Stoppering Bottles and other like Receptacles.
Year: 1885

page_text: Stoppering Bottles and other like Receptacles.
I ROBERT LUKE HOWARD of the firm of Hayward Tyler & Co 84 and
85 Whitecross Street in the City of London Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FILLING
AND STOPPERING BOTTLES AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES to be as follows:-
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My Invention relating to Machinery or apparatus for filling and stoppering
bottles and other like receptacles has reference to what is now well known as the
Macdonell Bottling Machine" and chiefly to that particular type of the Macdonell
Machine in which the rotatory portion is arranged outside the stationary portion
around which the rotatory portion revolves, and to that class of Machine adapted
for operating on bottles closed with internal stoppers.
One part of the Invention relates to the arrangement of the syrup pump
employed when Machinery or apparatus of this class is used for bottling lemonade
and similar liquids.
In carrying out this part of the Invention I employ a separate syrup pump for
each set of operating devices the whole of the syrup pumps with the other devices
commonly employed being carried by the revolving portion of the machine. Each
syrup pump is operated by a cam arranged either externally on a stationary casing
or, as I prefer, internally on the central stationary shaft or column, and the cam
may be caused to operate on the pump plunger in both directions, an arm or
bracket from the cam acting on an upper and lower collar on the plunger spindle
one of which collars is adjustable on the spindle for regulating the quantity of
syrup introduced, or the plunger may be arranged to be lifted by the cam and
dropped down by means of a weight or weighted lever.
Another part of the Invention relates to the use of a peculiar "kick off" or
automatic delivery device for the bottles. This consists of fingers or projections,
combined with a bottle guide which is mounted on a rocking shaft carried by a
stationary frame or support so as to be capable of being acted upon in one direction
by a cam or tappet carried by the revolving portion of the machine and of returning,
o its normal position in contact with a suitable stop under the action of a weight
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page_text: or spring. The cam or tappet may either be caused to act directly on the rocking
shaft which carries the. fingers or projections and bottle guide, or to act through
the intervention of an additional rocking shaft, levers and connecting rod or other
convenient means. In the action of the apparatus, as each bottle in its turn
arrives opposite the "kick-off" the neck of the bottle comes against and becomes
engaged with the fingers or projections and the "kick off" partially turning on its
axis these fingers or projections lift or pick the bottle out of the perpendicular
and turn it over on to the bottle guide which, as the motion of the "kick-off"
continues, discharges the bottle into a chute whence it may be removed or con-
ducted into any convenient receptacle, the "kick-off" returning under the action
of its weight or spring to its normal position in readiness for the discharge of the
next bottle and so on in succession during the operation of the machine. The
"kick-off" in lieu of being returned to its normal position by a weight or spring
may receive a positive motion from a cam or tappet in both directions.
In the general arrangement and combination of the parts constituting the entire
machine or apparatus, à number of sets of operating devices (corresponding to the
number of bottles to be acted on simultaneously in the several gradatory stages of
the operation) are arranged round and carried by the rotatory portion of the
machine. Each set of operating devices consists of the following parts.
1. A mouth piece for the inverted bottle rigidly attached to the rotatory portion
of the machine.
2. A spring bottle compressor for forcing the bottle against the mouth piece,
such bottle compressor being carried on a vertical slide in the rotatory portion of the
machine and receiving a positive motion in both directions that is to say towards
and from the bottle from a cam on the central stationary shaft or column.
3. An air escape tube, which is carried on another vertical slide in the rotatory
portion of the machine, and under the action of a cam on the central stationary
shaft or column is caused at the proper moment to rise (passing through the mouth
piece) into the interior of the bottle and to descend again to admit of the bottle
being discharged. With the air escape tube is combined an air outlet valve which
moves with the air escape tube and is actuated by a cam or tappet or cams or
tappets by preference arranged on the stationary external casing.
4th A supply valve for the aerated liquid which is attached to the mouth piece
and is actuated by a cam or tappet or cams or tappets also by preference arranged
on the stationary external casing.
5. The syrup pump carried by the rotatory portion.
The supply pipes for the aerated liquid and syrup, which at their lower ends
terminate respectively at the supply valve and the syrup pump, are connected at
their upper ends with a barrel which may form part of the rotatory portion of the
machine and revolves around the central stationary portion, through which latter
the aerated liquid and syrup are introduced into the machine and conducted to the
revolving barrel by separate passages. From the syrup pump there is a pipe for
conducting the syrup to the mouth piece.
