US852360A - Syrup-bottle. - Google Patents

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No. 852,360. PATENTED APR. 30, 1907. W. R. WARNER.

SYRUP BOTTLE. APPLIOATIOH FILED JUNE e. 1906.

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WILLIAM RUSSELL WARNER, OF VERGEN N ES, VERMONT. SYRUP-BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 6, 1906. Serial No. 320,415.

No. 852,360. Patented April 30, 1907.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RUssnLL WARNER, of Vergennes, in the county of Addison and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Syrup-Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following is afull and clear description thereof.

My invention relates to bottles or the like for containing syrup or other fluids.

A principal object of the invention is to provide means whereby when the bottle is grasped by the hand, contact of the hand with the surface of the bottle which may be covered with a portion of the fluid. contents is prevented.

A further object is to provide means whereby the cover of the bottle may be raised to allow the fluid to be poured out of the bottle without the operator having to grasp the cover. The top may be raised if desired by the fingers of the same hand that grasps the bottle near the middle. A bottle embodying these features is particularly adapted to use, for instance, at soda fountains where a mum ber of bottles are usually provided containing of the bottle and held in place in any convenient way, in the present instance by band 8 encircling the bottle 9, a link or pull-down running in the guides '7 and connected to the extension 6; 10, a hook or other convenient grasping member provided on the pull-down.

he parts so far described constitute means for opening the bottle without grasping the cover. The operator may grasp the bottle near the middle and with either finger or thumb of either hand. may pull down the hook l0, whereupon the cover will be raised to the position shown in Fig. 1. Liquid may then be poured out, the hook released, the cover will then return to its position by gravity, and the bottle may be returned to its place, the whole operation being very uickly accomplished. Obviously, the pull( own 9 may be of different construction from that shownit may be a single red running in a single guide, for example.

11, are one or more ribs disposed in any suitable manner around the body of the bottle, but preferably approximately vertical; these ribs are also spaced apart an appreciable distance, but not so far as to permit the fingers of the operator readily to contact with the bottoms of the grooves formed between the ribs; 12, indentations, corrugations, or the like, which may be provided on the ribs to insure a more convenient or secure grasping of the bottle by the hand 13, undercut grooves either at the top or sides, or both, of one or more of the ribs, which serve to keep liquid, running down the bottle, from coming onto the exposed surfaces of the ribs.

It will be obvious that liquid running down the surface of the bottle will encounter the tops of the ribs and will be diverted and will run down the grooves between the ribs so that it will not encounter the fingers when the bottle is grasped' This result is made more certain when undercut grooves 13 are employed. These increase the tendency of the liquid to follow the normal surface of the bottle and prevent it from climbing onto the exposed parts of the ribs.

I believe this invention to be broadly new with me, and I do not intend to limit myself in any respect to details, but contemplate many and wide variations, which may be made without departing from the spirit of the said invention.

I claim:

1. A receptacle for fluids, having exterior handle these many bottles frequently. With bottles as ordinarily constructed, the attend ants hands will quickly become covered with the sticky substances which run down the body of the bottle from the neck, and he is unable to keep the glasses and other appurtenances which he must handle clean, without often washing his hands. The pro vision of means for raising the cover of the bottle also saves a great deal of time in hair dling the bottles and pouring the fluid from them.

In the accompanying drawing, an exemplifying structure embodying the invention is shown:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the com plete bottle wit 1 the cover raised; Fig. 2 is a vertical section; and Fig. 3 a fragmentary transverse section.

eference number 1 designates the bottle as a whole, which may be of any desired shape; 2, the neck; 3, a cover or cap fOl'ClOS- ing the bottle, which may be of any desired style; the top illustrated is simply the style frequently used at soda fountains and need not be adhered to 4, a bracket carried by the bottle; 5, a hinge member carried by the cap and pivoted on the bracket 4 6, an extension of member 5; 7, guides located on the body ribs adjoining the main surface of the bottle, close together so that they form deep grooves the ribs having under-cut grooves adjacent between them, the grooves extending continto the surface of the bottle. uously from one end of the ribbed surface of 15 2. A receptacle for fluids, having1exterior the bottle to the other, the outer surfaces of 5 ribs adjoining the main surface of t e bottle, the ribs being transversely corrugated.

the sides and tops of the ribs having under- In testimony whereof I have affixed my gittigrofoves gidjacfbnt to thte surlface dotfr the signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses. o e or a1 ng 1n preven 1ng iqui om T T getting upon the exposed portions of the ribs. WILLIAM RUSSELL Am 10 3. A bottle having a large number of exte- Witnesses:

rior ribs projecting a suitable distance from R. P. BRIGGs, the normal surface of the bottle and arranged E. P. CARNEY.

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