US543217A

US543217A - Benito nichols

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Publication number: US543217A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1912-07-23

Description

(No Mod MEANS FOR DETECTING WITHDRAWAL GP BOTTLE STOPPERS. No. 543,217. Patented July 23,1896.

, through the glass of the bottle B. The stopnew and useful Improvements in Means for manipulation of the contents of a bottle with- STATES Enron.

PATENT MEANS FOR DETECTING WITHDRAWAL. OF BOTTLE=STOPPERS.

SPECIFICATION. forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,217, dated July 23, 1895.

Application filed October 24, 1894- Ta or whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, BENITO NionoLs, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of New York, county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain Detecting the Withdrawal of Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to bottles and the stoppers thereof, and has for its object to provide means for the prevention of refilling or out detection by the purchaser or consumer.

The invention consists in the novel means hereinafter fully described for rendering the withdrawal and reinsertion of the stopper perceptible.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation-of a bottle and stopper secured therein, both embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section taken upon the line mm, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken uponthe line yy, Fig. 1.

In the practice of. my invention I brand upon the periphery of the cork or other stop: per A an open circle or ring-shaped or other mark a of sufficient size to be conspicuousv per having been inserted in the bottle in the usual or any other approved manner, the outer surface of the bottle B is etched with hydrofluoric or other acid or by any other means to form a small white dot or OthGIWlSQf shaped mark I), aligning exactlywith the center of the ring a.

When the sropper A is once removed from the bottle, it is practically impossible to reinsert the same in such manner as to bring the spot 1) into alignment with the center of the ring a. The purchaser by a mere glance at Serial No. 526,854- (No model.)

the bottle is thereby enabled to determine at once Whether or not the bottle offered is an original package.

It is to be understood that the cork or other stopper is inserted tightly into the neck of the bottle, as is common with corks used for champagne and other expensive winesor liquors, wherein the cork is of such size as to require to be compressed before insertion, and my invention is particularly adapted for such corks which, once removed, can never be reinserted without passing through a compressor, in Which case it would not be possible to make the mark upon the stopper coincide with that upon the bottleneck. I do not claim the use of such means upon the stopper and bottle as will constitute a mechanical obstacle to the removal of the cork, as the object of my invention is to provide such means for enabling the detection of the withdrawal of the stopper as may be used in connection with ordinary bottles and corks and substantially without other expense than the mere labor of marking.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, of a bottle and com- BENITO NICHOLS. Witnesses: PERCY I. GRIFFITH,

L. MULLER.

pressed stopper tightly inserted therein,-