Improvements in Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1896-Accepted. 19th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles.
ATWELL CHARLES ROWLEY KING Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Gentle-
man. I 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 relates to improvements in bottles and it has for its object, to provide
a bottle that will prevent the fraudulent use thereof after the original contents have
been once emptied therefrom, by means of the trade or other mark being carried away
when the cork is withdrawn, the above result being obtained by the hereinafter
described means, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which-
Fig. 1, is a vertical intersection of my improved bottle neck.
Fig. 2, is a view of the same showing the position a trade or private mark should
occupy thereon, and
Fig. 3, shows the cork withdrawn with the trade mark portion detached from the
bottle.
In the manufacture of my improved bottle, A, represents an ordinary bottle neck;
B, is the topmost part thereof, and it is divided from the portion A, by a groove a,
which encircles the neck as shown; this groove a, is preferably horizontal, as d, on
its lower side, and on its upper side it is bevelled downward as c, and joins the
horizontal cut at an acute angle, as b, and almost severs the portion B, from the
bottle, for a reason that will appear presently.
The trade mark or brand is affixed to the portion B; after the bottle is filled, the
driving of the cork C,, will invariably jar the part or ring B, loose from the neck A,
but it will be held firmly in position by the lower portion of the cork C, until the
said cork is withdrawn, and will then be carried away thereby, as shown in Fig. 3.
Should the driving of the cork however fail to disconnect the portion B, from the
neck A, the drawing of the cork will break the slight connection, and bring away
the portion carrying the mark of trade attached thereto.
A second and important feature of advantage which my improved bottle possesses
is the easy and simple mode of extracting the cork from the same. It will be readily
seen that the ring or portion B, which is preferably larger than the immediate
adjoining part A, furnishes a ready means of extracting the cork by grasping
the ring B, in the hand, and twisting it from the neck, which never fails to bring
away the cork. If however, it should be a little stiff to start, a slight tap on some
rigid object will produce the desired result.
By reason of the groove a, meeting at an even, acute angle, when the portion B,
is removed the bottle is none the worse for any ordinary purpose, as the break is
clean, but it cannot be employed a second time, as containing branded goods, for the
reason that the brand is destroyed.
I have, for a purpose described and illustrated the groove a, in a particular form,
as it gives a clean break and leaves a bottle with an unjagged neck that way, but it
is obvious that the groove a, may be employed in various shapes, and give good
results without departing from the spirit of my invention.
Having now particularly described the nature of my invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The herein described construction of a bottle neck, having its topmost part larger