IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATŲ BOTTLING WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Thomas Marzetti, of John Street, Minories, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATŲ
BOTTLING WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, AND OTHER LIQUIDS."
S FOR
ealed the 24th November 1876, and dated the 20th May 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Thomas Marzetti
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th May 1876.
CHARLES THOMAS MARZETTI, of John Street, Minorics, in the City of London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, AND OTHER
LIQUIDS."
In the process of bottling wines, spirits, beer, and other liquids from casks or
other reservoirs it is usually the practice to employ an ordinary tap having a single
spout or bib, aud as soon as a bottle is filled it is removed and another put in its
place without turning off the tap, it being detrimental to arrest the current of
liquid during the process; but besides entailing a loss of time in performing the
operation in this way a considerable loss of liquid results, as in the space of time
between the removal of a bottle and the application of another a certain quantity
of liquid is unavoidably spilled and as it is not always possible to fill the bottle to
the exact height required the process known as "throwing off" has to be adopted.
The object of my Invention is to obviate this loss and inconvenience and generally
to facilitate the operation, and in order to effect this I employ the following
arrangements:
To the tap in common use, or by preference to one specially prepared for the
purpose, I affix a small reservoir, preferably of a cylindrical forn, inade of metal,
glass, wood, or other suitable material, into which the liquid flows through the
above-named tap from the cask or other source of supply. From the lower part of
the said small reservoir depend two spouts or tubes, through which the liquid flows
to the bottles in the manner to be hereafter described.
The passages from the small reservoir to the aforesaid spouts or tubes are opened
or closed at pleasure by a suitable arrangement of valve or plug acting after the
manner of a tap, but preferably in such wise that in proportion as the passage to
one spout or tube is closed that to the other spout or tube is opened. By these
means when one bottle applied to one of the aforesaid spouts or tubes is nearly
filled the flow into it is gradually reduced, and finally stopped at the required
moment by means of the valve or tap governing the passages from the reservoir
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page_text: into the said spouts or tubes, whilst by the same means the flow of liquid is diverted
into another bottle applied to the other of the aforesaid spouts or tubes.
It will thus be seen that when one bottle is filled the flow is wholly diverted
into a second, and that during the filling of the second the first may be removed
and replaced by another in readiness for the diversion of the flow into it from the
second as soon as the latter is filled, and so on alternately.
I prefer to arrange the valve or tap in relation to the openings.into the spouts or
tubes in such manner that exactly in proportion as the opening to one is closed
that to the other is opened, whereby the current of liquid flowing from the cask
or other source of pply remains constant, and in order to prevent any part of the
liquid from remaining in either of the said spouts or tubes after the current of
liquid is cut off from it I apply to each a small air tube in any suitable position
and of any suitable form or arrangement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Thomas Marzetti in the Great Seal Patent Office on tho
25th November 1876.
CHARLES THOMAS MARZETTI, of John Street, Minories, in the City of London.
'IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, AND OTHER
LIQUIDS."
In the process of bottling wines, spirits, beer, and other liquids from casks or
other reservoirs it is usually the practice to employ an ordinary tap having a single
spout or bib, and as soon as a bottle is filled it is removed and another put in its
place without turning off the tap, it being detrimental to arrest the current of liquid
during the process; but besides entailing a loss of time in performing the operation
in this way a considerable loss of liquid results as in the space of time between the
removal of a bottle and the application of another a certain quantity of liquid is
unavoidably spilled, and as it is not always possible to fill the bottle to the exact
height required the process known as "throwing off" has to be adopted.
The object of my Invention is to obviate this loss and inconvenience and generally
to facilitate the operation, and in order to effect this I employ the following
arrangements:-
To the front end of a tap A by screwing or otherwise, or (in some cases) cast
therewith, a small reservoir B of a cylindrical, or preferably of a conical form
made of metal, but glass, wood, or other suitable material may be employed. The
liquid flows into the said reservoir at any desired rate through the abovo-named
tap A (which may be adjusted as required) from the cask or other source of supply.
From the lower part of the said small reservoir B depend two spouts or tubes
C and D through which the liquid flows to the bottles, as hereafter described.
The passages E, F, from the small reservoir to the aforesaid spouts or tubes C
and D are opened or closed at pleasure by a suitable arrangement of valve or
plug G acting after the manner of a tap, but preferably in such wise that in pro-
portion as the passage to one spout or tube is closed that to the other spout or tube
is opened. By these means when one bottle applied to one of the aforesaid spouts
or tubos is nearly filled the flow into it is gradually reduced and finally stopped
at the required moment by means of the valve or tap G governing the passages
E and F leading from the reservoir B into the said spouts or tubes, whilst by the
saine means the flow of liquid is diverted into another bottle applied to the other
of the aforesaid spouts or tubes.
It will thus be seen that when one bottle is filled the flow is wholly diverted
into a second, and that during the filling of the second the first may be removed
and replaced by another in readiness for the diversion of the flow into it from the
second as soon as the latter is filled, and so on alternately, the reservoir B allowing

page_text: of a uniform flow of liquid through the tap A, notwithstanding the diversion of the
flow from the said reservoir from one bottle to another.
prefer to arrange the valve or tap G in relation to the openings into the spouts
or tubes in such manner that exactly in proportion as the opening to ono is closed
that to the other is opened, whereby the current of liquid flowing to the bottles
from the cask or other source of supply remains constant, and in order to prevent
any part of the liquid from remaining in either of the said spouts or tubes after
the current of liquid is cut off from it, I apply to each a small air tube H in any
suitable position and of any suitable form or arrangement.
I have described two spouts or tubes applied to the reservoir B, but it is obvious
that a larger number may be employed if desired, the valve or plug G being adapted
with corresponding passages.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to or may be performed, I would have it understood that what I claim
as my Invention is in taps for bottling the employment of the reservoir B with
the valve or plug G, and two or more bibs or outlet tubes with or without the
air tubes H, arranged, combined, and applied substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated in the Drawing and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Thomas Marzetti, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.