US1584103A - Bottle closure - Google Patents

Description

may 11 192621A 1,584,103

H. S. LEE

BOTTLE C LOSURE Fiied oct. 6', 1925 Patented May 11, i926.

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HARRY S. LEE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

BOTTLE CLOSURE.

Application lcd Getober 6, 1925.

This invention relates to bottle closures, designed for use in connection with bottles and jars commonly employed for serving and dispensing milk, cream, and the like, for

household and other uses.

My invention has especial reference to thc class of bottle closures shown and described, for example, in United States Patent No. 919,937, dated April 2?, i909, wherein a hood-like cap, such as paper, or other nonnietallic material is snugly fitted to and overlays the top of the bottle, and also a portion of the neck below the usual beaded mouth, and supplements the well-known disc stopper, which is tightly applied to the sunken seat that surrounds the mouth of the ordinary milk bottle.

The present invention relates particularly to improvements in the fastening devices shown and described in my pending application, Serial No. 40,5571, filed June 29, 1925.

-The object of the present invention is to provide a cheap, light, stout, pliable fastener or tie, which preferably comprises a flat woven flexible tape or band, or may consist of any suitable cotton or other twine, that may be tightly wound around the portion of the bottle neck that is overlaid with the snug fitting hood, and then securely tied by means of a knot, for preventing removal or looseninn' of the hood, without showing that the skirt has been tampered with. The knot by which the loose ends of the tape are secured, in the present case, preferably comprises one, two or four loops or bows, instead of the plain square knot of my pending application, and in order to render such bow-knoteffective for preventing unauthorized untying or loosening of the tape, after the completing of the tying' operation, the projecting loops or bows, as well as the loose ends of the tape are cut or sheared adjacent the body of the knot, for providing a number of relatively short radial ends, simulating` a rosette, which if tampered with tend to destroy the binding effect of the fastener, and the said cuttine` or trimming of the loops and ends furthermore result in the shortening of the tape to such extent that vit is impossible to retie the fastener.

The various features and parts of the invention will be understood from the detailed description which follows, and by referenceto the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a broken elevation and partial Section of a milk bottle whose mouth is Serial No. 60,880.

closed by a fibrous hood, to which my improved fastener is applied; showing the loops of a double bow-knot clipped or trimmed. Fig. 2 is a similar view; showing the tape tied with a double bow-knot ready for the final shearing or trimming' operation. F ig. 8 is a side elevation, showing` the fastening tape tied in a manner to provide four loops or bows. Figs. 4i, 5 and 6, show respectively diagrammatic views of single, double and quadruple bow-knots; the full lines in said views showing the respective knots after the loops and loose ends have been trimmed. And Fig. 7 is a reduced plan view of the disc from which the hood isvforme'd.

