IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Paterson, of Leyton, in the County of
Essex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS."
Sealed the 27th February 1874, and dated the 3rd January 1874.
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Paterson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd January 1874.
I, JAMES PATERSON, of Leyton, in the County of Essex, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS in Machinery
OR APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows :—
This Invention relates to improvements on the capsuling machine
arranged to be worked by mechanical appliances in lieu of by liquid or
air pressure described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
me the 28th of November 1871, No. 3213, and consists in the sub-
stitution for the block of india-rubber of the peculiar shape therein
described of a tubular collar of india-rubber or other suitable elastic

page_text: material, which may be more or less conical to adapt itself to a bottle
neck. This tubular collar is surrounded and pressed upon by four
or other convenient number of metal pressing pieces, each of which is
again pressed upon by a sliding dog, which dogs are forced inwards
simultaneously by the action of cam-like inclines made in the interior
of a metal ring, to which a partial rotatory motion is imparted by a
lever handle or otherwise and by an india-rubber or other spring.
In order to prevent the breaking of the bottle neck by any inequality
of pressure applied thereto and to enable the india-rubber collar to
adjust itself equally and uniformly round the neck I make each of the 1
inner pressing pieces to oscillate by providing on the back thereof a
transverse round rib or its equivalent, upon which the faces of the dogs
or slides bear.
The amount of entrance of the bottle neck into or through the collar
is regulated by an adjustable screwed centre plug, the inner end of 1
which forms the stop for the cork or end of the bottle neck to be
brought up to when inserting the same into the elastic collar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PATERSON, of Leyton, in the County of Essex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Paterson, Her special license that I,
the said James Paterson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said James Paterson, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for “IMPROVEMENTS IH MACHINERY OR APPARATUS

page_text: FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Paterson, my executors or administra-
tors, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Paterson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings.
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to improvements on the capsuling machine
arranged to be worked by mechanical appliances in lieu of by liquid or
air pressure described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
me the Twenty-eighth of November, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, No. 3213, and consists in the substitution for the block of
india-rubber of the peculiar shape therein described of a tubular collar
of india-rubber or other suitable elastic material, which may be more or
less conical to adapt itself to a bottle neck. This tubular collar is
surrounded and pressed upon by four or other convenient number of
metal pressing pieces, each of which is again pressed upon by a sliding
dog, which dogs are forced inwards simultaneously by the action of cam-
like inclines made in the interior of a metal ring, to which a partial
rotatory motion is imparted by a lever handle or otherwise and by an
india-rubber or other spring.
In order to prevent the breaking of the bottle neck by any inequality
of pressure applied thereto and to enable the india-rubber collar to
adjust itself equally and uniformly round the neck I make each of the
inner pressing pieces to oscillate by providing on the back thereof a.
transverse round rib or its equivalent, upon which the faces of the dogs.
or slides bear.
The amount of entrance of the bottle neck into or through the collar
is regulated by an adjustable screwed centre plug, the inner end of
which forms the stop for the cork or end of the bottle neck to oe:
brought up to when inserting the same into the elastic collar.

page_text: now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in
all the Figures.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved capsuling apparatus with
the cover plate removed, and Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the
same.
The elastic tubular diaphragm or collar a is situated at the inter-
section of four or other suitable number of radial grooves formed in the
upper circular portion of the standard B of the apparatus, and is
surrounded, held in place, and pressed upon by pressing pieces b, each
adapted to one of the radial grooves in the face of the standard. Each
pressing piece is acted on by a sliding dog c, also adapted to the
grooved portion of the face of the standard, and the whole of said dogs
can be forced inward simultaneously by the action of cam-like inclines d
on the interior of a ring e, which will cause the pieces to compress the
collar a around the neck of a bottle or other vessel in order to fix a
metallic capsule to the same. The ring e is adapted to the exterior of
the circular portion of the standard, and can be partially turned in one
direction by a lever f, segment h, and chain g, attached to the said
segment and ring, the reverse movement of the ring being effected when
the lever is released by the action of a rubber or other spring i.
The elastic collar a may be made more or less conical, as shewn in
Figure 2, so that it may adapt itself to a tapered bottle neck, and in
order to provent the breaking of the latter by any inequality of pressure
and to permit an equal and uniform adjustment of the elastic collar I
make each of the pressing pieces self-accomodating to the angle of
the bottle neck or other vessel, against which it is pressed by forming a
transverse rib on the face of each of the dogs c, upon which the said a
pressing pieces can oscillate freely. The same result might be attained
by forming the rib or bearing point on the back of the pressing piece
instead of upon the dog, but this is immaterial.
The position of the bottle neck within the elastic collar is determined
by an adjustable screw stop l, with which the cork or end of the bottle
neck is brought in contact when the latter is inserted into the said
elastic collar through the aperture m in the centre of the front plate n.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to
be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to mo
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
First. In a machine for applying capsules to bottles or other vessels,
the combination of the elastic collar or diaphragm a, the oscillating
pressing pieces b, and the sliding dogs c, by which the said pressing
pieces are operated, substantially as and for the purpose herein-before
described and illustrated by my Drawings.
Second. The combination of the elastic collar or diaphragm a, the
pressing pieces b, the slidings dogs c, and the cam ring e, all sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein-before described and illustrated
by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Paterson, have to this
my Specification set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.