Improvements in the Necks of Bottles to Prevent Fraudulent Refilling.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar 10
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1899
Date of Application, 14th Mar 1
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan.,
1899
Refilling.
I, JOHN WILLIAM MACKENZIE, of the Firm of Wheatley & Mackenzie,
Engineers and Patent Agents, of 40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to bottles which have a neck made thin at its lower
end so that the neck can be broken off, and must be, in order to empty the
bottle thus rendering the bottle incapable of re-use to represent the original.
In this invention the inside of the neck is very smooth and a smooth cylin-
drical glass stopper elongated to reach from the top of the neck to about, or
slightly below the point where the neck is to be broken off, and this cylindrical
plug or stopper is cemented waxed or otherwise tightly fixed in so that it cannot
be removed and so that neck and plug form practically one solid body which
forms a handle that can be firmly grasped and which cannot break away from
the bottle except at the predetermined weakened part.
A cork is used in a short part of the neck which will still exist when the main
portion is broken off, and this cork is easily pushed home by the aforesaid glass
topper. This is not a complicated invention; its merit lies in its exceeding
simplicity.
Datel this 14th day of March 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in the Necks of Bottles to Prevent Fraudulent
Refilling.
I, JOHN WILLIAM MACKENZIE, of the Firm of Wheatley & Mackenzie,
Engineers and Patent Agents, of 40, Chancery Lane, London, England, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
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page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to bottles which have a neck made thin at its lower end
so that the neck can be broken off, and must be broken off in order to empty
the bottle thus rendering the bottle incapable of re-use to represent the original.
In this invention the inside of the neck is smooth and contains a cylindrical
glass, wooden, or other stopper elongated to reach from the upper part of the
neck to about the part where the neck is to be broken off, and this cylindrical
plug or stopper has a smooth surface which fits against and is cemented, waxed,
or otherwise tightly connected to the interior of the neck, so that the plug cannot
be removed, and so that neck and plug form practically one body, constituting a
handle that can be firmly grasped and broken off easily, at the predetermined
weakened part, but not so easily elsewhere. A cork or the like is used in a
socket which will still exist when the neck is broken off. This cork is easily
inserted leaving room for the first mentioned stopper and is easily drawn out
after the neck is broken off. This is not a complicated invention: its merit lies
in the exceeding simplicity and in the fact that as the neck of a bottle is a
good place in which to form or locate the trade mark or like distinguishing
indication of the goods bottled the breaking off of the neck effectively prevents
the fraudulent re-use of the said indication or trade mark.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows a bottle in elevation, one half
being in middle vertical section.
X is the body of the bottle.
A is the neck with a smooth interior part B. C is a stopper with a smooth
exterior part D fitting against B, and E is the weakened part of the neck. Fis
the socket and G the cork, When neck A is firmly grasped and broken off
it leaves nothing but the parts X, F and G and a broken edge at E. It is not
intended that the forms or proportions of the various parts shall be restricted in
any way the drawing being simply an illustration of one form. Any suitable
rim may be made between the top of socket F and the inside of the weakened
part E.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
T claim is:
1. In a bottle the combination of the neck having a weakened part, the
stopper, the socket and the cork or the like substantially as set forth and for the
purposes specified.
Dated this 28th day of December 1898.