provements in Machines or Apparatus for Capsuling Bottles or like Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: GUMI LEIM DI MUITIATION
Improvements in Machines or Apparatus for Capsuling Bottles or
like Vessels.
I CHARLES CHESWRIGHT of Hillside Upper Hornsey Rise in the County of
Middlesex Gentleman 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 :-
My invention relates to machines or apparatus such for instance as are described
in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 3319 of 1877 and the object of my said
invention is to provide such machines or apparatus with means whereby they can be
cleaned of any adhesive matter which may adhere on the part whereinto the necks
of the bottles are inserted to be capsuled. The invention is more especially
designed for use in machines, or apparatus, wherein perforated capsules are
manipulated as in that case the adhesive matter used to secure the capsule to the
bottle neck may exude from the perforations and so accumulate that it may attach
itself to the exteriors of the capsules.
According to my invention I apply a cleaning device such as a sponge for
instance which can be moved backwards and forwards in the part of the machine
whereinto the capsules and bottle necks are inserted so as to clear the said part of
any matter which might otherwise accumulate in it I may arrange the cleaning
device so that it can be operated at intervals or I may cause it to be urged forward
by a spring so that when the capsule and bottle neck are inserted the said cleaning
device is pressed back against the pressure of the spring which when the capsuled
bottle neck is withdrawn urges the cleaning device forward again and so wipes
the aforesaid part clear of any adhesive matter which may have exuded from the
capsule.
The accompanying drawing represents a machine or apparatus to which my
invention is applied Figures 1 and 2 shewing the cleaning device arranged to be
operated by hand and Figures 3 and 4 shewing an arrangement by which it operates
automatically.
Referring first to Figures 1 and 2 A is the india rubber ring or tube into which
the capsule and bottle neck are inserted the capsule being applied to the neck by
inward pressure of the india rubber due to its compression as described in the afore-
said Specification. B is a sponge, or piece of equivalent comparatively soft material
suited to act as a cleaner. It is attached to one end of a rod C by a screw and
washer c and can bear all round the interior surface of the tube A. The rod C
slides in a guide provided in a projection E on the base of the machine and is
attached at its opposite end to another rod E2 fitted to slide in guides E. This
rod E³ extends to the front of the machine where it is provided with a handle e in
position convenient to enable the operator to slide the sponge B or the like to and
fro in the tube A. In the arrangement illustrated by Figures 3 and 4 the sponge B
or the like is attached to a disc C by the nut c which disc has at its back a spring D
bearing at one end on the back of the disc and at its other end on a projection E
attached to the base of the machine and carrying a tube E' surrounded by the
spring D.
In this tube slides a rod E3 which is attached to the disc C and serves
to guide the disc in its longitudinal movements in the tube A the extent of which
movement is governed by a pin e fixed in the tube E' and entering a slot in the
rod E³.
The inner end of the spring may bear on any other part of the machine which is
suited to the purpose and other means than those described may be provided for
guiding the disc in its motions in the tube A. When the capsule and bottle neck
are inserted the sponge and disc are forced back and the spring is compressed and

page_text: when the capsuled bottle is withdrawn the spring urges out the sponge and disc
again and by this backward and forward movement of the sponge it keeps the
interior of the tube A. clear of any adhesive matter which may exude from the
capsule and which otherwise might collect in the interior of the said tube.
The sponge may be secured to the disc by a screw or other convenient fastening
by which it can be readily removed for cleansing, and refixed in position.
In combination with either of the arrangements herein before described there may
be provided means for supplying to the neck of the bottle suitable cement or
adhesive material before the capsule is placed thereon. A. convenient arrangement
for this purpose is shewn in Figures 1 and 2 and consists of a vessel F to contain
the adhesive material communicating by a tube G (fitted with a regulating
cock H) with a tube or chamber I containing a lining of sponge or like
absorbent or cement holding material K. This tube or chamber is divided
longitudinally into two parts the said parts being hinged together at k
to permit of their being opened out or separated by means of the handle L to
admit of placing between the parts the neck of the bottle to receive a supply of
cement from the sponge K which when the parts i are closed bears on the neck of
the bottle at the part which is to receive the capsule I do not limit myself to the
precise modes I have described of moving the cleaning device to and fro as it may
be so moved by any suitable means for instance by attaching it to a crank on a
shaft turned by the operating handle of the machine.
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 is
First. In combination with capsuling machines or apparatus a cleaning device
operating substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore explained.
Second. The combination with capsuling machines or apparatus of a cleaning
device and means for operating it at intervals by hand substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Third. The combination with capsuling machines or apparatus of a cleaning
device urged forward by a spring and forced back by the insertion of the capsule
and bottle neck substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in Figures 3
and 4 of the accompanying drawing.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Agents.