In 1879, Charles G. Hutchinson, who happened to be the son of a prominent Chicago bottler, devised a spring-clasped internal bottle closure known as the "Hutchinson Stopper." Hutchinson was issued a patent for his invention from the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)

"Patent submission for the classic Coca-Cola Bottle" The prototype sketch for the original shape of the 'hobbleskirt bottle' was inspired by an illustration of a cocoa bean from the 1913 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.

The design of the world famous "Coke Bottle" shaped Coca-Cola bottle was no accident of design. Benjamin Thomas, was a bottler from Chattanooga, Tennessee. He'd written to The Coca-Cola Company citing the need for a package that

"a person could recognise as a 'Coca-Cola' bottle when feeling it in the dark, so shaped that even if broken, a person could tell at a glance what it was."

1920s - 30s

1903

1955