Improvements in Automatic Bottle Re-filling Preventers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Bottle Re-filling Preventers.
A communication by PETER FRANCIS TURNER, Manufacturer of Sausage
Casings, CHARLES MCBRIDE, Merchant, and ADOLPH HENRY HERTZ,
Merchant, all of New York, in the County and State of New York, and
EMIL KHAHN, Watchmaker, of West Hoboken, in the County of Hudson
and State of New Jersey, all of United States of America.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 invention has reference to improvements in automatic bottle re-filling
preventers, and consists of a device inserted into the neck of a bottle of any
description and for any desired purpose. The invention has the object of
preventing inexperienced persons from re-filling a once emptied bottle, thus using a
well known label for an inferior fluid of the same kind.
This object is attained by the device clearly shown in the accompanying
drawing; in which Fig. 1 represents a vertical section of the same, Fig. 2 and
Fig. 3 are respectively side and top views of the latter, while Fig. 4 is a section
showing the apparatus in horizontal position.
Similar letters of reference, indicate the corresponding parts in the different
figures of the drawing, in which A represents a bottle partly sectioned, having on
the lower inside end of the neck, a small rim a. The apparatus inserted into the
neck of the bottle and consists of a small tube B, having on the upper end a flanch b
and on the lower end a small rim. The part of the tube between the flanch and
the rim is surrounded by a cylinder C, of rubber, cork, or other elastic material of
somewhat larger diameter than the flanch b. The upper surface of the flanch bis
flat and smoothed. The top opening of the tube B, is covered by a disc D, large
enough to cover the hole of the tube. A dome, E, is fastened with its rim, to the
upper surface of the flanch b, and is provided with small segmatical holes e, on the
part nearest to its rim, and with a small circular hole on the top.
This dome forms a cover over the disc D, and the upper surface of the flanch b,
and limits the distance of the motions of the aforesaid disc, the curve of the dome
being of such a shape as to keep the disc, D, close to the flanch in a horizontal or
slanting position. The whole apparatus is pushed into the neck of a bottle, close
to the small rim A, which prevents the same from being moved farther down.
The elastic cylinder C, which is of a little larger diameter than the inside of the
neck of the bottle, presses tightly against the surface of the same thus having only
the holes in the tube, and the dome to allow a liquid to pass.
The disc D will open readily by pouring liquid out, while it will act like a closed
valve by trying to re-fill the bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An automatic bottle re-filling preventer, comprising a tube, having a flanch
on its upper and a rim on the lower end being made of any suitable material,
substantially as set forth.

page_text: 2. An automatic bottle re-filling preventer, comprising a tube having a flanch,
the upper surface of which is flat, substantially as set forth.
3. An automatic bottle re-filling preventer consisting of a tube having a flanch
and a rim, the upper surface of the flanch being flat, and a cylinder of elastic
material, surrounding the body of the tube, between the flanch and the rim,
substantially as set forth.
4. An automatic bottle re-filling preventer, comprising a tube with a flanch and
a dome having a rim, holes on top, and being fastened to the upper surface of the
flanch of the tube substantially as set forth.
5. An automatic bottle re-filling preventer, comprising a tube with a flanch, a
dome having a rim, and holes on top, and on its sides, being fastened to the upper
surface of the flanch of the tube, and a disc inside of said dome, covering the top
opening of the tube, substantially as set forth.
6. A bottle having a rim on the lower inside part of its neck, in combination
with an automatic hottle refilling preventer consisting of a tube having a flanch
with a flat surface on its upper and a rim on the lower end surrounded between the
flanch and the rim by a cylinder of elastic material, a dome provided with holes,
having also a rim and being fastened to the flanch of the tube, a disc inside of the
dome substantially as set forth.
Dated this 18th day of January 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.