US924532A - Bottle-stopper. - Google Patents

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3 BROWN, JR BOTTLE STOPPER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1908.

Patented June 8, 1909.

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ROBERT BROWN, JR, OF ILFOBD, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO N. R. CAPSULE SYNDICATE LIMITED, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BOTTLE-STOPPEB.

No. 924,532. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 8, 1909.

Application filed January 10, 1908. Serial No. 410,178.

Through this plug and through the top of the ca 0'. passes a screw 0 of metal, glass or the li c. This screw 0 has at the top a milled-head d and at the lower end a disk e of suitable material which may or may not be rigidly attached to the lower end of said screw 0. This washer or disk 6 rests on a stopper or valve f, provided with a stem g. This valve f rests on a cork ring it in the neck of the bottle.

The cap a is notched around its lower edge at j where it rests on the top of the neck of the bottle. In the spaces notched or cut out of the cap a a little of the metal is returned at min a horizontal direction, so that the cap a is held in its place by a tubular capsule lc. Thiscapsule which forms the second or temporary portion of the device is by preference of light tin or one of its alloys, such as capsule metal. It is made as a sleeve 0 en at the top and bottom, see Fig. 4, but t e top part is constructed so as to fit over the cap a, being flared out at q and provided with two or more apertures r. This capsule or sleeve being brought down somewhat tightly on to the small returns an around the cap a, the latter is held firmly on the mouth of the bottle and the capsule 7c and cap a together constitute a covering device which protects the valve f. The capsule is or outer cover after being drawn down is pressed by hand or power machine so that it assumes the shape and conformation of the neck of the bottle and cannot be removed therefrom Without destroying or distorting the said cap- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BROWN, Jr., a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Ilford, in the county of Essex, England, have invented Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a stoppering device for reventing a bottle being fraudulently re ed. Numerous suggestions have been made to achieve this object but therequirements of the trades in which 7 such devices would be used are such that it has not been easy to meet them. In addition to the device being such as to practicallyprevent a bottle being refilled, it must be applicable to bottles having ordinary necks, must be cheap, and not involve the destruction of the bottle when emptied.

The stoppering device hereinafter described is so constructed that the more expensive parts can be used repeatedly, the only perishable part being the holding portion, which may be constructed of tin, tin alloy, soft metal, or other suitable material and forms a capsule which prevents the device being tampered with without the capsule being damaged and an indication of fraudulent manipulation thus given, and upon its removal for the purpose of enabling the bottle to be refilled at the distillery or the like place, can be melted, remade or otherwise dealt with without serious or prohibitive loss to the owner.

In order that my said invention may be understood I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing accompanying this specification in which:-

Figure 1 is an elevation of the appliance as it would appear when fixed in position on a bottle; Fig. 2 shows a plan of same; Fig. 3 shows a vertical section of the appliance on the top of the neck of the bottle. Fig. 4 shows an elevation of the holding portion. Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig. 3 of a modification.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 4:, a is the part of the appliance which is of a more or less permanent character and which can be used for a number of bottles one after the other. This part 0 consists of a cylindrical cap of metal or other suitable material of approximately the diameter of the top of the neck of the bottle for which it is to be used. The cap a has a plug 5 of cork in the inside.

that it has been removed from the bottle for the purpose of fraudulently refilling the same.

In some cases I may make the cap a of vulcanite, or other like material or composition. In using the device when the bottle is filled the valve f is dropped into position in the cork ring h, the cap a is then put on to the top of the bottle. The capsule 7c is then dropped over the cap 0., the top of the said ca sule resting on the returns m. The capsu e is then pressed into shape at the outer part of the bottle neck. When liquid is required to be poured out from the bottle the milled head (1 is turned so as to raise the disk or washer e by means of the screw 0 and when the bottle is tilted the valve f comes away from its seating allowing the liquid to pass around it, through the notches j, past the sule suificiently to enable a person to know r in Fig. 5.

cap a and through one or more of the aper- 1 air respectively, a cap adapted to fit within tures 1". and be engaged by the upper end of the hold- The oa a in Fi 5 can be made to snu l in aortion and externallv o )erated means o o y a l fit to flange m in order to maintain said cap carried by the cap for retaining the valve in a raised position when the valve retaining 1 upon its seating.

means is raised, or if desired the cap a can be loosely held Within the flange m in which event it will be forced into its raised position i 2. The combination with a bottle of a seat- I when ressure is a )lied to the valve. l )ortion adaited to be fixed ti 'htl around P Pl 1 l I s .3

ing therein below the mouth thereot a valve I may employ in place of the return orbentthe bottle neck and having apertures for the out portions of the metal m (Fig. 3) a ring or escape of liquid and entrance oi air respecledge on which the top part 01' the capsule tively a cap adapted to lit within the upper rests. Such an arrangement is shown in end of the holding portion and having an. ex- Fig. 5, m being the ring or ledge. In this ternal projection adapted to engage with the example, the top of the cap a is thickened J inner surface of the top oi the holding porand used as a nut for the screw and is not I tion, a screw passing through a tapped hole filled with cork. The cap a need not rest on i in the cap having a milled head at its upper the top of the bottle neck but may terminate in the outward flange or ring at m, as shown ithdrawal ol' the screw.

l Signed. at 14 Jewry street in the city of London England this twenty-fourth day of December 1907.

W hat I claim is 2 1. The combination with a bottle of a seating therein below the mouth thereof, a valve adapted to become seated thereon, a holding i portion adapted to be fixed tightly around I lVitncsses: the bottle neck and having suitable aper- I S. A. ABBOTT, tures for the escape of liquid and entrance of ARTHUR Vv'oosNiiii.

ROBERT B HOWN, Jii.

adapted to become seated thereon a holding I end and a plate at its lower end to prevent

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