Improvements in and pertaining to Bottles and the like, whereby Re-filling, whether Fraudulent or otherwise, will be Disclosed.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan.,
1899
Improvements in and pertaining to Bottles and the like, whereby
Re-filling, whether Fraudulent or otherwise, will be Disclosed.
I, ALFRED PLATH, of 7, Halford Place, Paradise Road, Richmond, in the County
of Surrey, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to bottles and the like that are provided with separate
necks and are so constructed and fitted with such appliances that these separate necks
cannot be detached from the bottles and while the necks and the bottles are
conjoined the bottles cannot be re-filled without disclosure. The object of this
invention is the more securely and safely to conjoin the bottles and their separate
necks and to render the action of the conjoined complete bottle more convenient
appropriate and efficient and the construction of the same more easy and
simple.
To carry out this object on the short fixed neck of the bottle may be fitted an
enlargement or collar or otherwise in any convenient manner this neck may be so
formed or fitted that a band or ring or the like when placed round the neck under
or inside the same cannot be forced off the end of this neck. This band or ring
may be made of any suitable material and in any convenient manner and therefrom
depend and it may be thereto are attached a convenient number of spring catches
or other like contrivances the lower ends or edges whereof are made to spread
greatly outwards. Of whatever customary and convenient kind these contrivances
may be they must have the characteristics of being capable of being collapsed or
being drawn together alongside the neck and of instanteously expanding or spreading
their lower ends or edges outwardly when compression is withdrawn.
The separate neck for this bottle can conveniently be somewhat contracted in
diameter at a certan position in its length to duly fit on the outside of this short
neck of the bottle and here can be provided when desired any suitable washers or
collars or sleeves or the like of cork or other suitable material to render the
conjoined bottle tight at this position. The lower part of the separate neck below
this position is most conveniently somewhat enlarged to afford due space for the
aforesaid spring contrivances but on the base of this separate neck is formed an
internal annular flange or projection against and on which the lower ends or edges
of these spring contrivances can engage and rest.
When therefore the bottle has been duly filled and closed by a plug or the like
the neck thereof can be thrust or screwed or otherwise passed up into the lower
end of the separate neck and the flange or the like thereon will compress and force
together the spring contrivances until by the time this neck of the bottle has arrived
at the arranged for position in the separate neck the lower ends or edges of the
spring contrivances are released and can expand or spread outwardly over and on
the flange or the like of this separate neck which therefore as is obvious cannot
be removed.
In the neck of the bottle can be provided a ball stopper the seat whereof may be
in the lower part of the neck being fitted as is usual in addition to an ordinary plug
or the like to close the mouth of this neck. The plug or the like can be pulled out

page_text: of the mouth by a string or suchlike device passing up through the separate neck
and cannot replace itself or be replaced but the ball of itself can roll away from and
back to its seat.
The necessary baffle plates near the mouth of the separate neck can be made by
the walls of such neck being duly pinched or bent in at the required positions.
Dated this 11th dow of March 1900
Improvements in and pertaining to Bottles and the like, whereby
Re-filling, whether Fraudulent or otherwise, will be Disclosed.
I, ALFRED PLATE, of 7, Halford Place, Paradise Road, Richmond, in the County
of Surrey, Clerk, 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 my present invention relates to those bottles and other like containers that
are provided with separate necks and are so constructed and are fitted with such
appliances and devices that these separate necks having been conjoined thereto
cannot be detached from the bottles and while the necks and the bottles are con-
joined the bottles cannot be re-filled without dis-closure which bottles and the like are
described in the Specification of my Patent dated the 10th day of November A.D.
1897 and numbered 26162.
The object of this invention is the more securely and safely to conjoin these
bottles and the like and their separate necks and to render the operation of the
conjoined complete bottles and the like more convenient and appropriate and efficient
in and for their desired purposes and the construction of the same more easy and
simple.
In order the more clearly to explain this my present invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of this my complete bottle when the
separate neck and the bottle are in their proper conjoined positions and Figure 2 is
a longitudinal section on an enlarged scale of the operating parts of this complete
bottle before the bottle has been passed up into the separate neck and therein
Becurely conjoined to the same.
The bottle or other container A is similarly made of glass or other suitable material
and of any desired style and size and shape with a short neck B and the separate
neck D is similarly and appropriately made therefor being similarly provided with
baffle plates E near the mouth thereof while plugs F and H are similarly provided
to close the mouths of the necks D and B respectively which plugs F and H are
similarly connected by a wire string or the like K all in manner as is and for the
purposes that are described in the Specification of my Patent No. 26162 of 1897
herein before mentioned.
Near or at the end of the short neck B of the bottle A can be fitted or formed an
external collar or enlargement L whereunder a band or ring or the like M can be
tirmly secured or otherwise in any ordinary and convenient manner these parts can
be so arranged that the band or ring or the like M when so secured round the neck B
cannot be forced thereoff. To this band or the like M are attached or therefrom
depend or thereon are fitted a desired number it may be two or three or more of
spring arms N or catches or other suchlike contrivances the lower and free ends or
edges whereof are made to spread greatly outwards. These spring arms or the

