US1475908A - Lock bottle and cap - Google Patents

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" Nov. 27 ,1923. r 1,475,908

w. P. WALSH LOCK BOTTLE AND CAP Filed May 26, 1922 I abto'zuma Patented Nov. 27, 1923. 1,475,98

WILLIAM P.'WALSH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LOCK BOTTLE AND GAP.

Application filed May 26, 1922. Serial No. 563,815.

ing a weakened section to: facilitate the Be it known that WILLIAM P. VVALsH, twisting of the upperend of the cap from 45 a citizen of the United States of America, the conical wall thereof by a turning moveresiding at Chicago, in the county of Cook ment of the former and to facilitate such and State of Illinois, has invented new and turning movement the upper end of the cap useful Improvements in Lock Bottles and is provided with a radial extension or arm Gaps, of which the following is a specifi- 18 and a transverse rib 19 in extension 0550 cation. said arm and disposed radially of the cap The object of the invention is to provide for engagement by the slot 20 of a de-capa construction of bottle and cap whereby ping tool 21 shown in-Figure 3.

the latter may not be removable after being The key serving as a means of preventpositioned upon the filled bottle without ing the disengagement of the cap as an en- 55 such mutilation as to prevent reclosing and tirety from the neck of the bottle, the method concealing and hence refilling; and with of opening a bottle constructed as described this object in view the invention consists consists in engaging the tool therewith as in a construction and combination of parts above indicated and turning. the'same so as of which a preferred embodiment is shown to twist the head or top of the cap from the 60 in the accompanying drawings, wherein walls thereof after which the cork may be Figure 1 is a side view, and removed 'togive access to the contents of Figure 2 is a sectional view of a bottle the receptacle. Obviously the wall portion and cap constructed in accordance with the of the cap remains locked to the bottle and invention.

Figure 3 is a plan View showing in connecthe neck of the bottle, so that the refilling of tion with the cap a de-capping or opening the bottle and the restoring of the same to T 0 all whom it mm] concern:

tool. its original condition is prevented.

Figure 4; is a transverse section on the Having described the invention, what is plane indicated by'the line l4c of Figure 2. claimed as new and useful is The bottle 10 which obviously may be of A bottle having a neck adapted for the any preferred shape and dimensions is proreception of a cork, a cap fitted upon. and vided with a neck 11 which is preferably surrounding the neck and locked thereto and exteriorly tapered toward its mouth or lip enclosing the cork, the cap adjacent its upper immovable therefrom except by breakingfia and is adapted to receive a cork 12 of 0011- end being provided with a circumferential 'ventiona-l form, and seated upon said neck groove forming a weakened section to faciliis a cap 18 having a tapered or conical inner tat twisting the top of the cap from the wall surface conforming substantially to the exthereofby a turning movement, said cap terior surface of the neck, said cap and neck having a radial arm and a transverse rib being provided with registering grooves i i in extension of said "arm and disposed and 15 serving mutually to form a seat for radially of the cap for engagement with a a split key 16 which serves when the cap is decapping tool. 40 in place to lock the same against displace- In testimony whereof he affixes his signament from the neck. ture. V

The cap adjacent to its upper end is provided with a circumferential groove 17 form- WILLIAM P. WALSH.

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