US709391A - Bottle stopper and sprinkler. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES FFCE l-IARRXT O. BRAWNER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BOTTLE sToPPER AND SPRINKLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 709,391, dated September 16, 1902.

' Application filed August l, 1901. Serial No. 70,530. (No model.)

To all 1072/072@ it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, HARRY O. BRAWNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Stoppers and Sprinklers, of which the following is a specification.

Myinventionrelates to bottle Stoppers and` sprinklers, and more especially to improvements in glass bottle-Stoppers provided with means for not only closing the bottle-mouth, but for enabling the operation of sprinking of the contents of the bottle to becarried into edect in the simplest possible manner.

My object is to provide a stopper for bot-l bottle-closure a sprinkling device in which valvesand other complicated mechanism for segregating drops of water from the liquid contents of the bottle in order to effect the proper division of the liquid as it is discharged from the bottle in `fine drops or sprays are wholly dispensed with.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the novel construction and the details thereof, as hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of a bottle, showing my invention "applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective Adetail view of the several parts comprising my improved stopper, and Fig. LLis a broken sectional view showing the device in operation.

Referring now to the drawings, in which the samereference characters relate to the same or corresponding parts in all the views,

the numeral 7 indicates a bottle, which may.

be of any suitable form, to which is applied the bottle-stopper 2, preferably made of glass, which stopper is molded in the form shown, wherein a laterally-projecting flange forms a shoulder which contacts with the top 10 of the bottle-mouth, sealing the same. ,The body of the stopper is formed with an inwardly-projecting nipple 14 and an outwardly-projecting portion, preferably squared at its outer face to form a suitable contact-face 11 for the closing device or supplementary stopper l.

The stopper 2 is perforated by a tapered passage 5, which terminates in a fine opening 9, forming the inlet from the bottle to the passage 5, through which the liquid contents in the bottle are discharged.

It will be observed that the passage 5 is gradually tapered from the smallest diameter at the reduced opening 9 tothe outer end of the stopper 2, the fiat end of the stopper forming a contact-face for the closing device or supplementary stopper l.

The main stopper structure 2 is seated in the bottle-mouth and sealed therein by means of a suitable washer 6, preferably of cork, and a similar cork washer 3 is fitted within the outer and enlarged end of the tapered passage 5 and acts as a seal for the closing or supplementary stopper 1. The supplementary stopper 1 consists of the spherical head, from which extends a cylindrical nipple 13, above which nipple is a lateral liange 12, adapted to form a close joint with the contact-face 11 of the bottle-stopper 2. The nipple 13 is seated within the enlarged end 8 of the passage 5, which is preferably cylindrical at this point.

With astopper constructed as hereinbefore described it will be observed that the main stopper, forming a closure for the bottlemouth, consists of two parts-the main structure 2, closing the bottleemouth by contact of the shoulder 4 with the top surface 10 of the bottle-mouth, and the supplementary stopper 1, closing the sprinkling-passage in the main stopper 2.

When it is desired to use the bottle as a sprinkler, it is only necessary to remove the supplementary stopper l, invert the bottle and `agitate the same, as shown in Fig. 4, by which movement the liquid contents of the bottle, owing to the fine outlet-opening through the stopper structure 2, communicating with the tapered passage 9, are discharged in ne drops from the bottle in such quantities and in such a fine state of division as may be desired, according to the frequency and force with which the bottle is agitated.

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While the liquid contents may be readily sprinkled inthe manner above indicated, it should be observed that though the bottle may be inverted after the stopper l is removed no discharge of' the liquid will take place until the bottle is agitated, nor will any such discharge take place if the supplementary stopper be accidentally removed and the bottle upset or turned over on its side, b`e cause in order to effect any discharge of the contents from the bottle it is necessary to agitate the same to permit a sufficient quantity of air to' enter the bottle through the tapered passage, and without such agitation, owing to the ineness of the inner end of the tapered passage leadingdirectly into the bottle,the liquid contents of the bottle in contact with the bottle-stopper are held in suspension and prevented from ejection from the bottle.

My improvement is ,especially adapted for use upon bottles designed for holding perfumes, toilet waters, hair-tonics,and the like, although it may be applied to bottles of any character on which it is desired to provide a simple and eective closure and a sprinkling device combined therewith.

lI claim as my inventionl. The herein-described improvement in bottle Stoppers and sprinklers, consisting of a stopper adapted to be tted to a bottle-mouth and having a laterallyprojecting flange in contact with the upper surface of the said bottle-mouth, and a tapered passage extending through the bottle-stopper and terminating in a line opening at the inner end of the stopper' and gradually increasing in diameter from the opening at the inner end of the stopper toward its outer end,and a supplementary stopper having a lateral flange closing the enlarged end of the tapered passage, substantially as described.

2. The herein-'described improvement in bottle Stoppers and sprinklers, consisting of a main-stopper structure adapted to close the bottle-mouth, and having a lateral flange adapted to be seated on the outer surface of the bottle-mouth, and an inwardly-projecting nipple having a smooth outer surface, a washer surrounding said nipple, said main stopper having a passage therethrough gradually increasing frtm a ne opening at the inner end to an enlarged opening at the outer end of the stopper, a supplementary stopper adapted to be seated in the outer end of said passage having a laterally-projecting flange in Contact with the outer end of said main stopper, and an inwardly-projecting nipple HARRY O. BRAWNER.

Witnesses:

LEE PURCELL, AUG. W. BRADFORD.

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