US1083201A - Milk-bottle. - Google Patents

Description

H. DIKEMAN.

MILK BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED-wma, 1913.

1,083,201. Patented DecQSO, 1913.

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HARVEY DIKEivrAN,A `or`nainsinofcoinanorieur,n AssIGnon 0F i TQWILLIAM n rorny, or DANBURY, cornmtz'rrc'nA 1 MILK-BOTTLE.

. Apliiicatin nieuwe 5, 1913.v seriaiuo. 771,981.

'.T 0 all whom 'it may concern Be' it'knownthat I, HARYEY Dikicimx; citizen ofthe United '.Slates,` residing at Danbury, in the co'untx'T of* Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have vinvented Vcertain new and useful Improvements in ilk-Bottles,`of which'V the following` is a specica-` tion; I Y I 'My' invention relatesl to'b'ottles, such as are/adapted toj contain milk, cream, and

a fiat paste-board caplis used for the purpose of elosingthe mouth :of-thebottle.

In restaurants, delivery wagons,and freight cars, bottles of milk and cream are' packed in cases,'andto keep the milk, cracked ice or .largeicecakesfareplaced orerthe tops of thecases. There 1s af'considerable quantity ofdir't in ice,v especially where it is used vin thisf manner and is vunprotectedfrom dust, a'noln'fhen` they bottle of anilk is broughtinto the-home or where the bott-le is served in a restaurant, 7the lface ofthe cap is very liable to have on it'water, or other liquid, and

'more-.or less' dirt,- blaclt speaks: and A. other residuev from'y themeltedice. The upper face 'of the paste-board'bottle-cap therefore forms a 4dirt collector.y and the capforms` a cup-which will retain'such dirt. The dan-1v ger comes'in removing these caps. The cap cannot beliftedstraight upwhether it is pried j out orl is.:l lifted by atab.- lOne edge must comeup lirst, ITThe cap inthe ordinary .milk bottle'is.: inserted 'within-a circular rim ywhichextends entirely around the 'cap 'and which is-*sl'ightly smaller thanl the diameter oflthe' cafp=andhence the cap is' bound tightly in this'v "im, and when the cap is lifted up one edge'comes up, first, and the cap is accordingly tipped.transversely across the mout-h of the bottle'so that dirt, dirty Water, foreign matter, etc., runs off the edge of the cap and into the milk, thus contaminating the latter. rl`his milk may be poured from the bottle into a jug and kept for fu ture use, and in this case, the germs which may bev in the milk. will of course,l thrive.

A and render the milk still more contaminated.

If the cap is cleaned, prior to being lifted from the bottle, no particular damage, willv occur, butthis cleaning ofthe cap very rarely done, and almost invariably the result is that no matter how clean the milk may have been in the first, instance, or how Specification of Letters Patent. A Pilielil:v

lthe milk -not only dirti' waterafromrriltet lprovide amillt bottle of,

uncontaminated, in theaoperat-iilr, D the cap-*from the bottle there isfduimpd into ice, but a number;of"dinthpaitlicilesighrc x germs.- -A-s before state Y`tbe11-1iinutl1mlfstlie aO bottle is formed vwith.#anbannniabi'i:seat 01 recess within which thefcapf-rtsandaevenf tlieparticles of vdirt uponliefdapaaii positeduponatllns seat-hbjnthe liftin giu-pan tiltinggo'f therapy, when tlgicin 'Il )our i i i ll'4 out the mill jwill come dirt andthe K The `primal?,y object o,k the provision of a milk g is so formedas to perm-fw dinary-l circular cardfboai will prevent .the tiltingnofi contamination "of the mil before described. og

A furtherobject of the for n the mouth of the bottletlia gin of thecap will projec o" .Vond the mouth of thegho M hang, aS. it were. the ,r'iin ogf. tV that no dirtcan possihl. i the mouth andl in thisA con the mouth of thebo'ttl'e hat. lu ticles of.l foreign matter iL off the rounded exterio A further *objectv of.

ie; i al. l i described, so constructed()l cap to be more readily .detached necessity of either jiiisertin into the mouth rof the bof cap or withoutthe nece A the cap with-a tab.

