US591824A - Bottle-stopper - Google Patents

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P. DILLON. BOTTLE STOPPER. 110.591,824. Patented Oct, 19,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

PATRICK DILLON, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,824, dated October 19, 1.897'.

Application filed November 9, 1896. Serial No. 611,464. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK DILLON, of

Milford, in the county of Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

v It is a great desideratumto provide a bottle which may be lled but once, and that before-the bottle is stoppered, and which when emptied cannot be again used.

In my invention I provide a stopper which may be inserted after the bottle has been iilled, the putting of the stopper in the neck of the bottle automatically locking the stopper in place, so that it cannot be detached from the bottle without breaking the latter or utterly destroying the stopper.

The stopper consists, essentially, of a hollow cap-shaped shell and depending springcatches, the said catches containing between them a seat provided, preferably, with a conical opening in which is placed a conical valve which is seated by its own weight when the bottle is right side up, but which when the bottle is inverted will leave the said seat and permit the liquid to escape.

The cap has a discharge-oriee, and has located inside of it and between it and the valve a guard which is so located as to prevent one from tampering with the valve through said orifice.

Figure l shows in section part of a bottle stoppered in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2, a section on the line x, Fig. l, looking above the said line'; Fig. 3, a section looking below said line. Fig. 4 shows the neck of the bottle inverted. Fig. 5 shows a modication, and Fig. (i shows the cap of the stopper and the arms and guard.

The bottle A, of glass and of any usual or suitable shape, has a neck A', and between the mouth of the neck and the body of the bottle I provide a suitable shoulder, as a, Figs. l and at, or b, Fig. 5.

My improved stopper is composed of a cap d, having a discharge-orifice which is stopped temporarily with a plug d'.

Within the cap I have fixed a guard c, having two depending spring-arms c, provided with hooked ends c2, which when the stopper, of which the said arms form a part, is inserted in the neck of the bottle, slip past and automatically engage the shoulder a or b, thus locking and Securing the stopper. in the neck of the bottle.

The guard c is so located with relation to the cap and its discharge-orifice as to prevent the insertion of any tool or other object through said discharge-orifice to come in contact with the conical valve e, which rests in thevalve-seat e' whenever the bottle is in -upright position, as in Figs. 1 and 5. This guard c does not, however, prevent the discharge of the liquid from theA bottle when the plug has been removed, for the liquid passes about the guard and enters said discharge-orifice whenever the bottle is inverted or tipped over.

The valve-seat is made cylindrical externally and is grooved at its Ysides t0 fit over and contain the spring -arms c and leave them room to play in use.

The valve-seat may be of wood, cork, indiarubber, or glass, and so may be the valve, and preferably the upper end of the valve will have a projection of some sort, as at 2, to contact with the guard when the bottle is inverted and keep the discharge-space open.

The outer side of the cap is inclosed by a jacket f, which may be of cork, india-rubber, or any other suitable material, the said jacket extending subtantially to the lower end of the valve-seat, and forming a packing between the metallic or wooden parts of the stopper and the inner side of the neck.

When the stopper has been inserted into a filled bottle, the top of the cap will be pushed into the neck far enough to place the plug d below the top line of the neck, and then I seal the stopper in the neck by any suitable sealing-wax or equivalent.

To remove the liquid from the bottle, the user must first break through the seal and engage and withdraw the small plug, and then by tipping over the bottle the valve will automatically drop from the seat, leaving the liquid a chance to be poured out.

The spring-arms are so stint that once engaged with the shoulder a or b the stopper cannot be drawn out of the bottle without breaking it, and hence the said bottle could not be refilled with a different liquid and palmed off as the genuine liquid of a particular manufacturer owning and using the particular stopper which is a guarantee of the genuineness 'of the liquid.

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

l. A bottle-stopper composed of a Valveseat, a cooperating valve in said seat, a cap having a discharge-orice, said cap inclosing said valve and valve-seat and spring-arms passing down the outer sides of said valveseat to engage a shoulder inside the bottle to lock the said stopper in place in the bottleneck, combined with a plug inserted in the orifice of said cap, the said plug being adapted to be sealed in the neck of the bottle, substantially as described.

2. A bottlestopper composed of a valveseat, a coperating 'valve in said seat, a cap having afdischarge-oriice, said cap inclosing said valve and valve-seat, a guard between said valve and said discharge-orifice, and spring-arms carried by said guard and passing down the outer sides of said valve-seat to engage a shoulder inside the bottle to lock the said stopper in place in the bottle-neck, combined with a plug inserted in the orifice of said cap, the said plug being adapted to be sealed in the neck of the bottle, substantially as described.

3. A bottle-stopper composed of a valveseat, a coperating valve in said seat, a cap having a discharge-oriice, said cap inclosing said valve and valve-seat, a guard between said valve and said discharge-orifice, and sprin g-arins carried by said guard and passing down the outer sides of said valve-seat to engage a shoulder inside the bottle to lock the said stopper in place in the bottleneck, combined with a plug inserted in the orifice of said cap, the said plug being adapted to be sealed in the neck of the bottle, and a jacket f, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speoication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PATRICK DILLON.

W'itnesses:

FRANK P. DILLoN, MICHAEL LARKIN.

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