US894153A - Universal bottle and jar closure. - Google Patents

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APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 18, 1907.

9 C AA- (manualmnmv INVENTOR Pflwin WlTN ESSES v. E N m T T A WALTER P. KAIN, OF BRIDGETON,

UNITED STATES PATNT OFFICE.

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-EIGHTH TO WILLIAM W. MORGAN, ONE-EIGHTH TO JOSEPH B. SHARP, AND ONE-FOURTH TO CLAYTON E. WOOD- RUFF, ALL OF BRIDGETON, NEW JERSEY.

UNIVERSAL BOTTLE AND JAR CLOSURE.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed December 18, 1907. Serial No. 406,999.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER P. KAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeton, county of Cumberland, and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Universal Bottle and Jar Closures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in bottle and jar closures of that particular class in which a metal cap having a lining of packing material, such as cork, is fastened upon or over the mouth of the bottle or jar, and has for its object to provide an exceedingly simple and effective device of this character by means of which a bottle stopper may be applied to and re- \,moved from the vessel without the use of machinery or special tools, but by simple hand manipulation.

A further object of my invention is to provide a construction of stopper whereby the cap having been once removed from the receptacle can be replaced by hand as many times as desired and obtain a seal as perfect as the original.

IVith these ends in view, this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describe its construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improvement applied to a bottle. Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 3, a plan view thereof.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied, A represents a disk portion having an annular corrugated depending flange B, the lower edge of which is necked in as indicated at B so as to engage the usual incline shoulder E on the external surface of the mouth of the bottle, thus forming an inverted cup in which is placed a concave convex compression disk 0 having a conical indentation O formed in the center thereof for engaging with a like indentation A formed in the center of the disk A. After the compression disk is placed within the inverted cup a disk D of cork or other packing material is also placed therein. By means of the conical indentations the cup proper is allowed to freely move when in position on the bottle or jar without disturbing the contact of the packing material, and to also adapt itself to any irregularities of the lip or mouth of the vessel.

The merit of the construction herein described resides in the fact that the closures may be placed on a bottle or jar without the use of a machine, thus they can be used to advantage on druggists prescri tion bottles, and by using rubber as the packing material they may be used on acids, or paraflined blotter paper on salts and baby foods, and when the cap has been removed and only part of the contents used from the bottle the cap may be replaced and form as tight a seal as when first placed upon the bottle, due to the continuous spring action exerted by the compression disk.

While I have shown the closure as being corrugated in order that a certain amount of spring action may be given to its flange to spring over the head upon the mouth of the bottle and adapt itself to any variation in diameter of lip, it is obvious that these corrugations may be omitted, the closure being made of such material as will spring over said head, by first engaging one side of closure and pressing other side in place with fin er.

Ilaving thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and useful is A bottle or jar closure comprising a disk having an annular corrugated depending flange, the lower portion of which is necked in, said disk having a conical indentation formed therein, a compression disk having a conical indentation formed therein for engagement with the first named depression, and a packing material, as and for the pur pose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto afixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WALTER P. KAIN.

Witnesses:

DAVID M. BOWEN, J. H. PUTNAM.

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