Improvements in Apparatus for the Preparation of Sterilised Ice in Blocks or in Bottles and the Sterilisation in a Cold Condition and at the Ordinary Pressure of Liquids generally.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1898-Accepted, 8th July, 1899
GUME DMIN DIECIFICATION,
Improvements in Apparatus for the Preparation of Sterilised Ice in
Blocks or in Bottles and the Sterilisation in a Cold Condition and
at the Ordinary Pressure of Liquids generally.
I, MARIUS OTTO, of 18, Avenue de Neuilly, Neuilly-sur-Seine, in the Republic
of France, Electrical Engineer, 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:-
I have described in the Specification of another application for a Patent viz.,
No. 15151, A.1). 1898, a process for the sterilisation of liquids by means of ozone,
consisting in causing the ozone to act simultaneously upon the liquid to be
treated and upon the vessel intended for its reception.
This invention relates to an arrangement as a whole by means of which liquids
may be sterilised at the same time as the vessels intended to contain theni (in
accordance with the principles, and by means of the processes indicated in the
said specification above mentioned) and also enabling an automatic and perfect
corking of the vessels to be effected in a closed chamber which has been rendered
aseptic, prior to their admission into the refrigeration chamber, if so desired.
The receptacle and its contents may, when the contents is water, serve for the
manufacture of pure ice, absolutely free from bacteria.
Hitherto, even when ice has been manufactured with filtered and sterilized
water, the vessel in which the congealation took place has never been sterilised,
and therefore ice which was only imperfectly pure has been obtained, the vessel
invariably retaining upon its walls, germs in contact with which the liquid pre-
viously sterilised again became contaminated.
My device or apparatus, which may likewise be employed for the production
of ice in blocks, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in its application
to the filling, sterilisation and stoppering of water bottles.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of the installation as a whole.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are cross-sections shewing in side elevation upon a larger
scale, the details of the conveying, filling and stoppering mechanism, and
Figure 3 is a detail view hereinafter referred to.
Figures 6 and G₁ are detail views. Figure 6 being a reverse plan view of
Figure 6.
The apparatus comprises essentially a large glazed chamber, closed upon the
right and left hands by means of two doors K and L (Figure 1) which open and
close automatically in order to permit of the passage of the boxes C1 C2 C³...
filled with the bottles.
I have represented in the sectional view Figure 3 the details of the mechanism,
which effects the automatic opening and closing of the doors, the opening and
closing of the cocks G and F for the admission of water and ozone, and mecha-
nism E operating the stoppering devices.

page_text: The essential portion of this mechanism are jointed rods A B to which a belt
and pulley mechanism T Figure 1 imparts a reciprocating rectilinear motion.
I have represented (Figures 3 and 3) the details of the mechanism for opening
and closing the doors K and L. The partly toothed wheel H' is provided with, a
projection which is raised and partly rotated on the. ascent of the rod A by
a movable finger H² attached to the said rod. A. As the wheel H¹ is turned from
right to left Figure 34 an upward motion is imparted to the door K by means of
gearing h² h h and rack and pinion hh. While the opening of the said door K
is taking place the door L closes by its own weight, immediately the finger H³
clears the projection h¹.
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The outlet door L is operated from the counter shaft o by means of bevel
wheels gearing together at right angles, and is similar in construction and
action to the inlet door K. P P 1 denote the pillars of the frame carrying
the shafts of the rollers R2 R3 R₁ of the feeding sheet R*, and denotes the hori-
zontal rollers on which the latter bears when carrying the boxes C, C², C³, ... The
period during which the doors are open, which is determined by the length of
the finger H2, corresponds exactly to the time which the boxes occupy in advane-
ing, one stage. The cocks G and F are provided with handles m, m (Figure 3)
which are operated by the rod A. By suitable adjustment it is possible to open
these cocks for exactly the time necessary for filling the bottles.
The automatic conveyance of the boxes is effected by means of a ratchet
wheel M which is controlled by a finger 1) offering great resistance (Figure 1).
The ratio of the diameters of the ratchet wheel and of the rollers R1, R2, which
the former actuates by means of a belt, chain or the like M*, is calculated in
such a manner, that the endless sheet R* upon which the boxes rest is carried on
at each ascending motion of the rods A B by a length equal to the distance
which separates the front portions of any two of them.
: I have represented in the sectional views (Figures 3, 5 6 and 6*) details of the
stoppering mechanism. This mechanism is actuated by means of the device E
to which the rods A B impart a reciprocating circular motion. This device E,
by operating five pairs of forks o¹ o³ 03 04 05 (Figures 25, 6 and 6) having
reduced portions, allows a cap * forming a stopper to fall at the proper moment
upon each of the bottles which has just been filled. These caps, which may be of
glass or of inoxidisable metal, are arranged in piles in large vertical tubes 61 62 6³.
(Figures 1, 5, and 6). They descend owing to their own weight, and are pro-
vided at their lower portion with a ring of felt.
The roller R (Figures 1 and 4) is movable downwards in the vertical direction
serving to stretch the endless sheet R*. It may be lowered by means of mecha-
nism for instance rack and pinion controlled by the hand wheel V.
The water and the ozone mix intimately in small appliances t¹, t, til
*
which I.
term triplets," and which are exactly similar to the devices which I have
described in the said Specification of even date No. 15151. These appliances are
formed by the assemblage in one and the same socket of three nozzles. Instead
of employing triplets, single nozzles or a suitable mechanical agitator may be
employed.
The boxes filled with bottles are placed upon the endless sheet. When the
apparatus is fully loaded, the necessary operations are effected in the following
order. The mechanism T is started; the ratchet wheel M causes the whole system
to advance; the doors K and L open, and close; the first after perniitting the
entrance of a box containing empty bottles, and the second after having permitted
a box containing bottles filled with sterilised water and stoppered to pass out.
As soon as the motion of the endless sheet is stopped the cocks G and open,
and the bottles which are beneath the set of nozzles are filled with ozonated water.
At the same time the filled bottles which are beneath the series of tubes contain-
ing the caps are stoppered.
When this has been effected, owing to the motion of the rods A, B, the endless
sheet resumes its motion carrying with it a new set of bottles, and the same

page_text: series of operations is repeated indefinitely. The bottles which enter the
refrigeration chamber are submitted to a temperature below 0° C., the water
which they contain being frozen.
By substituting moulds of suitable form for the bottles, blocks of sterilised ice
may be formed.
The apparatus above described, suitably modified, may be employed for the
sterilization and bottling of wine, milk, beer, pharmaceutical preparations,
serums, and so forth, the general arrangement remaining the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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An apparatus for the sterilisation by means of ozone, and for the automatic
bottling of liquids, capable of utilisation in particular for the manufacture of
sterilised ice in blocks or in bottles, characterised by the combination of a glazed
chamber closed by doors K and L opening and closing automatically for the
passage of boxes containing bottles, with a mechanism ensuring the automatic
conveyance of the boxes, the automatic opening and closing of the doors, the
opening and closing of cocks G and for the supply of water and ozone and
actuating a transmission device which controls stoppers for stoppering the
sterilised bottles.
Dated this 9th day of July 1898
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.