Improvements in Bottles and other like Articles whereby when once Emptied they cannot be Refilled.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left 28th July 1897 Accepted 28th
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Complete Specification Left 28th July 1897 Accepted 28th Aug
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Improvements in Bottles and other like Articles whereby when
once Emptied they cannot be Refilled.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings, in the County
of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communi-
cation to me from Joanny Guetton, Gentleman, of Irigny in the Department of the
Rhône, in the Republic of France, to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object to prevent the refilling of a bottle or other like
article which has contained a particular brand of liquor or liquid, and which has been
emptied.
The closing arrangement applied with this object is shown in the accompanying
drawing which represents at Fig. I a central section of the upper part of a bottle with
the invention applied thereto.
The closing means is composed of three pieces:-
1. A valve S of cork or other light material capable of floating on the liquid.
This valve closes an orifice made by a narrowing E of the lower part of the neck
of the bottle.
2. A counterweight A of solid glass, suspended from the valve S by a thread or
cord, and entering the interior of the bottle.
3. A protecting stopper B, fixed in the neck of the bottle above the valve to
prevent access to the latter.
The valve S is composed of a piece of cork of oval or other forin and of sufficient
dimensions to act as a float, and it is traversed through its centre by a glass rod
guided by a hole in the centre of the stopper B.
The counterweight A has the shape of a spindle suspended at its centre by the
thread or cord F, attached to the valve.
This counterweight is curved to fit the curve of the upper part D D of the bottle,
against which it comes when the valve opens to allow the liquid to pass out.
The stopper B is represented in detail at Figures 2 and 3; Fig. 3 being a trans-
verse section on the line 1-2 of Fig. 2. It is a glass cylinder of a diameter a little less
than the bore of the neck, on its circumference are six large longitudinal channels,
three of which G G G, are open at their upper part and closed at their lower part,
whilst the three others H H H, are open at their lower part and closed at their upper
part. The walls separating these channels are corrugated or indented so as to put all
these channels in communication with each other in the central part of the
stopper.
This arrangement which is simple and easy to obtain by moulding, allows a large
passage for the escaping liquid, but absolutely prevents the introduction of any
instruments intended to interfere or tamper with the working of the valve.
The stopper B has at its upper part three cavities I I, Figures 1 and 2, correspond-
ing as regards height with a circular interior groove J in the neck of the bottle, the
stopper being arrested at this level by a circular internal indentation K, lower down
in the interior of the same neck.

page_text: In placing the stopper in position, three glass or other hard balls P P P are placed
in the cavities I, which on arriving in front of the channel J, partly enter said channel
and render the extraction of the stopper impossible, because on whichever side the
bottle is inclined, the three balls cannot at the same time re-enter the cavities I.
In the upright position, Fig. 1 the valve naturally prevents the entry of any liquid;
if the bottle is turned upside down with the neck in a vertical or nearly vertical posi-
tion, the liquid which it is attempted to introduce will raise the valve, making a float
of it and will itself close the opening. In all other either horizontal or inclined
positions, the counterweight A leaning by one of its extremities against the side of the
bottle, Fig. 4, will act as a lever to pull the thread or cord and thus assure the closing
of the valve.
Where it is desired to use bottles of cheap construction, where the opening E may
present irregularities, the valve is provided with a thin flexible washer of cork, India
rubber or other material which will assure a tight joint by leaning on the valve seat,
the irregularities of which it will follow.
Dated November 5th 1896
Improvements in Bottles and other like Articles whereby when
once Emptied they cannot be Refilled.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings in the County
of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me from Joanny Guetton, Gentleman, of Irigny in the Department of the
Rhône, in the Republic of France) and in what mauner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The invention has for its object to prevent the refilling of a bottle or other like
article which has contained a particular brand of liquor or liquid, and which has
been emptied.
The closing arrangement applied with this object is shown in the drawing
accompanying my Provisional Specification which represents at Fig. 1, a central
section of the upper part of a bottle with the invention applied thereto.
The closing means is composed of three pieces:
1. A valve S of cork or other light material capable of floating on the liquid.
This valve closes an orifice made by a narrowing E of the lower part of the neck of
the bottle.
2. A counterweight A of solid glass, suspended from the valve S by a thread or
cord, and entering the interior of the bottle.
3. A protecting stopper B, fixed in the neck of the bottle above the valve to
prevent access to the latter.
The valve S is composed of a piece of cork of oval or other form and of
sufficient dimensions to act as a float, and it is traversed through its centre by a
glass rod guided by a hole in the centre of the stopper B.
The counterweight A has the shape of a spindle suspended at its centre by the
thread or cord F, attached to the valve.
This counterweight is curved to fit the curve of the upper part D D of the
bottle, against which it comes when the valve opens to allow the liquid to pass
out.
The stopper B is represented in detail at Figures 2 and 3; Fig. 3 being a

page_text: transverse section on the line 1-2 of Fig. 2. It is a glass cylinder of a diameter
a little less than the bore of the neck, on its circumference are six large longi-
tudinal channels, three of which G. G. G, are open at their upper part and closed
at their lower part, whilst the three others H. H. H, are open at their lower part
and closed at their upper part. The walls separating these channels are corrugated
or indented so as to put all these channels in communication with each other in
the central part of the stopper.
This arrangement which is simple and easy to obtain by moulding, allows a large
passage for the escaping liquid, but. absolutely prevents the introduction of any
instruments intended to interfere or tamper with the working of the valve.
The stopper B has at its upper part three cavities I I, Figures 1 and 2, corre-
sponding as regards height with a circular interior groove J in the neck of the
bottle, the stopper being arrested at this level by a circular internal indentation K,
lower down in the interior of the same neck.
In placing the stopper in position, three glass or other hard balls P. P. P are
placed in the cavities I, which on arriving in front of the channel J, partly enter
said channel and render the extraction of the stopper impossible, because on which-
ever side the bottle is inclined, the three balls cannot at the same time re-enter
the cavities I.
In the upright position, Fig. 1, the valve naturally prevents the entry of any
liquid; if the bottle is turned upside down with the neck in a vertical or nearly
vertical position, the liquid which it is attempted to introduce will raise the valve,
making a float of it and will itself close the opening. In all other either horizontal
or inclined positions, the counterweight A leaning by one of its extremities against
the side of the bottle, Fig. 4, will act as a lever to pull the thread or cord and thus
assure the closing of the valve.
When it is desired to use bottles of cheap construction, in which the opening E
may present irregularities, the valve is provided with a thin flexible washer L of
cork, india rubber or other material which will assure a tight joint by bearing on
the valve seat, the irregularities of which it will follow.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
.
1. A bottle intended to be filled only once and characterized by the combination
of a valve of cork or other light material closing an orifice formed by the narrowing
of the lower part of the neck; a counterweight in the shape of a spindle connected
to the valve by a thread or cord and dropped into the interior of the bottle
on the sides of which it finds a bearing and thereby tightens the thread or cord
which unites it to the valve; and a protecting stopper the longitudinal channels of
which open alternately at the top and bottom and are all in communication with
each other by corrugations or indentations, said stopper being fixed in the neck of
the bottle by glass balls partly occupying the circular channel of the neck of the
bottle and partly the cavities of the stopper substantially as herein set forth.
2. The improved non refillable bottle substantially as herein set forth.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.