US603795A - Self-sealing bottle - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

T. W. RYAN.

SELF sB-ALING BOTTLE.

Patented May 10,1898.

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PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS W. RYAN, OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JAMESII. WALSH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,795, dated May 10, 1898.

Application Aiea nach 6, 1897.

To a/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. RYAN, of Concord, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Self-Sealin g Bottles, of which the following is a description sufiiciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art-or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical transverse section through the neck of abottle provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, a top plan view of the seal; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 4, a bottom plan view of the seal; Fig. 5, a section on line @c through/the bottleneck, and Fig. 6 an elevation showing a modification in the form of seal.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the dierent figures of the drawings. A

My invention relates to that class of bottles known as non-reillable g and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter set forth, the object being to produce a simple, cheap, and eifective device of this character. 4

The nature and operation will be understood by those conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawings, A represents the neck of a glass bottle which is provided interiorly of its neck and at a suitable distance from its mouth with an annular rabbeted shoulder p. Where the neck joins the body of the bottle, there is formed interiorly a ground valve-seat H. Between this seat and the shoulder p there are formed four vertical ribs G, leaving spaces f between them. The seal is formed of glass and is grooved or escalloped in its top, forming projections t, which tightly iit' seriai NO 626,300. (No model.)

low it between opposite ribs G. A washer D v is 'disposed in the rabbet of the shoulder, and the seal is thus held rmly in the bottle-neck. A glass ball-valve F, preferably ground, runs on the ribs and engages the` seat H. This valve normally closes the neck when the bottle is in vertical position, it being understood that the bottle is filled before the -valve and seal are adjusted in the neck. There is suficient space above the seal for the insertion of theV ordinary stopple. When the bottle is tilted, thevalve will roll on the ribs until it vengages the legs E of the seal, which serve as In Fig. 6 an alternate formof seal is shownprovided with a rabbet 7c for engaging the rabbet of the shoulder p and having a central mouth b, into which ports h open, said seal being provided with a single leg m for stopping the valve.

The seal and valve may be of any suitable material; but I preferably employ glass, as it will not corrode in the liquor.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is The bottle herein described provided with the seat, H, in its neck, the vertical ribs, G, above said seat, and the shoulder, p, above said ribs in combination with the ball, F, en-

gaging said seat and guided by said ribs; the

hollow seal provided with the solid escalloped head, ports, C, a leg, E, and Iiange, o, fory engaging said shoulder all being arranged to operate substantially as specified.

Trios. w. RYAN.

Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, C. M. WILBUR.

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