Improvements in Machines for Use in the Manufacture of Bottles and similar Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Use in the Manufacture of Bottles
and similar Vessels.
I, GEORGE ARTHUR FULLERTON, of 33 School Street Boston, Massachusetts,
United States of America, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to machines for use in the manufacture of bottles and similar
vessels, and is chiefly designed to simplify and cheapen the manufacture of bottles
such as
are described in the specification of former Letters Patent dated 29th
November AD 1887, No 16,390.
The bottles described in the said former specification are made with L-shaped
grooves or cavities in the exterior of the rim of the bottle-neck for the reception of
studs or projections on the closing device. The main object of my present invention
is to provide for the formation of these and similar exterior grooves or cavities
without deformation of the bottle-neck.
My improved machine is provided with jaws or clamps for holding or supporting
the rim of the bottle-neck and with tools or punches which, while the said rim is
thus held or supported, operate to form therein by pressure the required exterior
grooves or cavities.
The said jaws or clamps and the punches are so arranged that they may be operated
as required by depressing a lever or treadle by the foot or otherwise.
I prefer to arrange in combination with the said Jaws or clamps and with the
punches, suitable sliding bars formed with inclined planes against which bear anti-
friction rollers on the said Jaws or clamps and punches. These sliding bars are
connected with a treadle and are provided with a spring or springs which tend
to retain them in their most elevated position and return them to this position
after they have been depressed and released.
To prevent deformation of the interior of the bottle-neck, I provide a plug
which is inserted therein; and to prevent sticking of the glass to the said plug I
provide suitable means whereby, when the aforesaid lever or treadle is depressed,
the said plug will be rotated about its axis. For this purpose I sometimes use a
band or chain passed around the said plug and attached to the said lever or
treadle I provide suitable supports or bearings for the said plug, in which it is
free to turn for the purpose above specified
The sliding bars and the jaws or clamps should be provided with suitable
guides.
The recess or cavity in the jaws or clamps for the reception of the rim of the
bottle-neck is made longer than the said rim to allow for displacement of the glass
by the punches.
L
1000
GEO. A FULLERTON.
Haseltine, Lake & Co,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Machines for Use in the Manufacture of Bottles
and similar Vessels.
I, GEORGE ARTHUR FULLERTON of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of
America, 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 :-
The object of my invention 18 to produce a machine for making bottles and
other receptacles having grooves to receive the inwardly turned ends of stopper
carriers and my invention consists mainly in the combination of a divided female
mould with one or more groove forming dies each reciprocating through an opening
in an inner face of one or both members of the divided female mould.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of machine embodying my invention,
a part being broken away for greater clearness in showing certain parts herein-
after referred to.
Figure 2 is a plan of the arrangement shown in Figure 1.
Figure 2 is a rear elevation thereof.
Figure 3 19 a transverse section of the machine on line 3, 3 of Figure 1
Figure 4 is a central vertical section on line 4, 4 of Figure 2, and
Figures 5 and 6 are different views of one of the pairs of die-carriers provided
with the groove forming dies.
Figure 7 is a diagram illustrative of a modification
Figures 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are views illustrating a modification of a machine
embodying my invention.
Figure 8 being a part plan.
Figure 9 a section on line 9, 9 of Figure 8.
Figure 10, a transverse section on line 10, 10 of Figure 9 and
Figures 11 and 12 an elevation and plan respectively of the die-carrier and die.
In the drawings, in which my invention is embodied in one form of machine,
A is a supporting frame in which is mounted a reciprocating frame B made up
of cross-heads 6 connecting bars 61 and auxiliary connecting bars 62. The devisable
.female mould D the combination of which, with one or more groove forming dies
constitutes the main feature of my invention is supported by links a, a¹, each link a
being pinned to a member d of mould D and each link a being pinned to link a
and to frame A (see Figures 3, 4).
One or both members d-of. mould D. is provided with-an-opening d¹ to receive
the groove forming die d². Of course it will be plain to all skilled in the art,
that the members of the mould D may be moved towards and away from each
other in
a great many different ways, and also that the die-carriers D¹ may be
reciprocated in many different ways, and consequently that the mechanism here
shown for actuating the grippers or members d of mould D and the groove forming
dies may be greatly varied or other wholly different mechanism substituted therefor
without departing from the spirit of my invention, the object of which is to clamp
the mouth end of a bottle or other receptacle and then to form one or more
grooves (preferably two grooves) of the proper form in the outer walls of the
receptacle, each of which grooves receives an inwardly turned end of bottle stopper
carrier.
