Improvements in Devices for Preventing the Fraudulent Refilling of Bottles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov, 1895
*** COMPLETE' 'SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by GARSONJ NEWWITTER, of 73, Prospect Avenue,
Milwaukee, Merchant, and NATHAN SCHAUB, of, 100, East 60th Street, New
Yolk, Capitalist, both in the United States of America.]
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Improvements in Devices for Preventing the Fraudulent Refilling
of Bottles.
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I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
The invention consists in the peculiar construction of a device for preventing
the refilling of bottles and consists in the construction, aangement and combination
of the various parts all as more fully hereinafter descubed
At the present time many valuable fluids, such as whiskies, brandies and the like
are put upon the market in bottles by the manufacturer as pune articles but before
reaching the consumer, the bottles are opened and the contents adulterated. 01
the retailers having bought and used such bottled goods icfill the bottles with
inferior fluids, retaining the former labels, and thus injure the reputation of the
manufacturer.
The invention is intended to prevent this refilling.
In the drawings,
Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the neck of a bottle having our unprove-
ments.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the baffle block detached and
Figs. 3 and 4 are sections similar to Fig. 1 through modified forms of the
invention.
The construction shown in Fig. 1 is the one preferred. A is the bottle neck
which about midway is provided with an inwardly extending shoulder or flange B,
preferably formed by pressing in the neck of the bottle. The upper part of the
inner face of this flange forms a tapening valve seat C on which rests the ball
valve D. The upper face of the shoulder B is extended up to form the vertical
Hange E, its une face F being inclined as shown.
Gis a block fitting tightly in the neck of the bottle and resting at its lower end
upon the top of the Hange E. This block has the vertical grooves II in its outer
face and the recess 1 in the bottom over the aperture through the nech. K is the
coih.
The parts being thus constructed the bottle is filled in the usual manner Then
the operator places the valve D and the block in the neck, cements in the block G
and applies the cork K as a stopper.
In the use of the bottle the cork is removed and on inverting it the valve will
fall from its seat by gravity coming into the recess I and permitting the pouring
out of the contenis, the fluid passing through the grooves II in the sides of the
block. As soon as the bottle is righted the valve will close the neck and prevent
the refilling The flange E and the inclined face F prevent the insertion of tools
through the grooves H to tamper with the valve. In Fig. 3 15 shown a diaphagin L
in the neck of the bottle instead of forming the restricted aperture to be closed by
the valve by pressing in the neck. In Fig. 4 instead of a ball valve is shown a

page_text: disc valve M in connection with the diaphragm L and there is also shown a ring O
around the block to prevent the insertion of instruments from the top to tamper
with the valve.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is
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The combination with the neck of the bottle of the block G and valve D, the
parts being combined and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1905
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C, Agents for the Applicant.