AN IMPROVED SYRUPING, FILLING, AND CORKING MACHINE FOR BOTTLING AERATED AND GASEOUS LIQUIDS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by Thomas Cockcroft at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1877
THOMAS COCKCROFT, of Bukenheul, in the County of Chester, Minoral Water
Manufacturer "AN IMPROVED SYRUPING, FILLING, AND CORKING MACHINE FOR
BOTTLING AERATED AND GASEOUS LIQUIDS
"
My Invention has for its object the construction of a combined syruping, filling,
and corking machine for bottling aerated and gaseous liquids, and consists of
a novel arrangement of parts, whereby the operation of syruping, filling, and
corking is simplified, so that skilled labour can be dispensed with, and a machine
can be worked by a woman or a child, of the machine may be driven by a steam
engine or other motive power
The paits consisting a machine according to my Invention consist of a horizontal
shaft, which works a syrup pump by means of an eccentric or cam actuating a
weighted or spring retained lever, the same shaft also works a vertical rack
operating a corking piston or plunger The shaft is operated by a suitable handle,
or other motive arrangement A second horizontal shaft, driven by a handle or
other motive arrangement, carries a quadruple arrangement of eccentrics or cams,
which are placed over and work a triple valve arrangement, the first valve being
the filling or liquor valve, the second valve being the outlet or air valve, and the
third valve being the gas escape valve The valves are worked by means of the
eccentrics or cams, depressing levers, or pistons, as the shaft is tuined The two
shafts and their attendant parts, as described, are mounted on a suitable frame
similar to an ordinary bottling machine, the frame being provided with a suitable
bottle holder, stuffing box, and corking pipe
The triple valve arrangement is connected with the stuffing box, and is provided
with a liquor supply pipe, an air escape pipe, and a gas escape pipe, which latter
leads back to the gasometer The corking pipe is provided with a shoot or hopper,
by which means the corks are fed into the corking pipe
The working or operation of a machine constructed according to my Invention is,
a bottle being placed in position the turn of the first horizontal shaft operates the
eccentric or cam in connection with the syrup pump, by which means the syrup
pump charges the bottle with the requisite amount of syrup, the same action brings
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page_text: the corking piston down over the cork and ready for operation This shaft may
be worked by the right hand of the operator, the left hand working the second
shaft with its quadruple arrangement of eccentrics On the second shaft being
turned, eccentric number one operates the filling valve, partially filling the bottle;
eccentric number two works the air escape valve and allows the air to escape from
the bottle, eccentric number thee works the first or filling valve and completes the
filling of the bottle, and eccentric number four works the gas escape valve, which
gas is led back to the gasometer The first shaft is then further turned, and corks
the bottle by means of working the corking piston, the bottle is then removed for
wireing and tieing
The advantages of my Invention are, the production of a simple combined
syruping, filling, and corking machine, that can be worked by unskilled labour, or
by steam or other motive power.
Also my Invention effects a great saving of gas, as the surplus gas instead of
being discharged into the air is led back to the gasometer.