Improvements in Bottles and like Vessels for Preventing the Fraudulent Refilling thereof.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1896-Accepted, 23rd May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and like Vessels for Preventing the
Fraudulent Refilling thereof.
1 JOEL GERHARD CLEMMER, of Natrona, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania,
U.S. America, Electro Metallurgist, 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 improvements in bottles or other like receptacles, and
has for its object to produce an article of this character which may be hermetically
sealed in such manner as to require a consumer to destroy a portion thereof before
removing the contents. This will prevent unscrupulous persons from refilling the
vessel and again using it in its original shape.
I attain this object by the use of the novel construction hereinafter described,
and specifically set forth in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings;
Fig. 1 is a vertical elevation of a bottle having its top portion broken away;
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line .... x of Fig. 1, and
Fig. 3 is a vertical elevation of a jar with its top broken away.
In the practice of my invention, a bottle or jug A is formed with a short neck a
adapted to receive a cork b, or similar stopper, when the bottle or the like
receptacle is filled. Having filled and stoppered the vessel in the usual manner, a
cap B is placed over the neck thereof. This said cap is supplied in its upper
portion with an opening Co After the cap B has been placed over the neck of the
bottle, a quantity of fluid cement C is poured into the same through an opening c
until the whole interior portion of the cap B is filled therewith.
This said cement will harden and adhere to the inner walls of the cap B, to the
upper portion of the neck a of the bottle A and to the cork b, whereby an effectual
sealing of the bottle will be produced.
The cap B, it will be noticed by reference to the drawings, is composed of thin
glass which can be readily broken without injuring the neck of the bottle to which
it is attached. Therefore, when it is desired to remove the contents of the bottle,
or other vessel to which it is attached, the cap B and cement C must be broken
away before the cork b can be renioved.
The cement used in sealing the cap B to the neck a of the hottle A, must be of
such a nature as to adhere very tightly, not only to the inner walls of the cap B,
but also to that portion of the bottle A which comes in contact with it. By the
use of such cement, it will be seen that the cap B could not be removed from the
bottle without first breaking the said cap. Owing to the thinness of the material
forming the cap B, it can be readily broken away from the bottle A without injury
to the latter, as the bottle A is made of much stronger and heavier material than
the cap B, but the cap being once destroyed, spoils the original shape and
appearance of the bottle and prevents its reuse by any one except the original
bottler who is supplied with the said caps which can bear his trade-mark.
In the practice of my invention as above described, the cap B is secured to the
bottle by means of a cement filling only, but it will be obvious that the cap may
be welded to the bottle in the process of manufacture. The bottle can then be
filled through the opening c which is made large enough to admit the stem of a
funnel as well as the cork b. After filling and corking the bottle, the filling of
cement C may be poured therein as described above.

page_text: I do not confine myself to the exact shape of the parts as shown by the drawings,
and it will be obvious that under the scope of my invention I can change the
contour of the cap B, or I may apply it to other vessels than the one described.
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 :
1. A bottle or other like receptacle having its outlet portion closed by a thin
glass cap, which must be filled with cement and sealed to the bottle; substantially
as shown and described.
2. A bottle or other like receptacle having a thin glass cap sealed to its outlet
portion; substantially as shown and described.
3. A bottle or other like receptacle having a corked opening and a cement filled
glass cap sealed thereto; substantially as shown and described.
4. A bottle or other like receptacle comprising a body having a short neck
adapted to receive a cork or similar stopper, and a cement filled thin glass cap;
substantially as shown and described.
5. In a bottle sealing device, a thin glass cap adapted to surround the neck of a
bottle, or other like receptacle, in combination with a filling of cement adapted to
rigidly seal the cap to the bottle; substantially as shown and described.
6. In a bottle sealing device, a thin glass cap having an opening in its upper
portion, in combination with a filling of cement and a short necked corked vessel;
the parts being securely sealed to each other; substantially as shown and
described.
7. A bottle or other like receptacle having its outlet portion closed by a thin
glass hollow cap which may be welded to the bottle and which must be filled with
cement after the bottle is corked; substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 1st day of January 1896.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.