Improvements in Bottling Beer, Stout, and other Non-aerated Beverages.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1890-Accepted, 12th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottling Beer, Stout, and other Non-aerated
Beverages.
I, BENJAMIN BLUNDSTONE of Devonshire Street Ardwick Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the bottling of beer stout and other non-aerated beverages
and it has for its object to enable such beverages to be bottled in bottles having
internal stoppers retained by gaseous pressure such as are commonly used in bottling
aerated beverages.
According to these Improvements the beverage is drawn or poured into the bottle
which is then temporarily closed by a pad or other suitable device and the bottle is
thus inverted over a nozzle connected with a pump or vessel containing or capable
of supplying air or fluid under pressure, and a small quantity of the air or fluid
under pressure is injected after the pad or closing device is withdrawn. It will
be understood that the injected fluid must be of an innocent character and it may
be a similar beverage to that contained in the bottle or other suitable beverage.
The consequent compression of the air left in the bottle before the injection of an
additional quantity of air or fluid will suffice to retain the stopper securely in its
seating.
I prefer to proceed as hereinbefore indicated but I may alternatively inject the
whole of the beverage under pressure, leaving an air space, when the same result
will be obtained.
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WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottling Beer, Stout, and other Non-aerated
Beverages.
I, BENJAMIN BLUNDSTONE of Devonshire Street Ardwick Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Manager 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 relates to the bottling of beer stont and other non-aerated beverages
and it has for its object to enable such beverages to be bottled in bottles having
internal stoppers retained by gaseous pressure, such as are commonly used in bottling
aerated beverages.
According to these Improvements, the beverage to be bottled is drawn or poured
into the internally stoppered bottle which is then temporarily closed by a pad or other
suitable device, and the bottle thus closed is then inverted over a nozzle connected with
a pump or vessel containing or capable of supplying air or other fluid under pressure,
and a sufficient quantity of the air or fluid is injected into the bottle after the pad or
closing device has been withdrawn. It is obvious that the injected fluid must be
innoxious, and it is preterably either atmospheric air or a similar beverage to that
contained in the bottle. In injecting the fluid only such a pressure should be employed
as will suffice to keep the internal stopper upon its seating when the bottle is standing
upright, and allowance must be made for any subsequent fermentation of the beverage
the result of which will be to increase the internal pressure. Under ordinary circum-
stances a pressure of from 10 to 20 lbs. per square inch will be found sufficient.

page_text: The injection into the bottle of the fluid under pressure compresses the air already
in the bottle and suffices to maintain the bottle firmly closed.
It is preferred that the total volume of air in the bottle after compression
should slightly exceed that left in bottles corked or closed in the ordinary manner.
I do not limit myself to any particular apparatus or machinery for injecting the
fluid under pressure into the inverted bottles, as there are a considerable number of
well known machines used in bottling aerated waters which may be suitably employed,
but I have found the simple apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings to be
sufficient.
This apparatus, which is represented in elevation in Figure 1 and in plan in
Figure 2, consists of two closed vessels A A', which are constructed to resist the
pressure to be employed. These two vessels are connected by the pipes B and C.
In the pipe B there are two connected or interlocked taps D D¹ and the nozzle E
between the two laps. In the pipe C there is a three way cock F which is also in
communication with the supply pipe G and the run off pipe H. Each of the vessels
may or may not be fitted with a pressure gauge and a gauge glass.
The apparatus is operated in the following manner. Each of the vessels being
empty, the taps D D¹ closed, and the pipe G connected with a public water supply
service or with a pump; the three way cock is turned so as to admit water to one of
the vessels A or A¹. The air in the vessel to which the water is admitted is thus
compressed and the taps D and D' are moved into such a position that the outlet
from the vessel containing the compressed air is opened and the other is closed. The
escape of the compressed air through the nozzle E is prevented by a tap I below the
nozzle. A sufficient number of the bottles containing the beverage being at hand,
they are placed in an inverted position one by one with their openings in the nozzle
and the tap I is turned as each bottle J is placed in position as shewn in Figure
so as to admit the compressed air to the interior of the bottle; and the tap I is
turned off before the removal of the bottle. When the supply of air from the first
vessel has been exhausted, the taps D D₁ are moved in the opposite direction so as
to close the communication with the full vessel and open communication with the
empty vessel, and at the same time the three way cock F is turned so as to place
the service pipe G into communication with the empty vessel. This motion of the
three way cock also places the full vessel in communication with the run-off pipe H
so that the water contained therein may freely escape. (To permit the escape of
water and the ingress of a fresh supply of air to the vessel, an air valve is fitted in
the upper part of each of the vessels as shewn at K K.) The compressed air supply
will now be in the opposite vessel and may be employed in precisely the same
manner as herein before described. The vessels A A¹ are thus alternately employed
and whilst the water is escaping from one of the vessels a fresh supply is accumu-
lating under a head of compressed air in the other, so that the process of bottling may
be carried on continuously.
The nozzle E is preferably lined with an india-rubber washer L against which the
lip of the bottle is pressed during injection thus preventing the escape of air.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,―
Bottling beer stout and similar beverages in internally stoppered bottles, sub-
stantially as and by the means hereinbefore described.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.