US720016A - Bottle-closure. - Google Patents

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No. 720,016. PATENTED FEB. 10, 1903.

. E. M. GILMORE.

BOTTLE CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22, 1902.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR I v k- ATTORNEY I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN M. GILMORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BQTTLE-CLOSURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,016, dated February 10, 1903.

Application filed January 22, 1902. Serial No. 90,745. N m l- To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWIN M. GILMORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Closures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to closures for bottles, boxes, and other receptacles adapted to hold dry substances, such as powders, &c., and fluid substances; and said invention has for its object more particularly to provide a 010- sure consisting of a stopper formed of a resilient or compressible substance-such as cork, rubber, &c.-and a top for said stopper made of metal, hard rubber, or other suitable material. i

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a simple, efficient, and inexpensive apparatus for the purposes above named, which may be readily attached to or removed from the receptacle without liability of in j uring said apparatus or the receptacle.

These objects above set forth I am enabled to attain by means of my invention, which consists in the novel details of construction and in the combination, connection, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a central section taken on the line 1 l of Fig. 2, illustrating a closure made according to and embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an inverted top view of the upper portion of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a central section illustrating atmodified construction. Fig. 4 is a side view of the cap detached from the nozzle, and Fig. 5 is a side view of the closure with the cap removed.

In the accompanying drawings, A designates the stopper, consisting of the cork stopper B,-having tapering sides and a central opening or passage a, extending entirely through the same. Upon said stopper is secured a top 0, made of cast metal or other suitable material, consisting of a base D, having a downward and inwardly extending flange E at its edge, which embraces the top of the stopper B. Projecting upward from the center of said base D is a nozzle F, having an opening or passage 1) therein, which corresponds in interior diameter with that of the opening or passage a in the stopper B and forms therewith one continuous unobstructed passage, through which the contents of the receptacle may be discharged; The exterior surface of the nozzle F is made smooth, except at its upper portion, where the same is provided with screw-threads c, and G denotes a cap having screw-threads cl upon its inner surface adjacent to its top, whereby said cap may be secured to the nozzle F.

In the modified construction illustrated at Figs. 3, 4, and 5 the closure A is composed of the stopper portion B, which is similar to the one heretofore described and provided with a passage a, and upon said stopper l3 is fitted a top 0, which in this construction is made of thin sheet metal spun or pressed into form and consists of a base D, having the peripheral flange E bent downward and inward and embracing the top of the stopper B, and a centrally-located dome-shaped top F, extending upward from said base D, the interior diameter of which also corresponds with that of the passage 0. in the stopper B. Said dome-shaped top F is provided at its side with an elongated aperture 12, a projection 0 adjacent to one end of said aperture 7), and a circumferential groove (1 near the bottom of said top F. G denotes a cap revolubly attached to the top F, having an inwardly-projecting annular rib e, which fits into the groove d in the top F, whereby said cap G is held in position upon said top. In the side of the cap G is provided an elongated aperture j, which corresponds in size with the aperture b in the side of the top F and registers therewith when said cap G is rotated upon the top F, whereby to permit of the removal of the contents of the receptacle therethrough.

The operation of the apparatus is obvious.

It is to be observed that by means of the constructions herein shown and described the stopper and the cap portion are capable of being firmly united by means of the peripheral flange andthe liability of tearing the top away from the stopper when removing the same from a receptacle is entirely obviated, and that by securing the top to the stopper upon its outer surface it no longer becomes necessary to provide the top with a hollow stem to be inserted within the passage in the stopper, thus permitting of the making of a larger opening in the stopper, which remains unobstructed for its entire length, and, further, that by omitting said hollow stem extending down into the stopper the stopper presents the additional ad vantage in that the same is not rendered hard and unyielding, as it is where an inner tube is used, but being unlined is thus rendered more yielding and susceptible of being readily forced into bottle-necks, which vary appreciably in size.

Without limiting myself to the details of construction, which may be varied within the scope of the invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A closure for bottles and other receptacles comprising a resilient stopper, a central passage therethrough, a top adapted for securement to said stopper without the geometrical outlines thereof, a hollow dome thereon whose interior diameter corresponds with that of the passage in the stopper and forming a top therefor, a discharge aperture in said dome, and a cap having an aperture therein revolubly disposed upon said dome, substantially as specified.

2. A closure for bottles and other receptacles comprising a resilient stopper having a central passage therethrough, a top for said stopper comprising a base having a flange at its edge embracing the top of the stopper, a nozzle projecting from said base, and a cap for sealing said nozzle, substantially as specified.

3. A closure for bottles and other receptacles comprising a resilient stopper, a central passage therethrough, a top for said stopper comprising a base, a downwardly-projecting flange at its edge adapted to embrace the top of the stopper, a nozzle projecting upward from said base the interior diameter of which corresponds with that of the passage through said stopper, a discharge-aperture in said nozzle, and a cap for sealing the discharge-aperture in said nozzle, substantially as specified.

4. A closure for bottles and other receptacles, comprising a resilient stopper, a central passage therethrough, a top for said stopper comprising a flat base, a downward and inwardly bent flange adapted to embrace the top of said stopper, a dome-shaped nozzle projecting upward from the center of said base,

the interior diameter of which corresponds with that of the'passage through the stopper, a discharge-aperture in the side of said nozzle, an annular groove in said nozzle near its bottom, and a cap revolubly disposed upon said nozzle, having an aperture in the side thereof adapted to be brought into register with the discharge-aperture in the side of said nozzle, and an inwardly-projecting rim adapted to engage the groove at the base of the nozzle whereby to hold said cap in position upon said nozzle, substantially as specified.

5. A stopper for tooth-powder bottles, &c., comprising a tubular portion having a discharge-orifice therein, closed at one end and having an integral sheet-metal flange at the opposite end with an overturned edge, a cap fitting over the said tubular portion and adapted to be moved thereon to cover and uncover the said orifice, and a cork coming against said flange and having a central opening and connected to the said tubular portion by the overturned edge of the flange thereof which comes into forcible contact with the said cork.

6. Astopper for tooth-powder bottles, 860., comprising a tubular portion having an opening therein and closed at one end and having an integral sheet-metal flange at the opposite end with an overturned edge, a cap having an opening therein and fitting over the said tubular portion, and devices inseparably connecting the parts but permitting the cap to be turned on the said tubular portion to bring the openings in the parts into juxtaposition to form a discharge-orifice, and a cork coming against said flange and having a central opening and connected to the said tubular portion by the overturned edge of the flange thereof which comes into forcible contact with the said cork.

7. A stopper for tooth-powder bottles, &c., comprising a tubular portion having an opening therein, closed at one end and having an integral flange at the opposite end with an overturned edge, and an external circumferential groove adjacent to said flange, a cap having an opening therein and an internal rib fitting into the said groove whereby the EDWIN M. GILMORE.

Witnesses:

GUSTAVE DIETERICH, EDWIN H. DIETERICH.

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