US934481A - Bottle or can locking device. - Google Patents

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' H. E. TREVOR.

BOTTLE OR CAN LOCKING DEVICE.

APPLIIGATION FILED MAY a. 1908.

934,48 1 Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

W v ATTORNEYU HERBERT EDWARD TREVOR, OF YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE OR CAN LOCKING DEVICE.-

Specification of Letters Iatent. Patented Sept, 21, Til-tilt}.

Application filed May 9, 1908. Serial No. 431,772.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be It known that I, HERBERT Enwann TREVOR, a. citizen of the United States of America,residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle or (an Locking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for securing milk bottles and the like against thieves, as .for instance, after the bottles have been left at the door .of a house in'the early morning. Thievery of this kind is so common as to be a general nuisance, and many can and bottle locking devices have been invented with the object of securing the articles delivered. Such devices have heretofore not been entirely satisfactory for a number of reasons. A device of the character mentioned must be of simple and durable construction. Its operation must be so clear that a man delivering the articles may readily understand the same. It must not have parts, which by exposure to climatic conditions are liable to be rencleredinopertivc. lts locking operation should be automatic, that is to say, no key to lock the same should be required by the delivery man, and the latter should not be put to any inconvenience whatever. In some one or more of these respects, the other devices in the art have failed. to be satisfactory, and in all of these respects, the present device is eminently satisfactory,

In the present invention, it is merely necessary to push the bottle or can into the device, whereupon the same is automatically embraced and locked against removal. The customer may then at his convenience remove the bottle. from the device by means of a key operating any suitable lock releasing mechanism.

Having set forth the general objects and nature of the invention. I will now describe in detail, in connection with the accompan ving drawings, a simple embodiment of the same.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top plan view of the device in its unlocked condition. ready to receive the can or bottle. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device in its locking position and as when cno'aging the neck of a milk bottle.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a bracket 1, adapted to be secured as by screws or otherwise to a suitable support.

The bracket 1 is cut away at 2 to permit of the insertion of the can or bottle. Pivoted to the bracket at points 3 are two arms or jaws 4, curved to conform to the curvature of the can or bottle, and in the present instance particularly designed to embrace. the neck of a milk bottle. Attached at one end to 'either jaw at points 5 to the rear of the pivotpins 3 is a. spring (3, the tension of which is to throw the jaws into the position shown in Fig. 1, with the ends 7 of the jaws clear of the opening 2 in the bracket. Mounted in a boss 8 on the. bracket. and adapted to have a sliding movement in a bearing therein is a pin 5). This Pin at its inner end is adapted to engage the spring 6 and by the latter to be held projected outward over the opening 2 in the bracket. lVhen, however, a bottle is inserted into the bracket and forced against the pin 9, the latter in turn is forced against the spring (3, and serves through the spring 6 to cause the jaws'4 to be rocked on their pivots 3 into the position shown in Fig. 2.

The rear extensions of the jaws 4t behind the points of connection with the spring (3 are cut away as at 10 to form shoulders and to form a chamber for the reception of a bolt 11, when the jaws are in the position. shown in Fig. 2. The bolt- 11 by a spring of any suitable 'cha actor notshown is normal! j urged outward. When. however the jaws are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the bolt 11 simply bears upon the ends 12 of the jaw arms, and by the latter is held in that position. As soon as, by the means described. the jaws are. however, rocked into the position shown in Fig. 2, so that the ends 12 of the jaw arms are removed from the path of the bolt 11, the latter springs into the position shown in Fig. 2. \Vhen the bolt 11 is in the position shown in Fig. 2, the arms -t are prevented from being rocked back to the position shown in Fig- 1. and must remain in this position until the bolt is withdrawn, thus securely holding the bottle or can, which may have been inserted into the bracket 1.

Any suitable key mechanism maybe employed to operate the bolt 11. In the drawings there is shown a case 12. containing the oted intermediately of its length, one arm of each lever hooked so that the two hooked over the aperture, one arm of each lever and separate the other arms, a bolt mounted tion, it is obvious that many changes within the scope of the invention may be made in the structure shown Having-described the invention, what I claim-and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a lock for bottles or jars, etc., a block or. bracket apertured to receive a bottle, a plurality of levers, each pivoted intermediately of its length to the bracket to swing arms cooperate to hold an article placed between them, a spring normally tending to swing the levers about their pi ots to separate the hooked arms, means operated by the article placed bet ween the hooked arms .to cause the spring to close the hooked arms to move between the two arms last mentioned, and means for actuating the bolt to move between the said arms when separated. 3. .[n a lock for bottles, Jars, etc., a block or bracket apertured to receive a jar or hottle, a plurality of levers pivoted intermediately of their length to the'bracket to swing over the aperture, one arm of each lever being hooked to inelose an article in the aperture, a toggle spring normally tending to swing the lever arms about their pivots to separate the hooked arms, means operated by the article placed between the hooked arms to straighten the toggle to close the hooked arms. a bolt mounted to move between the other two arms, and means for actuating the bolt to move between the said arms.

4. A look comprising two levers, each pivoted intermediately of its length, one arm of each lever hooked so that the two hooked arms cooperate to hold an article placed between them, a spring toggle normally tending to swing the levers about their pivots to separate the hooked arms, means operated by the article placed between the hooked. arms to'straighten the toggle to close the curved arms and separate the other arms, a bolt mounted to move between the two arms last mentioned, and means for actuating the bolt to move between the said arms when separated.

Signed by me at New York city, county and State of New York, this 30th day of April, 1908.

HERBERT EDWARD TREVOR. I

Witnesses WILLIAM TREVOR, M. MC(}.\RTNEY.

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