Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1887
Complete Left, 8th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
We, WILLIAM HUNTINGTON DANCE and WILLIAM SMITH, both of 70 Arundel
Street, Landport, Portsmouth in the County of Hants, Mineral Water Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The apparatus in accordance with our invention is devised for the purpose of
delivering bottles from filling machines to a suitable receptacle, and is applicable to
any type of machines for filling bottles with mineral waters, malt and other liquors.
The device according to our invention comprises a shute of suitable shape,
formed of wire, or sheet or perforated metal, one end of which is open for the reception
of a bottle, the other end being hinged to a clamp, by means of which, said shute is
secured to the bottling machine. To the hinged end is attached a short arm carrying
a counterweight, which latter serves to raise the shute to a vertical position after a
bottle has been delivered. On the shute attaining the vertical position, above referred
to, it is caught by a hook formed at one end of a pivotted lever fixed to the arm of
the bottling machine, the other end being provided with a counterweight.
Now, a bottle having been filled, the arm of the bottling machine is actuated, and
the hook at the end of the lever is raised, thus releasing the shute, which, by reason of
the combined weight of the latter and the bottle, being greater than the weight at the
end of the arm above described, falls over, discharging or delivering into a suitable
receptacle, the bottle which has just been filled. The shute being now empty returns
to its normal position, and is ready for the next operation.
Dated this 11th day of June 1887.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants,
By Power dated 16th July, 1887.

page_text: We, WILLIAM HUNTINGTON DANCE and WILLIAM SMITH, both of 70 Arundel
Street, Landport, Portsmouth, in the county of Hants Mineral Water Manufacturers
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:
Our invention is devised for the purpose of delivering bottles from filling machines
to a suitable receptacle, and is applicable to any type of machines for filling bottles
with mineral waters, malt and other liquors.
In order that our invention may be the better understood we have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a filling machine
with our improved device adapted thereto. Figures 2 and 4 are respectively a plan
and side elevation of the shoot hereinafter referred to and Figure 3 is a plan of a
clamp for attaching the shoot to a filling machine.
The device in accordance with our invention comprises a shoot A of suitable shape,
formed of wire gauge, or of sheet or perforated metal as may be most desirable, one
end of which is hinged at a to a suitable clamp B for attachment to a bottling
imachine M. To one side of the hinged end of the shoot A is fixed a short arm C
carrying a counterweight c which latter serves to raise the shoot A to a vertical
position after the delivery of a bottle. Upon the shoot attaining the vertical position
above referred to, it is caught and retained by a hook or equivalent D formed upon
one end of a pivoted lever E engaging with a small projection d upon the exterior of
the shoot A Figure 2 the other end of the said lever E being provided with a suitable
counterweight.
The action of the apparatus according to our invention is as follows:-
A bottle having been filled, the handle N of the machine M is depressed whereupon
the hook D is raised thus releasing the shoot A which, by reason of the combined
weights of the bottle e and shoot A being greater than the counterweight c upon the
arm C, falls over, and allows the bottle e to slide down the inclined surface of the
shoot A into a trough like receptacle G, whence it is removed and stacked or
otherwise stored. The shoot being relieved from its superincumbent weight returns
to the vertical position, and is ready for the next operation of delivering a bottle.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. The improved apparatus for delivering bottles from filling machines
substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Second. In the device referred to in the preceding claim the mode of and means
adopted for balancing and tilting the shoot A substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this Sixth day of March 1888.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.