US595135A - John william bearce - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. W. BEAROE. STOPPER FASTENBR.

No. 595,135. Patented Dec. 7,1897.

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JOHN WILLIAM BEARCE, OF BOXVLING GREEN, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO GEORGE M. BEDINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

STOPPER-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,135, dated December '7, 1897.

Application filed lB, 1895. Serial No. 572,037. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN WILLIAM BEAROE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bowling Green, in the county of lVarren and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stopper- Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in stopper-fasteners for bottles and jugs; and the objects in view are to produce a simple and inexpensive means for retaining the stoppers of bottles and jugs in position, said means being of such a character as to permit of the extraction of the stopper only after such a partial or entire destruction of the means employed, and which will be so evident as to show at once that the contents of the bottle has been tampered with.

With these objects in view my invention consists in a bottle having one or a plurality of auxiliary breakable necks surrounding the usual bottle-neck, which auxiliary necks must be broken when in the act of removing the obstruction arranged over the stopper, and, furthermore, in a preferably metallic and therefore rigid yoke-shaped fastener that is arranged over the stopper and obstructs the removal of the same, and whose terminal or terminals are secured in any suitable and preferably non-re1novable manner in said auxiliary neck or necks.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation and partial section of a bottle constructed in accordance with my invention, a single auxiliary neck being employed and shown in partial section. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a plurality of auxiliary necks, and Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the fastening-yoke.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a bottle or jug, at the upper end of which is the usual neck 2, which c0m-.

municates with the interior of the bottle. Formed integral with the bottle upon the shoulder thereof is one or a plurality of auxiliary necks 3, which do not communicate with the bottle and whose upper halves or portions are provided with cup-shaped cavities 4. Between their ends the said auxiliary necks 3 are reduced, as at 5, at which points the said necks are adapted to be readily broken when sufficient force is applied. As before stated, I may use a single auxiliary neck, as shown in Fig. 1, or a plurality of the same, as shown in Fig. 2, and in the former instance it may be inclined or straight, as preferred.

(5 designates the preferably rigid metallic yoke-shaped fastener, the same consisting of the transverse portion 7 and the depending portion 8. Of course where a plurality of auxiliary necks is employed the number of depending portions 8 would be increased accordingly. Each depending p lffiiil 8 is provided with a perforation 9, and a corresponding perforation 20 is formed at diametrically opposite points in the walhof the cup-shaped cavity 4.

After the bottle has been filled the stopper is placed in position, after which the yoke shaped fastener has its depending portion or portions 8 set into the cavity a and a pin 11 passed through the wall of the cavity and through the perforation 9. The yoke-shaped fasteners are so proportioned as when thus positioned the horizontal portions 7 thereof will overlie the stopper 12. The cavity 4: is now packed with any suitable cement which completely fills the same.

lhe yoke-shaped fastener may be made of glass, metal, or other substance, but is preferably made of metal, and by its presence it will be seen that it is impossible to disturb the contents of the bottle by a removal of the cork without first removing the yokeshaped fastener, and that the latter can only occur by either a breaking of the fastener itself or by a breaking of the auxiliary neck or necks, either of which will indicate that the stopper has been removed and the contents disturbed.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have provided a simple and inexpensive means whereby the disturbance of the contents of a bottle from its original state or condition will be at once evidenced to any purchaser of the same, and by the use of my invention all efforts to counterfeit the contents of a bottle and palm the same oif upon the public as the original contents may be avoided in a successful and positive manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The bottle having an auxiliary neck located at one side of the bottle-neck, and the stopper contained in the bottle-neck, of a rigid yoke or fastener secured within the auX- iliary neck and extending over the stopper, substantially as specified.

2. The bottle having an auxiliary neck located at the side of the bottle-neck, said auxiliary neck being reduced between its ends to form a breaking point and above the same provided with a cavity, combined with a stopper located in the bottle-neck and a yoke extending over the stopper and depending into the auxiliary neck, and means for permanently securing same in said cavity, substantially as specified.

3. The bottle having the auxiliary neck at the side of its bottle-neck, said auxiliary neck being reduced between its ends to form a break-point and above the same provided with a cavity having its wall oppositely perforated, combined with a stopper in the bottle-neck, a yoke depending into the auxiliary neck and extending over the stopper, a pin passed through the perforations in the auxthe stopper and provided with depending ends permanently secured within the cavities, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN WILLIAM BEAROE.

Witnesses:

JOHN B. GIRDER, J. H. MALLORY.

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