In practising my invention the receptacle is best placed on a spindle or support E
which enters the mouth of the bottle, and the mould D is closed upon the mouth end
of the receptacle while it is in a plastic or semi-plastic condition. The dies d' are
then passed through the openings d' in the walls of the mould D and thereby form
grooves in the outer walls of the mouth end of the receptacle These grooves will,
ordinarily be two in number and substantially L-shaped and consequently the groove
forming dies d' are substantially L-shaped as shown in Figure 6, and the openings d¹

page_text: are of proper shape to receive the dies d². As soon as the grooves have been formed,
the dies are moved out of the grooves, the members of mould D are separated and
the receptacle is removed The mechanism wluch I have shown for actuating the
moulds and dies is composed of the reciprocating frame B the bars 63 of which are
formed with inchines which engage friction rolls 63 journalled in the members d of
the mould D. The members of mould D are supported as explained above, by the
freely moving links a, a¹ and are connected together by suitable guide rods (see
Figures 1 and 3) and consequently as the frame is moved to bring the inclines on the
bars against the rolls 63 the members d of mould D are moved inwardly to clamp
the receptacle. The die carriers D¹ are each conveniently formed (as shown in
Figures 5 and 6) with an arm do working in a slot d in the other die carrier. A
friction wheel is journaled in the back of each die carrier D; and after the
inclines on bars 62 have forced members d of the mould D together suitable inclines
on the bars engage the friction rolls and the die carriers D' are moved towards
each other so that the dies d are thrust through the openings and into the yielding
outer walls of the mouth end of the receptacle
When the frame B is moved back
the inclines on the bars allow the springs do fast to frame A and engaging the
projections on the die carriers D' to move the die carrier back so that the dies d
are out of the grooves in the receptacle, and as the frame continues to rise, the
pins do on the bars 61 engage the links a' and move these links so that members d of
the die D are separated to release the receptacle
Frame B is conveniently reciprocated by means of a spring controlled treadle, not
shown in the drawings, because well understood, the treadle rod B' being broken off
in Figure 1 It is desirable that the bars 6 should be loosely secured in one of cross-
heads b, so that they may be adjusted to the friction rolls 63 and so I form one of the
cross-heads 6 (in this case the upper cross head shown in Figure 1) with recesses * in
which I mount spring & which are conveniently backed up by set screws 66
It is desirable, in some cases that the support E should move on its longitudinal
axis in order to prevent the glass or the like, when the machine is used for making
glass or like receptacles from stiching to the support Spindle E is co
conveniently
rocked by springs 1 each spring being secured to the shank of the support and
brackets 2 on frame A and as frame B reciprocates one spring is shortened and the
other lengthened and consequently the spindle is rocked.
It will be plain from what has been said respecting the operation of this form of
my machine that two grooves (when two grooves are required in the outer wall of the
mouth-end of the receptacle) are formed s.multaneously or substantially so. It will
be plain that instead of forming these two grooves simultaneously, they may be
formed in succession, and in this case one die carrier D' would suffice, and consequently
only one die d would be required, and in the modification shown in Figure 71 have
shown but one die d² In this case of course the die carrier will be diawn back after
one groove is formed and the receptacle will be turned on the support E¹ to bring
another portion of its outer wall to the die d.
As I have said above a great variety of mechanisms may be employed to actuate
the members of the mould 1 and one or more dies das required
In Figures 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 a modified form of the machine above described is
shown. In this form of machine embodying my invention the members d slide on
a T-shaped support is fixed to the frame A, and springs d are interposed between
the die-carrier D' and the members d. Levers D2 are fulcrummed to frame A
and actuated from a treadle D³ When the free ends of levers D³ move inwardly
they press against the die carriers, and as the springs are quite stiff the members i
of the mould D are moved inwardly to clamp the receptacle. Continuation of the
inward movement of the levers D overcomes the resistance of springs d¹² and the
dies are thrust inwardly to form the grooves. The levers are conveniently moved
to relieve the pressure on the die carriers by a spring 3; and stops d₁ are provided
to limit the backward movement of the levers D'. In this form of machine it is
convenient to use an adjustable auxiliary bottle support D' which slides on frame A
and is provided with pins " to assist in holding the bottle The levers D' are

page_text: connected to treadle D³ by connecting links 4. The spindle E, in this form of my
machine, is not adapted to be moved on its longitudinal axis as it is in the other form
of machine, in which however it is not necessary that the support E should be
movable on its longitudinal axis This modification illustrates what I have said above
to the effect that the members of the mould D and the dies d² (or a single die d² as
the case may be) can be actuated by mechanism widely different in construction.
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 1
claim is
The combination of a female mould having an opening in its wall with a die and
means for actuating the die, the die moving through the opening, substantially as,
and for the purpose, set forth
Dated this 30th day of August 1889
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.