US647330A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

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No. 647,330 Patented Apr. I0, i900.

H. SEELINGER.

NDN-BEFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Oct. 12 1899.)

' (No Model.)

UNITED v STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SEELINGER, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

NON-REFILL ABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 647,330, dated April 10, 1900. Application filed October 12, 1899. Serial No. 738,389. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY SEELINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non Refillable Bottles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to non-refillable bottles, the object being to provide simple and inexpensive means for effectively preventing the introduction of liquid into a bottle, but permitting the ready discharge of liquid therefrom.

The invention consists of the combination, with a bottle, of a weighted valve and a plug of novel construction located in the bottleneck.

A characteristic of the present invention is that I avoid the employment of springs or other elements of construction which are li able to corrode or to render the valve devices complicated or cumbersome.

The construction of the invention will be fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and its novel features will be defined in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a bottle constructed in accordance with my invention and provided with my improved means for preventing refilling. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of a portion of a bottle provided with my improvements and tilted to illustrate the operation of the weighted valve, and Fig. 3 is a view in per-v spective of the improved plug detached.

The reference-numeral 1 designates a bottle provided at or adjacent to the lower end of its neck with an annular flange 2, preferably formed integral with the bottle-neck and having its upper surface hollowed out or concaved to form a seat 3 for a spherical valve 4. This valve 4 is connected by a rigid rod or stem 5, which depends through the bottleneck, with a weight 6, which tends to maintain the valve 4 upon its seat when the bottle is in its normal vertical position and also when the bottle is tilted, as shown in Fig. 2.

I preferably construct the valve 4,weight 6, and their connection 5 of glass in a single piece, thus avoiding the employment of metal or other corrosive material.

7 designates a plug of cylindrical form adapted to be supported within the bottleneck above the flange 2, the inner surface of the neck being slightly tapered, so that the plug will be supported therein by the frictional contact therewith of the peripheries of its flanges. This plug is also preferably made of glass, and it is provided at both its top and bottom with an annular horizontal flange, (des ignated by the reference- numerals 8 and 9, respectively.) Each of these flanges is formed with diametrically-opposite slots or recesess 10 and 11, the slots 10 of the upper flange 8 being out of vertical alinement with the slots or openings 11 of the lower flange 9. The result of this construction and disposition of the slots is that it is impossible to raise the valve at from its seat by the introduction of a wire or implement through the slots or openings 10 of the upper flange, as the wire or implement so introduced would strike the solid imperforate part of the lower flange, the openingsll in the latter not being alined with those of the upper flange 8. Each of the flanges 8 and 9 is formed with diametricallyopposite bearing-surfaces 8 and 9', adapted to frictionally engage the inner surface of the bottle-neck, thus avoiding the employment of auxiliary means for sustaining the plug in position. The peripheral edges of the flanges 8 and 9 are roughened or ground to insure a tight frictional contact between them and the inner surface of the bottle neck, and the flanged glass lug 7 is located within the bottle-neck a su cient distance below the upper end thereof to leave room for the insertion of the usual cork stopper 12 in the mouth of the bottle.

The operation of the devices when constructed as above described is as follows:

When the bottle is tilted sufficiently to raise the valve 4 from its seat, the contents of the bottle may be readily decanted, the liquid finding its Way through the openings 11 and 10. As soon as the bottle is turned back to rically-opposite ground or roughened peripheral bearing-surfaces which frictionally engage the inner surface of the bottle-neck and peripheral recesses between said bearing-surfaces, the recesses of one flange being out of vertical alinement with those of the other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY SEELINGER.

Witnesses:

FLORIAN S. THoLL, J. WM. WOLF.

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