Improved Apparatus for Corking Bottles in Machines for Carbonating and Bottling Aerated Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Corking Bottles in Machines for
Carbonating and Bottling Aerated Liquids.
I, CARL MALMENDIER of Mittelstrasse 2/4, Cologne in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :
In the usual carbonic acid apparatus, which serve to produce carbonic acid water
or liquid by mixing the liquid with carbonic acid, it is only possible to use bottles
with ball-stoppers, in which by the pressure of the carbonic acid the ball is pressed
against a tightening ring, whereby the corking is effected. As ordinary corking
of the bottles was not to be effected without a loss of carbonic acid, only the
so-called ball stoppered bottles can be used.
By the present apparatus bottles can be corked without losing carbonic acid and
all kinds of bottles may be used.
Referring to the annexed drawings Figs. 1 and 2 are elevations Figs. 3 and 4
are details.
The mixing ball m is connected to a communicating tube a which possesses a
side-tube b, communicating with the carbonic acid bottle, and also a valve-spindle
provided with cones: By means of the spindle this valve can be closed as well as
the opening conducting to the carbonic acid bottle and that to the mixing ball m.
The tube a is connected with a cylinder c, in which a rod d can be moved up and
down. The lower end c of the cylinder c is formed to receive the neck of the
bottle, which latter reposes with its bottom upon the plate e and can be adjusted
by the screws and held between this plate e and the cylinder c.
Over the tube a
on the cylinder is provided a guiding platef and the cylinder c has here an opening,
which can be closed by a door g, which provided with a handle h is shaped
according to the diameter of the cylinder and turns on a pin. This door g bas
also a segment-like connecting-piece g¹ and the lever h has a pawl h', which,
operated by a spring, catches over a nose n fixed on the cylinder, when the door is
closed, and keeps the latter in this position.
This whole device is mounted upon a bar turning on a pin i as shown.
The manner of using the apparatus is as follows:
When the valve for the carbonic acid-bottle and the mixing-ball is closed, the
bottle containing the liquid is fixed between c¹ and e, then the cork is put upon the
plate f and moved by means of the segment by the handle over the opening of
the cylinder c and kept in this position by the door, the cylinder-opening, which is
over the bottle, is closed tightly. The segment-piece, fixed on the door and rough
on its inside, serves to press the soaked cork to the right measure in the bottle-
neck-opening.
If the valve in a is opened, carbonic acid will pass from the carbonic acid bottle
into the mixing ball m, in which the liquid is mixed with the carbonic acid. The
liquid thus produced is then caused to pass into the bottle, after the valve has been
closed. Then the cork is pushed into the neck of the bottle by pressing down the
rod d and the bottle, in which the cork is well fixed, is taken away.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
An apparatus for corking bottles in carbonic-acid-apparatus, whereby the cork

page_text: is closed hermetically in a cylinder by means of a side-door, provided with a
segment-shaped connection and lever, and then driven by means of a rod into the
bottle, held gas-tight with its neck under the cylinder.
Dated this 20th day of March 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agents for Applicant.