US793805A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

Description

No. 798,,805. PATENTED JULY 4.-, 1.905. A. SUHENGK.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED 0012.8,1904.

Sira'irias IlPatented il'uly' lt, 19 053 l rtlthlv'l il rrnsnl .r llltirllti'l. S'tlllltllflli, OF ()lllUAUU, l liLlNUltl, ASSIHNOR (ll? ONEHALF TO CONRAD .l ltl lllTAU, (7)1! (ll-llCAHU, lLLlNOlrl.

EPEGIIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 798,805, dated July 4;, 1905,

Application filed October 8, 1904-. Serial No. 227,718.

Be it known that l, Anons'r rlon suck, a citizen oi the United sans, residing at Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful linprovemei its in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a bottle which it will be impossible to lill after it has been once sealed, but which at the same time will allow the liquor therein contained to be poured out, thereby allowing the bottle to be lilled but once and preventing the substitution of interior liquor in place 01 the gennine liquor originally filled into the bottle.

Another object o'l. the invention is to so ar range the parts that the onti re bottle and valve members may he formed from glass, which is a substance which will not corrode or deteriorate and which will not in any way impair the quality of the liquor contained.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange the parts that it will be ll'IlPOSSllJlO to tamper with or remove the valve without destroying the bottle.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange the valve members that they may be easily slipped into the bottle and permal'iently positioned therein after the bottle has been lilled; and a final object of the invention is to so construct and arrange the bottle as a whole that its operation will be perfect and at the same time enable the parts to be easily constructed and assembled.

The invention consists in the teatu res of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

in the drawings illustrating the invention, liigure l is a sectional view of the bottle, showing the valve members in elevation; Fig. 2, a iongitudinal section of the innerstopper; Fig. 3, a cross-sectiol'i ot' the inner stopper; l? at, a cros ectional view of the movable valve member taken on line a lof Fig. l; l ig. 5, an end view of the movable valve member, and Fig. (3 a longitudimil sectional view of the frlitlll 0.

inside oi the glass.

The bottle '1. is blown to have a contracted throat E2 and an enlarged neck 3, which neck terminates in a mouthl, and between theneck 5 and the mouth is an annular groove on the Vl ithin the contracted threat is a movable valve member 6, having a rounded cup-shapcnl head 7, provided on its upper face with a conical recess 8, and the valve member terminates in a dopeiulingstem 9, provided with a series of grooves or channels ll), which stein serves as a weight or balance to hold the movable valve member in place and hold the rounded cup-shaped head seated against the contracted walls of the throat when the bottle is standing right side up, as shown in Fig. l. \Vithin the conical recess 8 is a ball ll, preferably of glass, and above the ball is an inner plug 12, which is 5 provided with a Cllitl'lllJfll 13 on its interior, within which chamber is located a lillingqilug l l, preferably of cork, although rubber or other elastic material may be used. The plug 12 is open at its lower or inner end for the in- 7 sertion of the filling, and, the end of the plug and filling are provided with a conical recess 15 in alinement and cooperating with the recess is in the movable valve member. Within the rounded exterior wall of the plug are a series of three holes 16, within which are located balls 17, preferably formed of glass, which balls abut against the elastic filling for the plug and normally outwardly project'from the plug and are adapted to be driven in or 30 compressed against the elastic filling when pressure is brought to bear on the balls, and said balls when the plug is inserted in place extend into the annular groove or channel 5 in the inner wall of the bottle-neck, locking 5 the plug in place and preventing its removal when once inserted. The closure of the bottle is conniletcd by an exterior cork 18, which fits into the mouth of the bottle-neck.

in use the liquor, patentmedicine, or other 9 fluid is filled into the bottle befmc the insertion of any of the valve members, and after the filling operation the movable valve mem ber is Iirst inserted into the bottle and falls bottle.

down to its scat against the contracted throat, in which position it is maintained by the weight of the stem, after which the ball is inserted into the bottle to rest within the recess 8 in the movable valve member, so thatthe weight 5 of the ball will serve and hold the valve firmly seated when in upright position, as shown in Fig. 1.. After the ball has been inserted the closing-plug is entered into the mouth of the bottle and presses down through the month, which pressure causes the balls 17 to he compressed into the elastic lilling for the plug by the contact with the wall of the month until the plug has been forced into the position shown in Fig. 1, in which the balls come into line with the groove or channel 5 and spring out\ 'ardly by the pressure from within, locking the plug in place within the neck of the bottle and at a sullicient distance from the movable valve member to allow the ball to have a considerable play between the two members. The inner plug is of a size to leave a slight annular space around its exterior tor the passage of liquor from the bottle, and when constructed as herein shown to have the lilling entered into the plug from the inner or lower end it will be impossible to remove the elastic lilling to obtain access to the balls which lock the plug in place.

