Improved Non-refillable Bottle.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Non-refillable Bottle.
I, JUDITHI BLANCHE DWYER, of No. 917, Market Street, in the City and County
of San Francisco, State of California, U.S.A., Medium, 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:-
My invention relates to a device for preventing the refilling of bottles after
they have once been emptied. It consists in providing a tortuous passage in
the side of the bottle neck through which the discharge may take place, a filling
opening in the line of the bottle neck, with a means for hermetically sealing said
opening after the bottle has been filled so that it is never thereafter opened.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a vertical section on line y-y of Fig. 2.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line -- of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shows a modified form of the device.
A is the neck of a bottle having an opening at the end through which the
bottle may be filled. This opening has screw-threads or other interlocking
securing devices which are adapted to be engaged by a stopper B, the latter
having a breakable piece, as shown at C, which serves as a handle for intro-
ducing the stopper, and when the latter has been fixed in place either by the
interlocking devices, or by cement, or otherwise, this handle can be broken off,
so that the stopper B having been seated, becomes permanent and cannot after-
wards be removed.
Upon the side of the bottle neck is formed a projection D, and through this
projection extends the tortuous passage E.
As here shown, the passage opening into the interior of the bottle extends first
upwardly at an angle within the extension D, thence curving it passes down-
wardly and opens into an exit or discharge F' at the lower part of the extension D.
In Fig. 3, this passage E becomes wider from the upper angle towards the
point where it enters the bottle neck. The part E¹ of the passage which enters
the bottle made narrow, terminating in a flange e which projects into the wider
portion E so as to form a surrounding channel or pocket. Any attempt to refill
the bottle through this passage would be resisted by the flange e projecting into
this channel.
The passage is preferably made, as shown in Fig. 2, with the length trans-
versely equal to about the width of the extension D, but being made very narrow
in the other direction, and the curvature of the passage is such that no tube or
other article can be introduced from the outside. When it is desired to discharge
the liquid, it is only necessary to turn the bottle sufficiently to allow the liquid
to flow out through the passage by gravity, and by holding the bottle in the
proper position the air will be admitted to replace the discharged liquid.
Having been once discharged it will be impossible to again refill the bottle.
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
I claim is:
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A bottle having a stonner adanted to be permanently secured in the

page_text: mouth and a tortuous passage opening from the side of the neck, substantially
as described.
2nd. A bottle having a projection formed upon the side of the neck near the
top, a tortuous passage extending from the interior of the bottle through said
projection and discharging outwardly therefrom, an opening at the top through
which the bottle is filled and a stopper adapted to close and hermetically seal
said opening after the bottle has been filled.
3rd. A bottle having a projection upon the side of the neck, a tortuous passage
having its greatest dimensions in a line from side to side of the projection and
made narrow in a direction at right angles thereto, said passage having one end
communicating with the interior of the bottle and the other discharging out-
wardly.
4th. A bottle having a filling opening and a permanent stopper therefor, a
tortuous discharge passage through the side of the neck, said passage widening
from its upper curvature towards the bottle neck, and a narrow central opening
connecting therewith and having an inwardly turned flange.
Dateu
this Third day of August 1999.
For the Applicant,
GEDGE & FEENY,
Chartered Patent Agents, 60, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.