US750050A - Non-refillable-bottle attachment - Google Patents

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J. J. FLANAGAN. NON-REPILLABLE BOTTLE ATTACHMENT.

. APPLICATION FILED MAY 7. 1002.

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Patented January 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. FLANAGAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

NON-REFlLLABLE-BOTTLE ATTACHMENT.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,050, dated January 19, 1904.

Application filed May '7, 1902. Serial No. 106,324. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN J. FLANAGAN, a British subject, residing at Cleveland, Guyahoga county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements" in Non-Refillable- Bottle Attachments, of which the following is a specification that will enable those skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same. 1

My invention relates to bottle-stoppers which when inserted in the neck of a filled bottle will be permanently locked in its position therein and can only be removed by destroying the bottle and while admitting of the liquor passing out of the bottle will close it positively against refilling. In addition to this its object is to produce a cheaply-com structed device that will be effective for the purpose stated.

The accompanying drawings show my invention in the form now considered most desirable by me; but changes not requiring the exercise of invention and obvious to a skilled mechanic might be made in the details thereof and equivalent parts substituted for those shown without'departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the upper part of a bottle and its neck with my invention appliedthreto,the bottle being shown in upright position. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, the bottle being inverted in the position to discharge its contents. Fig. 3 is a similar View of the same, the bottle being in horizontal position. Fig. i is a view in elevation of my improved stopper detached. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same on the line 5 5 of Figs. 4 and 6. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same on the lines 6 6 of Figs. 4 and 5, showing a modification of the valve. Fig. 7 is a transverse section of the same on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the preferred form of valve and its guiding and supporting mechanism detached, this valve being the one shown in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive. Fig. 9 is a detail view of the disk and spindle detached.

. lower end of the opening a.

The tubular structure A, which supports the mechanism of my device, is adapted to fit snugly in the neck 0 of a bottle B. At any suitable place in its length it is provided with an annular groove 0, in which is placed a spring-ring O, split at one side and normally of larger diameter than the tubular structure.

The bottle-neck is provided with a similar annular groove 6, into which the ring will spring out or expand when the tubular structure is inserted, and as the ring is thicker than the depth of the groove 6 it will lie across the circumferential dividing-line of the structure and the neck and absolutely lock the structure against withdrawal. In the lower end of the 5 structure is a contracted openinga, closed by movable valve D, which is provided with a depending stem (Z, mounted in a tubular guide E, supported by spider-arms 6, extending from a ring e, which is secured in theenlarged 7 A disk F is located in the tubular structure immediately above the valve D, with which it is in easy movable contact when the valve is on its seat. The disk swings on pivot-pins g, which extend through the walls of the structure at each side of it. Openings G are formed through the opposite walls of the structure ata right angle to the axis of the pivot in order to afford room for the swinging disk.

The upper portion of this disk is hollowed out or recessed as much as possible in order to lighten it, so that its center of gravity shall always be below the pivot-axis,and in the re- ,cess thus formed is located a circular spindle 5 H, pivoted on a pin h, carried by the disk above and at a right angle to the axis of its pivots g. The circular spindle is barrel-shaped, having flattened ends and a longitudinal side curvature corresponding to the periphery of 9 the disk, the outline of which it forms a continuation when the parts are in certain relative positions, as shown by Fig. 9. One side of the spindle is cut away, as shown, making it lighter than the other side, so that gravity acts to hold the flat side above the axis of the spindle-pivot. This flat side of.th e spindle also constitutes a depression in the peripheral T outline of the disk, which depression when it exists is at the top of the disk. This de- 9 pression exists normally when the bottle is in vertical position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In Fig. 1 it is farthest away from the valve, which is being held on its seat by contact with the disk-surface. In Fig. 2 the bottle is shown inverted; but the disk, carrying the spindle and swinging on its pivots, retains the same vertical position as before, so that the reversal of the bottle, while not changing the position of the disk, brings the valve into a position above the depression in the disk, where it finds space into which it may fall when dropping away from its seat to open the aperture (4 and permit the contents to flow out. In any other position of the bottle than a vertical inverted one the depression either ceases to exist or it is not presented to the valve, which is therefore held closed on its seat either by the disk or by the spindle, as shown in Fig. 3. It is therefore impossible to open the valve in any other position of the bottle than that shown in Fig. 2, and in this position, while the contents or the bottle will run out readily enough, it is impossible to refill the bottle, as the air in it cannot be displaced or withdrawn. Above the disk and spindle I secure in the tubular structure two perforated diaphragms J and K, the apertures in each being out of register with those of the other in order that there may be no direct passage that would permit of the insertion of instruments for tampering with the valve mechanism. I prefer to have a central aperture j in the upper disk and a series of smaller apertures Z near the edge of the lower disk. As a further precaution against tampering, I form an an annular ledge L on the inner surface of the structure just below the disk K, which will catch and prevent further ingress of any instruments inserted at an angle through the apertures and l.

claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a bottle-stopper, the combination of a movable valve adapted to close the exit-opening from the bottle, a pivoted disk located outside of and adapted to contact on said valve with its periphery, said disk being cut away at one side to form a peripheral depression, its other side below the axis of the pivots being heavier so that gravitation acts to always keep the depressed side uppermost substantially as set forth.

2. In a bottle-stopper, the combination of a movable valve adapted to close the exit-opening from the bottle, a pivoted disk located outside of the valve, recessed at one side of the axis of its pivots and adapted to, contact peripherally with said valve, a circular spindle pivoted in the recess of the disk on an axis above and at a right angle to the axis of the disk-pivots and having one flattened side, the full side of the disk and spindle being heavier below than above their pivots, and the longitudinal curvature of the sides of the spindle conforming to the peripheral curve of the disk, substantially as set forth.

3. In a bottle-stopper, the combination of a movable valve adapted to close the exit-opening of the bottle, a pivoted disk located outside of and adapted to bear on the valve, a recess in one side of the disk and a circular spin dle pivoted therein on an axis above and at a right angle to the axis of the disk-pivots and having one flattened side, the longitudinal rounded sides of the spindle conforming to the peripheral curve of the disk, the full sides of both the disk and the spindle being heavier below than above their pivots for the purpose set forth, with a series of fixed, perforated diaphragms above the disk and spindle having their respective openings out of register, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN J. FLANA(-i-AN.

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