US567376A - butler - Google Patents

Description

JOHN A. BUTLER,

- UNITED Sfl/yrES4 PATENT OFFICE. l

TO SQUIRE ROBINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE AND STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent lNo. 567,376, dated September 8, 1896. Application led November 29, 1895. Serial No. 570,436. (No model.)

i T all whom t may concern;

Be it known that I, JonNA. BUTLER, va citizen of the United States, residing at Southington, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and bottles and Stoppers; and the chief object of my improvement is the necessitated breakage of the bottle in the attempt to pull the stopper.

' the form of an eye l0, into which the pulling- In theaccompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical section of the upper part of my bottle and body of the stopper, together with a side elevation of parts connected with the stopper. Fig. 2 is a detached side elevation of the' stopper and parts connected therewith.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the upper part of my bottle, the plane of section being at right angles to that of Fig. l; and Fig. ais sidel elevation of the pulling-hook.

. The main portion of the bottle A may be :in any ordinary or desired form. In the neck Q 25,

at one side I form an internal recess or panel 5, and I preferably make the glass which covers this recess thinner than the glass which surrounds it, as shown in Fig. l. I form the y main portion or body of the stopper of any suitable material, as, for example, a cork 6, which is perforated, and the stopper 7 is passed through theFsame with its eye 8 projecting at the inner end of the cork, while the disk-like head 9 substantially covers the outer end of the cork. The head 9 may be provided with any suitable means for pulling out the stopper, said means being, preferably, in

hook Il, Fig. 4, may be inserted when desired to open the bottle. To the lower end of the stopper-shaft 7 I pivot one end of a link -l2,.and to the other end of said link I pivot the breaker 13. This breaker is a little longer than the distance from the inner face of the recess or panel 5 to the `opposite wall of the neck of the bottle, as shown in Fig. l. A spiral spring .14 surrounds the parts that lie between the inner end of` the cork and upper edge of the breaker, said edge being preferably provided with oneof more notches l5.

-After assembling the stopper and connected OF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF l parts, as shown in Fig. 2, the spring is compressed to draw its lower end upwardly and the breaker is swung on the link to bring its body close to the side of the link,`so that it may be inserted into the neck of the bottle. The stopper is' forced into the mouth of the bottle and the spring forces the end of the breaker into the recess or panel by the time They bottle-mouth should also be a little aring and the diskflike head substantially fill the mouth so that the cork cannot be forced inwardly without breaking the neck of the bottle. In any attempt to pull the stopper the swinging end of the breaker is caught by the shoulder 16 at the upper end of the recess or panel 5 and prevented from moving upwardly, whereby as the opposite end is pulled up on the neck of the bottle the end of the breaker is forced against the wall of therecess or panel with such power as to break through the glass and spoil the bottle for reuse. The stopper may then be pulled out and the contents of the bottle poured out through the mouth in the ordinary manner, or the f stopper may be left in and the contents poured out through the break in the neck of the bottle.

By my improvements it is utterly impossible to remove the stopper without breaking the bottle so as to spoil itfor being again used, thereby effectually preventing any one from refilling the bottle with a cheaper or inferior article and fraudulently selling the same, so that the seller and purchaser may both be fully assured that the contents of the bottle is original and genuine. w

I have described -what I consider the `best mode of applying the principle of necessarily breaking the bottle by the act of withdrawing or partially withdrawing the stopper, but I loo do not wish to limit my claims to the details of construction thus described, as it is evident that the same result and general mode of op eration may be attained by different means, and I therefore desire to cover all such changes as may fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

l clailn as my inventionl. A bottle having a breakable panel in its neck a breaker inelosed therein, and means for breaking said panel in the-act of opening the bottle7 substantially as described and for shaft and the link connecting said'shaft and breaker, substantially as described and for the purpose speciiied.

4L. In a bottle and stopper, the combination of the neck of the bottle having a recess or panel, the breaker, the stopper-shaft, link and sprin g, substantially as described and for the pu rpose specified.

5. In a bottle and stopper, the combination of a breaker Within the neck of the bottle, the body G o the stopper, the stopper-shaft connected with said breaker and having a head for Iilling the lnouth of the bottle andA covering the outer end of said stopper-body, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

JOHN A. BUTLER.

Witnesses EDWIN G. LEWIs, FRED O. WILLIAMs.

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