It should be understood that only a single "kick off" or automatic delivery
device is required for the whole of the sets of operating devices.
In the operation of the apparatus a bottle is introduced by inserting its neck in
the mouth piece as each of the sets of operating devices passes in front of the
attendant-The following series of operations then take place in connection with
each bottle. The bottle compressor descends and grips the bottom of the inverted
bottle. The air escape-tube then commences to rise and 'the syrup is introduced,
the aerated liquid is next admitted, and the air snifted or expelled, the air escape
tube descends and the stopper falls to the mouth of the bottle and the filled and
stoppered bottle is finally discharged.
It will be understood that the whole of the bottles will be under operation at
the same time at different stages of the process which is carried on continuously
during the revolution of the machine, the bottles being simply placed in position

page_text: one by one as the sets of operating devices successively pass the attendant and
then filled, stoppered and discharged, automatically without any further super-
vision.
When it is not required to manufacture syrup drinks, the syrup pump and its
cam and supply pipes will be dispensed with; or may be temporarily thrown out
of gear by suitable devices.
The "kick-off" or automatic delivery device is also applicable to machines of
the class described in the specification to Letters Patent granted to Allan Macdonell
dated the 16th October 1882 N° 4908, and illustrated in Figures 13, 14, 15 and 16
of the drawings forming part of that specification. The axis of the kick-off will
in this case be attached to the fixed cylinder shewn in those figures, and the
rocking motion obtained from the internal revolving shaft the action in picking
off the bottle being practically similar in both cases, having regard to the fact that
the bottle is in the one case moving and in the other case stationary.
DOLL
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page_text: Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Filling and
Stoppering Bottles and other like Receptacles.
I ROBERT LUKE HOWARD of the firm of Hayward Tyler & Coy 84 and
85 Whitecross Street in the City of London, Engineer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :--
My Invention relating to Machinery or apparatus for filling and stoppering
bottles and other like receptacles has reference to what is now well known as the
"Macdonell Bottling Machine" and chiefly to that particular type of the Macdonell
Machine in which the rotatory portion is arranged outside the stationary portion
around which the rotatory portion revolves, and to that class of Machine adapted
for operating on bottles closed with internal stoppers.
One part of the Invention relates to the arrangement of the syrup pump employed
when the Macdonell Bottling Machine of this type and class is used for bottling
lemonade and similar liquids, and it consists in employing a separate syrup pump
for each set of operating devices the whole of the syrup pumps with the other
devices commonly employed being carried by the revolving portion of the
machine, and in operating the syrup pumps by a cam acting on an adjustable
collar on the plunger spindles so as to admit of the quantity of syrup introduced
being regulated with facility as required by varying the position of such collar on
the spindles.
Another part of the Invention relates to the use of a peculiar "kick-off" or
automatic delivery device for the bottles or other like receptacles, which consists of
fingers or projections combined with a bottle guide (operated wholly or partly by
cams or tappets) for lifting the bottles or receptacles and guiding or directing them
into a delivery shoot or receptacle.
And in order that the said Invention may be perfectly understood, I shall now a
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the several figures on the accompanying sheet of drawings, the same letters of
reference indicating corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a vertical section of a Macdonell
Bottling Machine of the type and class herein before referred to having my present
Invention applied thereto. Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same and Figure 3 is
a horizontal section, and Figure 4 a plan corresponding respectively to Figures 1
and 2. Figure 5 is a detail drawn to a larger scale of the syrup pump shewn in
elevation with a part of the rotatory portion of the machine indicated in section.
Figures 6 and 7 are enlarged details of the bottle kick-off or automatic delivery
device shewn in the general views Figures 2 and 4, Figure 6 being a vertical section.
and Figure 7 a plan of such device. Figure 8 represents an elevation of a portion of
a Macdonell Bottling Machine having applied thereto a bottle kick-off or automatic
delivery device slightly modified in its details, Figure 9 is a sectional plan corre-
sponding to Figure 8, and Figures 10 and 11 are enlarged details of the finger piece
and bottle guide respectively.

