Patent GB-190415434-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Bottling Liquids.
Inventor: RILEY FREDERIC GEORGE
Filed: 1904-07-11
Granted: 1905-06-22
Abstract: 15,434. Riley, F. G. July 11. Bottling. - R e - lates to machines for bottling aÙrated liquids, wherein the bottles are first exhausted and then filled with carbonic acid gas, and finaly with the liquid. On a vertical column A, Fig. 1, is mounted a sleeve B, the bottom of which forms a drain pan P for the waste which occurs during filling. This waste liquid passes through an outlet B<1> into an annular chamber B<2>, which it leaves through an outlet B<3>, and is collected in a receptacle. On the top of the sleeve is secured the bottlehead C containing rubber-lined mouthpieces C<1>. The sleeve B is mechanically connected, as shown in Fig. 1, with a foot-lever A', which, when depressed, imparts a partial rotation to the sleeve, and an outward horizontal motion to the bottle-rest B<7> on account of the engagement with the fixed cam A<2> of the horizontal spindle Q on which the bottle-rest is mounted. The bottle is placed on the rest, which is brought back, when the sleeve is further rotated, by the action of a spring B<4>, so that the bottle is securely gripped between the rest B<7> and the mouthpiece C<1>. The bottle-head C is rotated with ball-bearing connections around a plug cock C", Fig. 3, which is kept stationary by the engagement of its spindle in a recess in the top of the column A. A spring C<4>, thrusting on a loose collar 'against balls, placed in a suitable race, as described in Specification No. 17,474, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Valves &c.], keeps the plug on its seat with even strain. The mouthpieces C' are provided with two tubes C<6>, C', which enter the neck of the bottle and regulate the height of filling. In a machine adapted to be charged with six bottles, the bottle head is rotated <1>/6 of a revolu tion at a time. The first stroke brings the bottle into connection with the vacuum chamber through the passage C<8>. On further rotation, the bottle is first filled with carbonic acid gas and then with the liquid through passages C<9>, C<10>, respectively. To prevent waste in charging the machine, a regulating-cock D, of construction similar to that of the plug cock C", is used, whereby the vacuum, gas-supply, and liquid-supply pipes are opened as required. In a modification, the foot-lever E<7>, Fig. 11, may also be connected through the vertical shaft E with a cam E<10> which engages the bottle-seat E<2> , and thus the release of a bottle may be effected by the return motion of the footlever. Each of the mouthpieces C' may be provided with a handle-actuated valve H<3> for closing the passages therein, thus rendering the use of a regulating-cock unnecessary. The plug cock C", Fig. 3, may be replaced by a cylinder N, Fig. 11, containing the liquid to be bottled, which is secured to the top of the bottle-head and provided with a disc valve kept in position by a spring &c. as in the case of the plug cock. The vacuum passage J<1> in this construction passes down the central shaft E, its connection with the vacuum apparatus being made at J. The invention is especially intended to be used in connection with the machine described in Specification No. 14,797, A.D. 1888 ; but it is also applicable to the ordinary intermittent carbonating-machines in which the liquid is saturated with gas and then bottled off. In this latter case, the use of the vacuum passage may be dispensed with.