A New or Improved Apparatus to be used in Bottling Wines and for the like Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 21st Apr., 1890--Accepted, 24th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus to be used in Bottling Wines and
for the like Purposes.
I WILLIAM SMITH of 9 Market Hill Luton in the County of Bedford Wine
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to apparatus used for bottling wines and other liquids and the
like purposes and serves to regulate and determine the exact quantity each bottle is
required to contain.
For this purpose I employ a tube advantageously made of bone or ivory and having
a screw thread cut thereon.
Upon this screw thread there is a travelling screw nut which serves to determine
the distance the tube is allowed to descend into the neck of the bottle previously filled
with wine or other liquid. Upon the upper end of the tube having the adjustable
screw nut thereon a collapsible hollow ball or its equivalent is mounted.
The apparatus is used in the following manner. When a number of bottles have
been filled in the ordinary manner the collapsible ball is compressed and the end of the
tube (with adjustable screw nut in the desired position thereon) is inserted into the
neck of a bottle and on releasing the hollow ball any excess of liquid in the bottle is
withdrawn and so on in succession with all the bottles by which means their contents
are equalized.
The apparatus can also be used for introducing a small quantity of liquid should
the contents be deficient.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus to be used in Bottling Wines and
for the like Purposes.
I WILLIAM SMITH of Stockwood Crescent Luton in the County of Bedford Wine
Merchant 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 apparatus for use in bottling wines and other liquids and
the like purposes to regulate and determine the exact quantity each bottle is required
to contain.
For this purpose I employ a tube advantageously made of bone or ivory and having
a screw thread cut thereon.
Upon this screw thread there is a travelling screw, nut which fits over the top of
the bottle neck and so serves to determine the distance the tube is allowed to descend
into the neck of the bottle previously filled with wine or other liquid. Upon the
upper end of the tube having the adjustable screw nut thereon a collapsible hollow
ball or its equivalent is mounted.
The apparatus is used in the following manner-When a number of bottles have
been filled in the ordinary manner the collapsible ball is first compressed and the end
of the tube (with the adjustable screw nut in the desired position thereon) is then
inserted into the neck of a bottle and on releasing the hollow ball any excess of liquid
in the bottle is sucked up the tube and is thus withdrawn and so on in succession with

page_text: all the bottles by which means their contents or the height of the liquid in the necks
of all the bottles are equalized.
The apparatus can also be readily used for introducing a small quantity of liquid
should the contents be deficient or for completely filling small bottles with scents
marking inks and for the like purposes.
And in order that my present invention may be the more easily understood and
readily carried into practice I will proceed to further describe same with reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Figure 1 shows the apparatus or appliance in elevation.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of same.
a is the tube or pipe made of bone ivory or any other suitable material and having
the collapsible rubber ball 6 (or any other suitable compressible ball or other shaped
vessel which will expand itself-
_ on being released-after compression) suitably
mounted at one end of tube a with the passage c leading right through into the
interior of the ball b.
Upon the outside of the tube a a screw thread is cut upon which the screw nut or
ring d is adjusted up or down as desired according to the height it is desired to have
the liquid in the bottle neck.
The operation is as follows:-
The ball b is compressed and the tube a is then inserted as far down the bottle neck
as the nut d allows the ball is then released and the expansion thereof sucks up all
the liquid in which the tube is immersed until air is drawn in whereupon the appliance
is withdrawn from the bottle neck and the liquid held therein is squirted out into a
suitable vessel and the operation as above is then repeated with the next bottle-thus
the distance of the liquid from the top of the neck of the bottle is equalized in all
the bottles.
The ring d may be adjusted upon the outside of the tube a in any desired and
suitable manner other than by screwing up and down-for instance the outside of the
tube a may be smooth and the ring d simply slid up and down and adjusted in the
desired position by means of a set screw therein.
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 :-
:―
1. In an appliance or apparatus for use in bottling liquids as hereinbefore set forth
I claim a nut or ring such as d adjustable either by screwing or otherwise upon the
outside of the tube a substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
2. The combination of a tube having an adjustable ring or nut on the outside
thereof with a collapsible ball (such as 6) arranged and mounted on one end of said
tube substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
3. The apparatus or appliance shown in the drawings for use in bottling wines and
other liquids substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
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Dated this 21st day of April 1890
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.