US675509A - Safety bottle-jacket. - Google Patents

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Na. $75,509. Patented Juno 4, I90l. 6. M. DE WATERS. SAFETY BOTTLE JACKET.

(Application filed I". 23, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE M. DE WATERS, OF BAYONNE, NEV JERSEY.

SAFETY BOTTLE-JACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,509, dated June 4, 1901.

Application filed March 23,1901. Serial No. 52,481. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. DE WATEEs, a citizen of the United States, residing in Bayonne, in the county of Hudson, in the State of New Jersey, have invented acertain new and useful Improvementin Safety Bottle- .Iackets, of which the following is a specification.

The object is to better guard against mischief from the accidental explosion of bottles which is always liable to occur in han dling bottles highly charged with gas. The agitation and unequal warming unavoidable with any ordinary means of opening involve an increase in the internal pressure and unequal strains in the glass. Experience has proved the danger to be sufficiently serious to require guarding against, and efforts have been made to do so; but, so far as known to me, such have been open to serious objections. I have discovered that a thin envelop of soft rubber or analogous flexible and yielding material will allowa bottle to be rapidly and easily inserted and removed, and being compressed by the left hand around the neck of the bottle incloses the neck and the entire bottle in such manner as to insure againstinjury to the hand or to any surroundings in case of explosion. I have devised a form which is every way convenient. The preferable material, soft rubber, affords also great protection for the bottle and its contents against being warmed by the hand and the knees in the act of removing the cork.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation corresponding to Fig. 1, representing a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where they appear.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the body, and A the neck, of a bottle, and B a cork fitted therein. These parts, as also any ordinary or suitable fastening for the stopper, may be in all respects of the usual character.

D is the main body of my jacket.

D is the neck, and D the rim or edge of the mouth of the same, all formed integral of soft rubber. The neck D is deeply corrugated longitudinally. The entire jacket is capable of expansion by the elasticity of its material irrespective of its form; but the form of the neck contributes to give a very great elasticity to this portion. In receiving or discharging a bottle the neck is easily made to assume the full size of the body D. In a state of rest, whether empty or containing a bottle, the neck D is smaller than the body D, enough so to distinguish the jacket and to give it a tasty appearance. The mouth D is flared. It is easy to insert and remove the bottle. In pouring from the bottle the rim of the tumbler may be inserted under the month of the bottle within the flared rim of the rubber jacket.

The corrugations distribute the contraction with approximate equality. The hand grasping the neck forces the corrugated rubber inward and gives afirm hold on the glass through the rubber.

Modifications may be made Without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention. One size of jacket will serve for quite a range of sizes of bottles. I propose by supplying two sizes to equip the butler forserving from all ordinary sizes of bottles without risk of injury to persons or dresses or any series annoyance from the failure of bottles. In cases where it is only necessary to arrest the broken glass and the escape of a small quantity of liquid is not seriously objectionable various other yielding materials, as felt, may be used in forming my jacket. I prefer soft rubber made in one piece without scam.

I claim as my invention- 1. A safety bottle-jacket, composed of elastic waterproof material, in the form of a case D with a closed bottom, a contracted neck D and a flared rim D adapted to serve with a bottle, substantially as herein specified.

2. A safety bottle-jacket composed of elastic waterproof material, in the form of a case D with a closed bottom, a contracted neck D and a flared rim D in combination with a bottle ]3 B inclosed therein, all arranged to serve substantially as herein specified.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature inpres' ence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE M. DE WATERS.

Witnesses i J. B. OLAUTIC'E, M. F. BOYLE.

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