A NEW MACHINE FOR FIXING AND CAUDRESSING CASO ROMS AND LIFT VERLIXING AND COMPRESSING CAPSULES ON BOTTLES AND LIKE VESSELS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Joseph Baranowski, Constructor of
Machinery, and John Skwarcow, Civil Engineer, both of 13, Rue
Gaillon, Paris, for the Invention of "A NEW MACHINE FOR FIXING AND
CAUDRESSING CASO ROMS AND LIFT VERL"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Joseph Baranowski
and John Skwarcow at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 15th October 1872.
We, JEAN JOSEPH BARANOWSKI, Constructor of Machinery, and JOHN
SKWARCOW, Civil Engineer, both of 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW MACHINE FOR FIXING
AND COMPRESSING CAPSULES ON BOTTLES AND LIKE VESSELS," to be as follows :—
This Invention has for its object a machine for fixing and compressing
capsules on bottles or like vessels, and is based on a new application of
the method of winding several coils of a stretched cord round the capsule
placed on the bottle or other vessel.
The apparatus is composed of a stand fixed to a bed plate of wood or
metal. This stand serves as a bearing to a metallic barrel or cylinder

page_text: rotated by a handle; the cylinder has a live disc or loose piece fitted into
it so as to rotate freely in the said cylinder. Against this disc the head
of the capsule where it covers the cork is placed. The disc is recessed
so as to fit the rim of the bottle or other vessel (change discs being used
to suit different sizes of rims), and this disc is brought nearer to or
farther from the edge of the cylinder by a set screw working into the
other end of the cylinder, this adjustment being necessary to follow the
various depths of the bead on different bottles so as to bring the under
edge of the bead in a line with the cord attached to the outer edge of
the cylinder by a knot passed through a hole, or in any other suitable
manner, so that the cord may turn freely round itself. This cord which
hangs down is kept in tension according to the force required by a
greater or less weight attached to its end. During the operation the
bottle or vessel placed so that its rim fits into the live disc above
described is held down by the hand upon a rest mounted on the bed
plate or board. The handle now being rotated one revolution envelopes
the capsule with one coil of the cord, and each subsequent revolution
augments the number of coils of the cord round the neck of the bottle.
The cord thus acts with a constantly increasing compression on the
capsule by tightening and flecting the coils down the neck of the bottle.
This gives a kind of burnishing action on the capsule besides fastening it
on the bottle.
As soon as the number of coils is sufficient to cover the required length
of the capsule and to give enough pressure to squeeze it tight the handle
is let free and immediately uncoils the cord by means of a counter force
pulling the handle back, cither by means of a metallic coiling spring
wound by the first part of the operation round a drum placed on the
bearings of the handle, or by any other kind of spring or counterweight.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John Skwarcow in 30
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th April 1873.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John Skwarcow in 30
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JEAN
JOSEPH BARANOWSKI, Constructor of Machinery, and JoпN SкWARCOW,
Civil Engineer, both of 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John
Skwarcow, Her special license that we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski
and John Skwarcow, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John Skwarcow, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW MACHINE
FOR FIXING AND COMPRESSING CAPSULES ON BOTTLES AND LIKE VESSELS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski
and John Skwarcow, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and
scal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John
Skwarcow, 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 thereof, that is to
say:
The Invention will be more clearly ascertained by reference to the
accompanying Drawings, in the which Drawings Figure 1 is an eleva-
tion partly in section, and Figure 2 a plan of the apparatus. The like
letters indicate the like parts respectively.
The principle of the apparatus is to wind a cord at the part of the neck
of the bottle where the capsulo has to be compressed so that each
succeeding coil wound round the neck of the bottle shall displace the
preceding one by pushing or fleeting the preceding one down the neck
of the bottle and thus compress and burnish the capsule upon the bottle
neck, the amount of pressure required being regulated by the weight
attached to the cord. There are several ways of accomplishing this,

page_text: such as a rotating arm in a fixed bearing, but the best way of carrying
out this idea that we are acquainted with is by the following form of
apparatus:-
A is a table or bench to which the apparatus is attached by the
screws a, a, passing through the bed plate B, made of wood or metal.
It should be fixed so that the end projects slightly beyond the work
bench or table. The bed plate B supports the stand 0 (for the bottle),
made preferably in iron lined with leather or india-rubber, the stand C
being capable of adjustment for height or distance by the screw c and
nuts c', c', or other suitable method. At the extremity of the bed B is
fixed the cast-iron support D, within which is fitted the bronze ring or
cylinder E; this latter is kept in place by the outer ring in bronzo F,
the two, E and F, being attached together by the screws ; to the outer
ring F is attached by the screws g', ', the arm G and handle H, the
ring E is therefore capable of being rotated by the handle H; the
interior of the ring E is screwed to receive the bronze plug I, also
screwed so as to be adjustable for distance from the face of the ring E;
the plug I is bored out to receive the iron cup or stem J which turns
freely in the plug I, the stem being secured in the plug by the loose
washer and pin ; in the cup J is attached by means of the screw
cups of leather, wood, or other suitable material, in varying sizes to suit
the neck of the bottle to be capsuled; this cup is shewn at K, with the
bottle in position to be capsuled, and the capsule S on the neck.
To the face of the ring E is attached a small pin M, round which a
loop of the cord L to be used (hemp, catgut or wire, preferably catgut),
is attached, and the cord passing down through the bed plate by the
aperture R has a weight P attached to its lower end. In the groove of
the ring Fat N another cord is attached, which hanging down free of
the bed plate B has a weight Q attached to its lower extremity.
The action of the machine is thus:-The bottle is held firmly by the
left hand, and with the right hand by rotating the handle once the
cord L is carried round the neck of the bottle once. On commencing
the second rotation, as the cord falls in the same place upon the neck of
the bottle it necessarily displaces the previous coil, and as the coils are
formed successively by rotating the handle they fleet down the neck of
the bottle pressing and burnishing the capsule on the bottle neck.
During the rotation the cord O has been wound upon the groove N, and

page_text: when the operation is finished if the handle H is suddenly liberated the
reaction of the descending weight Q rapidly uncoils the cord L from the
neck of the bottle; the bottle can then be removed and another placed
ready for capsuling.
The cord O may be replaced by a coiled spring working in the groove N,
but the action of the cord is more simple. It is necessary to keep the
cord L well greased or lubricated with gum or paste if it is desired to
apply some adhesive material to the capsules, which will be an advantage
when the goffered capsules are used.
Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the
said Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into effect, we
would have it understood that what we claim is, in capsuling bottles or
other vessels the particular method of coiling a cord of any suitable
material so that each succeeding coil shall displace the preceding coil by
flecting it down the bottle neck, and so rub, press, and burnish the
capsule upon the bottle or other vessel by means of the mechanism and
method herein set forth, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jean Joseph Baranowski and John
Skwarcow, have hercunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.
J. BARANOWSKI.
(L.S.)
JOHN SKWARCOW. (L.S.)