Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Dec., 1888
We, WILLIAM HUNTINGDON DANCE and WILLIAM SMITH, trading as Dance and
Smith of "Cobden Brewery," Arundel Street, Landport, Portsmouth, Mineral Water
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to effect the automatic charging or filling of bottles
with aürated waters, or liquids or fluids under pressure, the operation being continuous
and serving for a pre-arranged number of bottles to be filled in a given space of time.
The machine or apparatus for effecting such continuous charging according to our
Invention is applicable only to what is generally known as internally stopperod
bottles.
In carrying out our Invention, we employ a horizontal main shaft, supported in
suitable bearings by side frames. Said main shaft is rotated by a spur wheel ongaging
with a pinion upon a counter shaft, upon which latter is arranged a pair of fast and
loose pulleys, to admit of the application of external power to the machine by means
of a driving belt. A second spur wheel fixed upon said main shaft, engages with a
pinion, suspended upon a suitable spindle or shaft to one of the vertical side frames.
A crank pin allows of the rotary motion of said pinion being converted into recipro-
catory motion whereby the pump rod of a double acting syrup pump; which is fitted
upon the top of the side frames, is operated. To one end of the main shaft and form-
ing part thereof is an arm or series of arms varying in number according to the
number of bottles required to be filled during one revolution of said arın or arms.
Two channels are cast or otherwise formed within said main shaft, one of which
channels communicates through the arm, or arms aforesaid with a suitable forcing
apparatus for charging the bottles with aërated water, the other channel communicates
by a suitable pipe with the pressure chamber of the double acting pump before referred
to and is employed for the purpose of injecting a predetermined quantity of syrup into
the bottle during the operation of charging or filling; such quantity being regulated

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by a method to be hereinafter described. A fixed nozzle is arranged within a cylin
drical chamber formed in the end of the revolving main shaft, for the purpose of
making an air and gas-tight joint by means of an ordinary stuffing box. The delivery
pipe, leading from the pressure chamber of the double acting syrup pump aforesaid is
led into the fixed nozzle, constant communication being made with the syrup channel,
within the main shaft by means of a circular slot or groove or other equivalent device
formed in the end of said nozzle.
The aërated water pipe or channel being perfectly central, requires, as will be
apparent, no groove, since the pipe passing through the nozzle revolves with the main
shaft and is coincident with the stuffing box attachment. Ench arm is furnished with a
charging cone, upon which a bottle may be held in position by a suitable bottle holder.
Said bottle which is provided with an internal stopper of any suitable type, is fed by
means of a tilting, or rocking board or trough, in juxta position with which latter is
fixed an inclined board arranged to work upon a pivot at one edge. When each arın
of the revolving main shaft passes the tilting or rocking board or trough the latter is
tilted, and thus delivers one bottle to the bottle holder. An extension piece or arm in
rising upwards prevents the delivery of more than one bottle from the fixed board, and
a counter weight is fitted upon a suitable lever so as to restore the tilting board to its
normal position after the passage of the arm. A lever is arranged upon the bottle
holder so as to come into contact with a lift pin fixed in the front vertical frame, which
lever lifts the bottle holder against the tension of a spiral spring, and thereby receives
the hottle, and a similar pin is arranged to act upon said lever so as to release the bottle
when the operation of charging or filling is completed, an inclined board or shoot being
placed in position to receive said bottle.
Referring to the different stages of the operation of charging or filling, the bottle is
taken up from the tilting board or trough and, the syrup commences to be injected
into the bottle at about an eighth of a revolution of the main shaft and ending at
about half the revolution when the filling with aërated water commences; this opera-
tion ending at three quarters of the revolution of said shaft. The internal stopper
falls into position when the hottle is upright, and the bottle is delivered at a point about
th revolution in advance of the starting point.
The duration of the several stages of said operation of filling is determined by three
lirt valves, which are lifted alternately by adjustable striking pins or tappets, fixed to a
part of the frame the action of which corresponds to that of any ordinary conical valve
operated by tappets. The syrup is forced by the double acting pump through the
syrup channel into the before mentioned valve chamber below the valves, whence it
passes into one of the upper valve chambers and into the nozzle of the bottle cone
before referred to, through an orifice in the side of said cone after the tappet corres-
ponding to the syrup valve has lifted the latter in the course of the revolution of the
shaft and arm or arms, and thereby admitted the syrup above the valve. The aërated
water enters the aforesaid valve chamber through the central pipe and when the
tappet corresponding to the valve in connection therewith has raised the same, the
fluid under pressure rises into the upper chamber and passes thence into the chamber
above the syrup valve through orifices formed in the walls thereof, and is
added to, and mixes with the syrup already contained in the bottle which, as before-
mentioned is pressed by the bottle holder upon the nozzle.
