Improvements in and relating to Bottling Machines for Boda Water or other Aërated Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Bottling Machines for Boda Water
or other Aërated Liquids.
I, PETER GREIG SALMOND, Engineer, of 25 Arbroath Road, Dundee, Forfar-
shire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises certain improved appliances to
be fitted to bottling machines for soda water or other aërated liquids which
require a small quantity of syrups or other flavouring liquids to be added thereto
and which will be simple in construction and action and deliver the syrup in
regulated quantities into the bottles just before filling them with aërated water<
or other liquid and enable the bottles to be taken direct from the washing machine
to the bottling machine.
Under one arrangement as applied to ordinary aërated wate: bottling machines
especially those which have levers for driving the corks into the bottles, the
improvements consist in fitting a special small flavouring syrup pump actuated by a
spindle working in guides carried on brackets projecting from the frame of the
bottling machine and with a spring oscillating pawl or tongue for actuating the rod
and piston in one direction as say upwards or outwards or whichever way may be
most convenient for forcing the syrup through the valve box thence through
bottling cock into the bottles, and having a helical or other spring for actuating
the rod and piston in the opposite direction which would open the inlet valve and
allow the flavouring syrup to run into the pump ready for being forced out as stated
through the discharge valves in valve box and bottling cock into the bottles. This
syrup pump is actuated in the forcing direction as stated by the hand lever of the
bottling machine oscillating on the right hand side of the bottling machine and
which by a rod connected to the front arm brings down the piston for driving the
cork into the bottle through the cork chamber of the pressure filling cock. This
lever has mounted on the end of its inner short arm a shifting or sliding actuating
pawl piece, preferably secured by a regulating screw on the lever, so that this pawl
piece may travel and thereby lengthen or shorten the lever and get under the
acting spring pawl or tongue on the piston rod of the syrup pump when the front
arm of the lever is raised (preferably automatically) by a strong helical spring.
The pressing down of the hand lever will raise the syrup piston and force the
syrup through the valve box, thence through the pressure cock into the bottle as
before stated previons to the cock being opened for admitting the aërated waters
and forcing the cork into the bottle. In this arrangement the ordinary balance
weight dispensed with and a helical spring draws up the lever and corking
plunger bringing the pawl on the back arm of the lever down and under the spring
pawl or tongue on the syrup pump piston rod, the spring with pawl of piston rod
yielding to permit the lever pawl to pass it, then returning again into acting
position over the lever pawl and so that the front lever in being pressed down
raises it to the desired extent to force sufficient syrup into the bottle; the
lengthening or shortening of the lever pawl giving more or less traverse of the
piston and discharge of syrup into the bottle at each action of the hand lever.
The other operation of removing the bottle from its rubber socket by lowering
the treadle and putting it into the other treadle socket for wiring or tying the cork
are all performed as heretofore; but it will be understood that this improved
arrangement of syrup pump may also be applied to bottling machines in which

page_text: aërated waters. are filled into stopper bottles with internal balls or plugs and
rubber rings.
De Ouch 1901
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Bottling Machines for Soda Water
or other Aërated Liquids.
I, PETER GREIG SALMOND, Engineer, of 25 Arbroath Road, Dundee, Forfar-
shire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, that is to say :-
This invention has reference to and comprises certain improved appliances to be
fitted to bottling machines for soda water or other aerated liquids which require a
small quantity of syrups or other flavouring liquids to be added thereto and which
will be simple in construction and action and deliver the syrup in regulated
quantities into the bottles just before filling them with aerated waters or other
liquids, and enable the bottles to be taken direct from the washing machine to the
bottling machine.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended two explanatory sheets of drawings in which the same reference letters
are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figures 1 and 2 on Sheet 1 show a front and side elevation respectively of one
form of ordinary aerated water bottling machine showing my improved syrup
pump, and fittings, as applied thereto.
Figures 3 and 4 on Sheet 2 show a front elevation and plan respectively of my
improved syrup pump and its fittings to a large scale as detached from Figure 1,
while
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation of the same corresponding to Figure 3, and
Figure 6 is a sectional side elevation through the axis of the syrup pump and its
rod, corresponding and at right angles to Figures 3 and 5.
Referring to these drawings:-Under this. arrangement I have shown my
improvements as applied to one form of ordinary lever bottling machine attached
to a vertical column plate A, and soleplate A¹, in which B is the bottling cock,
and B' the chamber of same, up to which each bottle is raised by the treadle
mechanism A³, and the cork forced in by the plunger rod D, actuated through the
bow arm D¹ at top, and connecting rod D", led down to the hand lever D³, which
forces a cork into a bottle at each action. The aerated liquor is led into the
cock B of the bottling chamber B', in an ordinary manner through the lateral
branch B². C, C₁, C", is the ordinary treadle mechanism for receiving the
bottles, after being filled to get wired and tied.
The improvements consist in fitting a special small flavouring syrup pump
consisting of a truly bored or equivalent cylinder a and working piston a', mounted
in an inverted manner in a plate a" and outer cylindrical case all with under end
cover a³ all secured by a guide outer frame a, by brackets a³, to the frame A, to
the one side of the bottling machine in the axial vertical line of the working hand
lever D² of the bottling machine. The piston a¹ of the pump is actuated by the
piston rod a², passed out through the under cover a³, of the cylinder a, and guided
vertically in the frames a. This piston rod as is actuated in the downward
direction to its lowest normal position by a spring, mounted on its lower end, as
shown in Figures 1 and 2, or it might be an equivalent weight b¹, as shown in the
detailed views on Sheet 2, and this rod a² is actuated in the upward direction to

