Improvements in or relating to Bottles and the like, to Prevent their being Refilled without Detection.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 26th June, 1897
COMEDIE SI BUIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Bottles and the like, to Prevent
their being Refilled without Detection.
I, ALICE MARIA GILLAM, a citizeness of the United States, residing at
Flushing, in the County of Queens, and State of New York, Lady, 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 has relation to a bottle or similar article so constructed and
arranged as not to be susceptible of subsequent use without detection or the
destroying of means associated therewith adapted to establish the fact that the
original sealing of the article has been tampered with or that the preparation is.
not being sold in its original or authorized bottled condition.
The principal objects of my invention are first, to provide a cheap, simple and
reliable protective bottle adapted to contain a fluid or other substance and the same
provided with means, whereby any unauthorized employment or use of the bottle
for preparations or fluids may be readily detected; and second, to provide a
protective bottle having means associated with the neck and adapted to embrace
the cork or cap and to be sealed thereto against any unauthorized use of the same
without ready detection.
My invention stated in general terms, consists of a protective bottle or the like
when constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described.
and claimed.
The nature and general objects of my invention will be more fully understood
from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying
drawings forming part hereof, and in which
Figure 1, is a sectional view of the neck of a bottle with wires provided with
beads of glass or other material imbedded or blown into the neck at two or more
different points in the wall thereof, and the free ends of the wires made to embrace
the cork and secured by being welded or otherwise applied thereto, embodying
main features of my invention.
Fig. 2, is a similar view of a modified form of my invention, showing the bottle
neck provided with a cork engaging a metal cap having struck-up prongs or lugs
and with beaded wires imbedded into the wall of the neck and embracing the cap
and the beads of a color conspicuously distinguishable from the bottle and the
wires and the free ends of said wires welded to the cap, whereby upon the breaking
of the connection the wires are destroyed for subsequent union, rendering thereby
any unauthorized use of the bottle possible of ready detection.
Fig. 3, is a top or plan view of Fig. 2; and
Fig. 4, is a sectional view of a still further modified form of my invention,
showing a metal cap with a neck embraced by a cork collar or sleeve, and with the
beaded wires secured into the neck and embracing and adapted to be welded or
fused to the cap so as to constitute a seal thereat by the merging en masse of the
wires with the lugs of the cap.
Referring to the drawings A, in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, represent a bottle neck. In
the wall of the same below the mouth thereof is imbedded or blown into the neck

page_text: at two or more points or portions thereof wires a and a', provided with beads b
and 1, of glass or other material and of such size as to be visible through the wall
of the neck A, and the said beads preferably of a color conspicuously distinguishable
from the bottle and wires. B, in Fig. 1, is a stopple or cork which is embraced by
the wires a and a', which are twisted or welded together to constitute a seal D,
whereby upon the breaking of the said scal subsequent use of the wires for
resealing the packet or bottle is rendered next to impossible, so that any
unauthorized use of the bottle may be readily detected by reason of the absence of
wires to embrace the cork and by the presence of the beads with the broken ends
of the wires observable in and projecting from the neck of the bottle A.
In Fig. 2, showing a modified form of my, invention, the neck A, is provided
with a cork stopple B', having a flanged metal cap c, provided with a depending
prong or spur e, punched or struck out of the same and extending into the cork B³,
and with a series of struck up lugs c³, with which the wires a and a', are brought
into engagement and with solder c2, applied thereto, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3.
The wires and lugs upon being welded, fused or melted with the solder c²,
constitute a seal D, whereby re-sealing upon breaking of the wires is practically
prevented and also any attempt at subsequent use of the bottle as an original
packet.
In Fig. 4, the metal cap or stopple C, is provided with a downwardly projecting
cylindrical neck or stem, around which is fitted a sleeve or collar f, of cork or
other suitable material. In the wall of the neck A, at two or more different
points are provided beads 6 and 1, connected with the wires a and a', of one or
more twisted strands. These wires singly or twisted together project from the
imbedded beads in the bottle neck A, in an upward direction over the top of the
stopple C, and the ends are twisted together and then melted or welded with solder
into the sunken portion of the cap of the stopple in such manner as to constitute a
seal D, of the united ends of the wires. These wires when the seal is broken
snapping off at a point beyond the imbedded beads of the wires in the neck of the
bottle of preferably a color conspicuously distinguishable from the bottle and
wires, whereby it is rendered impossible to use again the bottle as one containing
the preparation of fluid matter of a certain brand or manufacture, without such
being subject to ready detection.
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. In a protective bottle, the combination with the bottle neck and a cork or
stopper, of wires each having a bead imbedded in the wall of said neck and said
wires adapted to be drawn over and down upon said cork or stopper and to be
inseparably united to each other, substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. In a protective bottle, the combination with the bottle neck and a cork or
stopper therefor, of two wires each having an enlarged head of a color conspicuously
distinguishable from the color of both wire and bottle neck adapted to be imbedded
in the neck, said wires adapted to be drawn over and down upon the stopper and
to be inseparably united to each other, substantially as and for the purposes
described.
3. In a protective bottle, the combination with the hottle neck and a cork or
stopper therefor, of two wires each of which is provided with au enlarged colored
glass head, said heads adapted to be imbedded in and securely united to the bottle
neck, and said wires adapted to be drawn over and down upon the stopper and to
be inseparably united to each other by welding, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
4. In a protective bottle, the combination with the bottle neck, a cork or stopper
therefor and a metallic cap for said stopper, of two wires each of which is provided
with an enlarged colored glass head adapted to be imbedded in and securely united

page_text: to the bottle neck, and said wires adapted to be drawn over and down upon the
stopper and to be inseparably united to each other and to the metallic cap of the
stopper by welding, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated, at Flushing, New York, this 13th day of February, A.D. 1897.
ALICE MARIA GILLAM.