Improvements in Bottles to Prevent them being Refilled.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles to Prevent them being Refilled.
I, ATMARAM ABAJI BHISE, of Bombay, near Ramwadi, Market Post, Secretary
of the Scientific Club, Bombay, India, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
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My invention relates to a class of bottles used for trade purposes to hold in
sealed condition liquid goods such as alcohol or malt liquors or proprietary
medicines and has for its objects to provide with a neck, two tubes and a valve of
the indicated character, which will be of novel simple and practical construction,
be adapted for convenient filling, and may be readily closed to seal its contents
by ordinary means, and be capable of certainly and plainly exposing and prevent-
ing any attempt to refill the bottle after its contents have been once used, and will
be equally useful both for a retailer as well for a private customer.
The improved liquid holding non-refillable bottle A (Fig's. I. and II) may be
constructed of various shapes and dimensions to suit the character of the liquid
goods it is to hold as a merchantable package.
Fig. I, is a side view of an empty bottle having the improvements. Fig. II is a
side view of a bottle which is sealed after its contents are filled in.
Fig. I, is a bottle of ordinary size which is made of white transparent glass.
1. is the neck. 2, is a circular plate or a disc. 3, 3, are the holes, in a circle, near
the border are sufficiently large to allow the liquid contents and the air to pass
inside or outside, and vice versa, as the case may be. In the neck of the bottle is
another disc 4 having the thickness of nearly one quarter of an inch, and a through
hole 5, in the middle sufficiently large to allow the liquid contents and air to
pass inside or outside, and vice versa, as the case may be. 6, is the spiral solid disc
having the thickness of nearly one half of an inch, and in which are fitted the
tubes 7, and 8. The bent tuhe 7, has two openings 9, and 10, the former below
the bottom disc 6, and the latter which is at a proper distance over the disc 6, as
shown in the drawings. The tube S is a straight one having the top and bottom
openings 11 and 15, and the part between 8, 8', a cylindrical and of uniform
breadth. The lower part between 81, 81, is conical. The next lower part 81, 8111,
is cylindrical and of uniform breadth. 12 is a disc, which serves as a bottom
to the tube 8. 13 is a conical tube, which passes through the disc 12, with two
openings 14 and 15, the former a smaller and the latter equal to 11. The whole
of the tube S, between its two openings 11 and 15 is one and the same, and a con-
tinuous one. 16, is a stop valve of conical shape, is heavy and solid having a
hole 17 at the bottom, of convenient size so as to receive inside the top part 14 of
the tube 13, to close the same air tightly. A ring or a lining of rubber may pre-
ferably be put on the inside of the hole 17, so that the top 14 may remain fixed in
it securably. 18, 18, are the two rods on each side of the stop valve 16, to enable
the latter to move freely up and down in a straight line in the part 81, 8111, of the
tube 8. 19, 19, are the two solid supporting rods made of any substance like sugar,
rasin or salt that may be completely soluble in the liquid contents with which the

page_text: latter is filled. The supporting rods 19, 19, are of sufficient length to hold the stop
valve 10 suspended and at a distance from the top opening 14 of the tube 13. As the
rods 18, 18, are passing transversely through the supporting rods 19, 19. the latter
are capable of holding the stop valve 16 in a perpendicular and suspending position
above the opening 14 of the tube 13.
When the bottle is to be filled, pour the liquid contents through the neck 1, as
usual. It shall soon descend downwards as shown by the arrows B, B, or say first
through the hole 3, then 5, 11, 14, and 15, and thus will be collected at the bottom.
As the liquid is passing inside by its own pressure the air in the bottle is forcibly
driven out through the bent tube 7 as shown by the arrows, or say first through
the opening 9, then through 10, 5, and 3, and thus gets out of the bottle.
When the bottle is full say up to the level of 20. (Fig. II) it may be sealed
with an ordinary cork 21 (Fig. II) and a thin metal capsule 22 over it.
It shall be seen here, that after the contents of the bottle are once corked and
sealed, the two supporting rods 19, 19, (Fig. I.) will he gradually and completely
dissolved in the liquid contents of the bottle, and consequently, the stop valve 16,
by its own weight shall descend downwards and close the opening 14, of the
tube 13, as shown in Fig. II.
When it is required to take the liquid contents out, the bottle must be held in
an inverted position and consequently the stop valve 16 descends towards the neck
up to the part 8 of the tube 8. thus setting free the opening 14 for the air to admit
in, while the liquid contents descend down through the tube 7 and pass out,
through the holes of the discs 2, and 4.
After the contents are once taken out it is impracticable to get the bottle refilled
by pouring, as before, the liquid contents through the neck 1, as now the soluble
rods 19, 19, being dissolved, the stop valve 16 must necessarily close the open-
ing 14, while the bottle is kept in its normal standing position. The opening 14
being thus securably closed by the stop valve 16, it is impossible for the liquid to
descend downwards through the tube 8.
