Improvements in Bottle-stoppering Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec, 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle-stoppering Machines.
I, ANDERS ANDERSEN PINDSTOFTE, of 66, Vesterbrogade, Copenhagen, in the
Kingdom of Denmark, Machine Builder, 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 relates to an arrangement in connection with bottle-stoppeung
machines whereby the mechanical motion of such machines is rendered fiee from
shocks or jars.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which.
Figure 1 shows the novel device partly in section, attached to a stoppering
machine of known construction, and,
Figure 2 represents a modified form of such device
The stoppering machine is mounted in a standard B upon a fiame or support A
Its movable parts, e the slide or cannage N, the plunger V and the remaining
parts connected with the said slide or carriage are set in motion by means of a
lever bar M adapted to swing on a pivot K which is secured to an aim forming
part of the standard B The long arm of auch lever-bar being fitted with a handle,
while its short arm terminates in a fiame L, through which there is passed a
1od D, upon which a weight O is adjustable Mounted on the said 1od D and
between the ends of the frame, spinal spings P, P', or equivalent elastic bodies,
are provided, which, normally, maintain the weight in the intermediate (or
central) position on the rod D By means of the two links S and T, which con-
nect the short arm of the lever bai M with the stand B, the extent of the down-
ward movement of the slide II 18 limited.
It will be readily understood that the equipoise weight 0), whenever the
handle M is suddenly arrested in either of its terminal positions, will take up or
intercept the shock or jai and slide along the rod D in one or the other direction,
as the case may be Whenever this occurs the springs are compressed, so that
the jar or shock 18 intercepted within the fiame without being transmitted to the
stoppering mechanism proper
The dotted lines in Figure 1 indicate the position of the frame L and the
links S and T when the handle is depressed.
In Figure 2 a modified form of the arrangement for taking up shocks is
represented.
In this case the short arm of the lever M is connected with a counterpoise-
weight swinging between the aims or prongs L of a stationary fork. Upon the
inner sides of these arms, at the part where they are met by the counterpoise
weight-there are provided elastic or resilient bodies which take up the shock
cr jar
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18.—
1. In stoppering machines the arrangement wherein the handle M for opeia-
ting the movable parts is connected with a frame or fork L through which there

page_text: is passed a rod 1) cauying an equipoise-weight C, springs P P or equivalent
elastic bodies, being provided on the rod D and between the ends of the said
frame, so that jars or shocks are intercepted by such spings or elastic bodies,
whenever the said handle is suddenly arrested on set in motion, without being
transmitted to the main mechanism for diving the corks into the bottle
2 The arrangement referred to in the fist claim, modified in this particular
that the elastic bodies P" which intercept the shock or Jat are secured to the aims
of a bell-crank lever, between which arms a counterpoise weight connected with
the handle is adapted to oscillate
Dated the 27th dow of December 1898
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, WC,
Agents for the Applicant