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

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
Improvements in or relating to Bottles to Prevent them being
Refilled.
I, PHILIP CHARLES BROWN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing
at 716, Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York, United
States of America, Patent Attorney, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to improvements in nonfillable bottles and the objects
of my improvements are to provide a bottle that cannot be refilled. I attain'
this object by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1, a sectional view of a bottle having a short neck with a shoulder
and having screw threads below the shoulder on the outside of said neck.
Figure 2, a sectional view of the upper section of the neck or nozzle having
projections on the inside on alternate sides thereof, and provided with screw.
threads at its lower extremity on the outside.
Figure 3, view of the wooden valve weighted at its lower extremity or shank.
Figure 4, view of the band.
Figure 5 sectional view of the nonfillable bottle.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
I make any desired size of bottle of any suitable material. The neck is made
in two parts; the lower or short neck (A) (connected with the bottle) is made
with a shoulder (N) provided with screw threads (D) on the outside below the
shoulder. The upper section of the neck, or what may be called the nozzle,
(B) has at its lower extremity on the outside screw threads (E) and is provided
on the inside with two or more projections (C) on alternate sides of the neck
or nozzle. Before the neck and nozzle (A B) are joined I insert the wooden valve
or stopper (K) which is weighted at its lower extremity or shank (H). After
the wooden valve with its weighted shank is put in place the floatable valve is
outside of and on top of the contracted opening (G). In my invention it is
immaterial whether the valve seat is at the top of the neck or below the top.
The weighted shank enters the contracted opening and extends below it. The
valve is made of wood weighted at its lower extremity or shank with glass or
porcelain although any suitable material may be used. After the wooden valve
is in place the neck (A) above the shoulder (N) is inserted into the nozzle (B).
The lower extremity of the nozzle (B) rests on the shoulder (N) and is secured
to the neck (A) by any suitable cement. The neck of the bottle and the nozzle
are still further secured by a band of paper which may be plain or corrugated
which may be pasted or cemented to the bottle neck and to the nozzle. The
wooden valve weighted at its lower extremity does not float when the bottle is
upright but when it is placed on its side then the wooden valve floats as the
fluid enters the bottle and the suction caused by the contracted opening causes
the wooden valve to float into its proper position to close the contracted opening,
and stop the inflow of the fluid. I am aware that bottles having screw threads

page_text: on the neck have been made but this I do not claim broadly. I am also
aware that nonfillable bottles have been made with valves of glass etc., but I
am not aware nor do I believe that there has ever been made previous to my
invention thereof a nonfillable bottle having a nozzle provided with horizontal
projections or tongues integral with said nozzle and having a valve made of
wood weighted at its lower extremity.
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JL Cantam 1907
Improvements in or relating to Bottles to Prevent them being
Refilled.
I, PHILIP CHARLES BROWN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing.
at 716, Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York, United
States of America Patent Attorney, 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 the object of my
improvements is to provide a bottle that cannot be refilled. I attain this object
by the means illustrated in the drawings filed with the Provisional Specification,
in which:.
Figure 1 shews a sectional view of a bottle having a short neck with a shoulder
and having screw threads below the shoulder on the outside of said neck.
Figure 2. shews a sectional view of the upper section of the neck or nozzle
having projections on the inside on alternate sides thereof, and provided with
screw threads at its lower extremity on the outside.
Figure 3 shews a view of the wooden valve weighted at its lower extremity
or shank.
Figure 4 shews a view of the band.
Figure 5 shews a sectional view of the nonfillable bottle.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
I make any desired size of bottle of any suitable material. The neck is made
in two parts; the lower or short neck (A) (connected with the bottle) is made
with a shoulder (N) provided with screw threads (D) on the outside below the
shoulder. The upper section of the neck, or what may be called the nozzle,
(B) has at its lower extremity on the outside screw threads (E) and is provided
on the inside with two or more projections (C) on alternate sides of the neck
or nozzle. Before the neck and nozzle (A B) are joined I insert the wooden valve
or stopper (K) which is weighted at its lower extremity or shank (H). After
the wooden valve with its weighted shank is put in place the floatable valve is
outside of and on top of the contracted opening (G). In my invention it is
immaterial whether the valve seat is at the top of the neck or below the top.
The weighted shank enters the contracted opening and extends below it. The
valve is made of wood weighted at its lower extremity or shank with glass or
porcelain although any suitable material may be used." After the wooden valve
is in place the neck (A) above the shoulder (N) is inserted into the nozzle (B).
The lower extremity of the nozzle (B) rests on the shoulder (N) and is secured
to the neck (A) by any suitable cement. The neck of the bottle and the nozzle
are still further secured by a band of paper which may be plain or corrugated

page_text: which may be pasted or cemented to the bottle neck and to the nozzle. The
wooden valve weighted at its lower extremity does not float when the bottle is
upright but when it is placed on its side then the wooden valve floats as the
fluid enters the bottle and the suction caused by the contracted opening causes
the wooden valve to float into its proper position to close the contracted opening,
and stop the inflow of the fluid. I am aware that bottles having screw threads
on the neck have been made but this I do not claim broadly. I am also
aware that non-refillable bottles have been made with valves of glass, etc., but I
am not aware nor do I believe that there has ever been made previous to my
invention thereof a non-refillable bottle having a nozzle provided with horizontal
projections or tongues integral with said nozzle and having a valve made of
wood weighted at its lower extremity.
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. In a bottle neck, a valve having its upper part of wood or the like and
its lower part of porcelain glass or the like, so constructed and weighted as to
be semi floatable when horizontal but not floatable when vertical, said valve
resting on a contracted opening in the bottle neck below the top, of the nozzle
having projections or tongues on the inside on alternate sides thereof, extending
horizontally half way or more across the nozzle and integral therewith cemented
or otherwise secured to the neck of the bottle.
2. The combination of parts forming the improved non-refillable bottle con-
structed and operating substantially as described and illustrated in the drawing
filed with the Provisional Specification.
1000
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.