Improvements in Bottles and the like whereby Refilling whether Fraudulent or otherwise will be Disclosed.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Bottles and the like whereby Refilling whether
Fraudulent or otherwise will be Disclosed.
I, ALFRED PLATH, of 7, Halford Place, Paradise Road, Richmond, in the County
of Surrey, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
The object of this invention is so to construct and fit bottles and other such-
like receptacles or containers that if they are re-filled whether fraudulently or
otherwise such fact will be clearly and noticeably disclosed.
To carry out this object the bottle or the like is made of glass or any other
suitable material and of any desired style and size and shape but its neck is much
shorter than is usual and on and round its mouth is made an enlargement or collar.
A separate neck is made for this bottle of the same or other material and of a
similar or other style near the mouth of which neck are made or fitted a number
of baffle plates or prongs or other appliances which will prevent a rigid instrument
of any kind being passed along this neck while the other end or base of this neck
is so made and fitted and if necessary or convenient so enlarged as to be capable
of being passed over the mouth and neck of the bottle and if so arranged on and
against the shoulder of the same and round this base and on the inner side of the
same may be provided a shoulder or rim or the like. Suitable plugs are provided
one plug which can conveniently be a screw plug to close the mouth of the separate
neck the other plug which may be a plane one to close the mouth of the bottle
each plug being made and formed and provided and fitted with such ordinary
devices and appliances as may be necessary or expedient for enabling them pro-
perly to perform their functions and these two plugs are connected together by
a wire or a string or other suchlike appliance. Two or more wedges or bars or
the like are provided for and with the separate neck the ends whereof can rest on
the shoulder or rim or the like on the inner side of the base thereof while the other
ends of such wedges or bars or the like may meet at or about the centre of such
base.
When the bottle is duly filled it is properly closed by its plug and the neck
thereof can be thrust or it may be screwed into the base of the separate neck
washers or other suitable devices being if desired or necessary provided to make
a tight joint and as the bottle is so thrust or screwed up its mouth or the enlarge-
ment or collar thereon lifts up the central ends of the wedges or bars or the like
until by the time such bottle is duly home into its desired position these central
ends can fall under and engage the enlargement or collar on the mouth and thus
prevent the bottle being withdrawn. The wire string or the like that connects the
two plugs has previously been passed along the separate neck and if necessary or
convenient through the baffle plates or other appliances therein and when the plug

page_text: has been withdrawn from and taken out of the separate neck this wire string or
the like can be pulled to withdraw the plug from and take the same out of the
mouth of the bottle when the contents of such bottle can be poured out. All parts
are so arranged and proportioned that while the plug of the bottle must remain in
and cannot be removed out of the separate neck it will not to any injurious extent
interfere with the passage therethrough of the contents of the bottle while as it
cannot be again pushed into the mouth of the bottle for that requires some force
and such force cannot be applied by reason of the baffle plates or other appliances
in the separate neck this plug must always constitute a witness to the fact that
it has been withdrawn from the bottle which may therefore have been emptied and
re-filled.
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Improvements in Bottles and the like whereby Refilling whether
Fraudulent or otherwise will be Disclosed.
I, ALFRED PLATHI, of 7, Halford Place, Paradise Road, Richmond, in the County
of Surrey, Clerk, 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: —
The object of this 'my invention is so to construct and fit bottles and other such-
like receptacles or containers that if after they have been once emptied they are
re-filled whether fraudulently or otherwise such fact will be clearly and noticeably
disclosed.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1
is an elevation partly in section of this my complete bottle and Figures 2 and 3
are longitudinal sections on an enlarged scale of the operating parts or the most
necessary operating parts of this complete bottle in the two positions as will here-
inafter be described.
The bottle or other container A is made of glass or any other suitable material
and of any desired style and size and shape but its neck B is much shorter than
is usual and on and round the mouth of such neck B is made an enlargement or
collar C. A separate neck D is made for this bottle or container A of the same
or other material and of the desired style and size and shape near the mouth of
which neck D are made or fitted in any convenient and appropriate manner a
desired number two or more of baffle plates or other similar appliances which will
prevent a rigid instrument of any kind being passed along this neck D and when
such neck D is made of glass it is very convenient to form these baffle plates E
as is shewn in Figure 1 by pinching in the walls of this neck D oppositely and at
different levels. The base of the neck D is so made and fitted and if necessary or
convenient so enlarged as to be capable of being passed over the short neck B and
if so arranged on and against the shoulder of the bottle or container A and round
this base of the neck D is formed an internal flange F. A plug or stopper or
cap G can be provided to close the mouth of the separate neck 1) which can con-
veniently be screwed down therein or thereover and another plug or stopper H

