Improvements in Machines for Filling Bottles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Filling Bottles.
I, DAVID WATSON, of 52, Stacey Road, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan,
Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in those machines for filling bottles in
which the flow of the liquid is effected through a syphon which is put into operation
by the weight of the bottle. The object of it is to prevent the fracture of the
syphon pipes as well as of the bottle necks against the rigid rest pins or rods at
present in use.
In carrying it into effect the syphon is pivotted upon or to the side of the vessel
of liquid, the end of the shorter leg being provided with a suitable valve adapted
to automatically close the leg when a filled bottle is taken off the syphon. The
bottle rest is provided with any suitable type of cushion adapted to receive its
weight without jarring the bottle. I propose the following mechanism as one
which meets the requirements of my invention and embodies all its features.
A horizontal pin is supported with its ends in vertical guides, by a spring which
will yield sufficiently under the weight of the bottle when it is hung on the syphon
leg, to prevent it and the leg being jarred by its weight. The guides may be
carried by the vessel from which the liquid is being bottled. A set screw is provided
for regulating the tension of the spring.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1893.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Filling Bottles.
I, DAVID WATSON, of 52 Stacey Road, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan,
Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My inveution relates to improvements in those machines for filling bottles in
which the flow of the liquid is effected through a syphon which is put into operation
by the weight of the bottle. The object is to prevent the fracture of the syphon,
as well as of the bottle's neck against the rigid rest pins or rods at present
in use.
The invention consists in providing each bottle with an independent rod which
acts upon springs compressible by the passage of the neck ring of the bottle on to
the syphon and also by the weight of the bottle.
In order that my invention and the best means of carrying it into practical effect
may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe it and them in detail, referring in
so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this Specifi-
cation and read therewith.
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a machine constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 2 is a front elevation partly in section.
Figure 3 is a plan of the front part of the reservoir and of the particular parts
of the machine to which the invention relates.
Figure 4 is a sectional side elevation of a cheek.

page_text: Figure 5 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the inner face of a cheek.
Figure 6 is a detail plan corresponding so far with Figure 1.
a is the reservoir containing the liquid to be bottled, and b, b are the syphons.
Both reservoir and syphons are of any well known construction.
c, care a pair of cheeks. They are supported in any convenient way in front of
the reservoir and at equal distances right and left of a syphon, the distance between
the two cheeks of a pair being wide enough to admit of a bottle. d is a vertical
groove in the inner face of each cheek, the groove in one cheek standing exactly
opposite to and facing that in the other cheek. e is a horizontal rod having its
two ends projecting into the respective grooves in which it can rise and fall easily.
This rod may be of any suitable cross section or shape instead of the one illustrated
provided that it is capable of acting as my invention requires.
The grooves d, d and rod e are so placed with reference to the reservoir a, that
when the rod is standing at the top of its grooves, the bottle to be filled, and
having had its neck pushed up over the syphon leg for that purpose, can rest with
its neck ring g on the said rod, as shewn in Figure 1. Each groove is blind at its
bottom end, and between such end and the end of the rod e, there is interposed a
spring h. The two springs act as a cushion as well as returning springs, for they
provide for the rod e being pushed down its grooves by the neck ring g as the bottle
neck is being pushed up over the syphon leg and for the rod being raised again
behind the said neck ring, thereby preventing the syphon leg and the bottle being
jarred and holding the bottle on the syphon in the manner illustrated in Figure 1.
i is a set screw adapted to work vertically upwards through the bottom for the
purpose of adjusting the resilience of the spring.
The combination of grooved cheeks and springs above described is fitted to the
filling machine opposite each syphon.
It is obvious that as each rod e or hottle rest is independent of its neighbours,
bottles of different sizes in respect of weight and contents can be filled at the
same time.
The series of cheeks care shewn as made all in one piece and bolted to the front
of the reservoir a. I prefer to make them separable as shewn, but they may be
made integral with the reservoir.
Instead of a series of rods e as specified above, there may be a single rod
extending along the front of the reservoir and resting equally upon all the springs,
the grooves d in the cheeks intermediate between the outside ones being extended
into slots accordingly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The combination with a machine for filling bottles, of rods or bottle rests
supported independently of each other upon springs, as set forth.
2. The combination with a machine for filling bottles, of rods or bottle rests,
springs upon which the said rests are supported independently of each other, and
vertical grooves in which the ends of the said rods or bottle rests work, as set
forth.
3. The combination with a machine for filling bottles, of a single rod or bottle
rest and springs upon which it is supported in cheeks, as set forth.
4. The combination with a machine for filling bottles, of a bottle rest or rests
and supporting springs and set screws for adjusting the resilience of the latter, as
set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1894
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.