Improved Apparatus for Bottling Liquids.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improved Apparatus for Bottling Liquids.
We, WALTER BEEKEN BURROW, and JOHN SEVERN BURROW, Manufacturers of
Iron Wine Bins, and THOMAS SMITH, Clerk; all of Seething Lane, London, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 that, class of apparatus for bottling liquids in which a
vertically adjustable trough adapted with a series of syphons for filling a series of
bottles (equal in number to that of the series of syphons) at a time, is guided by or
supported in side standards; and in using which apparatus for its intended purpose
it is placed with the trough thereof under the tapped outlet of a cask from which the
liquid is allowed to flow into the trough from which it is led into the bottles by means
of the said syphons the outlet legs of which are respectively inserted within the necks
of the bottles. The series of syphons are carried by a suitably supported rod or
otherwise in such a manner as that the flow therefrom and the stoppage of the flow
can be caused by raising their inlet legs from or lowering the same onto a padded
bar which is suspended within the trough at the bottom angle of the side thereof
adjacent to the syphons.
In existing apparatus of the kind, the said trough and padded bar have been made
in separate parts which permits of the bar shifting or being shifted in position
relatively to the trough and to the inlet legs of the syphons so as not to fully close, the
latter permitting of leakage therefrom and waste; the bar has been made of wood
and freely acquires the flavor of the liquid being bottled so as to be liable to com-
municate it to and contaminate the liquid next being bottled in the same apparatus ;
and the said pads thereof have been formed by nailing strips of wash-leather thereto
so that renewal of the pads cannot conveniently be very truly effected.
The special object of the present Invention is to avoid these disadvantages, and to
this end the Invention consists essentially in constructing the bottling trough, 1,
(reference being bad to the accompanying drawings) of such a formation as that a
part, 2, thereof occupies the desired position relatively to the said inlet legs of the
series of syphons, and in applying to such part, 2, at the desired positions relatively to

page_text: the said inlet legs of the syphons a series of sockets, 3, or equivalent means (which
may be soldered or otherwise secured in the desired positions) for containing removable
washers or pads, 4, of leather or other suitable material and which may be for the
time secured in position by screw caps, 5, or other equivalent means.
The said part, 2, being made together with or as part of the trough, 1, which is
made of suitable metal, is caused to maintain the desired position relatively thereto
and to the series of supported syphons, and does not absorb or acquire the flavor of
the liquid being bottled, and permits of the parts being readily cleansed, and the
said sockets and screw-caps or equivalent means permit of the said washers or pads
being packed truly thereinto and of their being most readily replaced when required
to be renewed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The herein before described improved construction of bottling trough, and the
application thereof to and use in apparatus for bottling liquids.
"OOOT day to fun
.DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.
.DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.