As a fact the liquid contents shall never pass in through the bent tube 7, as
there is no passage left for the inside air to get outside. This bottle will be
found equally suitable for any effervescence (in consequence of fermentation)
liquors or liquids like champagne or beer.
The stop valve 16 may be devised of any other suitable form. The discs 2
and are only meant for protection, so that no person will be able to touch the
inner parts, however if it is found inconvenient or expensive the both or either of
them may be avoided.
871
1005
Improvements in Bottles to Prevent them being Refilled.
I, ATMARAM ABAJI BHISE, Secretary of the Scientific Club, Bombay, India,
residing in Bombay, near Ramwadi, Market Post, 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:-
This invention relates to a class of bottles or other vessels used for trade purposes
as an original package, to hold in a sealed condition liquid goods of various kinds,
such as alcoholic and malt and effervescent liquors, or proprietary medicines, oils,
scents, syrups, preserves, varnishes, paints, petroleum, etc.

page_text: The object of my invention is to provide a novel device of the indicated character,
which is of a simple construction and cheap of manufacture, that will prevent the
pouring of any liquid into the bottle or vessel after it has been opened and the
contents partially or entirely removed therefrom
The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is
bereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a sectional side elevation of a bottle illustrating one form of the
invention, parts being arranged to permit filling of the receptacle with liquid.
Fig. 2, is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the interior parts adjusted
differently after the bottle has been filled with liquid, the bottle being shown
corked to seal the contents.
Fig. 1, is a transverse sectional view of the neck of the bottle, taken substantially
on the line 1-1 in Fig. 1.
Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the bottle neck essentially on the
Jine 2-2 in Fig. 2.
Fig. 3, is a sectional side view of a modified form of the improved closure.
Fig. 4, is a sectional side elevation of a somewhat different form of the
improvement.
Figs. 5, and 6, are sectional side views of other modifications of the device.
The improvement hereinafter described, is preferably employed in connection
with a bottle to prevent it from being refilled, but it is to be understood that it
may also be applied to any liquid-holding vessel having a neck or spout through
which to introduce and decant the liquid contents.
The bottle body 10 shown in Figs. 1, and 2, to illustrate the application of one
form of the improvement, may be of any convenient size and may be of any pre-
ferred design, it being only essential that the neck 11 thereon be of sufficient
internal diameter and length to permit the proper location therein of essential
details of the improvement. For the easy insertion of important parts the neck 11
may with advantage he rendered cylindrical in its bore, as represented in Figs. 1,
and 2.
Within the neck 11 and at or near the point of its junction with the body 10, a
disc 12 is secured in place by any suitable means, and is vertically perforated at
two points for the reception of two essential portions of the improved closure,
respectively designated by the reference characters 13, 18.
The part 13 consists of a straight tube of glass or other available material, on
its upper end may preferably be formed a perforated or reticulated screen a, and
this end portion of the tube 13 is secured in one of the orifices in the disc 12, so
that the screen will project above the disc, it being understood that the tube is
affixed in place in the disc 12 before the disc is introduced within the neck 11.
The lower portion of the tube 13 is enlarged diametrically, producing a
chamber 14 thereon, and at the bottom of said chamber a preferably coniform valve
seat 15 is produced, which encircles an opening b, the seat projecting upwardly
within the chamber. In the chamber 14 a valve 16 is held to slide, and said valve
may be cylindrical in its upper portion and coniform toward the lower end; that is,
flattened on the lower surface to adapt it to seat upon and close the upper end of
the valve seat 15.
The cylindrical part of the valve body 16 has vertical grooves c formed in its
periphery, thus providing air or liquid passages from the bottom of the chamber 14
through the valve body when the latter is raised from the seat 15.
A pliable strand 17, preferably of thin wire is provided, which is introduced
through one of the perforations of the screen a, there being a hook d bent on
the lower end of the wire, which is caused to have a hooked engagement with a
baile or other projection on the upper end of the valve body 16.
In the remaining perforation of the sealing disc 12 the lower end of the return

page_text: bent tube 18 is secured, said tube having its short depending member of positioned
above the screen a of the tube 13. On the top of the return bent tube 18 a flat-
topped, circular baffle plate 19 is formed or secured, and which is of such relative
diameter as will afford an annular crevice g between the edge of the plate and the
inner wall of the neck 11.
Assuming that the described closure is in position within the bottle 10 and the
neck 11 thereof, and that the valve 16 is held elevated from the seat 15 by the
wire strand 17, as shown in Fig. 1, it will be seen that liquor may be poured into
the bottle through the top portion of the neck 11 that extends above the battle
plate 19, the liquid after passing through the crevice y then passing through the
straight tube 13 down into the body 10.
While the operation of filling the bottle is progressing air will be escaping from
the bent tube 18 until the bottle is filled. When it is desired to seal the bottle,
the wire strand 17 is pulled upon with sufficient force to straighten the hook bent
portion of the wire, which will detach it from the valve 16 and permit a free
removal of the said wire. The valve body 16 will now gravitate toward the seat 15
and seal the aperture b.
