Improvements in Bottles and the like, to Prevent them being Refilled.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 16th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and the like, to Prevent them being
Refilled.
-I GWLADYS MURIEL DAVIES 6 St. John's Crescent Canton Cardiff Spinster 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 consists of a bottle so formed as to preclude the possibility of
filling it more than once and is applicable to bottles of every size and description..
This invention is intended primarily to apply to glass bottles but may be applied
to bottles or receptacles of any and every other material.
And that my invention and the manner of performing and carrying the same
into effect may be understood I have appended a sheet of drawings illustrative.
thereof which is as follows.
At the juncture of the body and neck of the bottle the glass-if that material be
used is a little thicker as shewn at A with a groove or rebate formed as at B.
From the top of the groove as at C the interior of the neck of the bottle is
corrugated or channelled as shewn at plan of the neck of the bottle D. These-
corrugations or channels continue up the neck of the bottle for a length suitable
to the size of bottle and end just below the bend in the neck of the bottle shewn.
at E and indicated by the slanting lines F.
Permanently fixed to the corrugations or channels and just below their upward
termination is a round plate of glass as shewn at G.
Ingress and egress for liquors is now only to be obtained by passing through the
corrugations from G to C and through the orifice at A.
The whole of the above described arrangement is a permanent part of the bottle.
The only movable part is shewn in the figure of a stopper with an elongated.
stem H represented in the drawings in two positions. The dotted lines from
C to J represent the stopper in its groove or rebate effectually staying any entrance
into the bottle when in an upright position and prevented from falling sideways or
any way out of its proper position by the length of the stem being sufficient to.
ensure the uniform entrance of the stopper into the groove.
The other position of the stopper H is shewn as the bottle is tilted up to.
pour out the liquor-it then falls up against the solid glass (or other material).
plate G and thus opens the entrance into the bottle at C and the liquor flows.
through that and the corrugations and is delivered into the neck of the bottle above
the plate G.
The end of the corrugations at C are slanted a little towards the exterior of
the bottle as shewn and when it is placed in an upright position the stopper falls.
into its place and it is impossible to refill the bottle.
The figure K represents a piece of thin wire which is a part of the arrange-.
ment and is bent slightly under the stopper head enabling the filler to draw up
the stopper as shewn and by bending the wire over the top of the bottle retain.
the stopper so as to allow of filling the bottle-when this is done a slight pull
removes the wire and the stopper drops into its socket. The cork is applied in the:
ordinary manner.

page_text: 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
1. A grooved formation of a portion of the neck of a bottle terminating towards
its upper end with a solid round plate or other material and enclosing a movable
stopper with elongated tail working from a prepared socket at the juncture of the
body and neck of bottle to the solid covering at top of grooves accompanied by an
indenture of the neck of the bottle under the portion used for corking and the use
of a bent piece of thin wire for the purpose of temporarily lifting the stopper
during the process of filling.
2. The mode or manner of constructing bottles of glass or other material and
the like substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 10th day of April 1896.
GWLADYS MURIEL DAVIES.