ln the drawing, -2 represents the body of an ordinary milk bottle or container, such as commonly used for serving milk and cream to customers. 3 is the neck of the bottle, whose top is formed with the usual annular bead e, that surrounds the mouth 5; thelatter being formed with a depressed annular socket or seat 6, to receive the well-known disc stopper 7. 8 represents a hood-like external closure or cap, which is usually made of a tough flexible variety of paper, the said cap beingordinarily furnished to the bottlers in the form of a disc, as 8 (see Fig. 7) whichis applied to the top of the bottle (see Figs. i and 2) immediately after the bottle is filled and sealed by means of the stopper 7. rllhe central portion 8a of the disc 8 overlays the mouth of the bottle,parallel to the stopper 7, and after the adjacent medial portion is molded around the bead 4, the margin of the disc is compressed and molded against the neck 8 below lthe bead, for forming a contracted snug fitting skirt 8l. Where no other fastening means are employed, the skirt 8b is usually pasted or otherwise secured to the neck, by paraffin or other suitable temporary adhesive (not shown). In practice, it has been found that the more or less rough handling of the bottles by the deliverymen, tends to loosen the lightly pasted skirts 8b, and in some cases the hoods are tampered with, either for the purpose of substituting the contents ofthe bottles, or for making unauthorized use of the saine. These troubles have heretofore been overcome by various means, such for example, as by winding about the neck 3 a wire, or by applying' a rubber band of suitable tension to hold the skirt in place, as shown at 12 in the aforementionedpatent. Still another means for securing the skirt in place is shown in my als co-pending application, whereina 'atlflexible band or tap-e, is wound around the skirt, and is then tied by means of a square knot, after which the free ends ofthetape .are overlapped and securely stitched or sewed, for preventing tampering with the knot; This sewing of the loose ends of the fastener requires the employment of a more or less complicated and expensive sewing mechanism,'which not onlyggreatly increases the cost of sealing the bottlesybut alsoA prolongs the work ofpreparing tlie'bottles for delivery. In the present case, the fastening means preferably comprises a' similar flat flexible non-elastic tape, `as 9, which may be' readily a-nd quickly coiled around the portion of the neckf that is overlai'dby the skirt 8", after which the ends of the tape are tiedlirst with a single knot, and then formed with double loops orbows, as 595-9El and two loose ends, as 9b-9c, all of which Vparts are finally drawn tight'inthe usual manner, asl shown in Fig. 2. The tape 9 employed for securing' the skirt i 8b, is usually wou-nd upon a spool (not shown), from whic'hthe tape is'fe'd continuously into the tyingmachine, andafter each tying operation, the woundiand tied portions of the tape are severed, as` shown at m in Fig. 2, by any suitable slfieai-ii-ig'l ymef'zhanism (not shown). 'At this stage ofthe binding and fastening of the skirt 8b, according to F ig. 2, theknot comprises two loops 9-9EL and the resultant' 'free ends' 59h-9". If. the fasten ers wereleft in this condition, the -tape 9 might be readily untied bysimply pulling on the loose en'ds.9b-`9, in a well-known manner, and the cap 8.1niglit then' be readily removed and the contents off the bottle tampered with' or used, and the sai-d parts might beniafterwards replaced andthe tape .again tied, without danger of detection. In order topprovide against such unauthorized unfasteriing and removing of the cap `8,.and.the retying of' the tape 9, thebottling machine is preferably equipped with suitable means (not shown) for clipping or shearing the severalloops 9-'-9a', as well as theloose ends SP4-9b ofy the bow-knot, preferably at Vthe points rindicated bythe broken lines 9I in Figs. 2 and 3. This shearing of the loops and Yends ofthe tape leaves theknot in the condition shown in .'Fig'. 1.and bythe fullA lines in F ig. 5, wherein six relatively short loose ends( or arms, as 9b, 9can'd' 9X, are shown radiating from the central .body- 9e ofthe knot. By thi-s construction yand arrangement of the knot, any attempt to loosen the tape.

9, as bypulling on the said arms or strands, will resulty in withdrawing all but two of the .arms effected bythe shearing, therebyk leaving the knot so loosely tied that thetape 9 may be readily slipped downwardly bodily fandfreed':fromtheskirt 8b. The cap 8 may then be removed and the contents of the bottle withdrawn by simply displacing the stopper 7. The shearing of the loops and loose ends' ofthe knot so short-ens the tape that the latter cannot again be coiled around the skirt 8" and tied in a. manner tok present to the `accustomed eye a knot having siX radial arms,..for example, as shown in Figs. l and 5. In practice, the milk vendors usually adopt a knot having one, two or four loops or bows, .andv their customers are able by means of visual inspectionto instantly detect. any tampering with the hoodfastening means, as described.

In Figs. 3 and ,G the knot-- is shown formed with four loops, as l0, 10 lOu andlOb, and when the loops and arms 10C-l0d are slieared on the broken lines 9 ten ends or arms radiate from; the body of the knot, as shown diagrai'nmatically in F 6, and present a 'rosette'appearance Any attempt to loosen the knot, as by'pulling' on' the several arms, will ,result in withdrawing all but two of the said arms, and correspondingly loosening the knot, and rendering'they tape incapable ofvv being retied, without sho-wing mutilation oftherosette and-1 therefore indicating tampering.

Having thus described myy invention,what I clainn'is- '1. A combined fastener and means 'for indicating. unauthorized tampering with the protective .wrapper of an article comprising ampliable tape, the ends of'tiie tape being tiedbyineans of a bow-knot and the bows being sheared fl r providing a plurality ofv radiating arms in' addition to'tlre normal free ends of the tape,.and the-shearing of'said bows effecting a substantial 'shortening of the tape adapted toprev-ent replacing of the fastener and restoringof vthe tape to'the wrapper in case the knotis unti'ed.

2. A combined fastener and means for indicating unauthorized tampering with the protective wrapper ofan article composed of ya band .having'ends ti'edby'means ofa pluralityA of bow-knots so'as to leave the ends loose, thebowsbeing sli-eared to provideY additional loose ends, the ends being all ar rangedlto conjointly simulate a--rosette -sigu-` fying authorized sealing ofthearticle and being of such length so as toprevent retying and restoringofthe rosette.

In testimony whereofl alix'my signature.

'HRRY S. LEE.

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