US525128A - Frederick e - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

' F. E. BLAISDELL.

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Patented Aug. 28, 1894.

' MUM-6656 f i UNITED STATES PATENT GEETCE.

FREDERICK E. BLAISDELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR millo invented certain new and OF ONE-THIRD TO ELMER Z. TAYLOR, OF

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BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,128, dated August 28, 1894.'

Application led January 28, 1893. Serial No. 460,136.V (No'model.)

`To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. BLAIS-` DELL, a citi/zen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following isa' specification, such as will enable others skilled 1n the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

I t is the custom among bottlers of beer and other beverages, to sell only the beverageand retain the ownership of the bottle in which' the same is furnished to the customers, who

vare expected'to return the bottle when empty to the bottler, to `be refilled. But, inasmuch as the bottles used are convenient receptacles for holding various liquids, it is found that they are frequently permanently retained by those into whose handsthey fall, and the bottler 1s consequently compelled to replace all such bottles so retained at great inconven-l ience and expense; and the object of my invention is to provide a bottle of such form that the same will be utterly useless to the general public, for the reason that the same can only be closed or stopped by the insertion in the throat orifice thereof of a stopper or seal of peculiar form, which can only be lnserted in such bottle by the use of a costly and cumbersome machine, which vonly .persons engaged in the bottling business can afford to possess; whereby, such bottles being of no use to thel persons to whom the contents are sold, the same will invariably be returned to the bottler when emptied; and this I ac-` c omplish by means of the peculiar construction of my improved form of bottle, shown forms of the construction shown in such Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawingsr-The reference letter A designates the neck of the bottle, prpjecting inward over the throat orifice or outlet of which, preferably at the extreme outer end thereof, as shown, is a serrated flange or rib consisting of a number of lugs or projections a which are separated one from another by grooves a which extend from top to bottom of the said rib, iiange, or contracted portion ofthe throat orice or ou tlet of such bottle in such Vmanner that when a circular cork or stopper of ordinary form is inserted in the ordinary mannerin that portion of the throat orifice or outlet of the bottle surrounded by and forming the passage through the serrated flange, such grooves will still be only partially closed, so that the liquid in the bottle will leak through the same when the bottle is inverted.

In the main or enlarged port-ion B of the throat orifice or outlet of the bottle, is preferably located an inwardly extending annular rib or projection b, which extends into such th roat orifice or outlet a little less than the depth to which the lugs o extend over the same, and this ribbis preferably situated but a short distance below ythe serrated flange formed by the said lugs d, so that when the expansible seal is inserted in the bottle the center of the sides thereof will be adjacent to such rib, and such seal will be expanded therein, so as to form a tight joint thereon as shown in'dotted lines in Fig. l, and in some instances it may be preferable to have the rib b, situated so far below the serrated top flange that the seal when inserted, will be wholly between such flange and such rib, as shown in Fig. 5, and in such case if preferred, such rib may extend as far inward into the throat orifice or outlet as does the serrated top ange, and when so extended it is of neces-v sity, in order to prevent closure of the bottle by the insertion of acork long enoughto pass down by the same, of the s'ame serrated form as is the top ange, consisting in such case of a series of lugs b', separated one from another' by suitable grooves a.

The stopper or seal R designed to be used with my improved form of bottle is of well known form, being a thin disk of any suitable .expansible material, preferably india- IOC rubber, and the same is inserted in the bottle, as shown in Fig. 3, preferably by being placed in a tube C the bottom end of which is of such size as to be inserted within the outlet orifice surrounded by the serrated flange formed by the lugs a and grooves a', from which tube such seal is forced into the expanded portion B of the throat orifice or outlet of my improved bottle, by a plunger C', reciprocating in such tube C, said tube las been inserted in the bottle, as shown in As will be seen by an examination of Fig. 2, in which the circular dotted line denotes the area in cross-section of the main portion of the throat orifice or outlet of the bottle lying below the serrated flange, the grooves a lying between the lugs a, do not extend fully into the flange to the entire` depth thereof,- whereby that portion of the under side of the flange lying nearest to the wall of the main portion of the throat orifice or outlet forms a circular unbroken seat for the ex-` pansible seal R when the same has been' `or other efervescent liquids, for containing which the same is more particularly designed e to be used.

It is not my intention to confine myself strictly to the exact form of constructionl shown, as it will be seen that the number, shape and position of the lugs a and also of the lugs b', may be greatly varied without departing from the scope of my invention, and I consider the same to consist broadly of a bottle having a series of lugs project# ing inward over the throat orifice oroutlet thereof, and springing at the base from acircular unbroken seal-seat, such lugs and seat being;` formed integral with the bottle neck, and being adapted to hold in position be neath them an expansible seal of substantially` the form shown, lin `such manner as to tightlyseal the bottle, said lugs being of such form as to at the same time prevent theclosing of the bottle by the insertion therein of a cork of ordinary circular form when once the expansible seal has been removed.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. In a bottle, the combination with` a ser ratedflange orrib provided with a series of lugs a projecting inward over the throat orifice or outlet in such manner as to receive and retain beneath the same a suitable seal for closing the bottle, of an annular rib b projecting inward into such throat orifice below the serrated flange, substantially as shown and described.

v2. A bottle havingtwo` serrated flanges or `ribs projecting inward into the throat orifice or outlet thereof so as to receive and retain in the space between them a suitable seal, vsubstantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with a bottle, having two serrated flanges or ribs projecting inward into the throat orifice or outlet thereof, of a Seal of expansible materallying in the space between the two flanges in such manner as to be retained therein by the same so as to close the bottle, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a bottle, the combination with a flange projecting inward over the throat orifice or outletthereof and forming a circular unbroken seal-seat, of a series of lugs or projections a springing at the base from such' flange and also projecting inward overthe throat orifice or outlet of the bottle, the seal-seat and projections being formed integral with the bottle-neck, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination, with a bottle, havmg a flangeprojecting inward over the throat ori- 'fice or outlet thereof and forming aV circular `unbroken-seal-seat, which flange is provided with a series of lugs or projections @springing at the base from such flange and also projecting-inward over the throat orifice or=out let, of a seal of expansible material forced beneath and expanded below the lugs or projections a so as to close the bottle by` pressing against the -seal seat, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a bottle, the combination with a serrated flange or rib having a series of lugs a `projecting inward over the throat orifice or outletin such manner as to receive and retain beneath the same a suitable seal for closing-thebottle, ofa circular unbroken sealseat located between the bases'of the projections a and the wall of the throat orifice or outlet and formed by the under side of the flange bearing such projections, audanannular rib b projecting inwardinto such throat orifice or outletbelow the flange forlning'the seal-seat, substantially as shown `and described.

In testimony of which invention I havehere-` unto set my hand. j p j FREDERICK E. BLAISDELL'. Witnesses:

FRANK S. BUssER,

HERBERT A. HALL.

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