A Machine for Cleaning and Painting Capsules for Bottles.
Year: 1897

page_text: A Machine for Cleaning and Painting Capsules for Bottles.
I, RAOUL SAINTE-MARIE DUPRE, fils, of Arcueil (Seine), France, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to a machine by which capsules for bottles, placed by
hand on a rotating table, are automatically cleaned, polished, burnished, and
painted on the tops and sides then removed from the table and placed on pins pro-
jecting up from boards, which boards are removed by hand for the capsules to be
dried. Except in placing the crude capsules on the table and removing the
boards carrying the painted capsules, there is no manipulation of the capsules.
A horizontal circular table slowly revolves presenting a series of vertical studs
on each of which a capsule is placed by an attendant. Each of the studs, besides
moving with the table is caused to revolve rapidly also round its own axis by a
friction pinion on the lower part of its axis engaged with a fixed friction wheel.
For cleaning, polishing and burnishing the capsules a set of belts covered with
suitable fabric run over guide rollers so arranged that some of the belts recipro-
cate against the sides and some bear on the tops of the rotating capsules as they
are carried past the belts, some of which, in their course, dip into moist material
for polishing and others serve to burnish and dry the capsules. As the capsules
are carried onwards they pass a set of painting brushes some horizontal to paint
their sides and some vertical to paint their tops. Each brush has several move-
ments; in one part of its course it moves some distance along with the capsule,
then ascends, descends into a vessel containing paint and being thus charged
returns to the position for painting the capsules. The paint is kept at suitable
level in each vessel as it is consumed, by raising a vessel containing a supply and
communicating with it by a flexible pipe, this vessel being raised from time to
time by a screw as directed by the position of a float index in view of an attendant.
Each capsule, after being thus painted, is raised from the stud carrying it by the
ascent of the head of the stud, which has a stem extending down the tubular
axis of the stud and is raised by a roller on its lower end passing over a stationary
cam incline. The capsule thus raised being in the path of a revolving carrier
is received in the carrier and its lower edge as the supporting head of the stud
descends rests on two inwardly projecting lips of the carrier. As the carrier
revolves it brings the capsule over a board which has a number of pins projecting
up from it these pins being arranged in rows, and the board having longitudinal
and transverse reciprocating movements by which each pin in its turn is brought
immediately under the delivery position of the carrier. When the pin and carrier
are in this position, a pair of spring holders are pushed up through holes of the
board one on each side of the pin into the capsule, and then as the carrier passes
away the spring holders descend and lodge the capsule on the pin of the board.
When row after row of the pins on the board have thus been charged with capsules,
an attendant removes the charged board which is taken away to have the capsules
dried, and a fresh board is put in position to be charged in its turn. The various

page_text: movements for effecting the operations above described are communicated from
a main shaft through suitable gearing, belting and cams or the like to the revolv-
ing and reciprocating parts.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
A Machine for Cleaning and Painting Capsules for Bottles.
I, RAOUL SAINTE-MARIE DUPRE, fils, of Arcueil (Seine), France, Manufacturer,
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:
1
This invention relates to a machine by which capsules for bottles, placed by
hand on a rotating table, are automatically cleaned, polished, burnished, and
painted on the tops and sides, then removed from the table and placed on pins
projecting up from boards, which boards are removed by hand for the capsules to
be dried. Except in placing the crude capsules on the table and removing the
boards carrying the painted capsules, there is no manipulation of the capsules, so
that two persons suffice for attending to the machine.
The machine effects successively the following operations:-
1. Polishing with water or cleansing the capsules.
2.) Polishing dry, or drying and burnishing.
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3.) Application of colour by means of brushes, one of which acts on the top and
the other on the side surfaces of the capsules.
4) Removal of the coloured capsules.
5) Placing these on plates having pins which separate them from one another
during the drying of the colour.
The machine contains a horizontal circular table revolving on a vertical axis
and provided with a series of stems which receive the rough capsules; these stems
move successively past polishing, colouring and drying apparatus which operate
tangentially to the circle described by the stems. Each stem has two motions
imparted to it, namely the circular movement of the table, and a rotary motion
round its own axis.
This latter movement is transmitted to the stems by means of a shaft revolving
within the table on which is mounted a large friction wheel with V shaped
periphery with which are engaged small friction wheels or rollers of corresponding
V shape, fixed on the axes of the stems.