page_text: which is a plane one is provided to close the 'mouth of the neck B of the bottle
or container A each plug or the like being made and formed and being provided
and fitted with such ordinary devices and appliances as may be necessary or
expedient for enabling them properly to perform their functions and to the plug or
stopper H is connected a wire or a string K or other suchlike appliance which
may also be connected with the plug or stopper or cap G. Two or more wedges
or bars or the like L are provided for and with the base of the separate neck D
which are of the proper required dimensions for the purposes hereinafter mentioned
and can be placed in such base of the separate neck D with their one ends resting
on the internal flange F and their other ends approaching or meeting or it may
be overlapping each other at or about the centre of this base as is shewn in
Figure 2.
When the bottle or container A is duly filled it is properly closed by its plug
or stopper H and the neck B thereof is approached to the base of the separate
neck 1) as is shewn in Figure 2 and is thrust up thereinto lifting up the central
ends of the wedges or the like L until by the time this neck B is duly home into
its desired position these central ends of the wedges or the like L can fall under
and thus engage the shoulder N of the enlargement or collar C on such neck Bas
is shewn in Figure 3 whereby as is obvious the bottle or container A cannot now
be withdrawn from and disconnected with the separate neck D. It is perhaps
generally preferable so to construct and fit and arrange the several parts that
when the neck B is so duly home into its desired position in the separate neck D
this joint should be tight or comparatively tight and this can be effected by pro-
viding either on the neck B or in the separate neck D in this place a ring or
washer M when there is room for the same or it may be by providing male and
female screw threads on the respective parts and screwing the neck B up into the
separate neck D. The wire or the like K has been passed along the separate
neck D) and between the baffle plates or the like E or if so fitted it may be through
such baffleplates or the like E and when the plug or stopper or cap G if any has
been withdrawn from and taken out of or off the separate neck D this wire or the
like K can be pulled to forcibly withdraw the plug or stopper H from and take the
same out of the mouth of the bottle or container A when the contents of such bottle
or container A can be poured out.
All the parts of this apparatus are so arranged and proportioned that when the
plug or stopper H has been so withdrawn from the mouth of the bottle or con-
tainer A it must remain in and cannot be removed out of the separate neck D by
reason of the baffle plates or the like E and as it must not to any injurious extent
interfere with the passage therethrough of the contents of this bottle or container A
it may sometimes be adviseable to enlarge this neck D in this position as is
shewn at P in Figure 1 while as this plug or stopper H cannot be again pushed into
the mouth of the bottle or container A for that would require the exercise of some
force by and through a rigid instrument and such force cannot be applied by
reason of the baffle plates or the like E in the separate neck D which separate
neck D further cannot be detached from the bottle or container A this plug or
stopper H must always constitute and be a witness to the fact that it has been
withdrawn from the bottle or container A which therefore may have been emptied
and re-filled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A bottle or container A having a short neck B a plug or stopper H for the
mouth of such neck B provided with a wire or the like K and an external enlarge-
ment or collar C on the neck B near such mouth in combination with a separate
neck D capable of being passed over the neck B two or more internal baffle plates
or the like E near the mouth of such neck D an internal flange F on the base of
this neck D and two or more wedges or the like L to engage between the shoulder N

page_text: of the enlargement or collar C and the flange F substantially as and for the pur-
poses hereinbefore described and declared."
2. The arrangement and combination of parts and appliances constituting my
improvements in bottles and the like substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and declared and as shewn in the accompanying drawing.
D
AL 10th dove of Avonst 1898
HART & Co.
Agents, 168, Fleet Street, London, E.C.