An Improvement connected with Machines for Filling Screw Stoppered Bottles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Machines for Filling Screw
Stoppered Bottles.
I, EDWARD SAMUEL CHAVASSE, of Ombersley, near Droitwich, Worcestershire,
Aerated Water Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to machines for filling screw stoppered bottles. In
machines of this kind the neck of the bottle is forced through a stout indiarubber
ring or collar fitting in a circular recess or chamber in the filling head the said
ring being compressed by a collar so as to fit tightly round the neck of the bottle
while it is being filled under pressure so as to prevent the escape of the gas or
aerated or other liquid supplied by the machine.
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved construction of india-
rubber ring or collar which according to this invention is made tubular aud filled
with water or other liquid and hermetically sealed in the process of manufacture.
The improved hydraulic rubber collar or ring above described is very pliable
when not compressed and easily allows of the neck of the bottle being inserted
therein or withdrawn therefrom and when the hydraulic collar is compressed in
the recess or chamber round the neck of the bottle as aforesaid the liquid enclosed
in the collar causes it to spread and make a better joint round the bottle neck than
is usually made with the ordinary solid rubber rings heretofore employed.
Dated this 8th day of March 1895.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
An Improvement connected with Machines for Filling Screw
Stoppered Bottles.
I, EDWARD SAMUEL CHAVASSE, of Ombersley, near Droitwich, Worcestershire,
Aerated Water Engineer, 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 reference to machines for filling screw stoppered bottles.
In machines of this kind the neck of the bottle is forced through a stout india-
rubber ring or collar fitting in a circular recess or chamber in the filling bead the
said ring being compressed by a collar so as to fit tightly round the neck of the
bottle while it is being filled under pressure so as to prevent the escape of the gas
or aerated or other liquid supplied by the machine.
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved construction of india-
rubber ring or collar which according to this invention is made tubular and. filled
with water or other liquid and hermetically sealed in the process of manufacture.
On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 shews my improved indiarubber ring or collar in cross section and Fig. 2

page_text: shews the same in use in a screw stoppered bottle filling machine making the joint
round the bottle neck.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
A is the said rubber ring or collar which as shewn is made tubular in cross
section and B is the water or other liquid with which the collar A is filled.
The said hydraulic rubber ring or collar A above described is very pliable when
not compressed and easily allows of the neck of the bottle being inserted therein
or withdrawn therefrom and when the hydraulic collar is compressed in the recess
or chamber C of the machine round the neck of the bottle as aforesaid and as
shewn in Fig. 2 the liquid B enclosed in the collar A causes the collar A to spread
and make a better joint round the bottle neck than is usually made with the
ordinary solid rubber rings heretofore employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a machine for filling screw stoppered bottles the employment, in the recess
or chamber of the filling head, of a tubular indiarubber ring or collar filled with
water or other liquid and hermetically sealed said ring or collar being arranged to
be compressed round the bottle neck for the purpose of making the joint when the
bottle is being filled, substantially as herein set forth.
2. The hereindescribed improved indiarubber ring or collar made tubular and
filled with water or other liquid and hermetically scaled for the purpose and
substantially as herein before set forth.
Dated this 10th day of January 1896.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.