The same shaft carries at its upper end a pinion geared through speed reducing
transmission wheels with the table carrying the stems. The shaft also carries
fast and loose pullies through which it receives direct motion from a motor, and
two fixed grooved pullies, through which it transmits motion to the burnishing
devices.
The polishing devices consist of a series of endless belts, covered with cloth on
the outer surface, and directed by guide rollers so arranged as to cause the contact
of the belts alternately on the end surface and side surface of the capsule. All
these belts are arranged in radial planes passing through the axis of rotation of
the table.
These belts are driven by rollers and friction wheels receiving their motion
from the main shaft by means of worm gearing.
The first belts, which are to effect the wet polishing, pass through a suitable

page_text: solution of polishing powder; the other belts which serve for wiping, drying, and
burnishing, operate by dry friction upon the capsules.
The belts that operate on the sides of the capsules receive a vertical motion
having for its object to increase the adhesion of the capsule to the supporting stem
during the polishing.
The apparatus for applying the colour consists of a series of brushes either hinge-
jointed or arranged to slide, and mounted on slides on columns and connected
together by two pitch-chains running with rollers on triangular plates which
are fixed upon a stationary column. This device performs a tangential motion
relatively to the table carrying the stems, and it is driven at the same linear speed
as the latter by means of two toothed rings that gear respectively with one of
the chains.
The columns with slides carrying the brushes, being propelled by the toothed
rings of the table, have the effect of imparting to the brushes a movement in
a triangular path, one side of which is concave and concentric with the table,
and which portion of the travel corresponds to the time when the brushes apply
the varnish or colours to the capsules. The other two sides which are straight,
are occupied with the receptacles of varnish which supply the brushes as they
pass.
Suitably arranged cams impart the various requisite movements to the brushes
while these take up the varnish, have the excess removed from them and apply the
varnish to the capsules.
Lastly, the drying apparatus consists first of a circular or star shaped disc on
which are fixed a series of holding devices having the same linear speed as the
carrying pins and serving to receive the capsules as they issue from the colouring
apparatus.
The capsule being completed is removed from its carrying stem by means of an
inner rod and is then seized by the holder, after which the rod retires and the
capsule is deposited on the disc of the holder. This, in continuing its rotary
motion transports the capsule above a drying board, which is mounted on carriages
by which it is moved along, so as to bring each of the pins thereon, which carry
the capsules to above a removing device.
The board has two slots, one on each side of each of the pins for allowing the
passage of the two arms of the removing device, which removes the capsule from
the holder, and after this has passed on, descends again and deposits the capsule
on the pin of the board. The pin boards receive a combined longitudinal and
transverse motion from cams mounted on the shaft of the holders and also from
toothed gearing on the central shaft of the revolving table. I will now describe
the said machine in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings in which,
Figure 1 shews an elevation and, Figure 2 a plan of the same.
A circular table A, mounted loose on a vertical shaft B carrying fast and loose
pullies CC, carries in bearings D) a number (eight being here shewn) of hollow
stems E provided with heads F on each of which an attendant places a rough
capsule, as the stems pass before him. Each stem E carries on its lower part a
grooved pulley G which receives motion from the wheel H with wedge shaped
rim, fixed on the shaft B.
The table A is formed in one, with a sleeve a which carries a toothed wheel I
at its upper end, gearing with a pinion J fixed on a shaft K which carries a second
wheel L gearing with another pinion M fixed on the driving shaft B. The rotary"
movement of the latter therefore effects simultaneously the comparatively slow
rotation of the table A and a rapid rotation upon their axes of the stems E that
carry the capsules.
For cleaning and polishing the capsules, each capsule carried by a stem E
passes to the polishing apparatus which is shewn to an enlarged scale in plan at
Figure 3 and in vertical section at Figure 4. On two columns M¹ M³ is fixed a
frame N carrying the polishing mechanism.
The polishing is effected by two series of belts 6 6¹, c c¹, of which the first serve

page_text: for polishing with water, and the others for drying and burnishing. The belts 66
guided by guide rollers d d take up polishing material from receptacles e e¹ fixed
on the column M¹, and the belts ce guided by rollers ff take their polishing
material from similar receptacles carried by the column M. On the other hand
the belts b of the first series and the belts c of the second series are intended
respectively for the polishing and burnishing of the sides of the capsules and the
belts bande for doing the same work on the top surface.
