US898261A - Closure for the necks of bottles. - Google Patents

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' No. 898,261. PATENTED SEPT. s, 1908. T. s. RAINEY.,

GLOSURE FOR-THE NEOKS OF BOTTLES. APPLICATION PILID JAN. 25, 1908.

WITNESSES INVENTOI? I lfzomaensfflazh ey ATTORNEYS THOMAS SEBASTIAN RAINEY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

CLOSURE FOR THE NECKS OF BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented Sept. s, 1908.

Application filed January 25, 1908. Serial No. 412,574.

10 novel, simple details of construction for a closure for the neck of a bottle or other receptacle, which when inserted and secured therein, after the receptacle is filled, will permit the contents to be freely decanted, but will pre- 15 vent a refilling of the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter describedand defined in the appended claims.

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

Figure 1 is a sectiona side view of the up- 25 per portion of a bottle and neck thereon, and

a like view of the improved closure device inserted and secured in the pouring end of the bottle neck; Fig. 2 is an exterior side view of the im roved closure, and of the portion of the nec of a bottle engaged therewith, seen opposite the arrow 00 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view substantially on the line 33 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a sectional side view of a bottle neck and the improvement secured therein, these parts being inclined so as to dispose them in a position for discharging the contents of the bottle.

In the drawings, 5 indicates the body and 6 the neck of a receptacle, that may be formed of any suitable material and have any referred dimensions. The neck 6 of the bottle body 5, shown to illustrate the a plication of the improvement, is cylindrical and at the end furthest from the body, is internally threaded, as shown at a, in Figs. 1 and 4, said thread being of a coarse pitch.

The improved closure for the bottle neck 6, is in the form of a substantially cylindrical plug 7, which together with the body 5 and neck 6, is preferably made of glass, cast or blown into shape. An exterior thread a, of coarse pitch similar to that of the interior thread a, is formed u on one end of the closing plug 7 and exten s from the extremity b of said plug to a collar 8, which projects circumferentially therefrom at a proper distance from said extremity. The exterior dia and a, which will im inge the true end of the neck 6 upon the co ar 8, as shown in the drawings.

Centrally in the end of the closing plug 7, that has a screwed engagement with the neck 6, a cup-like recess a is formed of a suitable de th and terminates at a concave bottom wall (1. Extending from the recess 0, at. the side wall thereof, a narrow channel e is formed in the body of the closing plug 7, and terminates a short distance below the to wall g of said plug, and thence extends I; through the same, thus affording a continuterally ous passage 6 for air or liquid from the bottle .bod 5, outwardly. As shown, the passage .or c annel e may be widened in a plane parallel with the top wall 9, and thus afford-5;

greater freedom for the exit of fluid there-;

through.

In the body of the closing plug 7, between the concave bottom wall (1 of the recess a and the outer end wall g, a curved and laterally disposed cavity i, is formed, which extends from the longitudinal channel e toward the opposite side of the plug. The laterally extended cavity 2' which is near the outlet 6, from its end that is furthest from the channel e, is reduced in size and extends through the side of the closing plug, as shown at 71, thus affording a duct for air or liquid across the plug. Opposite, shallow recesses 'm are formed in the internal and external threads a, a, at different points, two of such pairs of recesses m appearing in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings and in each pair of these recesses, a spring dog a is located, one end of the dog that is in the form of a thin strip of resilient metal being embedded in the thread on the plug 7, the free end thereof being adapted to enter the mating op osite recess, and interlock with an end Wall thereof when the plug is fully screwed into the neck 6. The receptacle 5, before insertion of the closin lug 7, is filled with the liquid or other mo i e material it is to hold, and then is closed by screwin the closing plug into the neck 6, until the co lar 8 is seated upon the true end of said neck, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings. U on a complete insertion of the closing p ug 7, the spring dogs n will interlock at their free ends with the end walls of the recesses m and thus prevent the plug poured therefrom by inclining the bottle so that the neck 6 will assume the position shown in Fig. 4, thus disposing the opening 1', downward for the escape of the contents of the bottle therethrough, the lateral passage 6'' becoming an inlet passage for air that flows through the channel 6 into the recess a and thence into the bottle body, which facilitates the free discharge of the liquid therefrom, the liquid at the same time traversing the channel in an opposite direction to enter the duct 1).

It will be obvious that it will not be possible to readily fill the bottle after its contents have been removed, as there being but one narrow channel thereinto throu h the plug 7, air cannot freely escape upwardly and the liquid pass down therein at the same time.

Having thus. described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1-. A closing plug for the neck of a receptaole, comprising a cylindrical body having an external thread at one end, said end having a being cupped recess therein, the plug also having a longitudinal channel extended from the recess to a point near the outer end thereof and thence laterally through the side of the plug, and further provided with a transversely disposed duct near said outer end, that extends from the longitudinal channel through the opposite side of the plug.

2'. A closing plug for the neck of a receptacle, comprising a cylindrical body, a radial collar thereon near one end, an external thread on said end, the body having a cuplike recess, therein at. the threaded end, also a longitudinal channel extending from the recess at one side thereof to a point near the opposite end of the lug and thence. laterally out through the si e of the plug, the latter further provided with a transverse duct that extends from the longitudinal channel out through the opposite side of the plug, and a spring dog embedded in a recess formed. in the threaded end portion of the p 1% testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS SEBASTIAN RAINEY.

Witnesses:

JAMES. R. CAIL IER, ARTHUR DE MAROAY.

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