Improvements in or relating to Bottles, Jars, and similar Vessels.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897.
Improvements in or relating to Bottles, Jars, and similar
Vessels.
I, RICHMOND STILES DICKERSON, residing near Kissimmee, in the County of
Osceola, and State of Florida, United States of America, Farm Laborer, 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:-
This invention relates to bottles, jugs, jars and similar vessels and the object
thereof is to provide a vessel of this class which having been once filled and sealed
may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused without leaving
evidence of the fact.
The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, in which:-
The figure clearly illustrates the invention.
In the practice of my invention I have shown a bottle A provided with a neck B
and formed in the inner walls of the upper portion thereof is an annular groove or
enlargement L, and I also employ a tubular plug N, which is opened at the bottom
and closed at the top and the top thereof is provided with a ball or spherical
body b between which and the plug proper is a deep annular groove D and the
upper portion of the tubular plug N is also cut away to correspond with the annular
groove or enlargement L in the neck D and in sealing the bottle or vessel the
cork H is first inserted into the bottom of the tubular plug and said tubular plug
is forced into the neck and the annular chamber formed by the annular groove
or enlargement L in the neck B and the correspondingly cutaway portion of the
tubular plug N is then filled with cement as shown at k, said cement being placed
in said chamber while in a plastic condition and after the same is set and become
hard the tubular plug N cannot be removed and the only way to empty the bottle
is to break off the ball or spherical body 62, and this will be proof that the bottle
has once been filled and emptied.
Instead of employing the annular chamber in which the plastic cement is placed
for holding the tubular plug N in position within the neck, said plug may be
secured in place in any desired manner.
In breaking off the ball or spherical body 62, I employ a tool or instrument
which is constructed in the manner of an ordinary pair of forceps, and provided
with jaws which exactly fit the part to be broken off."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
A bottle or other vessel provided with a neck B and having formed in the inner
walls of the upper portion thereof an annular groove or enlargement L, a tubular
plug N which is opened at the bottom and closed at the top and provided with a
spherical body b between which and the plug is a deep annular groove D, the upper
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page_text: portion of said plug N, being cut away to correspond with the enlargement L and
the cork in the neck of the bottle inside of the plug and cement to secure the plug
in the neck of the bottle, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 17th day of May 1897.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.