Improved Apparatus for the Charging of Liquids with Carbonic Acid or the like, and for Corking Bottles containing such Charged Liquids.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for the Charging of Liquids with Carbonic
Acid or the like, and for Corking Bottles containing such
Charged Liquids.
I, CARL MALMendier, of Mittelstrasse 4, Cologne in the Empire of Germany
Manufacturer 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 :-
In the carbonic acid apparatus as hitherto made for producing water or liquid
charged with carbonic acid by mixing the corresponding liquid with carbonic acid,
it was only possible, (as a corking of the bottles was not possible or only with loss
of carbonic acid) to use bottles with special closures for instance bottles with
ball closure in which by the pressure of the carbonic acid a ball is pressed against
a tightening ring and kept there.
But as such bottles could not be used everywhere, the production of aerated
liquid the filling of bottles with the latter and the corking of these bottles was
very difficult and expensive. For instance in champagne manufacture three
different apparatus are used, that is one for mixing the wine with carbonic acid
and the necessary ingredients, one for filling and one for corking so that it has
hitherto been practically impossible to produce champagne in single bottles.
The present device allows of the charging of a liquid with carbonic acid, the
filling of the latter and the corking of the bottles in a simple manner without loss
of carbonic acid, and thus permits of the use of all kinds of bottles.
In the annexed drawing Fig. 1 is a front view Fig. 2 is a side view and Figs. 3
and 4 are cross sections of the apparatus when open and when closed.
The mixing ball or chamber m is connected to a tube a which has a lateral
nozzle b for connection with the carbonic acid vessel and possesses besides a valve
provided with a spindle a 1.
By means of this valve and the spindle a 1 there can be closed both the opening
leading to the carbonic acid vessel and that leading to the mixing ball m.
The
nozzle a is fixed on a cylinder c in which a spindle d can be moved up and down.
The under end c1 of the cylinder c is conveniently formed for receiving the
bottle neck, the bottle resting with its bottom on the plate e and fixed by rotating the
spindle el between this plate e and the under cylinder end cl. Over the connection
Dozzle a is fixed on the cylinder a guiding plate and there the cylinder is cut
away to form cylindrical recess c 0, which can be completed by a half cylindrical
recess 30 of a slide s moved by a spindle s 1. In order to obtain a tight closure of
the opening formed between the half cylindrical part of the cylinder and that of
the slide and in order to give also to the slide a good guidance there is hinged on the
cylinder a valve which sliding with its under edge over the guiding plate is
pressed strongly against the slides by the front end of the short arm 1 of the
hand lever turned round the bolt 0.
On the slides is fixed a screw spindle s 1 which provided with a crank k is
seated in a socket fl on the guiding plate and provided with a female screw.
By turning this spindle the slide can be moved forwards or backwards. The
whole device is arranged upon a frame turnable round the pini and provided with
a handle.

page_text: The manner of operation is as follows.
The valve for the carbonic acid vessel and the mixing ball is closed and the
bottle containing the liquid is fixed between e and c 1, then the cork is placed upon
the plate and pushed into the half cylindrical opening c0, the valve g is laid
against the slides and is pressed against the same by means of the hand lever h, h 1,
and the slides is moved by the spindle s1 towards the cylinder and the cork is
firmly enclosed. The cylinder opening which lies over the bottle is thus completely
and tightly closed. The whole device is then turned with the fixed bottle round
the pin i so that the mixing ball lies below and the contents of the bottle flow
into the mixing ball m. On then opening the valve in a the carbonic acid will
pass from the carbonic acid vessel into the mixing ball m, in which the mixing is
effected by shaking the liquid with the carbonic acid. The thus prepared liquid is
then brought into the bottle by turning the whole apparatus, after the valve in a
has been closed. Then the cork is driven into the bottle neck by screwing down
the spindle d. In order to prevent the cork from being driven out of the bottle
neck by the carbonic acid, what easily happens after filling, especially in champagne
bottles, before the cork is well seated in the bottle neck, the bottle is placed under
a press, by the pressing head of which the cork is kept pressed down for a short
time. It can here be also fastened with strings or wires so that the bottling is then
finished.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
(1.) An improved apparatus for the charging of liquid especially champagne,
with carbonic acid, serving for the production of the carbonic acid liquid and for the
filling of bottles with the latter with a thereon arranged apparatus which encloses
the cork and which by means of the latter closes tightly the opening receiving the
bottle neck, said apparatus also serving while maintaining the position of the bottle
for corking the latter without loss of carbonic acid.
(2.) In the apparatus as in Claim 1 a corking device, in which the cork is
pressed into an opening formed by two semi cylindrical parts one of which is
adapted to slide and is kept in this opening by means of a hinged valve extending
over the sliding part and adapted to be pressed against it, the said cork being
subsequently driven by means of a spindle into the bottle held with its neck tightly
under the opening.
Dated this 8th day of January 1897.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.