When it is desirable to pour out the liquor, the bottle is unsealed by the removal of the exterior cork 1S and then tilted up sutlicieutly to cause the ball to roll from the movable valve member to the plug, which allows the movable member to be unseated and the liquor to flow around the movable valve, around. the walls of the plug, and out of the mouth of the As soon, however, the bottle is brought back to urnight position or even when the bottle approaches an upright position the movable member will seat itselt' by the action of the depending stem and the ball will roll back into place to exert pressure against the movable member, holding it in position and preventing the im'low o't liquorinto the bottle.

It will be seen from the 'l oregoing description that the bottle of the present invention is of a construction which enables the parts to be readily assembled after the lilling ot the bottle, and when assembled it will be impossible to relill the bottle with spurious or in terior liquor.

The parts are so arranged that the bottle will be entirely open for the admission of liqnor prior to the sealing operation, since none of the members herein described are permanent features of the bottle itself, but are all of them introduced into the bottle after the filling operation, and that the bottle itself does not diflier materially from the bottles heretofore constructed, so that it will not be necessary to depart to any appreciable extent from the methods heretofore employed for the I manufacturing of bottles. This is a feature 1 of importance, since it enables the same bottle to be used with or without the features of l the present invention, so that it will be possible to use a uniform grade of bottles and to 1 apply the sealing means of the present invention to only such bottles as it is desirable to i prevent from being relilled. l What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i. In a non-refillable bottle,thc combination of a bottle having a contracted throat and a neck having a recess in its inner wall, a movable valve member adapted to seat against the threat, a ball adapted to bear against the movable valve member, a closing-plug provided l on its interior with a compressible substance and having in its wall a series of openings and provided with a plurality of members normall y outwardly projecting from the plug and in contact with the compressible substance and adapted to be compressed during the insertion of the plug into the bottleanouth and to be forced outwardly to enter the recess in the neck, substantially as described.

2. In a non-refillable bottlc,the combination of a bottle having a contracted throat terminating in a neck having an annular recess in its inner wall, a valve member within the throat, a closing-plug of less diameter than the neck and hollow on its interior and provided with a series of openings through its wall, acompressible substance on the interior of the plug, and a series of balls entered into the holes in the wall to bear against the compressible substance and enter the annular recess in the neck when the plug has been inserted into place, substantially as described.

3. In a non-refillable bottle,the combination of a bottle having a contracted throat terminating in a neck having an annular recess in its inner wall, a valve member within the threat, a closing-plug of less diameter than the neck and hollow on its interior and provided with a series of openings through its wall, a compressible substance on the interior of the plug, a series of balls entered into the holes in the wall to bear against the compressible substance and enter the annular recess in the neck when the plug has been inserted into place, and a movable ball between the movable valve memher and the plug and adapted normally to bear against the valve member, substantially as described.

4:. In a non-refillable bottle,the combination of a bottle having a throat forming a seatingtace and terminating in a neck having in its inner wall an annular groove or channel, a movable valve member provided with an enlarged seating-head and a depending stem, a ball adapted normally to bear against the seat- I ing-head, a closing-plug hollow on its interior 1 and provided with a solid outer end wall and nwwhled also Wllill :1 series of holes or 0p0nlugs tln'ul lg'll its side Wall, a plug of con'lpressilJln snbnlnnce entered into the interior of the nlnsingwlng, and a series of members entered lnlm Elm holes to been against the c0mpr0ssilJlO plug); and be forcetl inwardly during the lmlnl'tlnn of thn plug into the bottle-neck and Us; nutlwm'mlly [)l()jGCl)(3Ll into the annular 1'0 0055 to porlnzmunlvly locl; the plug; in place, in a position to allow a slight; movmnnnl; to lvlzn IO lmll, snllslvz'mtially as clcscrlbecl.

AUG-Ulfl'l l"5( lll l ll'llllil W1 tn (asses:

lilmlu'mly W. BANNINU, PAULINE llnomnm'.

Images