US1113652A - Non-refillable bottle. - Google Patents

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B. F. KLASS. NON-RBFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1913.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. KLASS, on NEWYORK, N. Y., Ass IeNoR or ONE-HALF To JOSEPH :9.

RYAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct 13, 1914.

Application filed May 10, 1913. Serial No..766,780.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. KLASS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, boroughlof Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. I

. This invention relates to an improved nonrefillable bottle, that is, a bottle or vessel which, after its contents have been dispensed, cannot be refilled without destroying the bottle, thus serving as an effective means for preventing the sale of liquids or the like unscrupulously.

The invention resides in the provision of a very simple combination of cooperating parts requiring but slight change in the construction of the bottle to provide for the mounting of a float valve permitting the escape of the liquid or fluid but preventing refilling of the bottle, the parts being constructed of glass or similar vitreous material with the exception of the holding means for a combined bafiie wall and bearing disk for the valve.

1th the above and otherobjects in view, the invention resides more particularly in the peculiar combination and arrangement of parts which will be illustrated as a preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings and described'in the specification.

Reference is to be had to the accompanythrough a fragmentary portion'of a bottle and parts mounted in the neck thereof to prevent the refilling of the bottle in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view similar to Fig. l but showing the bottle tipped and with the valve in an open position; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the combined bathe wall and bearing disk, the same being partly broken away.

In the drawings, the numeral 5 designates the body of the bottle which is of glass or other vitreous material in its preferred embodiment, and which is provided with a neck portion 6 ordinarily closed by a cork or other closure 7. In accordance with the present invention, the interior of the neck is slightly tapered to provide a ground fit as ,tion 8 thereof is shown at8, and the interior face. of the neck atthe juncture of thelatter with the body is provided with an interior projection of beveled form producingafvalveseat 9. Fitted in the neck and conforming to the pora combined baflie wall and bearing disk 10 which is also of glass or similar vitreous-material, and which is preferably in. the form of a pair of upper and lowersectionsyll and 12,,spaced apart but formed in one through the instru'mentality. of a plurality of. connecting strips or sections 13. spaced apart at the peripheral edge of the disk. Two of these'strips, diametrically opposed, areprovided with vertical recesses 14 and normally outwardly curved leaf springs 15 have their;, lower ends em- I bedded in the lower sections 12 of the disk so that their upper ends will normally project outwardly of the peripheral edge thereof. The purpose of this is to hold the diskin the neck of the bottle, and for this, purpose the neck at dimetrically opposed points interiorly is provided with notches 16 having their upper walls located at right angles to the length of the neck and their side walls tapering in width downwardly so that when the diskis placedinthe neck the springs will move into the recesses 14. until they are I )ermitted to expand into the notches 16 and by engagement of their extremities withthe.

upper wallsof the recesses, prevent the removal of the disk. t

A Valve 17 in the form of a hollow float adapted, when submergedin the fluid which the bottle is designed to contain, to a point vindicated by theline in Fig.1,

has a tapered lower portion 18' of truncated form to cooperate with the seat 9 and normally close the neck of the bottle. The weight of the valve. and its upwardly extending stem 19 will depend upon the specific gravity of the fluid or liquid which the bottle is adapted to contain, and this stem passesthrough and is guided in a central opening 20 in thelower disk section12 and a socket 21 communicating only with the lower face of the upper disk section 11, the upper end of the valve stem being movable in this socket, whereby it may be moved to the open position indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The disk sections are provided with vertical passages or openings therethrough, the passages 22 in the disk 11 being spaced apart and preferably located nearer the center of the disk than the passages 23 through the lower section, so that the openings or passages in the respective sections of the disk are located in staggered relation to prevent the entrance of an instrument for holding theva-lve 17 open should an attempt be made to uns'erupulously refill the bottle. To

' further prevent this, the passages terminate the" latter is shoved into the bottle neck and held by the springs as described. When it is desired to pourv the contents of the bottle the liquid win elevate the float valve sufficiently to unseat. it and permit the passage of-the' liquid, and the same will pass through the staggered passages and through the sections of the disk, but inasmuch as the liquid will beno'i'mally disposed below the valve, the latter wi l return by gravity to a closed position and seal the contents. It is of courseundersjtoodthat the cork 7 is reinoved when it is desired-to pour the contents of the bottle. On the other hand, should an attempt be made to refill the bottle the pressure of the liquid on the top of the valve will hold it closed and the staggered relation ofthe openings, together with the extensions provided, will prevent the openingofthe valve from the exterior. Furthermore, should it be attempted to fill the bottle by immersion, the liquid will pass through the passages, but in striking the 1 valve the latter, by its floating action, will at once beeseated to close the bottle neck and prevent the entrance of the liquid into the bottle. A Very weak coil spring 26 is mounted in the socket 21 to act on the stem 19 toassist in the seating of the valve, but not to prevent the valve from unseating under the pressure of the liquid when pouring the latter. The spring is not exposed to the liquid and therefore cannot contaminate the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A non-refillable bottle having a neck portion provided with an interior seat, a float valve having a stem, said bottle and valve being constructed of vitreous material, means to seat the valve, and a disk held in the neck against outward displacement and slidably receiving the stem of the valve for limited upward movement in unseating, said valve-seating means being carried by the disk, the disk embodying spaced upper and lower sections, said sections having passages therethrough located in staggered relation and terminating with extensions extending into the space between the sections.

2. A non-refillable bottle having a neck portion provided with a seat, a float valve having a reduced solid stem, means to seat the valve, and a disk held in the neck against outward displacement. and slidably receiving the stem of the valve, said valveseating means acting on the upper end of the stem and being inclosed by the disk, the disk having an interior opening providing upper and lower portions having passages therethrough, said passages terminating in extensions located within the area of the openings.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN F. KLASS.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH P. RYAN, JOHN E. BURCH.

Copies a: this patent hey he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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