US728319A - Non-reusable bottle. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED MAY 19, 1903.

No. 723,319. I

' c; H. SBINNEY, 2D.

NON-REUSABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 5, 1902.

no MODEL.

I A V,

1 UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE;

CHARLES HERBERT SPINNEY, 2D, OF CHESTNUTHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

NON-REUSABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 728,319, dated May 19, 1903. Application filed June 5,1902. Serial No. 110.394. (No model.)

To all whom, it 71mg concern.- I

Be it known that I, CHARLES HERBERT SPINNEY, 2d, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Ohestnuthill, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Reusable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles and certain appurtenances therewith connected to obviate the secondary repletion of liquids counterfeiting or differing from the original contents of the vessel.

The objects of my improved invention are to provide a bottle having novel accessories inclosed within a two-part valve-casing situated within the neck and arranged to automatically close the valve-passages under certain conditions hereinafter disclosed, and to thus hermetically seal the bottle and render it perpetually non-reusable.

My invention comprises other valuable features illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed and particularly defined in the claims. Referring to the drawings, in which corresponding characters denote similar features throughoutthe several views, Figure 1 illustrates a longitudinal vertical section of my improved bottle with one segment of the valve-casing and its accompanying appurtenances in position within the neck. Fig. 2 is a plan of the valve-casing, showing both semicircular segments assembled. Fig. 3 denotes the exterior elevation of the same, Fig. 4 being a plan of the bottle. Fig. 5 exhibits in perspective one of the segments detached from its companion with the valve omitted. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on dashed line 6 6 of Fig. 7. Fig. 7 designates a longitudinal section through each segment placed in juxtaposition. Fig. 8 illustrates a transverse section on dashed line 8 8 of Fig. 7, and'Fig. 9 a modified construction of the valve-casing with its perforated disk horizontally placed and its valve omitted. I

In the drawings, A denotes the improved bottle having an inward taperB at the junction of the neck and body and an interior groove (3 around the middle approximately of the neck, these features embracing the improvements in the bottle construction. Within the bottle-neck and between said .junction B and groove 0 is placed the valve subsesequent to the filling of the bottle. Said valve comprises two independent coacting semicircular segments D and D, preferably made of glass or any suitable material, connected temporarily by four lugs E, seated in corresponding depressions F when said seg- 6o ments are aliued before they are finally placed in position in the neck.

G G designate the transverse horizontal rests at the top of each segment or valve, and G G shorter rests below and parallel with the former. Said rests collectively secure in a stable manner the disk H, comprising a body of a cellulose character adapted to expand or swell greatly under conditions of moisture or contact with liquids, and designed in the present instance to incrassate sufficiently to effectually choke the valvepassage I, formed by and between the h0rizontal abutments J J, Fig. l, to the extent practically indicated in dotted lines, as at H To protect the exterior of said disk H during the legitimate employment of the bottle, an elastic insoluble envelop K protects the body of the disk from contact with the bottles contents. Should, however, an attempt be made to repl'enishth'e bottle through the customary agency of the pulsometer, the partial vacuum-thus formed within the bottle oifers no resistance to the air compressed in the chambers H H within the disk H, and the s.

resultant pressure upon the material 'K fractures it and exposes thebodyof the disk to the'conditions previously set forth,when expansion results, thus rendering the bottle useless. V

L L denote the ball-valve supports or runs integral with the casing, of which there are two .in each segment, with the valve-seats at L L limiting the action of the valve M, as

shown. Said valve is provided with a weight N, united thereto by a flexible support. The function of this weight is to accentuate the contact of the valve with the seat L Said valve acts by gravity, assisted by the weight of the liquid decanted when the bottle is inverted, the depending lugs O forming a rest for the weight N in a manner to avoid obstructing the flow of the contents from the bottle.

, ret e ted'me 19,-1903."

P P represent gaskets or paekings, composed of any suitable compressible and expansible material. In the former (P) the packing coacts with the depression 0 in the inner wall of the neck A as the assembled apurtenances are forced into position and pro duces a liquid-tight contact, while the gasket P may serve a similar purpose while confining the pair of segments and also contributes to the stability of the structure when in final position, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The operation of myimproved invention is as follows, premising the valvecases and their accessories organized and in proper position Within the neck A of the filled bottle: The stopple being removed the bottle is inverted, when the valve M, accelerated by the pres sure of the contents, moves to its seat Ii, (shown in the dotted position M,) the liquid flows through the passage I following the direction of the several arrows, past the protected disk, and out through the orifice of the neck until the bottle is depleted. Should the bottle be restored to an upright position, the

valve M, assisted by its auxiliary N, obviously falls to its original position, closing the valve-opening. Should the bottle be inclined in any position away from the perpendicular to attempt an inflow of liquid by gravity, the valve would assume its position on the seat L through the agency of its flexibly-attached weight N, and thus prevent the introduction of liquid to supplant the original content-s Obviously there may be other modifications structurally departing from the manner illustrated, as also in the material employed for hermetically closing the valve-passages, and therefore I do not limit myinvention except as hereinafter expressed in the claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In a non-reusable bottle the valve-case, the disk supported therein adapted to expand upon contact with moisture, means to protect the body of the disk from contact with the liquid contents while depleting the bottle and means integral with said disk to assist expansion of the same upon disruption of its protective covering and during saturation to sufficiently close the valve-passage against any inflow of liquid as specified.

2. A valve-casing comprising two coacting segments provided with means for their alinement, a chambered disk containing, air and provided with an exterior envelop rupturable by a vacuum, said disk having distensible properties upon contact with liquid, a passage formed by the aggroupment of said segments, and abutments receiving the increasement of said disk after saturation so as to hermetically seal said passage.

3. In a separable valve-casing, the horizontal rests adapted to support an expansible disk, the abutments horizontally situated to form a passage for the outflow of liquid, the chambered disk partitioning said passage provided with a non-soluble envelop, the valveruns and means operating therebe tween to arrest the inflow of liquid to the bottle substantially as herein specified.

4. In a bottle designed to be non-reusable the two-part valve-casing provided circumferentially with exterior means at each end to exclude air or liquid between said casing and the neck of the bottle. and also to maintain the union of the valve-segments, the disk inherent with the property of distention when wet and means to support said disk centrally with the valve-passage, in combination therewith the bottle having a neck provided with an annular inner groove to receive the said means to insure air and liquid tight contact with the valve-casing, and means at the base of the bottle-neck to obstruct the entrance of the assembled segments to the body of the bottle as specified.

5. The combination with the two-part valve casing provided with a chambered disk having the property of extreme distention under moisture and means integral with said casing to support said disk, a passage for the flow of liquid, and means within the passage to arrest the liquid current, of the bottle having an inward taper at the junction of the neck and body, and means Within the neck between said junction and the orifice to receive the assembled casing substantially as set forth.

6. In combination with a bottle having a neck provided with an annular groove, and an inward taper, the valve-segments, the passage formed by the union of said segments, the distentionable air-filled disk within said passage, the valve-runs and the valve provided with a flexibly-attached Weight as an auxiliary to readjust said valve against its seat and to resist any movement therefromat such an angle as would permit the inflow by gravity of liquor to the body of the bottle substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this 29th day of May, 1902.

CHARLES HERBERT SPINNEY, 2N1).

Witnesses:

JOHN PERRINS, J r., H. E. REMICK, Jr.

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