Year: 1886

page_text: We, ERNST FREDRIK GÖRANSSON, Civil Engineer, of 13 Gref Magnigatan,
ALWIN JACOBI of 26 Kungsgatan, Civil Engineer, MAGNUS ELLIOT, Merchant, of
Stortorget 18, and HUGO MATTSSON, Merchant, of Slottsbacken 6, all of the
town of Stockholm in the Kingdom of Sweden 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:-
This invention consists in a bottling apparatus, in which the empty bottles con-
tained in a bottle basket of any convenient size or in a suitable box are filled
simultaneously in about half a minute by syphon pipes without spilling any of the
liquid, and so that the filling or charging stops at the equalization of a liquid
pressure, when the bottles have been filled up to a certain distance from the mouth
of neck, which distance is the same for all the bottles and can be adjusted as
desired.
Figure 1 is a part sectional plan, Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a part
sectional end view of the apparatus, which consists mainly of the framing carrying
all the parts of the apparatus, the rising platform in which the bottles are hung,
the parts belonging to this platform, and the liquid reservoir with syphon pipes
and valves therefor.
11 are two lower beams or rails onto which the bottle basket or a carriage for
same is run into the apparatus for the charging operation, after which it is run out
again.
The rising platform 2 is horizontal and about the same length and width as the
basket upon which it rests when lowered. It is provided with as many holes 3 as
there are bottles in the basket, and these holes taper downwards.
Upon the
platform there are tongs or nippers 4 Figure 1, around the holes 3. These nippers
are jambed against or around the bottle necks by helical springs 5, and are opened
by lugs 7 on the sliding rods 6-acting against arms 8 on the nipper lega or shanka
In Figure 1 we have only shown two nippers. By turning the hand lever 13 the
sliding rods 6, which are connected by the cross bar 9, are moved backwards and
forwards by the eccentrics 11 on the rocking shaft 12 having its bearings on the
platform 2. The sliding rods 6 are guided in the transverse guides 10. The
hooks 15 which serve to take hold of the basket and to hold it during the bottling
are fixed on the two rock-shafts 14. These latter are connected to and moved by
one of the sliding rods 6 viz. by crank 16, connecting rod 17, and the double armed
lever 18: The rising platform 2, which is guided by the four guides-19 is by means

page_text: of the links 20 suspended from the levers 21.
These latter are fixed on the rock-
shafts 23 which are geared together by the tooth wheels 22. The platform 2 is
counterbalanced by the weights 24× on the levers 24 one of which has a handle for
raising and lowering the platform 2.
The liquor or liquid to be bottled is by the pipe 26 and hose pipe 26* led to the
reservoir 25 one side of which is cut away in Figure 3 to show its internal parts.
The mouth of the pipe 26 may be fitted with a strainer. 27 is a regulating valve
and 28 the stop-or inlet-valve.
From the bottom of the reservoir 25 proceed as many syphon pipes 29 as there
are holes in the platform 2. They are fixed to a plate 30 and are each opposite a
hole in the platform 2. Each pipe 29 has a valve 31, and all the cases or bodies of
these valves are by wires suspended from the lid 32 of the reservoir. This lid is
provided with standards 33 carrying levers 34 which with their fulcrum pins rest
in the bearings 35 on the reservoir 25. The regulating valve 27 is worked by the
float 37 to which it is connected by the levers 38 and 39 and the rod 40; the latter
being in two pieces for varying its length, the level of the liquid in the reservoir
and hence also in the bottles may be varied as desired. The inlet valve 28 is
connected with the lever 42 working round a fulcrum pin 41 and is moved by the
arm 43 on the platform 2 when the latter rises. It is here shewn in about its
middle position. The inlet valve is then open, the reservoir charged and the regu-
lating valve and syphon pipes closed. When the basket with the empty bottles is
pushed into the place shown in Figures 2 and 3 (one bottle only being shewn in
each Figure) the workman takes hold of the handle on the lever 24 and lets down
the platform 2 upon the basket, whereby the bottle necks enter the holes in the
platform 2. The lever 13 is then turned one quarter round to the left Figure 3
whereby the lugs 7 on the sliding rods 6 will let go the arms 8 of the nippers so
that the springs 5 close the nippers 4 around the bottle necks and the hooks 15 are
brought in under the basket. The platform 2 is then raised into its highest position
by the levers 24. The nippers will thereby slide on the bottle necks until they
come against the shoulder thereon and raise the bottles from off the bottom of the
basket so that the bottle mouths are at the same level and thereupon the hooks 15
will take hold of the basket and carry it up during the rest of the lifting motion.
By the latter the ends of the syphon pipes 29 enter the bottles and the lever
turns the lever 42 so that the inlet valve 28 is closed. As the cam 44 on the
lever 21 at the close of the lifting motion strikes against the set screws 45 in the
ends of the levers 34 all the valves 31 of the syphon pipes will be raised and
the liquid in the reservoir 25 begins to run down into the bottles. The liquid
level in the reservoir will consequently go down while the bottles are being charged
and the charging ceases when the liquid level in the bottles is the same as in the
reservoir. The float 37 has also gone down thereby and opened the regulating
valve 27.
The platform 2 is then lowered again whereby the valves 31 again close the
syphon pipes and the weighted lever 42 goes down and opens the inlet valve 28 so
that the reservoir is recharged. The float 27 will thus rise again and at last close
the regulating valve 27. The basket will also be lowered into its place and the
bottles lowered into their places in it. The lever 13 is then brought back into
the position shown in the drawing whereby the nippers 4 will open and the
hooks 15 be swung out. The platform 2 is then again raised into the position
shewn and the basket with the bottles all charged to the same level is run out and
another basket with empty bottles is run in whereupon the apparatus is ready for
another bottling operation
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
First. A bottling apparatus in which the empty bottles contained in a suitable
basket or recentacle are simultaneously taken hold of and then raised by a mechanism

page_text: arranged higher up so that all the bottles are hung with their mouths at the same
level whereupon they all simultaneously are charged by means of syphon pipes from
a reservoir in such manner that the charging stops automatically by equalization of
liquid pressure when the bottles are filled to a certain adjustable distance below the
bottle mouth, substantially as described.
Second. The construction of bottling apparatus as shewn on the accompanying
drawings.