with Syrup and Aërated Water or with other Liquids.
Year: 1888

page_text: with Syrup and Aërated Water or with other Liquids.
We, HENRY WILLIAMS CARTER and ERNEST MATRAVERS WRIGHT of 45 Wilder
Street, in the city and county of Bristol, aërated water manufacturers, and WILLIAM
EDNEY of 45 Wilder Street, Bristol, aforesaid, foreman of aërated water manufactory
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:-
The improved machine for charging bottles or other vessels with liquids in which
this invention consists, is specially adapted for charging bottles, syphons and other
vessels with aërated water and syrup which, mixing together in the vessels, constitute
beverages of varied flavour according to the kind of syrup or flavouring liquid used.
In order to simplify description it will be convenient to consider the machine as
applied to the aforesaid purpose, viz., charging with aërated water and flavouring
syrup, but it is to be understood that it is applicable to charging and blending beer,
wine and other liquids.
The machine is so designed that through actuation of one and the same lever, or
the equivalent thereof, the syrup and the aërated water are supplied to the bottle,
syphon or other vessel to be charged, instead of involving, as hitherto, two separate
operations.
The supply of syrup to the syrup pump is controlled by a valve situated in a
chamber constituting a continuation of the inlet pipe. The port which is governed by
this inlet valve opens into the cylinder of the syrup pump at the bottom thereof. The
inlet valve is normally kept closed against the admission of the syrup by means of a
spiral spring acting on the valve, but at each up stroke of the pump piston a vacuum
is created behind the valve which is forced open by the syrup acting against it on the
outside, and the syrup flows into the pump cylinder.
The quantity of syrup admitted to the pump cylinder at each up stroke of the
piston is regulated by an adjusting screw, or other device, controlling the stroke.
At each down stroke of the pump piston the syrup is expelled through an exhaust
port and, forcing back a valve governing the said port, flows to the bottle held to
receive it by the ordinary treadle apparatus.
The spindle of the valve which governs the inlet of the aërated water normally
projects, under the influence of a spring, upwards through the bottom of the pump

page_text: cylinder. The descending piston bearing upon the top of the spindle overcomes the
force of the spring, and the valve is opened, it being understood that the outlet valve
of the syrup pump is now closed, and the water flows to the bottle. As the piston
rises, the inlet valve of the aërated water closes against the water supply. The
pump piston may be actuated manually or by an engine or other suitable motor.
This invention consists, secondly, in a valve specially designed to permit escape of
the air dislodged from the bottles when charging, and to act as a relief valve for any
excess of pressure of the aërated water.
This valve which is situated at the end of the apparatus at which the bottles are
filled is normally kept closed by means of a spring which forces it inwards in
its seat.
The air displaced from the bottle in charging the latter with liquid acts against the
valve and opens it and when the air has escaped the valve again closes.
The valve acts similarly under the influence of pressure of liquid in excess of
the pressure which, by means of a cap and lock nut, the spring is adjusted to
withstand.
This invention further. consists in means for rinsing the cone in which the
corks are inserted and in which they are guided when being driven into the
bottle.
Rinsing is, according to this invention, effected by a supply of water conducted, by
a branch pipe communicating with the main whereby the aërated water is led to the
pump, to a channel through which the water passes into an annular space or trench
formed around the cork cone. The trench communicates with the interior of the cone
by a series of orifices which are blocked on the inside by the cork when inserted in
the cone prior to being driven into the bottle.
When, in driving the cork, the top thereof descends below the the orifices aforesaid,
the water flows into the cone thereat and, filling and overflowing that part of it which
is above the cork, washes out any cork dust expressed from the cork. On removal of
the bottle, the water washes out the lower part of the cone.
By a cock situated in the pipe by which the water is conducted to the cone the
supply may be controlled.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, the figure on sheet one represents an
end view of a machine constructed and arranged for charging bottles with syrup and
aërated water in accordance with this invention.
The figure on sheet 2 represents a part side elevation and part vertical section of
the pump.
Between the end of the inlet pipe a, by which the syrup is admitted to the syrup
pump, and the cylinder c is a valve 6 normally kept closed by the spiral spring 61
acting upon it.
In the accompanying drawings the pump is represented as fitted with a hand lever u,
connected to the piston rod e, for forcing the piston d down and with a spring w
connected to the lever u and to the frames for raising the piston. The piston may,
however, be actuated by a steam or other engine instead of by the means illustrated.
When not held down by hand, the lever u is drawn up by the spring w and a
vacuum being created below the piston d the inlet valve 6 is opened and admits the
syrup to the cylinder c of the pump. The adjusting screw controls the up stroke
of the piston and regulates the quantity of syrup admitted to the cylinder.
On the downward stroke of the piston d, the valve b closes and the syrup is expelled
through the outlet valve and flows thence to the bottle o held in a cap n of the
usual kind at which the bottle is maintained in place by a treadle or the like.
The spindle g¹ of the valve g which controls the admission from the pipe h of the
aërated water, extends normally, under the influence of a spiral spring g², into the
pump cylinder c.
x is a stuffing box for the spindle g'. As the piston d approaches
the end of each down stroke, the lower end of the piston rod e bears upon the top
of the spindle g', and the valve g is thereby opened, it being understood that the
syrup outlet valve is now closed. The aërated water admitted, as aforesaid, by the
valve g flows to the bottle, following the syrup. As soon as the piston d is allowed

