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

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Bottles to prevent them being
Refilled...
We EZRA CAMPBELL of Dayton, County of Columbia, State of Washington, U.S.A.,
Farmer, and ADOLPH ROTH of same place, Merchant, and WILLIAM HENRY HERMAN,
of same place, Commercial Traveller, 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 non refillable bottle of this invention is shewn in the accompanying drawing
in sectional elevation.
A is the bottle whose base is curved upwardly as at 1 forming a cylindrical
pocket 3 having an easily frangible web 2. The inner surface 5 of the head 6 has a
lower annular groove 4 from which it converges upwardly.
B is a glass opening rod having a conoidal pointed lower end 7 adapted for
movement in the cylindrical pocket 3 and provided with a bead 8. The upper portion
of this rod curves outwardly to form a head 9 which is provided with a top 10 having
an eye 11.
The head 9 is encircled by a gasket 12 which when in position in the bottle head
takes by its bottom edge into the annular groove 4 and prevents the withdrawal of
the opening rod from the neck of the bottle. This gasket is placed in the head by
means of a small instrument having spring prongs.
A second and small rubber or
cork gasket 13 encircles the opening rod immediately below the bead 8 and is of such
size as to be adapted to fit closely in the cylindrical pocket 3 when the opening rod
has been forced downward, as shewn by dotted lines.
After the bottle has been filled the opening rod is placed therein and the gasket 12
inserted until it has been closely forced into the bottle head. A hook may now be
inserted in the eye 11 and the opening rod pulled upward to close the bottle. When
in this position, the conoidal point 7 lies in the upper portion of the cylindrical
pocket 3.
When the bottle is to be opened, it is taken in the hand and the top 11 tapped
upon or struck. The opening rod is thus forced downward and the conoidal point 7
brought into contact with the frangible web 2 thereby breaking the same, but also
tightly closing the cylindrical pocket 3 by means of the gasket 13.entering the same.
The inward movement of the head 10 opens the neck of the bottle, so that the
contents of the same may be readily poured out. The gasket 13 prevents the contents
of the bottle from flowing out through the fractured web 2 but the bottle cannot be
refilled and closed again, as immediately upon lifting the opening rod the liquid will
flow out through said fractured web.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In a non refillable bottle, the combination with the bottle having a frangible
bottom, of a depressible opening rod secured to the bottle neck and adapted for
fracturing said bottom, substantially as described and shewn.

page_text: 2. In a non refillable bottle, the combination with the bottle having a frangible
bottom, of an opening rod having its upper end secured in the bottle neck and its
lower portion projecting into the bottom in juxtaposition to the frangible bottom,
whereby when said opening rod is, forced downward the bottom will be fractured,
substantially as described and shown.
3. In a non refillable bottle, the combination with the bottle having its bottom
provided with a pocket which has a frangible web, of an opening rod having a
lower point in said pocket and its upper end projecting outward through the neck of
the bottle, a gasket around the rod and above the lower pointed end thereof, said
gasket.being adapted to close the pocket when the opening rod is forced downward
and a second gasket encircling the upper portion of the rod and closing the bottle
neck, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 25th day of June 1897
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.