US868824A - Bottle attachment. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED OCT. 22, 1907.

G. T. TROMMALD. BOTTLE ATTACHMENT. APPLIULTIOK FILED MAY a1.1901.

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B OTTLE ATTACHMENT. 1

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed May 31, 1907. Serial No. 876,544.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G UNDER THnoDonIo '1 ROMMALD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Mullnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and uselul Bottle Attachment, of which the iollowing is a sprciiication.

This invention relates to stoppers or bottles, jars and similar containing vessels and more particularly to improved means for retaining the stopper in position on the vessel thereby toprevent accidental displacement of the same when the stopper is removed from the vessel.

The object of the invention is to provide a stopper or closure which is permanently attached to the containing vessel so as to prevent the same from becoming lost or displaced when the stopper is removed to discharge the contents of the vessel.

A further object is to provide a vessel including a retaining band and having a flexible connection between the band and the closure for normally and yieldably exerting a downward pressure on said closure.

A still further object of the invention is to generally improve this class of devices so as to increase their utility durability and elliciency.

Further objects and advantages will appear in the following description, it being understood that various changes in form, proportions and minor (letails of construction may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings lorming a part of this specification: Figure 1 is a front elevation oi a containing vessel provided with a stopper constructed in accordance with. m y invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same showing in dotted lines the stopper in released or inoperative position. Fig. 3 is a top plan view ol Fig. 1. l ig. 4 is a transverse sectional View taken on the line l-Zl of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side elevation illustrating a modified form of the invention. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the stopper and attaching member shown in Fig. 5 detached. Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating a further modification.

Similar numerals ol' reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the llgurcs of the drawings.

The improved device forming the subject matter of the present invention may be used in connection with bottles, jars and similar containing vessels and by way of illustration is shown in. connection with a bottle of the ordinary construction in which 5 designates the body portion, 6 the neck, and 7 the stopper or closure.

The attachment consists of a flexible strap 8 preferably formed of rubber one end of which is glued, pasted or otherwise rigidly secured to the body portion 5 while the opposite end thereof is seated in a transverse kerf or recess 9 formed in the top of the stopper 7 as shown.

The stopper 7 is preferably made of cork or similar yieldable material while the width of the kerf 9 is less than the thickness of the strap 8 so that when the strap 8 is introduced into the kerl the side walls of the latter will clamp the strap and prevent accidental displacement of the same.

Surrounding the walls of the bottle or vessel 5 is a retaining strip 10 which forms a closure or housing for the fixed end of the strap 8 and also constitutes a label for the bottle.

The strap 8 preferably terminates short of the mouth of the bottle so that when the cork or stopper is in sorted in said mouth the rubber or other elastic material forming the strap 8 will expand and thus normally andyicldably exert a downward pressure on the cork so as to hold the same in position in the neck of the bottle. It will thus be seen that under normal conditions the stopper or cork is held firmly to its seat by the strap 8 thereby to prevent the same from being forcibly ejected should the liquid in the bottle forment.

In order to remove the cork or stopper it is merely necessary to exert a slight upward pull on the free end of the stopper when the strap 8 will move the same to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawingsand in which position the contents of the bottle may be readily removed.

In Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawing there is illustrated a modified form of the invention in which one end of the elastic strap or attaching member 8 is provided with a lateral enlargement having an opening 11 formed therein adapted to receive the neck of the bottle or other containing vessel while in Fig. 7 the attaching strap is of uniform width throughout its entire length and provided at one end with a longitudinal slit 12 the walls of which are adapted to expand and embrace the neck of the bottle so as to retain the strap in position on the bottle without the employment of the label.

While it is preferred to use an elastic strap or band for holding the stopper in the neck of the bottle it is obvious that a cord, ribbon or similar flexible medium may be employed if desired.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that there is provided an extremely simple, inexpensive and cllicicnt device admirably adapted for the attainment of the ends in view.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed 1. A containing vessel having a closure provided with a kerl, and an elastic element having one end thereof 10 yield-able material and provided with a transverse kerf,

and an elastic strap having one end thereof secured to the exterior walls of the vessel and its opposite end seated in said kerf.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I

have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two 15 witnesses.

I GUNDER THEODORIC TROMMALD.

Witnesses:

CLAUDE POWELL, C. D. SEWALL.

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