A cork 20 is now inserted within the neck 11 above the baffle plate 19, and a
sealing cap 21 of thin metal or other suitable material, may be placed upon the
upper portion of the bottle neck 11 so as to cover the cork, as shown in Fig. 2.
When the contents of the bottle are to be partly or entirely decanted therefrom,
the cap 21 and cork 20 are first removed, which will permit a free escape of the
liquid from the bottle, as air may enter the body 10 through the pipe 13 and
chamber 14, when the bottle is tipped to decant the liquid, which will
cause the valve 16 to leave the seat 15, in an obvious manner.
The position of the bottle body 10 being necessarily upright, if liquor is to be
poured therein through the open neck 11, this will be found impossible as then the
valve 16 being upon the seat 15 must seal the lower end of the tube 13.
If the aperture in the chamber 14 is closed airtight, and an attempt is made to
pour liquid into the bottle body 10 while the valve is in such a position as to close
said aperture, it will not be possible for air to escape from the bottle upon intro-
duction of liquid within the bottle neck 10. This is evident, as the liquid must
rise in the bent portion of the tube 18 so as to fill the depending member thereof
before any of the liquid can pass down through the long leg of said tube into the
bottle; and as the closure of the valve 16 upon the seat 15 prevents escape of liquid
into the bottle through the tube 13, it will be manifest that under the conditions
mentioned no liquid can possibly enter the body of the bottle.
In Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, the valve body and seat are shown somewhat changed in
formation, but the function and operation of these valves are identical with that
already described.
Referring to Fig. 3, it will he seen that the tube 13 and chamber 14ª are like
said parts in Figs. 1, and 2, but the valve seat 15" is in the form of a short upright
tube, normally open throughout its length. The valve body 16ª has its upper
portion similar to the valve 16, but the lower portion is elongated somewhat so as
to produce a tapered portion thereon, which will enter within and seat upon the
top edge of the cylindrical valve seat 15", when the valve body is free to fall toward
its seat.
In Fig. 4, the body 1th of the valve therein shown is cylindric, and is peripher-
ally grooved to afford air passages, but the lower end portion of the valve is given
a globular form, which may seat upon the margin of a circular aperture formed
in the lower wall of the chamber 14b.
The modification shown in Fig. 5, provides an essentially acorn-shaped valve
body 16, which is checked from rising too far by the apertured disc 22, the lower
end of the valve being rounded so as to adapt it to seal the opening surrounded by
the cylindric valve seat 15 above which it is hung by the wire strand 17.
The tube 1b shown in Fig. 6, is like the tube 13 is the fig's. previously

page_text: described, and has the chamber 14° thereon, which is perforated near the centre of
its bottom wall to afford a valve seat k.
In this construction of the device the valve body 16d is globular, and has an
upward rod-like projection m thereon, formed at its upper end with an eye to
receive the hook formation on the lower end of the wire strand 17, side bars n
projecting from the valve body to loosely contact with the wall of the chamber 14°
so as to guide the valve towards its seat.
It will be apparent that the several forms of the valve and seat therefor which
have been described, are all of equivalent formation; hence I do not desire to limit
the construction of this feature of my invention to any particular design for the
valve and its seat, it being only essential that a valve-controlled passage be produced
in the lower end of the tube 13, and that means be afforded to temporarily hold the
valve from its seat during the time that the bottle is being filled with liquid.
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. The combination, with a receptacle, and a neck thereon, of a sealing disc
in the neck, a tube pendent from the disc in the receptacle, a valve controlling an
air opening in the lower end of the said pendent tube, and a bent tube projecting
up in the neck of the receptacle and having its pendent end above the top of the
hanging tube, substantially as described.
2. The coinbination, with a receptacle, and a neck thereon, of a disc having
two perforations and located in the lower part of the neck, a pendent tube fast at
its upper end in one of the perforations in the disk, a chamber on the lower end of
said pendent tube, a valve slidable upwardly in the chamber and adapted to
control an opening in the lower wall of the chamber, means for temporarily holding
the valve off of its seat, and a bent tube in the other perforation in the disc, and
having its shortest member located over the upper end of the pendent tube,
substantially as described.
3. The combination, with a bottle or the like having a neck, of a disc in the
lower part of the neck, a tube pendent in the bottle and passing through the disc at
the upper end of the tube, a screen on the top of the pendent tube, a chambered
enlargement on the lower portion of said tube, a valve seat around a perforation in
the bottom of the chamber, a valve slidable in the chamber over the valve seat,
substantially as described.
4. The combination, with a bottle having a neck, and a disc in the lower part
of said neck, of a depending tube tapping the disc with its upper end, a valve in
the lower portion of the pendent tube and adapted to seal an opening therein, and a
bent tube projecting up in the neck of the bottle and having a baffle plate thereon
of diameter to permit a crevice to intervene between said plate and the bottle neck,
substantially as described.
Th
S
1000
J. P. BAYLY.
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.