Improvements in Non-refillable Bottles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Non-refillable Bottles.
We, ARCHIBALD GRANT SNOWDON, Manufacturer's Agent, of 14, Lemoine Street,
JOHN MICHAELS, Cigar Manufacturer, of 64, McGill Street, and ALBERT EDWARD
MORRIS, Tobacconist, of 208, St. James Street, all in the City and District of
Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, 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:—
Our invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles and the object of
the invention is to devise an extremely simple and cheap device whereby a bottle
after having been emptied cannot be refilled again and it consists essentially
of forming the neck of the bottle in peculiar form and providing therein a stopper
with tapered central opening beneath which is located the closing balls and above
which is located the protecting ring to prevent the balls from being tampered with,
the parts being arranged and constructed in detail as hereinafter more particularly
explained.
Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view showing the neck portion of the bottle
provided with our improved device.
Fig. 2, is a view of the neck portion showing it tipped in the portion it would
assume when the liquor has been poured out.
Fig. 3, is a detail of the protecting ring.
Fig. 4, is a detail of the stopper.
In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each
figure.
It will be noticed in our construction of bottle that the neck thereof although
slightly more ornamental is essentially as strong and durable and as symmetrical
as the necks of ordinary bottles now in use. The lower portion of the neck A near
the top, however, is provided with an inward swell a and above this a slight inward
swell a', these being all the radical changes that are necessary to effect in the
interior formation of the neck when the bottle is being made.
B is the stopper, which is made of porcelain, glass or any other suitable material
and is placed in the neck so that the bottom thereof abuts the internal shoulder a¹
and thereby prevents the stopper from sinking any farther. b are a series of
peripherial passage-ways in the stopper. 61 is an opening extending up into the
stopper from the bottom. 6² are a series of projections arranged in a circle within
that comprised by the passage-ways band forming part of the stopper B.
projections 62 are flush with each other and each projection is diametrically opposite
a passage-way b.
The
C is an internal groove in the neck. D is the protecting ring made preferably
of porcelain, glass or other suitable material which is provided with a central
opening d and an internal groove d¹. The protecting ring D is pushed down the
neck until it rests upon the upwardly extending projections 62 at which position
the groove d¹ is opposite the groove C in the neck. d2 is an aperture made in the
protecting ring through which a suitable cement is poured into the grooves Cand d¹,
thereby when the grooves are filled with the cement securely keying the ring to

page_text: the neck, so that it is absolutely impossible to withdraw such ring without breaking
the neck of the bottle.
E is a cork, which may be of any suitable material being put into close the
orifice at the top of the neck in the usual manner. F is a buoyant ball either made
hollow or solid but preferably of rubber coated with any suitable protecting cover,
which will not be effected by the liquid in the bottle and G is a weighty ball, which
is located in the recess b¹ and normally rests upon the top of the ball F.
It will be seen that in this description by means of the protective ring D that
the balls F and G cannot be tampered with by inserting a wire or in any other way.
When the bottle is tipped in the position shown in Fig. 2, so that the neck is
practically horizontal the ball will float on the liquid in the position shown in the
drawing, thereby permitting the egress of the liquid through a crescent-shaped
orifice around the ball out through the passage-way 61 between the projections b²
and through the ring D. The force of the liquid of course in the egress will
maintain the buoyant ball F and weighty ball G in the position shown in Fig. 2,
but should any attempt be made to force the liquid inwardly either by submerging
the bottle or turning it to the horizontal and applying force to eject the liquid, such
force together with the weighty ball and the inflow of the liquid will force the
buoyant ball against the seat on the shoulder a and thereby clearly prevent
the ingress into the bottle proper.
When the bottle has been emptied of its contents, such bottle may be returned
to the manufacturer and all the parts of our device may be utilized over again by
simply destroying the bottle. It will thus be seen that the first cost of our device
is practically the only cost and that any subsequent bottles in which it is placed
the cost will practically be reduced down to nil.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
In a non-refillable bottle, the combination with the neck provided with a reduced
inwardly extending annular swell, the inwardly extending shoulder above the same
and the inner groove above such shoulder, of the stopper provided with a bottom
tapered aperture and peripheral passage-ways and upwardly extending projections
diametrically opposite such passage-ways the buoyant ball F and weighty ball G
designed to fit within the bottom aperture and the protecting ring designed to rest
upon the top projections and provided with a peripheral groove co-incident with
the groove in the neck, a recess extending through the upper portion of the ring
into the groove and a suitable cement filling for the co-incident grooves whereby
the ring is irremovably secured in position as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 16th day of September 1898.
898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London.
Agents for the Applicants.