page_text: A is a central stationary shaft or column carried by a base or foundation B,
and C is a hollow cylinder having bearings at a, b, in and around the central
column A so as to be capable of rotatory motion around the same. To this hollow
cylinder rotatory motion is imparted from a prime mover in any suitable manner, the
arrangement indicated in the drawing being a worm o which is secured on the
shaft D carrying the driving pullies E and engages with a worm wheel c¹ formed
on or attached to the cylinder C.
Around and carried by the cylinder C are a number of sets of operating devices
corresponding to the number of bottles to be acted on simultaneously in the several
gradatory stages of the operation; three sets of such devices are shown in the
example illustrated, the same having for their function, supporting the bottle,
compressing the same, snifting or liberating the air, and supplying the liquid, in
the usual and well known manner.
According to one part of my present Invention, when machinery or apparatus of
this class is used for bottling lemonade and similar liquids, I employ a separate
Byrup pump F for each of the several sets of operating devices, the whole of the
syrup pumps F, F, F, with the other devices commonly employed being carried by
the revolving cylinder C; and I operate each syrup pump either by a cam arranged
externally on the stationary external casing G, or (as I prefer and as represented in
the drawing) by a cam 1 arranged internally on the central stationary shaft or
column A, the plunger spindle d of the syrup pump being provided with two
collars ef (see detail Figure 5) on which the arm g from the cam slide g¹ acts, and
one of which collars (viz the collar e) is adjustable on the spindle for regulating the
quantity of syrup introduced; or in lieu of causing the plunger spindle to be
operated by the cam 1 in both directions, it may be arranged to be lifted only by
the cam 1 acting on the collare and dropped down by means of a weight or
weighted lever.
Another part of the Invention relates to the use of a peculiar "kick-off” or
automatic delivery device for the bottles or other like receptacles. One modifi-
cation of this device is illustrated in the general views Figures 2 and 4 and in the
details Figures 6 and 7. It consists of fingers or projections h, h, combined with
a bottle guide i, which is mounted on a rocking shaft k, carried by the stationary
external frame or, casing G. This rocking shaft may be either acted upon directly
in one direction by a cam or tappet 2 carried by the revolving cylinder C and
placed in a suitable position for the purpose, or the cam or tappet 2 may be
arranged in the position shewn in the drawings and caused to act on the kick-off
through the intervention of an additional rocking shaft k¹, levers k³, k³, k, and
connecting rod ³, or other convenient means, the "kick-off" being returned to its
normal position in contact with the frame G or other suitable stop at Z under the
action of a weight m or of a spring.
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In the action of the apparatus as each bottle in its turn arrives opposite the
"kick-off" the neck of the bottle comes against and becomes engaged with
the fingers or projections h, h, and the kick-off" partially turning on its axis,
these fingers or projections lift or pick the bottle out of the perpendicular and turn
it over on to the bottle guide i which, as the motion of the "kick-off" continues,
discharges the bottle into a shoot n, whence it may be removed or conducted into
any convenient receptacle, the "kick-off" returning under the action of its
weight m or spring to its normal position in readiness for the discharge of the
next bottle, and so on in succession during the operation of the machine. The
kick-off" in lieu of being returned to its normal position by a weight or spring
may receive a positive motion from a cam or tappet in both directions.
Figures 8, 9, 10 and 11 illustrate another modification of the peculiar "kick-off"
or automatic delivery device for the bottles, similar in principle to that herein-
before described with reference to Figures 2, 4, 6 and 7, but differing slightly
therefrom in details.
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In the present modification, the cam or tappet 2 carried by the revolving
cylinder C as before is so shaped and arranged as to lift the piece h¹ on which the

page_text: fingers or projections h, h, are formed and cause it to turn on its centre or fulcrum k
in the frame G. The bottle guide i, which is attached to and stands up from the
finger piece h¹, partakes of the motion of the finger piece as before, whilst an
additional arm o carried by the revolving cylinder C is employed to assist in
discharging the bottles into the delivery shoot n.
The neck of each bottle in its turn becomes engaged with the fingers or
projections h, h, as before, the body of the bottle being guided and supported by
the guide i. The kick off is then operated by its cam or tappet 2, the bottle is
lifted, and the arm o then sweeps the bottle on to the shoot n, whence it may be
removed or conducted into any convenient receptacle, the “kick-off" returning
under the action of gravitation to its normal position in contact with the stop lin
.readiness for the discharge of the next bottle, when the operation is repeated, and
so on in succession as long as the machine continues in action.
