US815639A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

Description

AUGUST SCIIENCII, or CIIICACC,V ILLINOIS, -ASSICNCR or CNETHIRD To. -SIECLER ANI) CHARLES CORNACKER,

citizen of the United cago, in the county of Cook and State of lllif nois, have invented certain newand useful shown and descri 'To @ZZ whom it may concern:

- UNITED STATES PATENT ormon.

MARGARET IIALLCN. JCHANNA or CHICAGO, ILLINCIS.l

l NoN-REFILLABLEBOTTLE.

v Specification of Letters Patent. y

r'atented March 20,1906.

'Application fiiea April 2v, 1905. serai No. 257,630.

, Be it known that I, AUGUST SCHENCK, aV

States, residing at Chi- Improvements in N on-Relillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification, `the samebeing an im rovement on the devices ed in application'` Serial No. 2 27,718,,filed October 8, 1904.

.The object of this invention is to produce a bottle which it willbe impossible to Jllr after j it has been once sealed, but which at the the same time will allow the liquor therein contained to be poured out, thereby allowing the bottle to be lilled but `once and preventing the substitution of inferior liquor'inplace of bottle. v

Another object of the invention iS .to sofarrange the parts that the entire bottle and Avalve members' may be ,formed from glass, Awhich is a substance which will not corrode 4 or deteriorate and which' will not inany way vimpair thequality'of the liquor contained. Another object of the invention is to so. ar-

4range'the parts that it will be impossibleto tamper with or remove the valve without de,-`

Stroying the bottle.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange Vthe valve members that they maybe easily slipped into the bottle and. permanently plosi-tioned therein after the bottle has been' lled and a final obj ect of the invention is to so construct andl arrangethe bottle as a whole. that :itsoperation' will be perfect and at the same timeenable the parts `to be easily constructed and assembled..

The invention consists in the features of constructionand combination of parts here- -inafterdescribedandclaimed.

lInthe drawings illustrating the invention,

Figure'v 1 is a sectional view ofthe bottle, showing the valvemembers inl elevation; Fig. 2, a longitudinal Section of the inner stopper; Fig. 3, a cross-section of the inner stopper.; Fig. 4, across-sectional view of the movable valve member, taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1 Fig. 5, an end view of the movable valve` member; Fig. 6, a longitudinal sectionalview of the same, and Fig. '7 a diagrammatic view of theperiphery of the inner stoper.

, on" the inside of the glass. tracted throat is a movable valve member 6,

genuine liquor'originally filled into ther movable valve member.

The bottle is blowntohave' a contracted' throat 2 and an enlarged neck 3 which neck terminates in a mouth 4, and between the neck and the mouth is an vhaving a rounded cup-shaped head 7, provided on its upper face with a rounded recess 8,' and the valve member terminates in a depending stem9, provided vwith a series of y grooves or channels 10, which stem serves as a weight or balance to hold the movable valve member in place and hold the rounded cupsha'ped head seated against the contracted* annular groove 5; Within the con-' ssv walls ofthe throat when the bottle is stand- I ing right side up, `as shown inFig. 1, and the valve member is provided with a rubber gasket 10aaround its head. f

Within the conical recess 8 is a ballv 11, preferably of glass, and above theball .is an inner plug 1 2, which'is provided with a chamber '18.011 its interior, within which chamber is located a filling-plug 14, preferably of cork, Y

although rubber orother elastic material may be used. The plug 12 is openat its lower or inner end for the insertion of the lilling, and the end of4 the plug and filling are ment and coperating with the recess 8 in the Within the rounded exterior wall of the plug are a'series of three holes 16, within which are located balls 17,1 preferably formed of lass, which balls abut against the elastic iilingl for the plug and normally outwardly project from the plug and are ada ted to be drivenin orcompressed against t e elastic filling when pressure is brought to bear onthe balls, and said providedwith .a conical recess 15 in alineballs when thefplug is inserted in place e'X- tend into the annular groove or channel 5 inl` the inner wall of the bottle-neck, locking theplug in place and preventing its removal `when once inserted. The plug is provided around its exterior with a series of upper horizontally-extending curved ribs 18 and lower of ribs being arcurved ribs 19, the two series ranged in staggered relation to one another a short distance apart and having their termi- IOO nal ends overlapping one another by asmallr.

distance.' The ribs have connecting therewith upwardly-eX- tending straight ribs 20, which terminate'at the'upper end of the plug.

