US788158A - Fastening means for bottles or similar things. - Google Patents

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No. 788,158. PATENTBD APR. 25, 1905.

M. A. LAZARBFP.

FASTENING MEANS FOR BOTTLES OR SIMILAR THINGS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1904.

WITNESSES 1v 1v70 A TTORNE Y.

No. 788,1 5s.

Patented April 25, 1905.

MATHIAS A. LAZAREFF, OF NElV RATION OF THE DlSlRlC l OF YORK, N. Y., GLASS J Alt AND BOTTLE COR'HANY,

OF NElV YORK, N.

COLUMBIA.

FASTENING MEANS FOR BOTTLES OR SIMILAR THINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0.

788,158, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed May 6, 1904. Serial No. 206,627.

To r/l/ whom if many roux/Yarn..-

Be it known that l, Marinas A. IJAZAREFI, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved Fastening Means for Bottles or Similar Things, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of fastening devices which is intended to be quickly fastened andunfastencd, which is adapted toconnect parts where quick disconnection is desirable, and is also adapted to effect the closure of vessels of various kinds.

My invention is particularlyintended as an improvement on the device shown in Letters Patentof the United States No. 737,638, dated September 1, 1903, and No. 751,082), dated llebruary 2, 190%.

In my former inventionsjust referred to, the fastening means was exterior of the neck of the bottle or similar vessel and on some accounts is therefore objectionable.

The object of my present invention is to utilize the principles disclosed in my former inventions, but to improve in detail to the end that the locking means may be on the inside of the article-as, for instance, a bottle-neck to which a connection is to be made-so that the exterior of the vessel may be left entirely plain and smooth.

Obviously the fastening means can be applied to any device where a removable part is to be attached to the hollow body portion as, for instance, a jar-cap or a bottle-stopple.

lVith the above ends in view myinvention consists ofcertain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereininafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

igure 1 is a vertical section of the upper portion of a fruit-jar, showing my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation showing my invention in the form of a bottle-stopple and bottle-neck.

a plan view of Fig. l to more clearly illustrate the linger-grips in the cap.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the jar may be of any usual form and is made in the main like an ordinary fruit-jar, and it has, preferably, a circumferential shoulder 11 near the ASSIGNOR TO THE ROYAL Y., A CORPO- top, on which the usual form of gasket 12 is placed, so as to be engaged by the dependent rim 13 of the bottle-cap 15, a space being left between the middle or top portion of the cap and the flange or rim 13, so that the top edge lat of the bottle may cap, as the drawings clearly show.

The details just described I do not claim, and they are notnecessary, but are desirable, because the interior lock presently to be described works nicely in structure described and forces the rim 13 snugly against the gasket 12, so as. to make an air-tight joint.

The interior of the neck of the jar 10 or other vessel is provided with lugs 16, which extend slightly into the bottle-neck and are spaced apart, as the drawings show, these being preferably inclined slightly on the under side like the lugs shown in my former applications above referred to.

Held snugly in the body of the cap 15 is a circumferential plate or ring 17, which is preferably of metal, and 1 have found that aluminium works better than anything else for this purpose, as the glass holds it does not corrode easily. To provideagainst the displacement of the ring, however, it is inserted in a groove of the cap while the latter is still plastic, and the soft glass is then extend upward into the connection with the it snugly and pressed snugly against the ring while in a 5 mold, and the ring is thus held secure. The ring or plate 17 has at intervals projecting lugs 18, and when these do not register with the lug 16 the bottle-cap may be easily inserted in or removed from the neck of the 9 bottle or jar 10. By placing the cap in position and then turning it slightly, however, the

lugs 18 engage the lugs 16 and the cap is drawn snugly to its seat. To provide for the easy turning of the cap, 1 preferablyarrange Fig. lis lii'igergrips 15 in the top. No novelty is claimed for these finger-grips and other things can be substituted for them.

It will be seen that the arrangement described is very simple, that the cap can be easily locked, and that the inside lugs 16 protrude so little that they do not interfere with the filling or emptying of the jar.

In Fig. 3 I have shown how my invention is applied to a bottle of difierent shape. Here the long neck has lugs 16, exactly as already described, and the stopple 19 has a flange 13 adapted to fit on the top of the bottle-neck fiatwise, while the ring 17, with its lugs 18 is held in the stopple portion 15", as the drawings show. This device is operated exactly like the cap already described to fasten or unfasten the stopple.

The modification will illustrate clearly the fact that my invention is not limited to any particular form of device, but is adapted for use in connection with any hollow vessel to which a cap, stopple, closure, or other part is to be detachably secured. It will also be observed that the lugs 16 may be produced on the inner member and the lugs 18 on the outer member,

.jecting lugs to engage the lugs of the hollow vessel.

2. The combination with a jar or bottle having inwardly-projecting lugs in its neck, of a cap or closure fitting into the bottle-neck and having a flange to close against the top of the bottle-neck, the said cap having a circumferential ring held fast therein and provided with projecting lugs to engage the lugs of the bot-. tle-neck.

MATHIAS A. LAZAREFF. l/Vitnesses:

VVARREN B. HUTCHINSON, J. G. DUNBAR;

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