A suitable channel from said nozzle to the upper chamber above the snifting valve
allows of the exhaustion of the atmospheric air contained in the bottle before filling or
charging. Said atmospheric air is admitted into the upper valve chamber above the
snifting valve when the latter is raised by the tappets corresponding to it, and from
thence is discharged into the surrounding atmosphere through an orifice formed in the
valve chamber which is covered by a concave shield or plate. The three valves above
referred to are similar in form, being simply conical valves, mounted upon
suitable spindles, and which are raised from their corresponding seats by means of the
tappets before referred to striking and lifting said spindles during the revolution of the
arm, the regulation of which is effected by means of the adjustment of said tappets
upon the arm of the frame; so that the duration of the time of opening of said valves

page_text: may be separately controlled during the rotation of the main shaft to suit bottles of
any dimensions. Suitable spiral springs are placed upon the spindles of said valves to
allow of their being returned to their respective seats when released by the tappets.
From the foregoing description it will be seen that a machine or apparatus con-
structed as above described according to our Invention can be used to automatically
charge, or fill bottles with aërated water, or other liquids or fluids under pressure in
rapid and continuous succession, several arms being provided upon the main shaft
according to the number of bottles to be filled at each revolution.
Dated this Sixth day of February 1888.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: other Liquids or Fluids.
We WILLIAM HUNTINGDON DANOE and WILLIAM SMITH trading as Dance and
Smith of "Cobden " Brewery, Arundel Street, Landport, Portsmouth, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to effect the automatic charging or filling of bottles
with aërated waters or liquids or fluids under pressure, the operation being continuous
and serving for a prearranged number of bottles to be filled in a given space of time.
The machine or apparatus for effecting such continuous charging according to our
Invention is applicable only to what is generally known as internally stoppered
bottles.
have appended the
sectional elevational
Figure 2 is a side
In order that our Invention may be the better understood we
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is a side
view of the improved apparatus according to our invention.
elevational view of the cains or tappets for actuating the valves.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevational view of an inclined table for delivering the
bottles to the machine, and Figure 4 is a plan of same. Figure 5 is an elevational
view of a releasing shield employed for removing the bottles from the machine after
the bottles have been filled, and Figure 6 is a diagram illustrating the various stages
of the operation of charging or filling the bottles.
In carrying out our invention we employ a horizontal main shaft A. Figure 1
supported by vertical standards or frames B. B¹. Said main shaft A is rotated by
the spur wheel D which engages with a pinion E upon the shaft F upon which latter
are arranged the fast and loose pulleys G to admit of the application of external
power to the machine by means of a driving belt. A second spur wheel C, fixed
upon the main shaft A, engages with the pinion H suspended upon a suitable spindle
or shaft to the vertical frame B¹. A crank pin a allows of the rotary motion of the
pinion H being converted into reciprocatory motion, whereby the pump rod b of
the double acting pump 1 is operated. To one end of the main shaft A, and forming
part thereof, is an arm J, or series of arms varying in number according to the
number of bottles required to be filled during one revolution of said arm or arms.
Two channels ed are cast or otherwise formed within the main shaft A, extending
to or through the arm or arms J above mentioned; the latter channel (d) com-
inmunicating with a suitable forcing apparatus for charging the bottles. The channel c
communicates by the pipe e with the pressure chamber of the double pump I, and is
employed for the purpose of injecting a predetermined quantity of syrup into the
bottle during the operation of charging or filling, such quantity being regulated by
the method hereinafter more particularly to be described. A fixed flanged nozzle fis
coupled to the revolving main shaft A for the purpose of ensuring an air and liquid

page_text: tight joint by means of the stuffing box g. The pipe e leading from the pressure
chamber of the double acting pump I aforesaid, is led into the fixed nozzle f, to which
it is secured by any suitable means; constant cominunication being made with the
syrup channel c by means of a semi circular slot, groove or equivalent c¹ formed in
the end of the nozzle f. The channel & being perfectly central requiros,-
-as will be
apparent, no groove, the hole in the fixed nozzle fand channel d in the main shaft A
being co incident. Each arm J is furnished with a charging cone h, upon which a
bottle is held in position by the bottle holder K. Said hottle or bottles i (provided
with, internal stoppers of any suitable typo) is or are fed by means of a tilting or
rocking board or trough, or inclined feeding board j, Figures 3 and 4. Upon the
arm or arms J. is or are mounted a sliding bent arm or arms k, the upper bent end of
which is provided with a suitable cap for clutching and holding the bottle against the
charging cone upon removing said bottle from the tilting or inclined table j. During
the revolution of the arms J the sliding arm k is raised against the tension of a spiral
spring by means of a lifting pin or cam k', on passing which latter the arm k is
released, the cap upon the bent arm closing upon the bottle i carrying it away from
the tilting or inclined table j.
