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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
GEORGE C. PH1 ILLIPS, OF TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
WILLIAMI WIIARTON IIOSKINS, OF VELASCO, TEXAS.
BOTTLE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,765, dated NIay 4, 1897.
Application filed June 24, 1896. Serial No, 596,750. (No model)To all Uwh 71 ift MaC conteer:
Be it known that I, GEORGE C. PHILLIPS, a
citizen of the United States, and a resident of
Texas City, in the county of Galveston and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which
the following is a specification, reference be-
ing had to the accompanying drawings, form-
ing a part thereof, in which similar letters of
io reference indicate corresponding parts.
This invention relates to bottles, jugs, jars,
and similar vessels; and the object thereof is
to provide a vessel of this class which, having
been once filled and sealed, cannot be emptied
15 of its contents without leaving evidence of
the fact.
The invention is fully disclosed in the fol-
lowing specification, of which the accompany-
ing drawings form a part, in which I have
ao shown my invention applied to a bottle, and
in which-
Figure 1 is a central vertical section of the
upper part of a bottle and the neck thereof
provided with my improvement, and Fig. 2
a5 a similar view of a modified form of construc-
tion.
In the practice of my invention I provide a
bottle A, having a neck B, within which is
formed, near the end thereof, an annular
;o groove C, and I also employ a stopper consist-
ing of a tubular casing D, which is adapted
at its upper end to closely fit the inner walls
of the neck B and which is also provided with
an annular groove E, which corresponds with
;5 the annular groove C in the neck and which
is adapted to register therewith, and placed
in said groove is a split spring-ring F, which
when the tubular casing D is forced into the
neck is adapted to expand into the groove C,
;o so as to prevent the removal of said tubular
casing.
The lower part of the tubular casing D is
cut away, so as to form an annular chamber
G, in which is placed a tubular packing II, of
5 cork or similar material, and I also provide a
cylindrical cork or plug K, which is adapted
to be forced into the tubular casing D, and
secured to the lower end of said cork or plug
K is a disk L, of spun glass, mica, or similar
o flexible and non-corrosive material, whichwhen the cork or plug K is pulled out will also
be drawn out and collapsed or otherwise in-
jured, so that it cannot be again used.
The operation will be readily understood
from the foregoing description when taken in 55
connection with the accompanying drawings
and the following statement thereof.
When the bottle has been filled, the stopper,
comprising the tubular casing D, the annular
packing I-I, of cork or similar material, and 60
the cork K, is forced into the neck thereof in
the usual manner, and the ring F in this op-
eration will expand and securely hold the tu-
bular casing D in place, and the latter can-
not be removed under any circumstances. 65
The annular packing H, of cork, is designed
to prevent the contents of the bottle from
reaching the spring F, and the disk L may be
of any desired shape or size, but is so formed
as to be forced into the neck of the bottle with- 70
out breaking or otherwise injuring the same.
When it is desired to empty the bottle, the
cork K is withdrawn in the usual manner,
and this operation collapses the disk L, and
this condition of the disk or the absence there- 75
of will be proof that the bottle has once been
filled and emptied, and I may also place on
said disk the name of the manufacturer or
proprietor of the contents of the bottle, and
a suitable label may be placed on said bottle, 80
describing the disk L and the object thereof.
In the construction shown in Fig. 2 I sub-
stitute for the disk L a ring M, which is pref-
erably made in sections, said sections being
connected with the lower end of the cork \in 85
any desired manner, and the separate parts
thereof may be composed of glass or any de-
sired material which will not be affected by
the contents of the bottle, and when the cork
K is pulled out the separate parts of the ring 90
Ni will be detached and drop into the bottle,
and they cannot be afterward connected with
another cork, for the reason that in order to
do this the tubular casing D must first be re-
moved,and this cannot be done without break- 95
ing off the neck of the bottle. The operation
of this form of construction will be substan-
tially the same as that hereinbefore described,
and it will thus be seen that I accomplish the
object of my invention by means of a device Ioo
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Phillips, George C. Bottle., patent, May 4, 1897; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174596/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.