Improvements in Bottle Capsuling Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle Capsuling Machines.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The
General Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Wiesbadener Staniol & Metallkapselfabrik, Wiesbaden, in the Empire
of Germany) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improvement in the bottle capsuling machine
described in the Specifications of Patents No. 1165 dated 24 March 1879, and
No. 6331 dated 12 April 1884, and its object is to render this machine suitable for
capsuling bottles with necks of various sizes.
Hitherto attempts have been made to attain this object by inserting in the mould
cases an india-rubber mould of a diameter corresponding to that of the neck of the
particular bottle under treatment, but owing to the frequent changing of the india-
rubber moulds the latter are injured and are quickly worn out.
According to the present invention this disadvantage is avoided by placing
several moulds of various diameters upon one and the same machine, the whole of
the said moulds being placed in connection with the pressure main or chamber by a
cock common to them all in such a manner that according to the position in which
the cock is placed one or other of the moulds is submitted to the action of the
pressure in the others being out of work.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 is an external elevation of a capsuling machine provided with
two moulds:
Figure 2 is a horizontal section through the moulds on the line xx,
Figure 1; and,
Figure 3 is a vertical section on the line y y, Figure 1:
Figures 4, 5 and
are views illustrating the arrangement of four moulds; and,
Figures 7 and 8 illustrate modifications of the same.
The two moulds a, a, Figures 1, 2 and 3, in which india-rubber linings e, e with
openings of different sizes are secured, are connected with one another and with the
common pressure main or chamber d by passages in which is a three-way cock h.
According to the position of the cock one or other of the moulds is brought under
the action of the pressure in the said chamber d whilst the other is out of work.
Figures 4, 5, and 6 shewing a machine with four moulds, all of the said moulds
can be separately placed in communication with the pressure chamber by a cock h
common to them all.
In the modification of the machine with four moulds shewn in Figures 7 and 8
only the two lower moulds are in direct connection with the pressure chamber, the
two upper moulds being placed behind the two lower ones and connected with the
latter by channels i, each of which is provided with a cock k.
The fluid which is placed under pressure is introduced into the machine through
the opening normally closed by the screw-plugs f, f.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A bottle capsuling machine having two or more moulds of different sizes arranged
upon it, the said mould being connected with the pressure chamber by passages
having arranged in conjunction with them a cock common to all the said passages

page_text: adapted to establish communication between either mould or group of moulds and
the pressure chamber, substantially as, and for the purposes, described.
Dated this 5th day of December 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.