Improvements in or relating to Bottles, Jars and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1899
Improvements in or relating to Bottles, Jars and the like.
I, PHILIP LINDEMEYR, of 1823, West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, in the State
of Maryland, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-"
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
Heretofore the heads of bottles, jars and the like have been provided with metal
caps lined with cork and detachable by rotation or by unscrewing but the bottle
and its lined cap have not been so combined as to provide with certainty for a
re use of the same and for a tight closure in the original and subsequent use.
The object of the present improvement is to provide bottles and the like with
caps having linings that will be neither mutilated nor loosened in the caps by the
rotation necessary to effect their removal and wherein the lining will be kept entire
and the bottle effectually sealed though frequently re-used.
The invention consists in the construction of the bottle, the sealed and lined;
cap, and in means for preparing the cap which will be hereinafter pointed out.
In the drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation;
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Fig. 2 is a central section of a bottle neck and cap embodying the improvement;
Fig. 3 is a central section of the cap;
Fig. 4 is a plan of a blank for forming the cap;
Fig. 5 is a broken perspective showing the interior of the cap;
Fig. 6 is a central section showing modified bottle lip;
Fig. 7 is a detail 'showing groove of bayonet joint;
Fig. 8 is a detail showing modified bottle head.
Numeral 1 denotes a bottle having a neck 2 provided with a shoulder 3 and a
head or terminal 4 of less diameter than the neck proper. This shoulder may be
máde a continuous incline' as indicated in Fig. 8.
5 denotes a metal cap having a groove 7 to receive wax and 14 is a cork lining.
6 denote corrugations which afford a 'secure hold for the manipulation of the cap
and also provide grooves on the inside to receive and hold the wax and cork.
The cap has a shoulder or offset S. similar to that on the bottle: Below this
offset the cap is corrugated to facilitate manipulation except at the parts adjacent
the bayonet joint grooves 9 fornied in the bottle neck. It is corrugated above the
shoulder preferably around the whole circumference.
10 indicate lugs formed in the flange or collar 11 of the cap: These are equal
in number and similar in situation to the grooves 9 and are adapted to be entered
therein and to be engaged with the upper wall of the inclined part of the grooves
by suitable rotation of the cap.
The lugs 10 may be produced by first slitting the blank from which the cap is
subsequently formed as indicated at 12 in Figure 4. After the cap has been
formed in usual manner and applied to a bottle neck the strip between the
slits is forced inwardly to form a lug 10 with a sharp bearing edge having
throughout its length the same angle of inclination as the inclined part of a

page_text: bayonet joint groove and therefore adapted to bear throughout its entire length
on said part.
The grooves are situated below the bottle head and begin in the shoulder 3.
or 31 (see Figure S). In the latter figure the slot is indicated by a dotted line
terminating approximately at the midheight of the incline and below the possible
reach of the cork or other packing. Heretofore in analogous constructions the
grooves have extended to the bottle lip, and this construction has been found
objectionable for reasons to be explained.
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14 denotes a thin layer or lining of cork and 15 indicates wax and these materials
together constitute a packing between the bottle mouth and cap. (These may be
used either with or without a supplementary stopper.) In applying the cap
provided with a cork lining or packing, whether the wax be used or not, it is
desirable the cap be held tightly upon the bottle and the cork compressed upon its
mouth. A considerable degree of force is required to suitably compress a cork
packing upon an ordinary bottle mouth to secure a tight joint because of the
thickness of the glass which necessitates a compression of a large annular portion
of the cork. For this reason the lip is beveled as shown to provide a thin lipped
mouth that can be forced into the cork by compression with comparative ease.
advantage of beginning the grooves 9 in the shoulder below the lip is that when
the cap and its lining are turned to release them the lining is not disturbed by
the corners 16 at the upper ends of said grooves as in prior constructions in which
said grooves extend to the lip and to the cork when held on the bottle mouth by
a cap. If the cork were pressed directly upon a grooved mouth a portion of it
would be forced into the grooves with the result that when the cap was unscrewed
the cork would be torn. The cork would also be loosened so as to drop from the
cap when removed. Both of these effects are objectionable in a cap designed for
re-use as in the present case.
Further, a bottle mouth having a continuous lip unbroken by grooves is more
suitable for application to the mouth in drinking and particularly in the case of
children. Such grooves extended to the lip interfere with drinking and in some
cases tend to spilling and may also hurt or annoy the lips of the one attempting
to drink from them. This evil is incidentally avoided in bottles of the class to
which the improvement relates.
In applying the cap provided with a compressible packing it is forced down
upon the bottle mouth so as to compress the packing and form an annular depres-
sion to receive said lip. The lugs 10 are simultaneously entered in the grooves
and turned to bring their upper edges under the upper wall of the inclined portions
of the grooves. The cap being thereupon released from the pressure required to
effect this connection the elastic packing will expand sufficiently to cause the
lugs to engage the groove wall. This engagement extends the whole length of
the lugs in consequence of the similarity of the inclined proximate surfaces. As
the bearing surface of each lug incline is a metal edge lifted against the groove
wall by the elastic packing, provision is thereby made for a large degree of
friction to resist the rotation of the cap and its accidental removal.
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 of a bottle having a neck provided with a continuous cir-.
cumferential shoulder, and a head of less diameter than said neck, the latter
having bayonet joint grooves each with an inclined circumferential part and a
vertical part beginning in the shoulder below the bottle lip and cork seat., saidi
groove terminating in the enlargement, with a cap provided with a similar
shoulder, a cork or other packing seated on the bottle lip, and lugs in the cap
below its shoulder to engage said bayonet joint grooves whereby when the cap is
-screwed down the cork is drawn upon the lip without entering the groove, sub-
stantially as described.

page_text: 2. The combination of a bottle having a neck provided with a continuous cir-
cumferential shoulder, and a head of less diameter than said neck, the latter having
bayonet joint grooves each with an inclined circumferential part and a ver-
tical part beginning in the shoulder below the bottle lip and cork seat,
said groove terminating in the enlargement, with a cap provided with a
similar shoulder, a cork or other packing soated on the bottle lip, and lugs in
the cap below its shoulder to engage said bayonet joint grooves whereby
the cap is screwed down the cork is drawn upon the lip without entering the
groove, and a seal of adhesive wax between the cork and cap, substantially as
described.
3. The combination of a bottle having a neck provided with a continuous cir-
cumferential shoulder constituting the upper end of a neck enlargement, a head
of less diameter than said neck, and bayonet joint grooves beginning in the
shoulder and terminating in the enlargement, with a cap provided with a similar
shoulder, and lugs below the cap shoulder to engage said bayonet joint grooves,
said lugs having sharp edges with inclination approximately similar to the inclined
walls of the grooves, substantially as described.
4. The combination of a bottle having a neck provided with a continuous cir-
cumferential shoulder constituting the upper end of a neck enlargement, a head
of less diameter than said neck, and bavonet joint grooves beginning in the
shoulder and terminating in the enlargement, with a cap provided with a similar
shoulder, lugs below the cap shoulder to engage said bayonet joint grooves, and
vertical corrugations formed in the enlarged part of the cap flange intermediate
the lugs, substantially as described.
5. The combination of a bottle having a neck provided with a continuous cir-
cumferential shoulder constituting the upper end of a neck enlargement, a head
of less diameter than said neck, and bayonet joint grooves beginning in the shoulder
and terminating in the enlargement, with a cap provided with a similar shoulder,
and lugs below the cap shoulder to engage said bayonet joint grooves, said lugs
being intergral with the cap flange and comprised between two slits therein, sub-
stantially as set forth.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co..
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.