page_text: any desired distance by an oscillating spring pawl with projecting tongue c mounted
in a slot in the body of the rod for forcing the syrup through the valve box thence
through bottling cock into the bottles as hereinafter described. The syrup is
supplied from an overhead cistern or other source to the cylinder a above the
piston a' each time the latter falls, through the pipe d, and inlet spring valve d' in
the valve box d², and common inlet and outlet pipe d¹ coupled to the plate all of
the cylinder a, and valve box d, and discharged through the branch pipe d" and
valve d, into the service cock B, and chamber B, B', of the bottling machine, and
into the bottles along with the aerated water each time the piston a' is raised. The
syrup pump is actuated in the forcing direction as stated by the hand lever D³ of
the bottling machine oscillated on the right hand side of the bottling machine, and
which by the rod D" connected to the front arm, brings down the piston D for
driving the cork into the bottle through the cork chamber B¹ of the pressure filling
cock B. This lever D2 has mounted on the end of its inner short arm D³ a new
shifting or sliding actuating paw! piece e, e¹, preferably secured by a regulating
screw on the lever arm D³, so that this pawl piece e, may travel on its guide
pin e¹, and thereby lengthen or shorten the lever arm D³ and get under the acting
spring pawl or tongue.c in front of the piston rod a² of the syrup pump a when the
front arm D³ of the lever and pawie are raised (preferably automatically) by a
strong helical spring E, attached to the frame A, and front arm D2 of the lever.
The pressing down of the hand lever D², against the power of the spring E, will
thus raise the syrup piston a', and force the syrup above it in the cylinder a
through the pipes du, d, and the valve box d³, above the inlet valve di through
the discharge valve d³ into the discharge cock B of the bottling machine and thence
into the bottle, as before stated just before the cock is opened for admitting the
aerated waters and forcing the cork into the bottle, that is, by the first upward
action of the lever arm D³, by the shifting pawl piece e clearing the spring pawl e
and before the downward action of the lever arm D³, forces the cork into the
bottle. In this arrangement the ordinary balance weight is dispensed with and the
helical spring E draws up the lever and corking plunger D to D³ bringing
the shifting pawle on the back arm of the lever down and under the spring pawl
or tongue c, on the syrup pump piston rod a², the spring c', with pawl c, of piston
rod a', yielding to permit the lever pawle to pass it, then returning again into
acting position over the lever pawl e, as indicated in this position in Figure 6, and
so that the front hand lever D in being pressed down raises it and the piston a² to
the desired extent to force the regulated quantity of syrup into the bottle; the
shifting and lengthening or shortening of the lever pawl e by its screw pin e² giving
more or less traverse of the piston and discharge of syrup into the bottle at each
action of the hand lever.
The other operations of removing the bottle z from its rubber socket A", by
lowering the treadle A³, and putting it into the socket C, of the other treadle
mechanism C, C', for wiring or otherwise tying or securing the cork are all
performed as heretofore.
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 :-
First. The construction or arrangement and combination of the parts of a syrup
or other liquid flavouring pump and its fittings as applied to aerated water
bottling machines, substantially as and actuated in the manner herein described
in reference to and by way of application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. In aerated water bottling machines, the arrangement and use of a syrup
or other liquid flavouring pump with a differentially actuated piston for delivering
a measured or regulated quantity at each action into a bottle, substantially as
herein described in reference to and by way of application shown 'm the accom-
panying drawings.

page_text: Third. In aerated water bottling machines, the actuating of the piston of a
syrup or other liquid flavouring pump to deliver a measured or regulated quantity
differentially by each stroke of the hand lever of the bottling machine substantially
as herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 27th July 1892.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.