IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AND DRAWING OFF LIQUIDS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwards, of the Strand, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND
APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AND DRAWING OFF LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 29th October 1875, and dated the 1st May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwards at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st May 1875.
I, JOHN EDWARDS, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AND DRAWING OFF LIQUIDS," to be as
follows:-
Hitherto liquids not aerated have not been bottled with loose glass
balls, nor other internal stoppers unless they have been pulled to the
O mouth of the bottles, and there secured. I have devised a means
whereby any liquid may be bottled, and any internal stopper used.

page_text: To carry out my improvements I proceed as follows:-I connect
to the inlet of the machine described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to me, No. 1617, in the year. 1874, either a lift or force
pump by which the liquid is pumped into the bottles; the frame is
then reversed and the stopper falls to the mouth of the bottle, and is
securely held by the compressed liquid. Any number of liquids may
be blended to put into the bottles or vessels, or the bottles may be filled
in the usual manner, and then placed to the mouth of an air pump
bottom upwards, and by a momentary action of the pump be instantly
stoppered.
According to another arrangement I employ a vessel or reservoir to
contain compressed air, which vessel or reservoir is to be connected
by means of a pipe and a ball or other valve, tap, or joint, with the
barrel or vessel in which the liquid or liquids are stored. By these
means non-aërated liquids may be bottled with internal stoppers.
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I use a tap connected with the barrel in which the liquid to be bottled
Or drawn off" is stored, said tap having a revolving nozzle; when the
bottle is filled with the compressed liquid it is turned bottom upwards
without being removed from the revolving nozzle, and is instantly
stoppered.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWARDS, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Edwards, Her special licence
that I, the said John Edwards, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Edwards, my executors
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term

page_text: therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AND DRAWING OFF LIQUIDS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Edwards, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Edwards, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is
to say) :-
Hitherto liquids not aërated have not been bottled with loose glass
balls, nor other internal stoppers unless they have been pulled to the
mouth of the bottles and there secured. I have devised a means
whereby any liquid may be bottled, and any internal stopper used.
To carry out my improvements I proceed as follows :-I connect
to the inlet of the machine described in the Specification of Letters
Patent granted to me, No. 1617, in the year 1874, either a lift or force
pump by which the liquid is pumped into the bottles; the frame is
then reversed and the stopper falls to the mouth of the bottle, and is
securely held by the compressed liquid; and any number of liquids
may be blended to put into the bottles or vessels, or the bottles may
be filled in the usual manner, and then placed to the mouth of an air
pump bottom upwards, and by a momentary action of the pump be
instantly stoppered.
According to another arrangement I employ a vessel or reservoir to
contain compressed air, which vessel or reservoir is to be connected
by means of a pipe and a ball or other valve, tap, or joint, with the
barrel or vessel in which the liquid or liquids are stored. By these
means non-aërated liquids may be bottled with internal stoppers.

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I use a tap connected with the barrel in which the liquid to be bottled
"drawn off" is stored, said tap having a revolving nozzle; when
the bottle is filled with the compressed liquid it is turned bottom
upwards without being removed from the revolving nozzle, and is
instantly stoppered.
In the Drawings Fig. 1 is a view illustrating the method of filling
with non-aërated liquids bottles fitted with internal stoppers.
A represents my patented machine before referred to; B is a lift
or force pump; C, a barrel containing the liquid to be bottled; c², pipe
leading from barrel C, or connected with a "blender" for blending
two or more liquids from several barrels or receptacles; b¹, pipe leading
from pump to the bottling machine A. The bottle fitted with stopper
is placed in the holders a, a', and by a few strokes of the pump is filled
with liquor. The frame A which revolves on the arms a² is then reversed
and the internal stopper falls to the mouth of the bottle and is ready
to be removed.
Suitable cocks are provided for regulating and cutting-off the pressure
and supply of liquid. It may not however be always convenient to
connect the force pump with the liquor barrel, in which case the bottles
fitted with internal stoppers are simply filled with liquor from a tap,
jug, or in any other ordinary manner, and the operator then places
his hand over the mouth of the filled bottles and turns the bottle
upside down, whereupon the internal stopper falls to the mouth of the
bottle, closing same and retaining the liquid; the mouth of the bottle
is then placed to the nozzle of an ordinary force pump, and by a
momentary action thereof sufficient air is forced into the bottle to
retain the stopper in position, when the bottled liquors will be ready
for storage.
In Fig. 2 is shown a pump which is particularly designed for com-
pleting the bottling of liquors after the manner last described. It
consists of two cylinders D and D' fitted with a packed joint E. The
upper cylinder D works through the joint and within the cylinder D',
which latter contains a coiled spring, and is fitted with a valve opening
inwards. The upper cylinder D is provided with a nipple & for
receiving the mouth of the bottle.
When the bottle is filled in the manner before described the mouth
is placed to the nipple &, and the upper cylinder D is depressed and

page_text: forced down into the cylinder D¹, whereby air is forced into the
bottle to keep the internal stopper in position. On the removal of
the bottle and the pressure the spring in the lower cylinder D¹
at once drives up the top cylinder D ready for stoppering another
bottle.
In Fig. 3 is represented an arrangement for bottling or drawing off
non-aërated liquors by means of pressure in the barrel or receptacle
from which the liquor is to be drawn; F is a pressure cylinder filled
with compressed air through the pipe f¹ leading from the air pump; G,
pressure guage and regulator, and g¹, pipe leading from pressure cylinder
to the barrel or receptacle H for holding the liquor to be bottled or
drawn off, a ball valve ¹ being provided in the pipe g¹ to keep the
pressure within the barrel if it is required to disconnect same from
the pressure cylinder. A pipe is led from the barrel or receptacle H
to a "bar
on a floor above, or otherwise, where the liquors may
be drawn off without the aid of a lift or pump; or the barrel H may be
connected at A with my patented machine before referred to.
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In Fig. 4 is shown the tap with revolving nozzle K, which tap is
fixed to or connected with the barrel H, Fig. 3, in which is the liquor
under pressure to be bottled. The mouth of the bottle is held up
against the nozzle K, and when filled the nozzle is revolved to turn
the bottle bottom upwards, the top being now turned off, when the
stopper will fall into position and the bottle be removed stoppered.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said In-
vention, I claim, the improvements in means and apparatus for bottling
and drawing off liquids, substantially as herein described and shown by
the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwards, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
JOHN EDWARDS. (L.S.)