As shown at Figures 2 and 3, the belts b b c c alternate in each series.
The motion is imparted to the belts by means of concave drums 0010203 the
surface of which corresponds to a circular arc struck with the same radius as the
periphery of the table A. These drums press between them and the upper guide
rollers all the belts that perform the same work, namely, firstly, those which
work with water on the sides of the capsule, secondly, those which work with
water on the top surface-thirdly, those that work dry on the sides, and fourthly,
those that work dry on the top face. One of the drums O carries externally of
the frame N, a wheel P, gearing with a worm R, mounted on the vertical shaft S
which carries a grooved pulley T receiving motion by a cord from a pulley U
fixed on the shaft B.
A second toothed wheel V carried by the shaft of the drum 0¹ gears with the
wheel P, and the drum O, has a toothed ring X, Figure 3, gearing with a similar
toothed ring on 02 which drives 03 by external toothed wheels VI.
The rollers and f which guide the corresponding belts and c against the
sides of the capsules are mounted on a carriage P", Figures 2, 3 and 4 which is
actuated by means of a cam P and roller P so as to have a slow up and down
motion in the direction of the inclination of the sides of the capsule, for the
purpose of applying the polishing belts on the entire length of the capsule. The
motion is transmitted to the shaft of the cam by means of grooved pullies mounted
thereon and on the shaft B.
In addition the rollers 3 and f3 which guide the belts b and c on the top sur-
face of the capsule are carried respectively on two arms pivoted at g' and carrying
their bearings, one of which is mounted at Y Figures 3 and 4. A rod Z, carrying
a roller at its lower end imparts a slight up and down motion whenever a capsule
enters the polishing apparatus such motion being produced by cams suitably
situated on the table A.
It will be seen that each capsule entering the polishing apparatus receives first
the alternating action of the belts passing over the rollers 2 of the first series
which effects the polishing with water after which they are subject to the action
of the belts passing over the rollers f² and f³ which effect the drying and
burnishing.
The capsule is then ready to receive the colour or varnish.
The colouring is effected by means of groups of two brushes acting on the top
surface and side of the capsule. Each group consists of a vertical and a horizontal
brush, the groups are mounted on one and the same pillar and follow respectively
the motion of the corresponding capsule, during a certain fraction of a revolution
of the table A.
They are then moved so as to take up colour or varnish from receptacles suitably
arranged along the rest of their travel.
The arrangement of the mechanism of the brushes is shewn in plan at Figure 2.
Figure 5 shews in vertical section the mode of dipping and raising the horizontal
brushes, that is those which are situated in a horizontal position when working.
Figure 6 shews a front view of the carriage, with one of the horizontal brushes
and Figure 7 and 8, shew respectively a side view and front view of the arrange-
ment of one of the vertical brushes on the same pillar as the corresponding
horizontal brush; Figure 9 is a plan shewing the reservoirs for varnish and the
corresponding cups.
On the general plan Figure are shewn 4 brushes, two horizontal and two
vertical, arranged alternately with the first, but in practice as above stated there

page_text: is a group of one horizontal and one vertical brush for each capsule which accom-
pany the latter during its forward motion, until the operation of colouring has
been completed after which each group is made to take up colour during the
remainder of its travel, in order to operate on another capsule as soon as this
passes from the polishing apparatus.
Each group of two brushes A and B is mounted on a vertical pillar C. carried
at top and bottom by two pitch chains D¹ actuated by toothed wheels E¹ which
turn with the same speed as the table A. The angular speed of the brushes is
consequently the same as that of the capsules, and each group of two brushes
accompanies the capsule on which they work. The arc described is the same as
that between two supporting pins of the table A; it might however be greater
or smaller according to the requirements of the work; it would be sufficient for
this purpose to correspondingly modify the distance between the pillars C¹ that
carry the groups of brushes.
The pitch chains D₁ are guided at top and bottom by means of rollers F¹ carried
by arms fixed to the columns G¹, and they form together two horizontal triangles,
one side of which is carried so as to fit against and engage with the periphery of
the toothed ring carried by the table A.
