Codd-neck bottle

The ball top bottle is a form of beverage bottle for carbonated beverages. It is closed by a glass ball ( " clickers " or " Knicker "), which is forced by the pressure inside the bottle against a rubber ring in the bottle neck. Ball closure bottles were distributed in the trading and selling of mineral water, soft drinks and showers before beverage bottles with swing top bottle caps or arose. Due to the frequent sale of shower in Knickerflaschen this was known colloquially as Knickerwasser or Knickelwasser.

Operation

The ball lock works on the principle of a ball valve. It is composed of a inside the bottle floating glass ball and a rubber ring as a seal ( valve seat ) is embedded into the glass beneath the bottle opening. The opening of the ring is smaller than the glass ball. As long as the pressure inside the bottle is greater than the ambient pressure, the ball is pressed against the rubber ring and the opening closes tightly.

To open the shutter must be pressed from the outside with a force on the ball, which compensates for the gas power. For this, a finger or a handier opener, are composed of a rod in a wooden cap used. The ball thus moves minimal and is a gap between ball and rubber ring free. Therethrough flows, the carbon dioxide gas from the bottle. The internal pressure decreases to ambient levels. The ball is then exposed to only the weight and falls into the beverage.

In order for the ball during emptying or drinking from the bottle does not roll back into the rubber ring and bottle it closes again, there are two projections in the bottle neck, the back and hold the ball in the throat. Most designs are tapered below the bottle neck in addition to such an extent that the ball comes to rest in the parking of the bottle and seals there provisionally again.

When filling the already filled bottle must be turned upside down before the pressurized filling nozzle is withdrawn. This may fall into the rubber ring the ball. During separation of the bottle from the neck of the pressure on the outer side of the ball and the bottle is closed by the escape greater internal pressure.

History

Was invented the ball-lock bottle by the Englishman Hiram Codd, who developed it in 1872 and filed for a patent. In the following years she gained worldwide dissemination, and beverage manufacturers who wanted to use the technique, initially had to pay annual license fees Codd, however, had the glass balls, screw rings and tools to buy later in Codd. In the English -speaking world it is known as Globe - stoppered bottle or even after its inventor as Codd ( long sleeve ) bottle.

Ball closure bottles were very widespread for many decades, however, were gradually supplanted by bottles with swing top bottle caps or. In England, the production was stopped in 1930, in Germany, the production ran until at least 1959 on.

Since opening the bottle a distinctive cracking noise was, naturalized in Austria, as well as in parts of Bavaria, for these sodas, the name " Kracherl " one. In the 1950s, the bottles on the content of " Boller water " also Boller ( water ) bottles were called.

The ball lock is today (2011) still. For the Japanese soft drink Ramune and the Indian " Banta " in the use

Modern version with a Japanese Ramuneflasche

Indian lemonade with ball lock

Knickerwasser

Ball closure bottles were used for Knickerwasser. It was in the following flavors: raspberry (red Knickerwasser ), woodruff (green Knickerwasser ) and lemon (yellow Knickerwasser ) offered. Because the bottles were often smashed by children, to get to the glass marble, relatively few have been preserved and today Knickerflaschen rare collectors' items.