US610715A

US610715A - Cap for bottles

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Publication number: US610715A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-09-13
Anticipated expiration: 1915-09-13

Description

No. moms. Patented Sept. l3, I898. A. E. LUNG & A. A. JONES.

GAP FOR BOTTLES, JARS, 8w.

(Application fileq Mar. 10, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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AMOS E. LONG AND ALBERT A. JONES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAP FOR BOT-r tes, JARS, ac.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .Patent No. 610,715, dated September 13, 1898.

Application filed March 10, 1898. Serial No. 673,321. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AMOS E. LONG and ALBERT A. JONES, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Caps for Bottles, Jars, &c., of which the following is 'a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

O'ur invention relates to closures for vessels designed to be used but once and is adapted to indicate by its condition whether the vessel upon which it is secured has been opened or not.

Generally stated, our invention comprises a cap, preferably of sheet metal, provided with resilient sheet-metal tongues, the latter being adapted to automatically engage beneath a flange or lip upon the vessel to which the cap is applied in such manner as not to be detachable therefrom except by mutilation of the latter.

In the accompanying drawings,'Figure 1 is a sectional view showing a convenient embodiment of our invention applied upon a bottle. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing a modified form of our invention applied upon a jar. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the form of our invention shown in Fig. 1'. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view of theform of our invention shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1, A is the bottle, the neck A of which is provided with a lateral flange or lip A and B is the cork inserted in said neck. The cap 0, which is adapted to in close said cork and neck, is provided with resilient sheet-metal tongues 0, adapted to automatically engage beneath the flange or lip A when the cap is placed in position, as indicated in Fig. 1.

The neck A is preferably provided with a shoulder a, projecting beneath the cap 0 and preferably of a diameter equal thereto, the shoulder a projecting beneath the cap 0 for engagement with the lower edge thereof and said tongues 0 being seated in the recess A In the form of our invention shown in Fig. 2 the jar A is provided with a rigid cork or sto er B which ma be maintained in air- PD a tight relation with the former by means of the intermediate packing-ring b preferably of soft rubber. In the latter form the resilient tongues o of the cap O engage beneath the flange a in the manner above set forth. It is obvious that it is necessary to destroy the cap O in order to remove the stopper B As shown in the several figures, the metal tongues which serve to secure the cap in position upon the vessel-neck are in integral relation with the cap-body and may be conveniently formed as illustrated in Fig. 4, being struck up from the dotted position to the position shown in full lines therein. 7

We are aware that it is not broadly new to form avessel-closure of sheet metal. We believe it to be broadly new, however, to combine with such a cap as we have described means to effect its automatic engagement and prevent its removal, as herein set forth.

Although we have shown our invention as applied upon bottles and jars, we do not desire to limit ourselves to such embodiments thereof. Moreover, it is obvious that various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of our invention. We therefore do not desire to limit ourselves to the precise construction which we have shown and described.

We claim In a vessel-closure of the class described, the combination with a vessel-neck, having a continuous recess A and provided with an upper and a lower annular shoulder, of a cap provided at its continuous lower edge with integral struck-up and inwardly-bent tongues, the free extremities of which engage said upper annular shoulder, and the opposite extremities and lower edge of which engage said lower annular shoulder, substantially as set forth.

AMOS E. LONG. ALBERTA. JONES. Witnesses:

HARRY W. BREYER, CHAs. F. MYERS. 7