US921009A

US921009A - Non-refillable bottle.

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Publication number: US921009A
Application number: US42234608A
Authority: US
Inventors: William L Schultz
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-03-20
Filing date: 1908-03-20
Publication date: 1909-05-11
Anticipated expiration: 1926-05-11

Description

W. L. SCHULTZ.

' NON-EEFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIGAT ION FILED MAR. 20, 1908.

Patented May .11, 1909.

ATTOR/VEKS WILLIAM L. SCHULTZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Application filed March 20, 1908. Serial No. 422,346.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM L; SCHULTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of New'York, have invented certain new and "useful Improvements in NoneRefillable Bottles, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to non-refillable means for bottles such as disclosed in my Patent No. 857,366, dated June 18th, 1907. I a e The primary object of the invention is to provide simple and efiicient means whereby the liquid may be readily poured from the bottle when filled and in which the parts are so constructed that the exit opening for the liquid in the bottle neck will be closed should an attempt be made to refill the bottle after it is wholly or partly empty, and in which a member of the sealing means will be made to become positively looked in the bottle neck should an attempt be made to refill the bottle by creating suction in order to raise such member from its sealing position p A further object of the invention, isto provide means which may be positively held in position to prevent-liquid passing from the bottle mouth into the body of the bottlewhen the latter is in certain positions; which may be readily applied to various forms of bottles, and which is adapted to be used in connection with bottles adapted to contain liquids of various degrees of density.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to theaccompanying drawings, which forma part, of this specification and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1: is a fragmentary vertical section, partly in elevation, of one form of bottle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation of the stopper valve. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the stopper valve. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the inner or float valve and Fig. 5 is an inverted plan view of the valve shown in Fig. 4.

The body 10 of the bottle may have any suitable form of neck 11,- and in the upper part of said neck is a groove 12, and above the groove 12 is an inwardly-projecting rib 13, which is adapted to i'orm a seat for a stopper valve or plug 14. This stopper valve 14 may be of any suitable material,

and has its body portion'15 somewhat smaller than the bottle mouth 16, and the bottle mouth may have the usual stopper of cork or of any suitable material, or the mouth of the bottle may be sealed by the usual form of cap or in any other desired way.

- The valve or plug 14 h'as'an enlarged flange or cap portion 17 which is slightly beveled upward, as at 18, to provide a suitable surface to rest upon a beveled seat 19 formed on the upper surface of the rib 13. By inclining the valve seat,19 as shown, it not only provides a good joint for the stopper valve 14, but also makes it more diflicult to force a wire or otherdevice past the cap portion 17 of said valve 14.

The'stopper valve 14 is provided with a shoulder 20 which is adapted to rest against the inner surface of the rib l3 and the body portion of said valve is provided with an angular groove 21 above the lower edge thereof in which is arranged a retaining device 22.

readily held in the groove 21, and projecting from the band are spring arms 25.

These arms maybe integral with the band as shown or made separate therefrom and said arms are adapted to engage the annular groove 12 in the bottle neck in such a way that the stopper valve will have a limited outward movement to permit the liquid to be poured from the bottle, but which will hold the stopper valve against removal, there being any suitable number of such arms so as to properly hold the valve 14 in its proper position in the bottle neck.

The body of the stopper valve 14 is provided with grooves 26 lengthwise thereof to permit the liquid to flow more readily past the stopper valve, and the arms 25 may be positionedas shown, or they may be made to register with said grooves when the body portion 15 of said valve is larger and. fits the neck more closely so that the said arms may be forced into the grooves 26" of the body of the stopper valve while being inserted in the bottle neck, but which will permit the arms to spring outwardly when said arms are in alinement with the groove 12. This latter arrangement makes it more difficult to force a wire or other device past the stopper valve to tamper with the inner sealing means.

To prevent the bottle from being refilled by creating suction in the bottle mouth, I provide a fioat or other valve 27, and above said valve arrange a weight 28. The weight 28 may be spherical or of any other desired gage a seat 31 formed in the bottle neck, and

said seat as well as the valve may be ground so as to form a proper seal. The valve 27 is iade very light and is provided with an extended portion 32 which has an opening 33 therein and has guiding ribs 34 which form recesses between said ribs so that the liquid may pass more readily by the valve body when the latter is in an open position, and said ribs serve to guide the valve in the bottle neck. The valve 27 might be closed in some instances though I prefer to make the same open as shown, so that when the liquid is poured it will enter the valve and the weight thereof will assist in unseating said valve, but when the bottle is placed in its normal posi tion the said valve will be empty and will be held in position by the weight 28. If an attempt is made to raise the valve 2'7 from its seat by means of suction for the purpose of refilling the bottle the removal of the air above li uid in the body of the bottle will serve oiily to make the valve adhere to its seat, in which case the said valve becomes substantially fixed to the seat and cannot be easily removed so that it would be practically impossible to refill the bottle by this means and if an attempt were made to do so the bottle would become useless.