page_text: like N are perhaps most conveniently metallic springs but of whatever customary
and appropriate kind these contrivances may be they must have the characteristics
of being capable of being compressed or collapsed or of being forced together
alongside of the neck and of instantaneously expanding or spreading their
lower ends or edges outwardly when they are free so to do or when compression has
been withdrawn.
The separate neck D can most conveniently be somewhat contracted in diameter
at a certain position in its length as shewn at P to properly and duly fit on and
round the end of the short neck B of the bottle A whereon can be provided above
the collar L if any a suitable sleeve R of cork or other appropriate material to
render the complete conjoined bottle tight at this position P. Below this position P
the separate neck D is again so enlarged in diameter as to afford space for the due
free expansion of the spring arms or the like N the base T of which enlargement
forms an internal annular flange or projection on and in the separate neck D and
against and on this base T the free ends or edges of the spring arms or the like N
can engage and rest. It is extremely convenient to somewhat prolong the separate
neck D below this enlargement from the inner periphery of the base T thereof
which prolongation V can closely surround the neck B and extend downwards to or
near to the shoulders of the bottle A and thus no instrument can easily if at all be
inserted into this end of the separate neck D when in its conjoined position where-
with to attack the spring arms or the like N and when the separate neck D is made
of glass or other transparent material any desired label or notice or other matter
can be placed on the internal surface of this prolongation V and also would be free
from attack.
When therefore the bottle or container A has been duly filled with the required
liquid and its mouth closed by the plug H the neck B thereof can be presented to
the lower end of the separate neck D as is shewn in Figure 2 and is passed up
thereinto during which passage the spring arms or the like N will obviously be
compressed or forced together by the prolongation V if any or by the inner
periphery of the base T until by the time the end of this neck B has arrived at the
arranged for position P in the separate neck D the lower ends or edges of the
spring arms or the like N are released and immediately expand or spread themselves
outwardly over and above the base T as is shewn in Figure 1 and then as is very
evident the separate neck D is securely conjoined to the bottle A and cannot b
detached therefrom.
The operation and manner of using and the effect and consequences of the use
of this complete bottle herein before described and shewn in the accompanying
drawing are obviously exactly the same as those that are described in the
Specification of my Patent No. 26162 of 1897 hereinbefore mentioned and therefore
do not need to be recapitulated.
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When it may be desired so to do for any purpose such for example as the
prevention of any re-filling of the bottle A the neck B thereof can be provided with
an ordinary ball stopper W of glass metal or other suitable material wherefor would
be made an ordinary seating ✗ preferably in the lower part of the neck B. This
ball stopper W would be made of such a small size that it can quite freely roll
from and back to its seat X and therefore while the plug H cannot be replaced in
the mouth of the neck B when it has once been pulled thereout as is explained in
my aforesaid former Specification No. 26162 of 1897 the ball stopper W will return
to its seat X directly the complete bottle is erected thus preventing any re-filling of
the same.
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 bottle or container A having a short neck B provided
with a plug H and an operating wire or the like K the-of-

page_text: secured round the neck B and carrying spring arms or the like N and a correspond-
ing enlargement of the neck D having a base T whereon the free ends of the spring
arms or the like N can engage substantially as and for the purposes herein before
described and declared.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts and appliances constituting my
mprovements in and pertaining to bottles and the like substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described and set forth and shewn in the accompanying
drawing.