IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING BOTTLES WITH AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We, ALFRED PRETTY SCRASE and WILLIAM CARTER both of Horsham in the
County of Sussex, Mineral Water Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING BOTTLES WITH
AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machinery for filling internal stoppered bottles and
consists in constructing said machinery with various improvements so that two
bottles may be treated together by the same machinery, whereby the act of removing
one filled bottle will exhaust the air and prepare the other to receive the syrup and
aerated liquid, the machinery to a certain extent being self acting, a boy feeding
and releasing the bottles merely-The improvements consist of branched feeders
for syrup fitted with an automatic regulator to control the supply combined with
two inlets for aerated water-Also of two bottle bolding and releasing contrivances
which are fitted with valves for allowing of the escape of air from the bottle in the
process of filling. The bottles are fixed on carriers which are made to revolve
together with the case of the syrup tubes but the aerated water supply tube is
stationary-Pulleys and suitable gearing are used to work the machinery which
may be driven by any convenient motor.

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We ALFRED PRETTY SCRASE and WILLIAM CARTER both of The Rink Factory
Queen Street Horsham in the County of Sussex Mineral Water Manufacturers do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR FILLING BOTTLES WITH AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
Having described the nature of our said invention we proceed to describe the
manner in which the same is to be performed reference being made to the
accompanying drawings in all the figures of which the same reference letter or
numeral indicates the same part We have said in our Provisional Specification
'whereby the act of removing one filled bottle will exhaust the air and prepare
the other to receive the syrup and aërated liquid The act of rotating the hollow
shaft for the purpose of removing one filled bottle does not exhaust the air but
causes the other bottle to be charged with syrup and aërated liquid at the same
time allowing the escape of surplus gas and of the air originally contained in the
bottle as required to make room for the liquid entering the bottle. In carrying
our invention into effect we have found that it is not necessary to employ. pulleys
and gearing for transmitting motion from a mechanical motor as the filling machine
may be conveniently worked by hand by the person who supplies it with the
bottles to be filled. The filled bottles can be carried away by means of an
automatic bottle receiver, the necessary motions for which are derived from the
motion which causes the bottles to revolve with the carriages in which they are
held for filling.
A filling machine constructed in accordance with our invention consists of a
suitable column upon which are mounted two bearings A. A¹ in which a hollow
shaft B. is carried having at one extremity a gland C. through which the syrup
from the syrup pump D. may flow to the other extremity of the hollow shaft B. in
which is formed a four way chamber E fitted with valves N. N¹ and. O. 0¹. by
means of which the syrup and aerated liquid are alternately delivered to two bottles
carried in bottle carriages F. F connected with the said four way chamber E. In
this four way chamber E two passages Nos 1 and 2 for the passage of syrup are in
direct communication with the central passage through the hollow shaft B which
central passage conveys. the syrup that passes through. the gland C. and two
passages Nos 3 and 4 for the passage of the aërated liquid are brought alternately
into connection with a supply of aërated liquid which passes through lateral
holes G. G which are alternately brought in contact with the outlet passage from
a supply valve H. which is made to bear upon the outside of the four way
chamber E by means of a set screw I; a water tight joint being made at the
point of contact by the intervention of a piece of leather. This aërated liquid
supply valve is opened alternately by a portion of each bottle carriage F. FI
coming in contact with a hinged saddle piece K. bearing upon a push piece L which
drives the valve from its senting. The two passages Nos 3 and 4 in the four way
chamber E. communicate with the two passages Nos 1 and 2 in advance of the
valves N. N with which the passages Nos 1 and 2 are fitted so that when the
aërated liquid is admitted to passages 3 and 4 it cannot pass into the central
passage through the hollow shaft B but passes to the bottle in the same way that
the syrup passed through the passages Nos 1 and 2. In the same manner the
valves O. O with which the passages 3 and 4 are fitted prevent the escape of
syrup through the lateral holes G. G₁ by which aërated liquid subsequently enters

