Improvements in Bottles and their Stoppering.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1896-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and their Stoppering.
1, MAURICE MARY JOSEPH OWEN O'CONOR, of Vartry Lodge, Ballybrack,
in the County of Dublin, Captain in the Third Connaught Rangers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to prevent liquids or other products from being
fraudulently passed off upon the public as the goods of persons or firms other than
those from whom they have really emanated.
For this purpose I make a bottle as hereinafter described in such a manner that
when once filled and stoppered it is necessary in order to remove the contents to so
mutilate the bottle that, whilst it will or may still be capable of use as an ordinary
bottle the fact that it has been so mutilated will be easily recognisable by an
intending purchaser knowing the characteristic of the bottles in which the
particular article he is purchasing is bottled by the firm or person whose
manufacture or product he is desirous of buying.
In carrying out my invention that portion of the bottle neck which is to receive
the cork is made with a hole through it at one side and at the opposite side with
an internal recess and a part of much less thickness than the remainder, and after
a cork has been inserted there is driven into the cork through the side hole in the
neck, a barbed pin or blade which is passed through the hole in the side of the
neck, and into and through the cork so that the point of the barbed pin or blade
projects into the recess in the opposite side of the neck. The barbs will prevent
the pin or blade being drawn back; to withdraw it the thin part of the wall of the
bottle neck is broken and the projecting point of the pin or blade being then
seized by any suitable instrument can be pulled out, thus enabling the cork to be
withdrawn from the bottle in the ordinary way.
Dt: out
11900
I, MAURICE MARY JOSEPH OWEN O'CONOR, of Vartry Lodge, Ballybrack,
in the County of Dublin, Captain in the Third Connaught Rangers, 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 object of this invention is to prevent liquids or other products from being
fraudulently passed off upon the public as the goods of persons or firms other than
those from whom they have really emanated.
For this purpose I make a bottle as hereinafter described in such a manner that
when once filled and stoppered it is necessary in order to remove the contents to so
mutilate the bottle that, whilst it will or may still be capable of use as an ordinary
bottle the fact that it has been so mutilated will be easily recognisable by an
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page_text: intending purchaser knowing the characteristic of the bottles in which the
particular article he is purchasing is bottled by the firm or person whose
manufacture or product he is desirous of buying.
In carrying out my invention that portion of the bottle neck which is to receive
the cork is made with a hole through it at one side and at the opposite side with
an internal recess and a part of much less thickness than the remainder, and after
a cork has been inserted there is driven. into the cork through the side hole in the
neck, a barbed pin or blade which is passed through the hole in the side of the
,neck, and into and through the cork so that the point of the barbed pin or blade
projects into the recess in the opposite side of the neck..
Fig. 1 of the accompanying illustrative drawings shows in central vertical
.section part of a bottle neck embodying my invention. a is the ordinary part of
the neck with thickened upper part or rim b. c is a part (which may be round or
of other form) of the wall of the neck made much thinner than the rest, and d is a
recess inside the neck; e is a hole through the wall of the neck at the opposite
side of the neck; f is a cork forced into the neck as usual, and g is a pin or thin
blade (conveniently of pen steel) pointed at its forward end and hh are rearwardly
directed barbs. After the cork has been forced into place, the barbed pin or blade
is driven point foremost through the cork and with its pointed end into the recess d.
The barbs prevent the pin or blade being drawn back; to withdraw it the thin
part of the wall of the bottle neck has to be broken and the projecting point of
the pin or blade, being then seized by any suitable instrument, can be pulled out,
thus enabling the cork to be withdrawn from the bottle in the ordinary way. The
invention can be applied to stoppers of hard material, as well as to stoppers of soft
material such as cork, the stoppers being in such cases formed with a transverse
hole through them. Fig. 2 shows the invention applied to a screw stopper of hard
material. The hole i is at the end adjacent to the hole e in the bottle neck
enlarged as shown to permit barbs on the pin or blade to open out and bear against
the inner side of the bottle neck as shown and so prevent the withdrawal of the pin
or barb.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1.
1. A stoppering arrangement in which the bottle neck is made with a hole
through it at one side and at the opposite side with an internal recess and a part of
much less thickness than the remainder and after a cork or stopper has been
inserted there is inserted through the said hole and forced through the cork or
stopper a barbed pin or blade so that the pointed end of the said piu or blade
projects into the above mentioned recess and the back end still projects into the
hole thus locking the cork or stopper in its place, the barbs preventing the pin or
blade being drawn back and the thin part of the wall of the bottle neck having to
be broken, thus mutilating the bottle, preparatory to withdrawal of the barbed
pin and the cork or stopper, substantially as described for the purpose specified.
2. For the purpose of carrying out the stoppering arrangement referred to in
the preceding claim, a bottle neck having a hole through it at one side and at the
opposite side, an internal recess and a part of much less thickness than the
remainder, substantially as described with reference to and shown in the drawings
annexed.
3. The improved stoppering arrangements for bottles shown in and described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 22nd do.
Desemba 1900
MAURICE M. J. O. O'CONOR.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.