The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
HUNTING BOTTLE
 NOT REF|LLABLE Many Designs Are Submitted
 to Glass Men GREATNESS MOST DESIRED Most of the Devices Are Very Com pIicated and It Would Cost
 a Great Deal to Make.
 Them.

Pittsbnrg, Penn.-"The 'non-reliable' mechanics and scientific men, would venture to say, as the attempt to con struct a machine that will produce per- petua1 motion, and with the same re- suit, total failure.
 T do not mean to say that several good non-refillable bottles have not been made, or patents taken out for them, but bottles that fulfil the requirements of the big bottle game" said J. B. Higbee, of the firm of Bryce, Higbee X Co., has oc- cupied the time and attention of as many concerns that have offered large amounts for the inventions and letter patents have not been made, and l am satisfied will not be made unless some genius dis covers a new material for use in the manufacture of bottles
 Reward Offered.
 "Hostetters have announced on sever al occasions that they will give s25,00O for letters patent on bottle that will be non-refillable, but these bottles must have the merit of being manufactured as cheap as the present bottle that would cost ten or twenty cents each.
 Several patents have oeen granted on these kinds of bottles, but one that can be manufactured at the same market price of bottles of the same size and weight, using the same material, means a fortune to the man who can design 1t. He would not have to sell 1t to any cor poration. He could sell the royalties on a bottle of this kind and make a for tune every year. But 1t seems will-o . the-wisp and is as far off today as 1t was when the dealers in patent medicines offered large amounts to protect their goods and bottles.
 Years ago when Hostetters was intro ducing his bitters all over the civilized world, he realized that his advertising was making his medicine famous and that other concerns, selling inferior goods would try to use his bottles over again, initiating the bitters and peddle the refill ed bottles to the wholesalers and Joopers at cost. He found that the old bottles were being gathered up and sold to his honest persons, in many instances to the injury of his own business and the bit- ters he was manufacturing. He then made his offer of 5,000 for the non-refil- lable bottle, and the struggle began.
 Other Concerns Join In.
 "Other concerns supplemented this of fer until several big rewards for the invention spurred inventors and meehan- les to try to accomplish what looked, as it does today like the unattainable.
 "The United States government has is- sued thousands of patents covering the | field, no two alike, yet the result is as Tar | off as ever because all require too costly molds, too much glass and too much time to turn them out cheap enough to make 1t an object for any corporation to use them as they do ordinary bottles now on l the market
 "Only last week I talked with three l men who had good designs, yet saw al | glance that they were costly to manu- facture l see little hope that all quail ties will be found in any invention, but when it does come 1t will be revolu- ton in bottle making and put every ord mary bottle out of the business"