page_text: Although the syrup passing through the hollow shaft B comes in contact with the
valves N. N¹ in both the passages Nos 1 and 2 it flows to the bottle in which no
aërated liquid has been admitted because the valve which communicates with the
passage leading to the filled bottle is locked by the pressure exerted by the gas
from the aërated liquid whereas the valve which communicates with the passage
leading to the empty bottle is free to yield to the pressure of the .syrup ejected
from the syrup pump. At the forward part of the four way chamber E we place a
leather disc M having two holes through it corresponding with passages Nos 1 and 2
of the four way chamber E so as to close the passages 3 and 4 which however
themselves communicate respectively with passages Nos 1 and 2. We fix a grating
in each of the passages Nos 1 and 2 upon which gratings the springs for the
valves N. N bear in a two way chamber P fitted with india rubber pads QQ' (in
the ordinary way) in which the mouths of the bottles rest while being filled and
having passages leading to two "snift" valves R. R' connected by a plate upon
which the levers S. S' can be made to act by pressing on the levers W. W¹ for
"snifting" while the bottle is being filled and for relieving the back pressure of
the aërated liquid from under the bottle stopper when the bottle has been inverted
The bottle carriages F. F¹ are pivoted at the points T. T' and are fitted each with a
screw U. U¹ with wood blocks V. V₁ which can be regulated to accomodate bottles
of different lengths said screws U. U being also carried each in a rocking block or
nut having "scale" or "Vee" bearings for the purpose of adapting the wood block
to the bottom of the bottle with slight variations in the position of the handles of
the bottle carriages F. F1 such as would be caused by slight variations in the
lengths of different bottles insufficient to make a regulation of the screws U. U¹
necessary. On the levers S. S¹ we cut a series of notches which in combination
with a pin or bar traversing a slot one in each of the handles of the bottle
carriages F. F¹ form detents by means of which the bottle carriages F. F¹ are held
to resist the tendency of the bottle necks to leave the rubber pads QQ owing to
the pressure exerted while the bottles are being filled. The levers W. W' are to
be used for actuating the levers S. S' to operate the "snift" valves R. R¹.
Between the two bearings A. A¹ we fit upon the hollow shaft B an eccentric X
the eccentricity of which is capable of adjustment in the usual way for communi-
cating to the bucket of the pump a stroke of a length required for delivering the
required quantity of syrup; but the syrup pump is a double acting pump because
it is required to take in and deliver two charges of syrup during each revolution of
the hollow shaft B in order to supply alternately both the bottles which are filled
during one revolution of the hollow shaft B. The eccentric X is connected with
the hollow shaft B by means of a pin fixed to the hollow shaft B and engaging in
a slot in the eccentric so as to allow the bottle carriages F. F to be revolved back-
ward to a certain extent without working the syrup. pump this provision being a
usual provision made in filling machines known as "turnover" machines.
For the purpose of delivering the filled bottles into a "shoot" or trough from
which they may be taken to be labelled we fit on to the hollow shaft B alongside
the eccentric X a bevel wheel 5 engaging with a bevel wheel 6 of half the diameter
of the wheel 5 so as to obtain two revolutions of the wheel 6 for each revolution
of the hollow shaft B. The bevel wheel 6 we fit to a spindle 7 carrying a disc 8
with pin 9 which engages with one end of the pitman 10 by means of which a
rocking motion is communicated to the right angle lever 11 which carries a bottle
receiver 12 to and from either side of the column of the machine receiving the
filled bottle at one side and delivering the same in a fixed "shoot" or trough at
the other side. The bottle when filled is released from the machine and allowed to
fall into the movable bottle receiver 12 in the following manner.
To the two way
chamber P we fit two wire guards 13, 14 to afford the usual protection from injury
to the person operating the filling machine and to these guards we fix the
levers 15, 16 which come into operation alternately when the handles of the bottle
carriages F. F¹ are raised to release a filled bottle. The action of the levers 15, 16

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In the accompanying drawings
Fig I is a side elevation of the complete machine excepting the arrangement for
ejecting the filled bottles in the right direction to be caught by the bottle
receiver 12 and the bottle receiver 12 is shown at the side of the machine broken
off to simplify the drawing.
Fig 2 is an end elevation of the complete machine same as in Fig I but with the
bottle carriages F removed.
Fig 3 is a plan of Fig I.
Fig 4 is an enlarged view of the pair of snift valves R. R' and the levers S. S¹
which actuate them.
Fig 5 is a section of the four way chamber E through G G¹ (at the line e. f
Fig. 7).
Fig 6 is a section (at a. b. Fig 5) of the hollow shaft B shewing the valves N N'
in the passages Nos 1 and 2.
Fig 7 is a section of the four way chamber E through c. d. (Fig 5) shewing the
connection between the aërated liquid and the syrup channels.
Fig 8 is a plan of the arrangement for ejecting the filled bottles.
Fig 9 is a side elevation of Fig 8.
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Fig. 10 is another side elevation of Fig 8 at right angles to the elevation Fig 9.
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
1° The four way valve chamber E which enables us to supply syrup through the
hollow shaft B and aërated liquid through the lateral holes G. G¹ alternately to
two bottles each undergoing at the same time some of the various operations of
replacing, syruping, filling, snifting and delivering.
2° The movable bottle receiver 12 and the arrangement of levers by which the
filled bottles are discharged from the machine in the desired direction acting
automatically when raising the handles of the bottle carriages F. F' for the purpose
of releasing a filled bottle.
3° The combination of the double snift valves R. R¹ with the levers S. S¹ by
which they are operated without removing the hand from the handle of the bottle
carriage.