US1900127A

US1900127A - Milk bottle hood

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Publication number: US1900127A
Application number: US619345A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Orem
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1932-06-25
Filing date: 1932-06-25
Publication date: 1933-03-07
Anticipated expiration: 1950-03-07

Description

March 7, W H OREM 1,900,127

MILK BOTTLE HOOD Filed June 25. 1932 Patented Mar. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. OREM, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND MILK BOTTLE HOOD Application filedv June 25, 1932. Serial No. 619,345.

This invention relates to bottle-mouth covmilk for the purpose of getting the customer from the dairy which originally delivered the milk to the door of the customer, without sholwing that the hood has been tampered wit Another object of this invention is to provide a hood that is especially useful for fitting over, under and around the mouth and bead of a bottle-neck so closely as to eliminate e entrance of impurities or defiling substances which might'tend to settle on the bottle-mouth, outside of the closing disc or stopper, if left unprotected by the hood; also to protect the closing disc against such defiling or contaminating agencies, and from being removed by unauthorized persons.

Another object is to provide a bottle- .mouth-hood of material that is substantially non-elastic or unstretchable while being so brittle that it can be broken easily and thus removed by proper application of force by the hand of the housewife or other person; and cannot be removed without being broken irreparably, whereby it gives substantial and very important evidence, when unbroken, that the contents of the bottle are unadulterated by any substance which entered the bottle after the hood was originally placed and molded around the bottle-neck-bead.

A further object is to provide a thoroughly practical and effective bottle-mouth protector which can be formed of comparatively inexpensive and light material, by a rapid and efiicient means and method so the cost is reduced to the minimum for production, ap-

plication and transportation.

Other objects and important features are pointed out or implied in the following details of description, in connection with the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a milk-bottle having applied thereon an inverted cup or unfinished hood of the composition from which the hoods are molded, the cup being in vertical section.

Fig. 2 is an elevation or side view showing the finished hood on the bottle-mouth-bead, one-half of the bead, sealing disc andhood being in vertical section. I

Fig. 3 is a view showing the finished hood partly removed, or in a position where left after its removal was started, this view showing the breaks in the hood, resulting from the brittleness or unstretchableness of the smaller part of the hood while being forced over the larger part of the bottle-mouthbead, thereby showing that it was tampered with by an unauthorized person, unless it' was so broken by an authorized person.

Referring to the drawing in detail, in which similar numerals refer to similar parts in the several views, the invention is described in detail as follows:

The bottle-mouth-bead is shown at 1, and

its upper end terminates in the bottle-mouth which'has the usual closing or sealing disc 2 therein. The cup or unfinished hood is indicated at 3 in Fig. 1, whereas, the finished hood is indicated at 3a in Fig. 2, and the distorted and broken hood is indicated at 3b in Fig. 3. Likewise, the peripheral flange or skirt, of the unfinished, finished and broken cap, is shown at 4, 4a and 4b, in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, respectively.

In preparing the material for making the cap 01;,hood, wood pulp orsimilar fibrous pulp is used, preferably spruce fibre pulp, and

is intermixed with parafiin or other suitable plastic waterproofing material, in any suitable quantity or proportion for rendering the hood brittle and substantially unstretchable after it is molded and finished on the bottle -mouth-bead.

In forming the unfinished hoods such as shown in Fig. 1, the above-mentioned composition, or any suitable substitute therefor,

is molded into a cup having a flared wall or skirt; next, this skirt is fluted or plaited, by any appropriate means, the flutes or plaits extending straight from bottom to top of the 2 I Me ia? skirt and being slightly deeper at the lower movable only by breaking the part that exmargin so the skirt is thereby rendered subtends under" the bead of the bottle.

stantially the same diameter at the bottom,

as at a plane near the top, from which lane 1t is upwardly and inwardly curved to t the bottle-mouth snugly.

In applying and finishing the hoods when the bottles have been filled, and closed with the discs 2, the unfinished caps 3 are taken from a suitable bath of liquid or saturated steam or vapor, applied on the bottles as shown in Fig. 1, and then subjected to an inward or centripetal force which is applied to all oints on-the outer peripheral surface and at t e lower and middle parts, thereby completing the molding of'the hood and thus causing it to hug the bottle-mouth-bead snugly; and, at the same time, heat is applied at a sufliciently high temperature to quickly evaporate all the moisture and thereby render the hood so brittle or unstretchable that it cannot be removed from the bottle-mouthbead without being broken in one or more places, thereby givlng prima-facie evidence that it has been removed or partly removed from the bottle-mouth-bead.

Although I have described this embodiment of my invention quite specifically, I have no intention of limiting my patent protection to these'exact details of construction, materials or method, for the invention is susceptible of numerous changes within the scope of the inventive ideas as implied and claimed.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. The method of forming a bottle-mouthhood, consisting in, first providinga molded cup having a substantially cylindrical wall which includes fibrous and fusible materials; second, applying moisture to the cup for softening it; third, placing the cup of soffrom folds or toned material with its wall around the head of the bottle-mouth; and fourth, simultaneously applying centripetal pressure and heat suflicient to complete the moldingof the hood 1 around and under the bead and to evaporate the moisture and thus render the finished molded hood brittle so it cannot be removed from the head without breaking the fibres of the material which com oses the hood.

2. In combination wit a bottle having a bead around its mouth, a closing disc in said mouth spaced below the upper extremity of the mouth, and a brittle and substantially unstretchable protecting hood formed of a composition which includes plastic waterproofing and fibrous -materials intermixed and permanently molded under high temperature into an inverted cup which is of substantially uniform thickness and snugly fits over an being spaced from said closing disc and free laits and also free from adhesion to the ottle, whereby it is held on the bottle by its inherent tenacity and is rearound and under said bead while I H. OBEM.