IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY FOR APPLYING METALLIC CAPSULES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau,
of the English and Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY FOR APPLYING
METALLIC CAPSULES." -A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand Le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th December 1852.
I, PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English
5 and Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and
39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY FOR APPLYING METALLIC
CAPSULES" to be as follows:—
... The Invention consists in a machine for capsuling (or applying

page_text: capsules to bottles) by means of cords operating on the neck of
bottles, such cords having a spring at each end, and the machine is
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English and
Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39,
Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Morean,.
Her special license that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Morcau,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY FOR APPLYING METALLIC
CAPSULES," communicated to me from abroad, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: Fontaine Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
communicated to inc, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that
is to say):
The improvements consist in the construction of machinery for
applying metallic capsules.
The means hitherto employed for applying metallic capsules to
bottles, have been by the pressure of a cord, passed round the
capsule after it was set on the neck of the bottle.
Figure 1, shows a front elevation of the improved machine; Fig.
8, a side elevation; Fig. 4, a plan; Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, show the
details. The machine is composed of the framework Figure 1, made
either of wood or cast iron, firmly set in a wooden platform. The
framework Figure 1, is connected with Figure 2, by means of rods
n, n, shewn in Figures 3, and 4. In Figure 1, b, is the face plate
of a drum or block, hercin-after described, which face plate is shewn
separately at Figure 6, and is furnished with three or more springs
d, d, d, Fig. 6. The drum or block, of which a section is shewn
at Figure 5, is formed with a collar; so that, when the face plate is
attached; it can be moved in a suitable bearing, formed in the
standard or framework Fig. 1. This drum is pierced or perforated
with three holes to admit the insertion of the spiral springs d, d, d,
Figure. 6. In the centre of this drum or box, a circular hole or
recess is formed to receive a spiral spring, attached to a circular
metal disc, which disc is made rather smaller than such circular
hole or recess, and rather larger than the hole shewn in the centre of
the face plate b. The circular hole or recess should be of such a depth
that the metal disc, when at rest, is kept flush with the top of such
drum or box when the face plate b, is not attached. The drum or
box is furnished with a handle a, Figure 1; the collar of the drum
or box is inserted in the bearing formed in the frame or standard
Figure 1, from the back of such frame or standard, and the collar
being made of the same depth as the thickness of the standard or

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framework, the top of such frame or block comes flush with the
front of such standard. The face plate b, which is larger than the
bearing, is then attached to the drum or block by screws or other
suitable means. Holes or openings are made in the face plate b,
opening into the interior of the spiral springs d, d, d, Figure 6; a
cord of the required strength and thickness is then passed through
each of these holes and through each of the spiral springs, and the
corresponding circular holes in the drum or block, and each of such
cords is then fastened to a suitable block, such as that shown at-
Figure 8; so that when it is pulled back again, it cannot be with-
drawn, but acts upon the spiral springs d, d, d. The other ends of
these cords aro fastened to the cross bar attached to and uniting
the two springs 9, 9, Figure 1, and the cords pass over suitable
pullies, attached to the face of the standard, as shewn in the
Drawing, Figure 1. When the handle A, Figures 1, and 3, is moved
to the position shewn at D, Figure 1, the three cords cross each
other in the centre of the face plate b.. o, o, Figures 3, and 4, ara
two small bars of iron, to which a carriage or receptacle j, Figure 3,
is attached, which is intended to carry the bottle to be capsuled; one
end of these bars, with the carriage j, Figure 3, attached, rests upon
a shelf or projection m, Figure 3; the other ends of these iron bars
pass through the frame or standard Figure 1, and C, Figures 8,
and 4, and are connected, by cords or other suitable means, to the
two drum wheels p, p, Figures 8, and 4. B, Figures 3, and 4, is a
handle attached to the spindle, which passes through the drum wheels
P, P; so that, by raising the handle B, the drum wheels p, p, are par-
tially turned round. When it is intended to apply a capsule, it is first
placed loosely over the top of the bottle, and the bottle, with the capsulė
upon it, is then laid in the carriage j, Figure 3, so that the top of
such bottle is opposite the circular hole in the face plate b. The
handle B, Figures 3, and 4, is then raised and the drum wheels p,
p, are. thereby caused partially to revolve, and to act upon their
bars o, o, whereby the carriage j, is brought closer to the face plate
b, so that the top of each bottle, with the capsule upon it, is pressed
ngainst the circular disc with the spiral spring herein-before men-

page_text: tioned. Directly the bottle begins to press against this disc, the
handle A, Figures 1, and 2, is moved in the direction from A, to D,
Fig. 1, and the raising of the handle B, Figures 3, and 4, is con-
tinued, until the end of the lowest end of the capsule has been forced
past the cords; the handles A, and B, are then brought back to their
original positions, and the operation is complete.
Having now described the nature of the Invention communicated,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that I claim as the Invention the combination and arrangement of
machinery for applying metallic capsules, as herein-before described
and referred to in the several figures of the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte. de
Fontaine Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Sixth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
Witness,
HT. GILBEE.
L' DE FONTAINEMOREAU. (L.B.)