The horizontallyextending ribs by reason of their relation prevent the insertion of a wire orsimilardevice horizontally-extending curved into the bottlefor the purpose of retracting or tampering with the ball 11, and the curved and straight ribs together serve to position the plug within the bottle and prevent its movement and at the same time provide interstices or spaces between the ribs for the discharge of the liquid within the bottle. The closure of the bottle is completed by an exterior cork 21, which fits into the mouth of the bottle-neck.

In use the liquor, patent medicine, or other fiuid is filled into the bottle before the insertion of any of the valve members, and after the filling operation the movable valve mem# ber is first inserted into the bottle and falls down to its seat against the contracted throat, in which position it is maintained by the weight of the stem, after which the ball is inserted into the bottle to rest within the recess 8 in the movable valve member, so that the weight of the ball will serve and hold the valve fully seated when in upright position, as shown in Fig. l. After the ball has been inserted thevclosing-plug is entered into the mouth of the bottle and presses down through the mouth, which pressure causesthe balls 17 to be compressed into the elastic filling for the plug by the contact with the wall of the mouth until the plug has been forced into the position shown in Fig. l, in which the balls come into line with the groove or channel 5 and spring outwardly by the pressure from within, locking the plug in place within the neck of the bottle and at a sufficient distance from the movable valve member to allow the ball to have a considerable play between the two members. The inner plug is of a size to leave a slight annular space around its exterior for the passage of liquor from the bottle, and when constructed, as herein shown, to have the filling entered into the plug from the inner yor lower end it will be impossible to remove the elastic filling to obtain access to the balls which lock the plug in place. When it is desirable to pour out the liquor, the botvtle is unsealed by the removal of the exterior cork 2l and then tilted up sufficiently' to cause the ball to roll from the movable valve member to the plug, which allows the movable member to be unseated and the liquor to flow around the movable valve, around the walls of the plug, and out of the mouth of the bottle. As soon, however,l as the bottle is brought back to upright position or even when the bottle approaches an upright posi tion the movable member will seat itself by the action of the depending stem, and the ball will roll back into place to exert pressure 'against the movable member, holding it in position and preventing the inflow of liquor into the bottle.

The provision of the ribs, which overlap one another around the entire periphery of the plug and above the ball l1, prevents any tampering with the bottle or the unseating of the ball by the insertion of a wire or similar device intended to force back the ball and allow it to become unseated.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that the bottle of the present invention is of a construction which enables the parts to be readily assembled after the filling of the bottle, and when assembled it will be impossible to refill the bottle with spurious or inferior liquor. The parts are so arranged that the bottle will be entirely open for the admission of liquor prior to the sealing operation, since none of the members herein described are permanent features of the bottle itself, but are all of them introduced into the bottle after the filling operation, and that the bottle itself does not differ materially from the bottles heretofore constructed, so that it will not be necessary to depart to any appreciable extent from the methods heretofore employed for the manufacturing of bottles. This is a feature of importance, since it enables the same bottle to be used with or without the features of the present invention, so that it will be possible to use a uniform grade of bottles and to apply the sealing means of the present invention to only such bottles as it is desirable to prevent from being refilled.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. ln a non-refillable bottle, the combination of a bottle having a contracted throat forming a seating-face and terminating in a neck, the latter opening into a throat, a valve member adapted to seat against the seatingface, a closing-plug adapted to be locked into the bottle-throat, a ball between the closingplug and the valve member, two rows of separated ribs around the lower end of the plug having their ends overlapping to guard against tampering with the valve member and ball, and rows of straight ribs extending at right angles thereto and adapted to abut against the inner wall of' the bottle-throat to position the plug in place and provide spaces for the outflow of the liquid, substantially as described.

2. ln a non-refillable bottle, the combina- IIO tion of a bottle, a valve member adapted to close the outlet for the bottle, and a closingplug adapted to be locked into the throat of the bottle above the valve member and provided with two rows of separated ribs around the lower end of the plug, having their ends overlapping to guard against tampering with the valve member, and rows of straight ribs extending at right angles thereto and adapted to abut against the inner wall of the bottle-neek to position the plug in place and provide spaces for the outflow of liquid, substane tially as described.

AUGUST SCI-IENCK. Witnesses.'

WALKER BANNIN( OSCAR. W. BOND.

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