The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-21
A BOTTLE TO USE ONCE.
A savannah Mans Patent That Looks
Like n Fortune.

Like n Fortune.
Mr.. ]. s. Harrison, principal of the Geor-
gla Business College of this city. has just
received a patent upon an invention upon
which he has been at work for several
months and has recently perfected, in
which those who have seen it and are in
a position to know its value, say there is
fortune. 1t is a patented bottle which
once used cannot be refilled.
Mr.. Harrison's inventive talent was ex-
cited by a recent offer of a number of
whisky manufacturers of a reward of
$4,000 to $4,000 for an appliance on a
bottle that would prevent its being re-
filled and used again.
AS it is now all the grea. whisky and
beer manufacturers of the country, and,
indeed, of the world are constantly get
ting letters from people who complain that
they have received inferior qualities of
liquids under well known labels. Of
course, 1t is impossible without some such
appliance for manufacturers to guarantee
the contents of bottles. All appliances so
far with this end in view have been un-
satisfactory. The chief difficulty seems
to be to make the invention practical and
cheap enough for commercial use. The
problem has been solved by a number of
inventors, but at too great an expense,
for it has seemed up to the present inn
possible to get the cost below 81 a bottle.
The need for a protected bottle is not
along among the liquor manufacturers but
with the manufacturers of nearly all pro-
prietary medicines, and with the bottlers
of Apollinaris water, and other mineral
waters and many articles of food. As soon
as a bottle is emptied, ordinarily, 1t Is
thrown into aNbox and the buyer Of old
bottles comes along and buys up the lot
to sell to some concern which may use
them for a counterfeit article perhaps. The
bottle is refilled with some cheaper article
and bearing the stamp Of the original
user blown in the bottle, the counterfeit
is sold for a genuine article.
Mr.. Harrison's invention is a perfectly
simple one. Once filled his bottle has to
be broken before the contents can be used,
and in that way It is made useless for re-
filing There are any number of pat
ents for breakable bottles, but the chief
difficulty has been to break them so that
the glass will not splinter, and get into
the contents. Mr.. Harrison has overcome
that difficulty absolutely. One of the chief
features of his invention is its cheapness.
Instead of a cork stopper he uses rosin,
which is perfectly air tight and is besides
indestructble by age, while cork rots and
bottles stopped with it in time become use
less. Rosin, besides, costs but mere
fraction of what cork costs and is claimed
to be superior to II in every
way Mr. Harrison's bottle is so
constructed that when the contents are In
it a disk of paraffine is dropped in the
neck and the rosin is poured or forced in
In plastic state. quickly hardening. and
Theoretically sealing the bottle. When 1t
Is to be opened the bottle is so constructed
that a stroke upon the neck breaks it even
~ off without a splinter. In case only a
portion OF the contents are to be used at
one time IL can be recorked temporarily.