Improvements in or relating to Bottles and other Vessels.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1898-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1898
Improvements in or relating to Bottles and other Vessels.
We, GASTON RAGOT and THEOPHILE BERLIZE, both of 17, Rue D'Kint, Brussels,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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Our invention has for its object to provide a vessel for delivering liquid, such
for example as a bottle, flask, or jar, which cannot be refilled after it has been
once emptied and which cannot be made to receive any further addition of liquid.
Our invention consists chiefly in a mechanism, having the outer appearance of
a cylinder, or of a parallelogram, conforming closely to the inner form or neck of
a bottle or other vessel. This device, after the vessel is filled, is slipped into the
neck of the said vessel, and is fixed therein by means of a cement prepared for this
purpose. Liquid can be discharged from a vessel provided with this apparatus,
but it is impossible to introduce anything whatever therein, even by pressure,
vacuum, or other means.
In order to enable our invention to be well understood we shall now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1
is a longitudinal section of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is an elevation, the wall being
broken away. Fig. 3 is a section of a fixed block 9 hereafter mentioned. Fig. 4
is an external elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 5 shews the apparatus inserted in
the neck of a bottle. Fig. 6 illustrates another arrangement on the same system.
Fig. 7 is also a view of another arrangement on the same system. Fig. 8 shews in
sectional plan, the ring that covers the cement or sealing of the apparatus fixed
in the neck of the bottle.
As shewn in Fig. 1 in section and in Fig. 2 in elevation, our invention consists
of a sheath 1, having a perforated bottom in the form of a valve seat 2, upon which
bears a moveable piece 3, having lugs 4 on its periphery. This piece 3 is herein-
after referred to as the " float.
The base of the float 3 is surrounded by a moveable ring 5 which forms an
additional security against the introduction of liquid. The lugs 44 on the float
serve to guide the said float, because they are situated only a small distance away
from the inside wall of the sheath 1 in comparison with the body proper of the
said float 3. The upper part 6 of said float is in the form of a roof, that is to
say it is formed with a rather obtuse angle, the apex of which projects outwardly.
On one of the sides of this angle which forms the top of the float 3, there rests
a ball 7 (or body of other shape, but we prefer a ball). This ball is maintained
in the space which is left free between the upper part 6 of the float 3 and the base 8
of a fixed block 9. This base 8 forms a re-entering angle which is considerably
more acute than that of the top 6 of the float 3, so that the space left free between
one apex and the other of the two angles 6 and 8, is appreciably greater than that
which is left free between the two bases of the said angles.
The ball 7, when the bottle is placed upright, naturally assumes a position in
the smallest portion of the space which is left free because it rolls along the
inclined plane constituted by the part 6. In this position it locks or wedges more
which is shewn in sectional
or less the float 3 upon its seat 2. The fixed block
plan view on line KL of Fig. 3, is formed with recesses 10, and at its upper part

page_text: it terminates in a hollow cylinder 11 provided with openings 12. Above this
cylinder 11 there is placed a washer 13 which is perforated at 14. This washer
closes the top of the sheath 1, and its opening or perforation 14 forms the continua-
tion of the hollow cylinder 11.
The arrangement of the fixed piece or block 9 forms a baffle in the passage way
of the liquid so as to prevent the introduction therein of a tool for fraudulent
purposes.
The arrangement constructed as hereinbefore described is slipped into the neck
of the bottle (after the latter has been filled) up to near the contraction which is
formed by the neck at its lower part with the upper part of the body of the vessel,
and we prefer a neck provided internally with a circular recess 15 (see Fig. 5) in
front of which is situated the upper part of the sheath 1 whose closing washer 13
is provided on its entire periphery with grooves 13ª. This is of advantage for the
purpose of sealing the apparatus in the neck of the bottle.
When the whole arrangement of the sheath 1 has been fixed into the neck of
the vessel, and its upper part is in line with the circular recess 15 of the neck,
cement is run in which flows down between the inner wall of the neck
and upon the washer 13 that closes the cylinder and by the aid of a core-piece
which closes temporarily the opening 14 of the apparatus, the cement is unable
to close this opening and it consequently spreads around the top of the washer 13.
This core is prolonged above the mouth of the bottle and when the cement has
been run in, a ring 16 of glass or other material( Fig. 5), which bears upon the cement
is slipped on and by means of a pressure which is imparted thereto by a cylinder
following thereon, it is fixed, and the apparatus is thus cemented. The core and
the cylinder are removed and the operation of fixing is completed. :
The vessel provided with our arrangement cannot be filled any more; it can
only be emptied, and when it is once emptied it is unfit for use.