Other objects will app,y lof the follonng descripti M rfinvention is illus'tr panying drawings, -wlizeiein Figure l a per.-specti'\" per portion of a'milk bottle constructed in accordance with my invention, the cap being shown spaced tlierefrom. Fig.' Q is an 100 enlarged vert-ical section showing the cap in place.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying 106 drawing by the same reference characters. Referring to these figures, designates the milk bottle of the usual or ordinary shape. the upper end of which is'formed with a downwardly r^unded annular rim 3. A9116 lwill be seen in Fig. 2, this rim forms .a

of. the rim out-ward of the outer circumference 'of the seat 4. slightly undercut upon .the inner faces so as V to overhang the face and provide for a more complete and firm engagement with the stopper. dinarily used with milk bottles today, that is, it is made of a circular disk of cardboard,

. and is designa-ted 7. The diameter of this stopper 7 is very slightlygreater than the circle partially defined bythe inner faces 4 this tilting laction cap being of 'the lug 6 so `that when the stopper is forced downupon the bottle its circumference will firmly engage the inner face of the lug 6 and the stopper `will be -irmly held in place tightly upon the seat 4, the stopper disk 4extending beyond the disk 4, entirely around the bottle. Under these circumstances, i dust or particles of dust do collect upon the upper face of the-disk, and the bottle be inclined the dirt will not be caught` by the upwardly extending annular angeof the bottle mouth, as would be the lcase inthe present construction of bottles, but simply slips od and over the rounded face 5 of the rim 3. Furthermore, as the disk 7,4 projects beyond `the seat 4, it is impossible the bottle.. qAgain, when raising the cap, the cap is .tilted in the usual manner, but does not 'necessitate the tilted so asf to discharge the particles upon the upper face of the cap into the bottle or onto the seat 4f, but thecap is simply raised up at one side and Whatever particles may. be upon the: cap, or any liquid which may be upon the face ofthe cap slid off over' the rounded face 5 of the rim 3. Furthermore, a bottle constructed in accordvthe bottle by simply taking These lugs (i may be- '.This stopper has the form or#- for dirt particles to work theirI Wayaround the edges `of `the cap and into ance with mylinventlion permits the capgto be readily raised from its engagement with edge of the disk and raising it up,

margin of the ca permitting ,the

cap to be easily takenhol of by the fingers or pried up by a fork.

lIt will be seen that 1n ofc the lordinary construction, and is so formed that the ed c of the cap may be pried up, Without di culty.

Having thus described my invention .what is claimed as new is 1. A bottle of the character described, having a downwardl rounded annular rim at its margin and a at annular cap-seat on a level with the vupper edge of` the said rounded rim, and a plurality' of cap-engaging lugs projecting upward from the rim,

the inner facesof said lugs intersecting the rounded rim exterior to the outer circumference of the cap seat. v

2. A bottle .of the character` described, having a downwardl rounded annular rim at its mar n and a. at annular cap-seat on a level with the upper edge of the said rounded rim, and a plurality of'cap-engaging lugs projecting upward from the rim, the inner faces otsaid lugs being exterior to the outer circumference of the ca seat, the inner faces of said lugs being slightly undercut.

3. A bottle of the `character described, having a downwardly rounded annular rim portion, and a fiat annular cap-seat extending inward from the upper edge of the rounded portion and defining the opening of the mouth of the `cattle, in comblnation with a flat cap resting on said cap-seat and extending on all sides beyond the cap-seat and over the rounded portion ofthe rim, and means for holding said cap in place.

In testimon whereof I aiix my signature in presence o two witnesses.

HARVEY DIKEMAN. [n 5.] yWitnessesz v J osErH P. Donnn'rr, ARTHUR G. Knorr.

hold of theV the rounded face 5, in conjunction Withthe projecting bottle may -be con#A structed asV readily an Ycheaply as bottles

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