US1103737A - Closure for bottles, jars, &c. - Google Patents

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F. M. BUDLONG. CLOSURE FOR BOTTLES, JARS, &o. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10, 1909.

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UNITED sTArEs PATENT. OFFICE.

FRANK M. BUDLONG, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-THIRD TO JOHN M. CURRAGH, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14., 1914.

Application filed August 10, 1909. Serial No. 512,183.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. BrmLoNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Jose, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closures for Bottles, Jars, &c., and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to provide a closure for bottles, jars, and the like, which while extremely simple and inexpensive and easily applied and removed, will constitute an efficient obstacle to the re-use of the bottle or receptacle, and to this end my invention consists in the closure having the characteristics of construction and use substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the neck of a bottle and a closure therefor separated from each other embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same combined; Fig. 3 is a similar view showing cement as the closure locking means.

In the form in which I prefer to embody my invention, it is employed in connection with or supplementary to an ordinary cork 10 which is inserted as usual in the mouth of the bottle neck 11. Adapted to overlie the outer end of the cork 10 is a guard or seal 12 of such form as either to wholly or partially prevent access to the cork 10, and on its edge at one or more points, said guard or seal has a stem-like projection or extension 13, adapted to enter and fit a longitudinally extending channel or pocket 14 formed in an enlargement on the side of the bottle neck. In the side wall of the pocket or channel is formed a notch or cavity 15 having an abrupt shoulder 16, and

in the contiguous side of the stem there is a similar notch or cavity 17 having an ab-' rupt shoulder 18, the two notches or cavities being opposite each other when the stem is inserted entirely into its pocket. If more than one stem is employed, all or any number of them and the corresponding pockets may be provided with said cavities or recesses. The purpose of the cavities or recesses 15 and 17 is to afford means of locking the stem 111 its chamber or channel, and

asuitable locking device 19 for this purpose may consist of a simple piece of spring wire or metal doubled or bent upon itself, so that its free ends cross and provide tongues to engage the abrupt shoulders of the respective notches or cavities. Whatever the form of the locking means, it should be such as to enable the ready insertion of the stem into its chamber or channel, and automatically lock therewith and prevent the subsequent withdraw-a1 of the stem.

The guard or seal may be of glass or other fragile or frangible material, and preferably at or near the point of connection of the stem or stems and the body thereof, the device is rendered weaker or more fragile than at any other point, so that in removing the guard or seal, preliminary to giving access to the contents of the bottle or receptacle, the device will break at such point and leave practically the whole of the stem locked in its channel or chamber. After this operation, it will be evident that the presence of the broken stem will show that there has already been access to the contents of the bottle, and thus evidence afforded of the re use of the bottle. The fragment or broken piece of stem could only be Wholly removed by breaking through the wall of the enlargement containing it, so that if the stem should be removed, the condition of the bottle neck would afford evidence that the bottle had once been used.

It will be evident that the part which I have termed the guard or seal may in itself constitute the entire closure of the bottle or receptacle.

Preferably the plane of the top of the bottle neck when the guard or seal is in place is as high or slightly higher than the plane of the top of the body of the seal to protect the latter from accidental breakage. The protecting wall which is thus formed is also useful in that any sharp edges or projections at the top of the broken stem will beguarded so that one handling cut or scratched by sharp edges on the stem.

As shown in Fig. 3, instead of the spring locking device 19, I may use cement 191 as the locking device, the cement that I use being acid and heat-proof, and cheaper than the spring.

the bottle does not incur the risk of being Ina bottle, the combination of a closure comprising a member extending across the 5- bottle opening and having a stem projecting her in the bottle wall, the locked portion of the stem being Wholly Within the chamber, 1

the bottle having around itsmouth an up- 10 ard projection reaching to a plane not lower than the top of the stem when the member that extends across the mouth of the bottle is broken from the stem said member and said stem being integral and of frangible material, whereby the saidmem- 15 her may readily be broken from the stem leaving the stem attached to the bottle. into and permanently locked within a cham- In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature 1n presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK M. BUDLONG; Witnesses:

J. M. CURRAGH, A. T. GRIFFIN.

Copies of this patent'may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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