A - Poison-bottle indicator. - Google Patents

Description

A. E. LONGABAUGH.

POISON BOTTLE INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED Dsc. I2. I9I6.

1,224,393. PaIenIed May I, 1917.

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ANNAI-I E. LONGABAUGI-I, OF METZ, MISSOURI.

:POISON-BOTTLE INDICATOR.

d Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1917.

Application led December 12, 1916. Serial No. 136,481.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, ANNAH E. LONGA- BAUGH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Metz, in the county of Vernon and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Poison-Bottle Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to poison bottle indicators and it has for its object the provision of a caution cap constructed in such manner that it may be very economically manufactured, will be adapted to fit upon bottles of varying sizes, and, when in position, will effectually prevent any person from making a mistake as to the contents of a bottle, the caution cap effectually indicating that the contents of the bottle are dangerous or poisonous.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the detailed description which now follows:

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the caution cap constructed in accordance with the invention and illustrating the same mounted upon a bottle.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of the securing springs used in conjunction with the device, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the pronged element of the caution cap hereinafter described.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of' the drawing.

Referring to the drawing the numeral 5 designates a bottle and 6 the usual stopper thereof. It will be understood that my device may be used upon bottles that contain poisonous drugs or chemicals or upon bottles containing dangerous chemicals such as acids and the like.

My improved caution cap comprises a pair of coiled springs 7 and 8 united by links or loops 9 and 10. A strip of sheet metal indicated at 11 is provided with upstanding prongs 12 along one of its edges and with outstanding prongs along its other edge, the purpose of thus arranging the prongs being to insure that the hand of a person seeking to remove the stopper 6 will contact with one or the other set of prongs whether the hand approaches the stopper in a vertical plane or in a horizontal plane. The lower ends of these strips 11 are pointed as indicated at 14 and these strips are provided with projections 15 that are adapted to be bent around the links 9 and 10 after the pointed ends 14 of the strip 11 have been passed around said links 9 and 10, it being understood that these pointed ends 14 are then bent outwardly as indicated in Fig. 1 to thereby provide additional elements with which the hand of a person may contact. By providing springs 7 and 8, the structure is rendered self-adjusting to bottles of different sizes and may be readily slipped into position upon the neck of any bottle of approXimately the sizefor which the device is intended. This is important becauseI it renders it unnecessary to specially manufacture either the bottle or the stopper, but renders it possible to use the device upon ordinary stock bottles. Furthermore, these springs efliciently serve to hold the pronged strip 11 in guarding position even though the cork 6 be eaten away by an acid or like substance within the bottle 5.

The structure herein shown and described renders it possible to readily remove the stopper if a person, after having been suiiiciently warned, desires to do so. This is accomplished by merely pushing the pronged strip 11 to one side until it clears the stopper 6 after which the stopper may be removed.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the present invention provides a poison indicator which may be so cheaply made as to adapt it to be given away as an advertising device if such be desired. The sheet metal strip 11 provides a surface upon which the name of the donor may be stamped.

While the elements shown and described are well adapted to serve the purpose for which they are intended, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction set forth but includes within its purview such changes as may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention what I claim is 1. A device `of the character described comprising a pair of coiled springs having their ends connected by links to provide an annular elastic member adapted to embrace the neck of a bottle and a pronged'metallic strip bent to bow formation and having its opposite ends engaged with said links, said strip having upstanding teeth along one of its edges and outstanding teeth along the O-ther of its edges and said strip being provided With pointed ends which are bent outwardly beneath said links and said strip having projections bent downwardly over yail links to thereby secure said strip to the in r.

2. A device of the character described comprising a pair of coiled springs and a pair of links by Which the ends of said springs are connected to thereby form an annular elastic member adapted to engage the neck of a bottle, a sheet metal strip bent to boW formation and having upstanding prongs along one of its edges and outstand- 15 ing prongs along the other of its edges and having pointed ends, said strips being passed beneath said links and said ointed ends being bent outwardly beneath said links and projections carried by said strip Which are @zo bent into engagement With said links.

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

ANNAH E. LONGABAUGH.

Witnesses:

IRL D. HUDSON, J. A. BAIRD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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