US1358398A - Non-refillable bottle - Google Patents

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F. RUSTANT. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.16I 1920.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

FERDINAND RUSTANT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed March 16, 1920. Serial No. 366,295.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND RUSTANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to nonrefillable bottles, and has for its object the improvement of the construction of a bottle that will ciliciently prevent the fraudulent refilling of the bottle but will permit the bottle to be emptied of its contents after it has been rightfully filled.

Another object of the invention is the improvement of the construction of valve devices mounted in the neck of a bottle, which valve devices cooperate for the prevention of fraudulent filling of the bottle but permit the bottle to be emptied of its original contents.

lVith these and other objects in view, my invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter specifically described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a bottle neck constructed in accordance with the present invention, showing the valvedevices therein, while---- 7 Fig. 2 is asectional view taken on line 2-2, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 33, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is a sectional View taken on line 4-4, Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged, fragmentary, sectional view of the auxiliary valve device, while Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the auxiliary valve device.

Fig. 7 is a view in side elevation of the primary sphere or ball.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the sliding weight.

Referringto the drawings by numerals, 1 designates the body of the receptacle or bot- 5, 6, and 7 constitute a peculiarly-shaped liquid passage, and I use the term liquid passage in the appended claims to designate the canal or passage whereby the liquid may be discharged from the body 1. r

In the bottle neck 2, I form a comparatively large pocket 8 at the inner end of the passage portion 3, or the end of said passage portion 3that might be termed the top with'respect to the normal position of the bottle. it Communicating with this pocket 8 is a series of auxiliary sphere or ball-receiving sockets 9, preferably four in number, and at the central portion of pocket 8 is a depending extension 10 which acts to direct the auxiliary spheres or balls 11 to their seated position within the sockets 9, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The primary crystal sphere or ball 12 is larger than the auxiliary balls 11, and'this ball 12 is free to travel a slight distance in the upper part of the passage portion 3. At opposite sides of the passage portion 3.are weight-engaged slots 13, which slots 13 receive the ends 14 of the sliding weight 15. The weighthas an extension 16, flat upon its outer face, which engages the bottom? of the primary ball 12, to force the ball quickly upward or outward, when it is desired to pour liquid from the bottle, which weight causes the ball 12 to positively move to the dotted position shown in Fig. 1, thereby permitting liquid to pass from the passage portion 3 into the passage portion 4 and thence through the other portions of the liquid passage to the outer atmosphere.

The weighted or auxiliary balls 11 will act upon the primary ball 12 to force it down to its seated position as shown in Fig. 1, as soon as the bottle is slightly tilted in either direction; it will be understood that all of the balls 11 are not acting on the ball 12 at the same time, but by reason of nesting several balls 11 around the primary ball (see Fig. 3), at least one is ready to strike and engage and hear upoii the hall 12 as'siion as the bottle is slightly tilted from a vertical position.

The sliding weight 15, the primary hall 12, and the auxiliary balls 11, together with thepeculiar construction of the pocket 8, central depending portion 10, and the sock ets 9,constitute a primary valve devicein my non-refillable bottle, and now I will proceed to specifically describe the auxiliary valve device:.

The auxiliary valve device comprises an elongated pocket 17 substantially parallel with the passage portion 3, and in this pocket 17 is slldably mounted the valve frame 18, which frame 18 is provided with an outlet opening 19, and .on the inner end of'the opening 19 a shoulder 20 (Fig, 5) is formed, and within the lower end of opening'19, at 21, is, hingedly or pivotaliy mounted the flap valve or gate 22, which valve 22 Will close the opening 19- when liquid is fraudulently being attemptedto be passed through the liquid passage into the body-of the bottle. The valve 22 will readily open when thecontents of the bottle are being discharged through the passage, but

when an attempt is made to fraudulently fill the bottle usually by inverting the bottle, then the valve frame slides down and the upper end .18 enters the socket 23 (Fig. 1).

If the bottle is retained in its vertical position (Fig.1), and liquidisendeavored to be'fraudulently forced into the body through the passage, then the primary valve '12will prevent this by remaining seated in the passage portion 8, closing the entire passage,

asshowin'the auxiliary weighted balls ll Causing the primary ball to move to its :losed position,- as hereinbefore specifically pointed out.

" It is to beunderstood that the spheres or ball may be formed of' different. mater1'al,and suitably covered or coated to prevent the liquid contained'in the bottle from injuring the same orl'corroding, and the partsrof'thefauxiliary valve device can he formed of suitable material to make same positive in operation. Therefore, I reserve the right to make such alterations and changes in the manufacture or construction of "my nonrefillable bottle as will appear to one skilled in the art to which thisinvention relates, which alterations or changes shall fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

1 What I claim is: .7 V 7 a 1. In a nonrefillahle bottle, the combinaneck provided with oppositely-positionedslots opening into said passage, a sliding weight having its ends seated in said slots provided with a flat extension adapted to engage said ball for movingthe ball to an open position, and means carried by the neck and freely movable in the passage-for engaging the'ball for returnin the same to its normal seated position, after the hall has been moved to its normal open position by said sliding weight.

2. In a nonrefillable bottle, the combination of a bottle neck provided with a liquid passage, said neck provided with an elon gated pocket and a socket in alinement with the pocket, a sliding valve frame in the pocket adapted to have its outer end rest in the socket, said valve frame provided with an opening and a shouldered portion formed in the frame at oneside of the opening, a valve hingedly mounted in the frame at the opposite side of the opening and the valve adapted to have one edge seated in the shouldered portion, and primary valve means in the liquid passage for normally closing the same.

3. 'In a nonrefillable bottle, the combination of a neckprovided with a liquid passage, a primary valve devicein said passage and including a primary hall and a plurality of auxiliary balls, and an auxiliary valve device working in said passage and including a sliding frame provided with a valve, the valve to open within the passage for allowing liquid to flow out through the bottle neck, but the valve to close to pre vent fraudulent filling of the bottle.

- at. Ina nonrefillable bottle, the comhination of a neck provided'with a liquid pas sage, said neck provided with means for V FERDINAND .RusTANr;

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