page_text: to rise in the cylinder c the valve ġ rises into its seat and cuts off the further supply
of aërated water.
This invention consists, secondly in the the adoption of the valve k for the escape
of the air dislodged from the bottle by the liquids. It acts also as a relief valve under
undue pressure of the liquid with which the bottle is being charged. The valve is
normally kept closed by the action of the spiral spring k¹, but is forced open by the
air dislodged from the bottle, after the escape of which the valve again closes.
When the pressure of the water with which the bottle is being filled is in excess of
the requirement, the valve also opens and the excess of pressure is dissipated.
By the screw capt acting on the spring k¹ and by the lock nut t¹ the degree of
resistance of the valve is capable of nice adjustment.
This invention consists further in the method of and means for rinsing or cleansing
the cone through which the corks are driven into the bottles.
By the branch pipe i connected to the main pipe h, by which the aërated water is
admitted to the machine, a supply of water, controlled by the stop cock i¹ is conducted
to the cork conej into which it is admitted through perforations-y communicating
with an annular space or trench formed around the outside of the cone. When the
cork P is inserted in the cone it is forced down by the usual manually actuated
plunger working in the guider and temporarily blocks the orifices y, but when,
after the cork has been driven into the bottle, the orifices y are unobstructed, the
water flows into the cone; thereat and, filling and overflowing that part of the cone
which is above the top of the cork, washes out any cork dust expressed from the cork
in driving. On removal of the bottle from the cap n the water in the conej descends
and washes out the lower part thereof.
This arrangement for continuous rinsing is simple and involves less waste of charged
water than obtains under arrangements hitherto adopted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a machine for charging bottles, syphons or other vessels with aërated water
and syrup to flavour the same, the means herein before described whereby the syrup
and the aerated water are supplied to the vessels in one machine and under one and
the same operation, manual or otherwise.
2. In a machine for charging bottles, syphons or other vessels with aërated water
and syrup to flavour the same, the use of a syrup pump cylinder such as c with
inlet and outlet valves b and f, for the syrup, and the use of a valve such as g for
controlling the supply of aërated water and opened by the contact of the underside
of the piston d or piston rod e with the spindle of the said valve, as specified.
3. In a machine for charging bottles, syphons and other vessels with aërated water
and flavouring syrup, the use of a valve such as k for escape of air dislodged from
the vessels and for relief of the same from undue pressure of the aërated liquid, as
specified.
4. The perforated cork conej supplied with water by a branch pipe such as i con-
nected to the main aërated water supply pipe, or otherwise supplied with water, for
rinsing or washing out the cone, as specified.
5. The combination of parts constituting the improved machine for charging bottles
and other vessels with aërated water and flavouring syrup, or with other liquids,
constructed, arranged and operating, substantially as, hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty first day of January 1888.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicants' Agent.