US763948A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

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No. 763,948. PATENTED JULYB, 1904. L. M. ALBERTY & G. S. NIXON.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 22, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES LEON M. ALBERTY AND CARL S. NIXON, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN;

SAID NIXON ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS OONSIN.

Patented July 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES, OF MILWAUKEE, W IS- NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,948, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed October 22 1903.

To all whmn itvnay concern:

Be it known that we, LEON M. ALBERTY and CARL S. NIXON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention has especial reference to means for guarding against a bottle being tampered with, as well as means for preventing it from being refilled when empty; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination ofparts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is avertical sectional view through the upper part of a bottle embodying our present invention. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are transverse sectional views taken,

respectively, on the planes indicated by the lines 2 2, 3 3, and 4 4 in Fig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the said drawings, 1 represents the shoulder or upper part of a bottle, and 2 the neck thereof. The said neck is formed with a straight smooth-walled bore of desired diameter in its upper part, as indicated at '3, and below this of a similar bore of less diameter, as shown at 1, which latter is contracted further by the inner annular flange 5, below which the bore is enlarged into a substantially oval opening 6, whose smaller end is downward, thus affording a very contracted passage 8 into the interior of the bottle proper, this passage way being normally closed by a ball 7. At apointjust intermediate between the lower end of the upper bore 3 and the upper end of the narrow bore 4 these two bore ends are united by an oblique-walled annular groove 9, cut into the neck of the bottle, as shown, which weakens the neck at this point for a purpose to be presently described. 1O designates the neck-core, which is made, preferably, of glass with a rounded top 11, crescent-shaped in section, and the edge of which top will just pass down through the upper bore 3, while the lower part of said semi No. 178,037. (No model.)

core is of less diameter and will fit snugly within the bore 4, resting on the flange 5, and when thus in place (and secured permanently to the inner surface of the bottle-neck, as by cement or other suitable means) the edge of the core-top 11 will project slightly into the described groove 9, the said core being rounded out under the top to form the annular groove 12, which communicates with the vertical edge grooves 13 13. They communicate with the exterior annular groove 14, and that communicates with the vertical interior channels 15 15, which in turn communicate with the oval-shaped bore 6. In practice the bottle, with its neck-bore entirely free, is filled with the desired liquid, and then the ball 7 is dropped to place, resting loosely on the walls of the passage-way 8. Next the core 10 is inserted to place and secured there permanently, and finally the corkv 16 is applied.

WVhen it is desired to pour liquid from the bottle, the cork is removed and the bottle inverted and the ball 7 will roll away from its seat, the passage of the liquid being through the passage-way 8, bore 6, channels 15 15, annular groove 14, edge grooves 13 13, annular grooves 12 and 9, and neck-bore 3; but if it was sought to refill the bottle the ball 7 would prevent this, and if an attempt was made to insert a wire through the passageway of the liquid the said wire would curl up within the rounded annular groove 12 under the top 11, if the wire was of sufiiciently yielding material, and if not, pressure of the wire would serve to break the weakened neck at the line of the groove 9 therein, and hence in either event the attempt would be a failure and the bottle practically non-refillable.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Abottle, having aneck formed with a bore of varying diameters, and weakened by a bevel-walled groove on a line between the upper wider portion and intermediate narrower portion of said neck-bore; a core having vertical liquid-passages therethrough out of alinement with each other, and a rounded top separated by an annular groove from the body of l the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsaid core, and the edge of which top core prosin, in the presence of two Witnesses. jects within the bevel-walled groove in the LEON M ALBERTY bottle-neck; and a ball seated within the con- CARL S I 5 tracted lower end of the neck-bore, below the c l said core. \Vitnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we H. Gr. UNDERWOOD, have hereunto set our hands, at Milwaukee, in HUeo FAI'IL.

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