The bottle neck 11 is provided with an enlarged portion 35 and this enlarged portion is curved and so made as to form a guide for the weight 28. If the bottle is tilted in either direction the weight 28 will rest against the locking shoulder or curved portion 36 of the enlarged part 35 and will force the valve 27 to its seat and will prevent the same from being moved. If the weight 28 is shifted so that it will rest in the hollow or grooved portion 37 of the stopper valve 14 the said weight will assist in unseating the stopper valve 14 and by reason of the weight of the liquid and the li htness of the valve 27 the said valve 27 wi 1 become unseated and the liquid permitted to flow past said valve and past the stopper valve and out of the bottle mouth. By groviding the part 35 with its locking shou der as a part of the bottle neck a guide is not needed for the Weight 28 as in my patent referred to.

From the foregoing it will be seen that simi ple and efilcient means is provided whereby l liquid of any suitable nature may be poured from a bottle and alter the bottle is empty or partly so the said means will so act within the bottle neck as to prevent the bottle from being refilled; that the bottle neck is so made that it will serve to assist in holdingone ,oi' the valves to its seat; and one of the valves is so made that if an attempt is made to raise the same from its seat by means of suction. such means will only serve to cause the same to adhere more firmly thereto.

Having thus described my invention, claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. he combination with a bottle neck having a groove therein, of a stopper valve adapted to form a closure in the bottle neck, a locking device having a part thereof adapted to lit the groove in the bottle neck and hold the valve against removal, a hollow inner valve having an opening adapted to permit liquid to ilow into said valve, said bottle neck having seats for the stopper and the inner valves, and a weight arranged between the inner valve and the stopper valve.

2. The combination with a bottle neck having a groove therein, of a stopper valve adapted to form a closure in the bottle neck,

a locking device having arms adapted to fit the groove in the bottle neck and hold the valve against removal, a hollow float valve having an opening adapted to permit liquid to flow into said -float valve, said bottle neck having seats for the stopper and the float valves, and a weight arranged between the float valve and the stopper valve.

3. The combination with a bottle having a groove therein and provided with a beveled valve seat above said groove, of a stopper valve arranged in the bottle and having a beveled portion adapted to form a closure with the valve seat, a locking device comprising a band held to the body of the stopper valve and having arms projecting outwardly therei'rom the ends of which are adapted to enter the groove and prevent removal of said valve, a hollow valve having an opening adapted to permit the liquid within the bottle to flow therein and to assist in unseating said valve, said bottle having a seat or the hollow valve, and a weight arranged between the hollow valve and the stopper valve, said bottle having means for causing the weight to hold the float valve to i its seat under certain conditions.

4. The combination with a bottle having a groove therein and provided with a valve seat above said groove, 01' a stopper valve arranged in the bottle and adapted to form a closure with the valve seat, a locking device comprising a band held to the body of the stopper valve and having arms projecting outwardly therefrom the ends of which are adapted to enter the groove and prevent removal of said valve, an: innervalve, and a weight arranged between the inner valve and the stopper valve, said bottle having a seat for the inner valve and provided with means formed on the bottle neck for causing the weight to hold the inner valve to its seat under certain conditions.

5. The combination with a bottle having a groove therein and provided with a valve seat above said groove, of a stopper valve arranged in the bottle and having grooves lengthwise thereof and adapted to form a closure with the valve seat, a lockingdevice adapted to enter the groove and revent removal of said valve, a hollow va lve having an opening adapted to permit the liquid within the bottle to flow therein and to assist in unseating said valve, and a weight arranged between the hollow valve andthe stopper valve, said bottle having a seat for the hollow valve and provided with means for causing the weight to hold the hollow valve to its seat under certain conditions.

6. The combination with a bottle having its neck provided with a valve seat, of a stopper valve arranged in the bottle and adapted to form a closure with the valve seat, means for preventing the removal of said valve, an inner valve, said bottle having a seat for the inner .valve, and a weight arranged between the inner valve and the stopper valve, said bottle bein provided with an enlarged part and with flocking shoulder adapted to hold. the weight against outward movement when in certain positions for the purpose set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this nineteenth day of March A. D. 1908.

WILLIAM L. SCHULTZ.

Witnesses M. TURNER, a H. LINEHAN.