US723679A - Bottle-closure. - Google Patents

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No. 723,679. PATENTED MAR. 24, 1903.

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BOTTLE CLOSURE. AP-PLIOATIOI} FILED JAN: 3, 1'9os.

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ERNEST WALTER KE MPTER, OF GALENA, ILLINOIS.

BOT-TLE-CLQSU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,679, dated March 24, 1903;

Application filed January 3, 1903.

To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST WALTER KEMP- TER, a resident of Galena, in the county of J Daviess and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Closures; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip* tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation, illustrating a bottle provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View in section of the neck portion thereof, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are enlarged views illustrating details of construction.

1 represents a bottle of ordinary construction having the neck 2, to which my improvements are connected, as will now be explained.

3 represents a tubular plug,-of cork or other material, forced down into the neck 2 and having an internal ferrule or conical tube 4, preferably of aluminium. Above this ferrule and plug a ball 5, also preferably of aluminium, is located and adapted to fall by gravity into the larger upper end of the ferrule andeffectually prevent the passage of a liquid therethrough when poured into the bottle, but which will fall out of the ferrule when the bottle is tiltedto' permit the bottles contents to be poured at will.

In the neck 2 of the bottle at the top thereof another tubular plug 6, preferably of cork, is located, and has a ferrule or conical tube '7 therein, composed, preferably, of aluminium. This ferrule 7 is provided at its lower SerialNo. 137,712. on model.)

end with prongs or fingers 8, projecting down below the cork plug 6 and serve to hold the ball 5 away from the end of the ferrule and prevent its closing the passage in pouring from the bottle. At the upper end of the ferrule 7, which is flush with the top of plug 6 and bottle-neck 2,=integral strips 9 are provided on opposite sides of the ferrule and are adapted to bebent down the outside of the bottle-neck, as shown in Fig. 2, and these strips 9 are made with holes in their ends to receive a wire 10, passed around a groove in the bottle-neck and twisted together at its ends.

A thin metal cap or cover 11 is pressed around the neck of the bottle, and through this cap or cover 11 the twisted ends of wire 10 project and have a seal 12 thereon to prevent tampering With the mechanism.

A cork stopper 13, having an enamel head or enlargement 14: thereon, is adapted to enter ferrule 7 and close the neck of the bottle.

By constructing my improvements as above explained it will be seen that in order to pour anything into the bottle it is necessary to remove the ball 5. This cannot be done without first breaking the seal 12 and removing plug 6 and ferrule 7, and such work would necessarily so disfigure the bottle as to readily betray the fraud.

My improvements can be used on almost every form of bottle and have the advantage that the bottle can be returned to the original filler and be used again.

Whilev I have described the ferrules and ball as being made of aluminium, I might make them of other material, although aluminium is preferred.

A great many changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not confine myself to the precise construction set forth, but consider myself at libertyto make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

1. The combination with a bottle-neck, of two tubular plugs therein, a valve between said plugs, a device for holding the upper plug in place, and a seal normally securing said holding device.

2. The combination with a bottle-neck, of two tubular plugs therein, a valve between said plugs, the upper plug being removable, and a destrnctible device for normally securing said removable plug in place.

3. The combination with a bottle-neck, of a fixed tubular plug and a removable tubular plug in said neck, a valve between said plugs, an arm projecting from the removable plug, a wire for securing said arm to the neck and a seal uniting the ends of said Wire.

4. The combination with a bottle-neck, of a tubular plug therein, another tubular plug above the first, a ball between said tubular plugs, a metal internal ferrule in the upper plug, strips on the ferrule bent around the sides of the bottle-neck, and a wire passed around the bottle-neck, through holes in the strips and twisted together at its ends, and a seal on said twisted ends.

5. The combination with a bottle-neck, of a tubular cork plug therein, a conical internal ferrule in the plug, another tubular cork plug above the first, a conical internal ferrule in the upper plug having prongs or fingers on its lower edge projecting beneath the plug, a ball between the plugs, and astopper for the upper ferrule.

6. The combination with a bottle-neck, of a tubular plug in said neck having an aluminium ferrule therein, another tubular plug above the first, having an aluminium ferrule therein, a-ball between said plugs, strips on the upper edge of the upper ferrule bent down opposite sides of the bottle-neck, a wire passed around the bottle-neck and through holes in the strips and twisted together, a cover or cap around the bottle-neck through which the twisted ends of the wire are projected, a seal on said twisted ends of the wire, and a cork stopper to enter the upper ferrule and having an enamel enlargement thereon to cover the upper end of the neck.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST WALTER KEMPTER.

Witnesses:

F. J. BURRICHTER, F. F. DUNNEBECK.

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