The tilting or inclined table; has provided at its lower end a spindle m upon
which is secured two semi-circular guards m¹ the outer horns of which are kept raised
by means of a weighted lever n secured to said spindlo m. Now upon a bottle being
grasped by the bottle holder K and sliding arm k the outer horns of the guards m³ are
forced downwards and the inner arms raised thus preventing more than one bottle
being removed from the tilting or inclined table j at one operation, when the outer
borns of the guards m' are released they fall back, by virtue of the weighted lever to
their normal position, the next bottle, which had previously been resting against the
inner horns of the guards m³, being now released, falls against the outer horns ready
to be taken up by the bottle holder of the next arm as it revolves. Instead of the
single spindle aforesaid, 1 may as an alternative arrangement employ two independent
spindles each carrying a guard or guards of any suitable shape. Upon one end of
each of said spindles is mounted a pinion gearing into each other by which means,
when the guard or guards upon the outer spindle is or are depressed the guard or
guards upon the inner spindle will be raised, the normal position of the guards being
maintained by the weighted lever above described.
Referring to the diagram Figure 6 shewing the different stages of the operation
of charging or filling, the bottle is taken up from the tilting or inclined table ; at 1
and the syrup commences to be injected into the bottle at 2 ending at 3, where the
filling with aërated water commences, ending at 4; the internal stopper falls into
position at 5 and the bottle is delivered at 6.
The duration of the several stages of said operation of filling is determined by the
three lifting cams or tappets L, L, L² over which the three valves m, m², ml, travel
as the arms J revolve. Each of the cams or tappets are formed in two parts and
provided with an adjusting screw and thumb nut so as to be capable of expansion or
contraction to allow of the variation of the quantities of fluids or liquids with which
the bottles are to be charged or filled.
The action of the cams L, L', L" upon the valves m, m², m" is as follows: The
syrup is forced by the double acting pump I Figure 1, through the channel c into
the chamber n¹¹, whence it passes into the nozzle of the bottle cone through a
suitable orifice after the cam L" has lifted the valve in the course of the revolution
of the shaft and arms J. The aërated water now enters the chamber n¹ through the
chaunel d, and when the valve m¹ of said chamber has been raised by the cam or
tappet L, the fluid under pressure rises into the upper part of the chamber n" passes
thence into the chamber n¹, through suitable orifices provided for the purpose, and
passing through the nozzle in the cone is added to and mixed with the syrup
contained in the bottle. A suitable channel between the nozzle and chamber n" allows
of the exhaustion of the atmospheric air contained in the bottle before filling or
charging. Said atmospheric air is admitted into the upper valve chamber n when the
when the valvo L is raised by the cam or tappet m", and from thence is discharged

page_text: into the surrounding atmosphere through an orifice, which latter may if desired be
covered by a concave shield or plate. The three valves are similiar in form, being
simply conical valves mounted upon suitable spindles, and are retained in the
normal position against their respective seats by means of spiral springs when released
by the lifting cams or tappets L, L, L" aforesaid.
After the process of charging or filling has been completed and the arm J has
reached a vertical position, the bottle i is disengaged from the bottle-holder K by a
curved shield P or equivalent device, which extending beyond the longitudinal axis of
the bottle causes said bottle i to leave the bottle holder, and drop into a suitable
receptacle provided for the purpose.
From the foregoing it will be seen that a machine or apparatus constructed as above
described according to our invention can be employed to automatically charge or fill
any desired number of bottles with aerated water, or other liquids or fluids in
continuous and rapid succession, each bottle being taken up and delivered by the
arms of the machine during the revolution thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that wo
claim is :
First. In a bottle filling machine for charging or filling bottles with aërated waters
or other liquids or fluids under pressure, the adaptation thereto and employment
therewith of two or more revolving arms, in the shaft or spindle of which are formed
two longitudinal channels which latter are connected by means of branch pipes to
valves formed upon the extremities of the revolving arms aforesaid, substantially as
herein described and shown.
Second. In a bottle filling machino, the combination with two or more revolving
arms of a sliding bent arm k whereby during the revolution of the arms J, a
bottle is clutched between said arm k and bottle holder K, substantially as herein
set forth.
Third. In a bottle filling machine, the combination with the rotating arms herein
described and channelled shaft or spindle, of three valves connected by branch pipes
to the channels in said channelled shaft substantially as and for the purposes herein
set forth.
Fourth. In a bottle filling machine the method which we adopt of centreing the
machine below the bottle cone substantially as herein described.
tilting or
Fifth. The combination with a bottle filling or charging machine, of a
inclined table; whereby only one bottle can be taken up by each arın in succession
during the revolution thereof substantially as herein set forth and shown.
Sixth. In combination with a bottle filling or charging machine, the employment
therewith of a bottle disengaging and delivery shield P substantially as herein set
forth and shown.
Seventh. The improved apparatus for charging bottles with aërated waters or
other liquids or fluids substantially as herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this Sixth day of November 1888.