AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Albert Glaeser, of Bow, in the County of
Middlesex, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR
CAPSULING BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Albert Glaeser
"AN
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th August 1880.
FREDERICK ALBERT GLAESER, of Bow, in the County of Middlesex.
IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES."
This Invention relates to a new or improved machine or apparatus fo capsuling
bottles and similar articles, the object of the Invention being the construction of a
simple and efficient machine whereby the capsuling operation is effected in a better
and more simple and expeditious manner than hitherto.
The new or improved machine is constructed of a pair of eccentric jaws jointed
together shear-wise in a suitable stand or frame; the lower or fixed jaw may be
cast in one piece with the stand. The upper or moveable jaw is provided with a
projecting arın jointed by links or otherwise to the shorter arm of a hand lever
working on a fulcrum in the frame of the machine. To the outer end of the upper
or moveable jaw is jointed a cam shaped jaw working in a slot in the stand of the
machine. To the inner surface of the cam shaped jaw is attached a segment of a
circle made of spring steel which adapts itself when compressed to the circle of the
lower jaw. In the central space enclosed by the jaws is an india rubber socket
serrated on its inner surface. The jaws are enclosed by suitable plates, the inner
one having a central hole to allow of the introduction of the neck of the bottle to
be capsuled.
The operation of the machine is as follows:-
A capsule being placed over the mouth of a bottle, the mouth of the bottle is
passed into the hereinbefore described serrated india rubber socket; the lever
handle being now depressed, the hereinbefore described moveable jaws will be moved
inwards towards the centre, compressing the serrated socket, which will press the
capsule tightly over and around the mouth and neck of the bottle; pressure being
removed from the lever handle the parts will be returned to their normal position
by the action of the spring, and the bottle being removed is replaced by another
and so on.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick Albert Glaeser in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th February 1881.
FREDERICK ALBERT GLAESER, of Bow, in the County of Middlesex. "AN
IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES
ARTICLES."
AND SIMILAR
This Invention relates to a new or improved machine or apparatus for capsuling
bottles and similar articles, the object of the Invention being the construction of a
simple and efficient machine whereby the capsuling operation is effected in a better
and more simple and expeditious manner than hitherto.
The new or improved machine is constructed of a pair of eccentric jaws jointed
together shear-wise in a suitable stand or frame; the lower or fixed jaw may be
cast in one piece with the stand. The upper or moveable jaw is provided with a
projecting arm jointed by links or otherwise to the shorter arm of a hand lever
working on a fulcrum in the frame of the machine. To the outer end of the upper
or moveable jaw is jointed a cam shaped jaw working in a slot in the stand of the
machine. To the inner surface of the cam shaped jaw is attached a segment of a
circle made of spring steel which adapts itself when compressed to the circle of the
lower jaw.
In the central space enclosed by the jaws is an india rubber socket
serrated on its inner surface of the usual construction.
The jaws are enclosed by suitable plates, the front one having a central hole to
allow of the introduction of the neck of the bottle to be capsuled.
But to make my Invention better understood, I will proceed to describe the same
by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 a front elevation of my improved machine or apparatus for capsuling
bottles and similar articles; Figure 3, longitudinal section on line A, B, of Figure 1,
the parts of the machine being in their normal position; Figure 4, similar view to
Figure 3, shewing the parts in the position which they take when the hand lever
is depressed for capsuling a bottle. Similar letters in all the Figures represent
similar parts.
a, a, represent the stand or frame of the machine or apparatus; b and c are the
eccentric jaws working shearwise on the joint pin or bolt d, and the lower or fixed
jaw b being cast as shewn in one piece with the stand a; e is the projecting arm
of the upper or moveable jaw c jointed by the links ƒ and g to the shorter arm of
the band lever h, the said hand lever h working on the pin or fulcrum i in the
bracket cast on the stand a; is the cam shaped jaw jointed as shewn to the end
of the upper or moveable jaw c, the said cam shaped jaw working in the inclined
slot in the stand a, the face of the said slot being bushed as shown at m; n is the
curved steel spring attached to the cam shaped jaw ; o is the usual india rubber
socket serrated on its inner surface and placed in the central space enclosed by the
jaws; p, india rubber packing or bushing between the socket o and the jaws;
g and are the plates enclosing the jaws, the front plate q having a central hole to
allow of the introduction of the neck of the bottle to be capsuled.
The operation of the machine is as follows:-
The parts of the machine being in the position shewn in Figures 1, 2, and 3, a
capsule is placed over the mouth of the bottle. The mouth of the bottle is passed
into the herein before described serrated india rubber socket o; the lever handle h is
then depressed into the position shewn in Figure 4, and the hereinbefore described
moveable jaws c and I will be moved inwards towards the centre, compressing the
serrated socket o, which will press the capsule tightly over and around the mouth and
neck of the bottle; pressure being removed from the lever handle h, the parts will

page_text: be returned to their normal position by the action of the spring n, and the bottle
being removed is replaced by another and so on.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means with
which I am acquainted for carry the same into effect, I would have it understood
that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein laid down and shewn in
the Drawings, as the same may be varied without departing from the peculiar
character of my Invention, but what I do claim is,—
Firstly. The general arrangement and construction of the improved machine
or apparatus for capsuling bottles and similar articles, as hereinbefore described
and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. In a machine or apparatus for capsuling bottles and similar articles,
I claim the combination with a pair of eccentric jaws jointed together shearwise
of a cam-shaped jaw, arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for
the purpose hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Albert Glaeser, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street,
Finsbury.
FREDERICK A. GLAESER. (L.S.)