The other sides are straight and those of the upper triangle are utilised for
effecting the dipping and removing of excess of colour from the brushes, that are
not acting on a capsule while passing round these two sides.
For this purpose I arrange the cups of varnish H₁ and I along each of these
sides, the first one serving for the dipping of the vertical brushes and the other
for that of the horizontal brushes.
The varnish or colour cups communicate respectively with the reservoirs H³,I2,
containing a store of varnish or colour by means of caoutchouc pipes such as J¹,
Figure 5. The level of the varnish in each cup is maintained as follows:-
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The reservoir H2 or 12 in connection with one of the cups is mounted upon a
support K carrying a sleeve L' which can rise and fall freely upon the threaded
column N¹, a nut Q screwing on the thread of N¹, can be turned by hand so as
to bring the reservoir to the required height for adjusting any variation of level
of the liquid in the dipping cup. A float R¹ carrying an index r, enables the
liquid level in the reservoir to be at once seen by comparing its position with that
of the fixed index r¹ carried by the threaded column N¹. The horizontal brushes
must be brought into a vertical position at the time when they have to dip into
the cups. For this purpose each horizontal brush which serves to colour the
sides of a capsule is carried by a bent arm S¹ Figures 2, 5, and 6 pivoted at s which
can slide in slots s¹ of a guide s carried by the pillar C. The pivot s is supported
by a carriage T, having a roller t which bears on a series of inclined surfaces,
which are shewn developed at Figure 10 in elevation and in plan at Figure 11,
where it will be seen that the plate on which these inclines are formed has the
same triangular configuration as the pitch chains D¹, that carry the pillars C³.
During the colouring of a capsule the brush assumes the rising positions from u',
to u Figure 5 for acting on the sides of the capsule, it then descends to the
position, during which it assumes the inclined position shewn at Figure 5,
after which it continues to descend while assuming the vertical position and
plunges into the colour cup, and then rises again while assuming the horizontal
position ready for acting on another capsule, when it has arrived at u¹ again.
For turning the brush from the horizontal to the vertical position and back
again, the arm S¹ has within the guide, an enlargement, which when the arm
rises, bears against a projection formed inside which forces it downward
thereby bringing the brush into the horizontal position, in which it is maintained
as long as it is in the upper part of the guide. When it descends it maintains
this position until the enlargement & comes below the projection r¹ after which the
arm and brush can drop by gravity, the lower part of the guide being enlarged
so as to allow it to maintain that position while the brush dips into the cup.

page_text: and
The vertical brush holder is formed by a lever Y₁ Figure 7 pivoted at
receiving a slight to and fro motion by means of the forked spring rod y¹ having
a roller 2 rolling on a slightly undulated fixed horizontal cam surface. The
pivot is on a slide y³ carrying a roller y actuated by a cam analogous to that
which effects the movement of the horizontal brush. As shewn at Figure 9 one
of the cups has two rods z arranged so as to be nearer together at one end than at
the other, so that the brush in passing between these rods will be somewhat
squeezed by them as it rises so as to have the excess of colour removed.
As they pass away from the colouring apparatus, the capsules are taken up
one by one and placed on pin plates for the purpose of letting them dry without
being handled.
A revolving disc or star wheel is provided with devices like open cages which,
in passing, pick up the capsules, released an instant earlier, from the pins which
carry them, and bring them above the pin plate; they are raised by a double
lifing rod which first lifts them, allows the receiver to pass on and redescends,
depositing the capsules successively on each of the pins of the board. The latter
is, for this purpose, actuated by two movements; the one a longitudinal travel
for bringing the rows of pins in position, the other a transverse travel for bring-
ing each pin of a row in its turn into the position for receiving a capsule.
A general view of the mechanism of the drying machine is shewn in Figures 1
and 2, and on a larger scale in Figures 12 and 13; Figure 14 is a section on
line 14-14 of Figure 13.
Each of the hollow stems E has passing through its axis a rod Z' the lower end
of which engages, at the instant when the colouring is finished, with a fixed
cam A² mounted on the base of the machine (This cam is shewn in elevation at
Figure 15). By this cam the rod Z is raised and is protruded through the head F
of the stem to raise the capsule therefrom.