In order to empty
the bottle it must be completely inverted, and the liquid will flow out without
abruptness but in sufficient extent so as to fill a glass quickly. When the vessel
is inverted, the float 3 is caused by its own weight to leave its seat 2; the washer 5
also leaves the seat 2, but it is arrested by the lugs 4 of the float.
The float leaves its seat by reason of the fact that the ball has moved into
the cavity formed by the angle or recess of the block 9 (see the dotted lines in
Fig. 1). This liquid passes through the opening of the seat of the float, and
flows out by passing right round the latter, then it. flows around the ball and
through the recesses in the block 9, passing through the openings 12 of the small
cylinder 11 into the neck of the bottle whence it is discharged at the mouth. In
order to pour the liquid out properly, the mouth should be provided with a pouring-
out plug, or with a small tap, or even with a simple pipe, as is sometimes employed
for pouring out many liquids or essences.
It is obvious that our invention may be employed and carried out in different
ways. We may for example dispense with the sheath 1 which contains the parts
of the mechanism, and we may fix the said mechanism directly into the neck
of the bottle or of the vessel, provided that said neck is quite symmetrical
internally.
Fig. 6 shews the apparatus applied directly in the neck of a bottle. The parts
are the same, but the interior of the neck of the bottle is provided at 17 with stops
consisting of projections shewn at Fig. 8 which is a section of the neck on the
line, and upon these projections the part 13 bears. The cementing is
effected as in the first arrangement.
Fig. 7 shews another arrangement based on the same principle but which is of
more simple construction; it consists of the float 3 provided with longitudinal
grooves instead of lugs (see dotted lines). Its upper part is provided with a
circular groove 3" of angular section into which the balls 77 enter. The shoulder
of the bottle is provided internally with a circular groove 3b forming an outward
angle in section, and the recess thus formed serves to receive the balls 7 when the
bottle is inverted. The liquid flows out along the float 3 through its longitudinal

page_text: grooves, and passing over the float 3, it flows out through the opening 18 upon
which rests a ball 7. This ball 7 prevents the insertion of a tool which a person
might attempt to introduce for the purpose of engaging the float 3 and of keeping
it raised for the purpose of introducing liquid fraudulently. The balls 7 7 prevent
the introduction of liquid under pressure because by reason of this pressure they
are forced against the sides of the grooves 3ª of the float 3; in this way they keep
the float 3 against its seat. This arrangement is contained in a sheath which
forms the neck of the bottle and the shoulders, and which ends in an annular
edge 19. The whole is fixed at 20 by means of cement upon a vessel body 21.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. An arrangement for closing the necks of bottles or other vessels which will
not allow of said vessel being filled after having been once emptied, consisting of
a sheath which is sealed in the neck of the bottle and in which there is provided a
float that closes an opening arranged at the bottom of the sheath, the said float
having its upper portion formed in the shape of a roof, that is to say of an outward
angle, the said roof supporting a ball or other solid body which is intended to
lodge itself in an angular recess formed in a fixed part that constitutes the top of
the sheath which latter terminates in a delivery orifice, as hereinbefore described
and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
2. The apparatus as above specified, consisting of a float, of a ball or other
bodies resting upon said float, and of a part having a delivery orifice covering in
the whole, the said float being of less diameter than the sheath and being pro-
vided with outer projections which project towards the inner wall of the sheath and
which serve as guides for the same, whilst leaving a space through which the liquid
can flow out when the bottle is inverted, substantially as described and shewn in
the accompanying drawings.
3. In combination with the apparatus specified, the use of a ball or other body
designed to jam or wedge the float when the vessel is upright and to release or
un wedge the said float when the said vessel is completely inverted, substantially
as described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
4. In combination with the apparatus claimed, the use of a fixed part arranged
on the top of the sheath covering in the apparatus, said part being provided on
one portion of its length with grooves through which the liquid flows out when the
vessel is completely inverted and whence it passes through openings that deliver
outwards, substantially as described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
5. The apparatus consisting solely of the float, of the ball, and of the upper
fixed part, used without the sheath, these different parts being adapted to be slipped
in the neck of a vessel in the order of the positions which they are to occupy,
substantially as described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
6. As a modification of the apparatus hereinabove claimed, the use of a float
having on its upper part a circular groove of re-entering angular section in which
are situated balls, the said balls being covered in at a short distance by the shoulder
of the bottle which is made of angular section for the purpose of forming a
counter groove corresponding to the groove in the float, and which is intended to
receive the balls when the vessel is completely inverted, the opening of the neck
of the said vessel containing a ball, substantially as described and shewn in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of July 1898.
BREWER & SON,
London & Leeds, Agents for the Applicants.