US984251A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

Description

W. D. G. WOOD.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION nun SEPT. 13, 1910.

Patented Febu14, 1911.

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WARREN D. C. WOOD, OF HAXTUM, COLORADO.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 13, 1910.

. Patented Feb. 1 .1., 191 1..

Serial No. 581.897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VAnnnN l). C. \Voon, citizen oi the United States, residing at llaxtum, in the county of Phillips and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful IIHPL'OVOIHOIICS in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in non- 'etillable bottles, or to bottles which cannot be used a second time without detection, and has for one of its objects to improve and sin'ipliiy the construction and increase the elliciency and utility of devices of this charactcr.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character constructed Wholly of glass and metal, and in which no part of the securing means comes in contact at any time with the contents of the bottle.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as herein shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and, in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of a portion of a bottle including the neck, with the improvement applied; Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device may be applied to bottles of any size or to bottles or like closures for containing any kind of liquid, but for the purpose of illustration is shown ap plied to a conventional bottle in which a portion of the body is represented at 10 and the neck at 11. Formed upon one side of the neck is a projection 12 having an internal cavity or bore 13 communicating with the interior of the neck, as shown. The projection 12 is surrounded by a breaking groove or channel 2-1, the object to be hereafter described. Fitting in the neck 11 is a stopper or cork l-ft, ureter-ably of glass or similar material, and provided with a flange 15 at the upper end to limit its downward movement. The stopper 14 is pre't erably ground into the neck to render it liquid tight. Formed Within the stopper 14 is a'longitudinal cavity 16 having one side 17 straight and the other side 18 inclined and with a projection 19 directed inwardly from the inclined side, as shown. An aperture 90 is formed in the straight side of the stopper cavity and registers with the recess 13 when the stopper is disposed within the bottle neck, as shown in Figs. 1, and 2.

A relatively short metal strip 21 and a relatively long metal strip having a re silicnt lateral terminal 23 completes the improved device, and etmstitute the lock ot the same, and are applied as follows. After the contents have been inserted into the bottle it) the stopper l t with the shorter strip 21 is located in the cavity 20 and extends across the lower portion of the cavity 16. The stopper '14- is then so arranged that the aperture 20 registers with the recess 13. The, longer strip 22 is then inserted into the cavity to and utiliyed to move the shorter strip into the recess 13, and the strip 22 forced downward until the yieldable extension 23 passes beneath the projection 19 when the free end ot extension will snap beneath the projection and ellectually lock the strip 2" in the stopper and likewise lock strip 21 in the aperture Qt) and cavity 13. This etlectually locks the stopper into the bottle neck and it can be removed only bv breaking the projection which can readily be done at the break channel 2-1, as will be obvious. The strip 31 can then be withdrawn and the stopper removed. The breaking channel 2 t being comparatively remote from the neck ll, no danger exists otbrokcn glass getting into the bottle.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be manutactured at only a slight increas--1e of expense over that of an ordinary bottle and operates elleclually to protect the manu'tacturer from the second using ot the bottle.

Having thus described the invention, what is clain'ied as new is:-

A bottle including a neck portion, a projection extending from said neck portion and having an internal recess communicating with the neck, a stopper engaging in the neck and having an outwardly opening cavity and with a lateral aperture registering with the recess of the neck projection and located intermediate the stopper recess, said stopper being further provided within its cavity with an inwardly directed stop lug located intermediate its ends and inwardly ot the lateral aperture, a locking member extending through the neck aperture and into the recess of the neck projection, and

another locking member engaging in the P In testimony whereof I afiix my signature stopper cavlty and against the first men- 111 presence of two wltnesses. tionecl locking member, said lastmentioned 4 /T J- locklng member havlng a resillent terminal WARREN [I 51 extending normally substantially at right lVitnesses: angles thereto for engaging beneath the stop C. M. GALE, lug. M. H. BENTSON.

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