Improvements in and relating to the Bottling and Barreling of Beer and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1887
Complete Left, 5th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th Apr., 1888
Improvements in and relating to the Bottling and Barreling of
Beer and in Apparatus therefor.
We, WILLIAM PATERSON, of 58 West Regent Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, and
ROBERT STARKE of 43 West Regent Street, Glasgow, aforesaid, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the better preservation of beer in bottles, jars and
casks or other vessels and the prevention of deposit in the bottles or vessels of sedi-
mentary matters resulting from oxidation of soluble albumenoids in the beer, and to
that end the invention consists in a process or method and means whereby an
atmosphere of carbonic anhydride is maintained in contact with the beer during and
after the bottling or barreling operation.
In carrying out our invention in one convenient arrangement as applied to the
operation of bottling beer we charge the bottles when empty with carbonic anhydride
by placing them in a shallow box or case baving a cellular bottom adapted to receive
the lower ends of the bottles which rest in individual cells and are covered nearly to
their necks the object of this arrangement being to avoid charging the box or case to
iis full depth with the carbonic anhydride which is admitted by a tube from a gas-
holder or other source of supply to expel and displace the air within the case and the
bottles contained in it. The box or case is covered preferably by a flexible diaphragm
in which slits are cut aver the several bottle cells to give access for the admission and
removal of the bottles, the diaphragm whilst permitting of the free outflow of the air
displaced by the carbonic anhydride being designed to prevent rapid diffusion of the
gases within and without the case. The bottles when charged with carbonic anhydride
are removed from the case and placed upon a bottling machine to be filled in the usual
way or the case may be brought under the filling tubes of the bottling apparatus and
the bottles filled before removal. In the former case the filling tubes of the bottling

page_text: machine have each fitted on them an annular cap adapted to pass over the
neck of the bottle during the operation of filling, and in this cap a portion of
the carbonic anhydride displaced by the beer remains when the bottle is filled. On
the removal of the bottle a quantity of the carbonic anhydride equal in volume to the
liquid displaced by the filling tube flows into the mouth of the bottle air being by this
means excluded.
In applying the invention in the operation of barreling beer each cask or vessel is
separately charged with carbonic anhydride by displacement of the air or other fluid
contained in the cask. In lieu of or in addition to charging the casks or vessels
before filling, liquid carbonic acid may be injected into them after they have been filled
with beer.
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CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Bottling and Barreling of
Beer and in Apparatus therefor.
We, WILLIAM PATERSON of 58 West Regent Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire and
ROBERT STARKE of 43 West Regent Street, Glasgow, aforesaid, 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 :—
This Invention has for object the better preservation of beer in bottles, jars and
casks or other vessels and the prevention of deposit in the bottles or vessels of
sedimentary matters resulting from oxidation of soluble albumenoids in the beer, and
to that end the Invention consists in a process or method and means whereby an
atmosphere of carbonic anhydride is maintained in contact with the beer during and
after the bottling or barreling operation.
In carrying out our Invention in one convenient arrangement as applied to the
operation of bottling beer we charge the bottles when empty with carbonic anhydride
by placing them in a shallow box or case, such as is represented in vertical section in
figure 1 and in part plan and horizontal section at figure 2 of the annexed drawings
the said box or case A, having a cellular bottom A' adapted to receive the lower ends
of the bottles B, which rest in individual cells C and are or may be covered nearly to
their necks the object of such an arrangement being to avoid charging the box or
case to its full depth with the carbonic anhydride which is admitted by a tube or
tubes D, provided with radiating branches & from a gas holder or other source of
supply to displace the air within the case and the bottles contained in it. The box or
case A is covered preferably by a flexible diaphragm E in which slits e are cut over
the several bottle cells to give access for the admission and removal of the bottles,
the diaphragm E, whilst permitting of the free overflow of the air displaced by the
carbonic anhydride being designed to prevent rapid diffusion of the gases within and
without the case. The bottles when charged with carbonic anhydride are removed
from the case and placed upon a bottling machine to be filled in the usual way or the
case may be brought under the filling tubes of the bottling apparatus and the
bottles filled before removal. In the former case the filling tubes F of the bottling
machine have each fitted on them an annular cap f (shown at figure 3) adapted to pass
over the neck of the bottle B, during the operation of filling, and in this capa
portion of the carbonic anhydride displaced by the beer remains when the bottle is
filled. On the removal of the bottle à quantity of the carbonic anhydride equal in
volume to the liquid displaced by the filling tube F, flows into the mouth of the bottle,
air being by this means excluded.
In applying the Invention in the operation of barreling beer each cask or vessel is
separately charged with carbonic anhydride by displacement of the air or other fluid
contained in the cask. In lieu of or in addition to charging the casks or vessels before
filling, liquid carbonic acid may be injected into them after they have been filled with
beer.

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:-
1. As means for preventing oxidation of soluble albumenoids in bottled or barreled
beer charging the vessel with an atmosphere of carbonic anhydride prior to and
maintaining the same during the filling operation.
2. The improved apparatus hereinbefore described with reference to the annexed
drawings for charging and maintaining in bottles an atmosphere of carbonic
anhydride.