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

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1887
DONT LEIL DIFUIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Bottles to Prevent them being
Refilled.
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I, MICHAEL GUINANE, of No. 46 East Mitchell Street, Atlanta, in the County
of Fulton, and State of Georgia, one of the United States of America Fireman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mannor the same is to
be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to bottles.
My object is to provide a bottle of extremely simple and cheap construction
which can be readily filled initially and the contents withdrawn in part or in whole
at any time, but which cannot be refilled.
Having this object in view the invention consists of a bottle having a neck which
tapers from the top to where it joins the body, thore being formed in a valve seat,
aud said neck having a solid inner portion provideil with a slanting channel or
passage, a ball valve movable in the neck aud adapted to seat itself therein, which
ball valve is provided with a suspended device before the bottle is filled. The
invention will be described more fully in detail hereinafter and the novel features
thereof pointed out in the appended claims.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure is a sectional view showing the wire attached to the ball valve with the
latter suspended as when the bottle is being filled, and
Figure 2 is a similar view after the wire has been removed and the valve is in
normal position, dotted lines representing the location of the ball valvo when fluid is
being removed from the bottle.
.
The numeral 1 designates the bottle body and 2 the neck which has its lowor
inner portion tapered outwardly as at 3 thereby forming a valve seat. The neck is
provided with an inner solid portion 4 which is concaved at its under side as at 5
and is formed with a grooved fluid passage 6 which extends from its upper face at
one side thereof to its lower face at the opposite side of the .neck. At this latter
point the neck is preferably enlarged somewhat as at 7 so as to allow free passage
of the fluid. The numeral 8 designates a ball valve adapted to seat itself either in
the lower portion of the chamber 3 or in the hollow portion 5.
As shown in Figure 1 before the bottle is filled a wire 9 is employed which passos
down through the passage 6, through a hole or opening 10 in the solid portion of
the neck and has its end forced into an opening in the ball valve.
When the bottle is to be filled the ball valve is held up in the hollow 5 by this
wire which is grasped by the hand of the operator or wound around the neck of the
bottle. The fluid can then be poured in. After this has been done the wire is
pulled out of the valve and neck and the valve drops down ou its scat. A cork 11
is then placed in the upper portion of the neck above the solid part thereof. When
this is arranged the bottle is sealed. When it is desirable to obtain the contents of
the bottle the cork 11 is removed and the bottle tipped in such a manner that the
ball valve drops into a hollow 5; the fluid will then flow out through the grooved
passage of the neck. Should an attempt be made to refill the bottle the valve will
be forced down against its seat and this will be effectually provented. It is
extremely difficult if not impossible to insert a wire in the valve or to hold said
valve up in a manner so that the bottle can be refilled.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. In a bottle, the combination with a bottle neck having a solid inner portion
provided with a fluid passage, and said neck being provided with a valve seat below
said solid portion, of a ball valve movable in the nock between the seat and solid
portion.
2. In a bottle, the combination with a bottle neck having a lower. inner tapering
chamber, and provided with, an iuner solid portion hollowed on its under side, said
solid portion being provided with a fluid passnge extending from the bottom to the
top thereof, of a ball valve in the chamber and adapted for movement between the
seat and the hollow portion of the solid part of the neck.
3. In a bottle, the combination with a bottle neck having an inner solid portion
provided with a passage extending from top to bottom thereof, said neck being
provided with a valve sent, of a ball valve adapted for movement between the seat
and the solid portion, and a wire initially connected to said valve and extending up
through the solid portion of the neck but adapted to be detached from the valve
after the bottle has been filled.
Dated this 1st day of April 1897.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.