US587234A

US587234A - Bottle

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Publication number: US587234A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-07-27
Anticipated expiration: 1914-07-27

Description

(No Model.)

A. RODGERS 8v G. PEDEN BOTTLE.

No. 587,234. Patented July 27, 1897.

/N'VENTOHS ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED RODGERS AND GEORGE PEDEN, OE JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent NO. 587,234, dated July 257, 1897. Application tiled April 3, 1897. Serial No. 630,505. (No model.)

To all 1077/077@ t may concern:

Beit known that we', ALFRED RODGERS and GEORGE PEDEN, of Johnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Bott-le, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to bottles of that class in which the bottles have means for giving evidence of being used for spurious contents.

The invention is broadly characterized by a frangible cap that is broken from the mouth of the bottle when the bottle is opened and the absence of which tends to incite criticism as to the contents of the bottle.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of our invention, while the claims define the actual scope of the conception.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.v

Figure lis a sectional View of the invention. Fig. 2 is also a sectional View taken across the line ot' the first section, and Fig. 3 shows the cap detached from the bottle.

The bottle has its neck provided with a tapering lower portion a and a uniform upper portion a. The neck stands on a shoulder a2, formed atthe upper end of the top of the bottle.

The cap has an upper portion, or crown Z), inclosing the part a of the neck, and a lower portion b with downwardly-timing interior walls, corresponding to the inclined portion a of the neck. The lower portion b of the cap is reduced with reference to the portion l), so as to form an interior shoulder b2 between the two parts. The lower edge of the cap b rests on the shoulder a2.

The part a' of the'neck has two oppositely- 'arranged openings c in transverse registry with each other and carrying an expansive spiral spring c. The spring cis projected beyond the neck, and when the cap is in place the ends of the spring press tirmly against the inner walls of the crown b of the cap, while the spring engages with the shoulder b2, so

that the cap can be removed only by fracturing the cap. In placing the cap on the bottle the spring is compressed and the inclined inner walls of the lower portion h of the cap are moved past the spring, which afterward expands into the crown b ot1 the cap. The neck is sealed by a cork c2, which may have a corkscrew c3 therein. The spring c may be passed through the ring of the corkscrew.

A bottle thus constructed may be filled and sealed with convenience. is to be used, the cap is fractured, whereupon the spring may be taken out and the cork drawn. Persons using the bottle will then observe that the cap is absent and upon detecting the other novel characteristics of the bottle will make inquiry as to the genuineness of the contents of the bottle.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A bottle having a neck standing on a shoulder formed on the body of' the bottle, an expansive spring pressed transversely through openings in the neck and projecting beyond the sides thereof, and a frangible cap with an interior shoulder, the cap inclosing the neck and resting on the shoulder on the body of the bottle, and the spring engaging the shoulder of the cap to prevent the removal of the unbroken cap'.

2. A bottle, the neck of which has two oppositely-arranged and transversely-registering openin gs therein, an expansive spring run through the openings and projecting beyond the sides of the neck, and a frangible cap with an interior shoulder, the shoulder being engaged by the end of the spring to prevent the removal of the unbroken cap.

3. A bottle, the neck of which has a tapering lower portion, and the neck standing ou a shoulder formed on the body of the bottle, the neck also having transversely-registerin openings, an expansive spring run through the openin gs and projecting beyond the sides of the neck, and a frangible cap the crown of which incloses the top of the neck, and the lower portion of which has flaring interior lVhen the bottle sides conforming to the taper of the neck, the the neck whereby to engage and hold the cap cap also having an interior shoulder engaged on the neck.

by the ends of the spring to prevent Juhe removal of the unbroken cap. 4. A bottle having a neck7 a cap nclosing the upper end of the neck7 and an expansive Vitnesses:

spring run transversely through openings in JOHN H. MORLEY,

the neck and projecting beyond the sides of JACOB ZIMMERMAN.