Each set of operating devices comprizes (in addition to a syrup pump in the case
of machinery or apparatus for the manufacture of lemonade or similar drinks) the
following parts viz:—
1. A mouth piece H for the inverted bottle rigidly attached to the revolving
cylinder C.
2. A spring bottle compressor I for forcing the bottle against the mouth piece H
such bottle compressor being carried on a vertical slide p in the revolving
cylinder C and receiving a positive motion in both directions that is to say towards
and from the bottle from a cam 3 on the central stationary shaft or column A.
3. An air escape tube q which is carried on another vertical slider in the
revolving cylinder C and under the action of a cam 4 on the central stationary
shaft or column A is caused at the proper moment to rise (passing through the
mouth piece H) into the interior of the bottle and to descend again to adinit of
the bottle being discharged With the air escape tube q is combined an air outlet
valves which moves with the air escape tube and is actuated by a cam or tappet
or cams or tappets t by preference arranged as shewn on the stationary external
frame or casing G.
4. A supply valve y for the aerated liquid, which is attached to the mouth
piece Hand is actuated by a cam or tappet or cams or tappets u, also by preference
arranged as shewn on the stationary external frame or casing G.
The supply pipes v for the aerated liquid and the supply pipes w for the syrup,
which at their lower ends terminate respectively at the supply valves y and the
syrup pumps F, F, F, are connected at their upper ends with a barrel K which
revolves with the cylinder C around the central stationary shaft or column A, the
aerated liquid and syrup being conducted to the revolving barrel by separate
passages 5, 6, respectively. From each syrup pump there is a pipe a for
conducting the syrup to the respective mouth piece H.
It should be understood that only a single "kick-off" or automatic delivery
device is required for the whole of the sets of operating devices, although
necessarily a separate operating cam or tappet for such " kick-off" must be
provided for each set of operating devices.
In the operation of the apparatus, a bottle is introduced by inserting its neck in
the mouth piece H as each of the sets of operating devices passes in front of the
attendant. The following series of operations then take place in connection with
each bottle. The bottle compressor I descends and grips the bottom of the inverted
bottle. The air escape tube then commences to rise and the syrup is introduced,
the aerated liquid is next admitted, and the air snifted or expelled, the air escape
tube descends and the stopper falls to the mouth of the bottle and the filled and
stoppered bottle is finally discharged.
It will be understood that the whole of the bottles will be under operation at the
same time at different stages of the process, which is carried on continuously during
the revolution of the machine, the bottles being simply placed in position one by t
one as the sets of operating devices successively pass the attendant, and then
filled stoppered and discharged automatically without any further supervision.

page_text: When it is not required to manufacture syrup drinks, the syrup pump and its
cam and supply pipes will be dispensed with; or may be temporarily thrown out
of gear by suitable devices.
The "kick-off" or automatic delivery device is also applicable to machines of
the class described in the specification to Letters Patent granted to Allan
Macdonell dated the 16th October 1882 N° 4908, and illustrated in Figures 13, 14,
15 and 16 of the drawings forming part of that specification. The axis of the "kick-
off" will in this case be attached to the fixed cylinder shewn in those figures, and
the rocking motion obtained from the internal revolving shaft, the action in picking
off the bottle being practically similar in both cases, having regard to the fact that
the bottle is in the one case moving and in the other case stationary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1st In Machinery or apparatus in which a number of sets of devices for filling
and stoppering bottles and other like receptacles are arranged round and carried by
a rotatory body surrounding a stationary cam shaft so as to act simultaneously on
a corresponding number of bottles or receptacles in different gradatory stages of
the operation, the employment for each set of such devices of a separate syrup
pump, operated by a cam acting on an adjustable collar on the plunger spindle, so
as to admit of the quantity of syrup introduced being regulated as required,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2nd In Machinery or apparatus of the description commonly known as the
Macdonell Bottling Machine for filling and stoppering bottles and other like
receptacles, the employment of a peculiar "kick-off" or automatic delivery device
for the bottles or receptacles, which consists of fingers or projections combined with
a bottle guide for lifting or picking up the bottles or receptacles and guiding or
directing the same into a delivery shoot or receptacle substantially as hereinbefore
described.