Above the plane of the stems a star disc A³ rotates carrying the receivers B³,
each of which is constructed of an upper plate h connected by the pillars ¹ with
the segments of the lower plate 2; these segments have a passage between them
designed to allow the rods Z¹ to pass at the moment when these are raised and
to allow them to withdraw themselves; the same is necessary for the lifting rod L³
to be described hereafter.
The disc A³ is mounted on a shaft C³ carrying a cam disc 1) 2 with a toothed
crown E engaging with the pinion F2 which controls the movements of the lifting
rod L by the vertical shaft G².
The shaft carries above 12 a toothed wheel J2 engaging with the toothed
wheel I on the shaft of the table A; this gearing is such that the path described
by each of the receivers is equal to that described by each of the stems E so that
the removal of each capsule at the proper moment is assured.
The capsule which has just been raised and seized by the receiver continues to
move round until nearly above the lifting rod L2 which moves vertically in the
supporting pillar M² and in its upward movement passes through the pin plate N³
which is to receive the finished capsules.
The pin plates N2 are placed one behind the other on a plate P2
which 18 moved horizontally from right to left and from left to
right, intermittently, by a cam Q2 mounted loose on the axis 02 of
the cages, and carrying a toothed wheel R2 which engages with another
toothed wheel S2 mounted on the sleeve of the disc A. The cam Q, the outline
of which is shewn at Figure 16, engages in its groove 9 a pin borne by the arm g¹
guided by a slide 92 and pivoted on the double ended lever T which through the
intermediary link t¹ actuates the carriage P2 of the pin plates. It will thus be
seen that owing to the form of the cam Q2 the carriage receives an intermittent
movement, first to the right and then to the left, displacing each time the pin plate
through a distance equal to that between the pins so as to present a fresh pin,
unoccupied by a capsule, under the receiver which has just arrived above the

page_text: lifting rod L. It is equally necessary that the plate should travel longitudinally
for presenting a fresh row of pins to the receivers when the preceding one is filled;
for this purpose, the cam D³, the outline of which is shewn at Figure 17, actuates
a vertical beam U₁ mounted on a shaft U2 (Figures 1 and 2) carrying a second
beam U³ which by the intermediary levers V2 and V3, forming a double jointed
link, actuates the horizontal lever X'; this lever imparts the movement to the
carriage X2 connected by a transverse groove with the carriage X3 which can
slide longitudinally of the carriage P2. This carriage X³ carries two ratchets Ya
which passing across the openings made in the edges of the plate P3 catch the pin
plate by the notches with which this is provided.
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The carriage X3 sliding longitudinally of the plate Pa participates in the
travelling movements thereof, and owing to its connection by means of a trans-
verse groove with the carriage X³, it participates also in the longitudinal move-
ments of this latter, which is actuated by the cam D2. The movement of the
carriage X³ is only effected at each revolution of the shaft of the receivers, to
make the pin plate advance by the distance between two rows of points. The
construction and movements of the carriage X3 and plate P2 will be more clearly
understood on reference to Fig. 19 to 28 inclusive. On the column M2 (Fig. 1)
is supported a dovetail guide (Figs. 19, 20 and 21) on which slides the plate Pá
which is moved transversely by the limbs ; it has two side guides a¹ (Fig. 22)
on which slides the carriage X3 having the advancing pawls. Fig. 22 is a front
view, Fig. 23 a side view and Fig. 24 a plan shewing the carriage X³. On its
underside is a stud a3 which can move between two guides a³ on the carriage Xa
which is caused by the lever X' to slide along the guide X (Figs. 23, 25 and 26)
fixed on the column M2. Fig. 27 is a rear view and Fig. 28 a side view shewing
the combined parts above described. The reciprocating motion of X2 gives like
motion to the carriage X3 which carries the pawls and is guided by the guider a
of the carriage P2 so as to be moved transversely by it while it is also caused to
travel longitudinally by X2 owing to the stud a² of X3 being engaged between the
guides a³ of X³. Thus the sheets carried by P2 are moved simultaneously or
successively in two directions in the one by the carriage P2 and in the other
by X³
On the right and left of each pin i are two rectangular openings j, which at
each movement coincide with corresponding openings formed in the top plate k
of the housing of the lifting rods L². It is obvious that the plate P which can
only move laterally must be provided with a series of analogous openings which
shall come successively into juxtaposition with the openings k during the move-
ments of the carriage.
The lifting rods L² consist of two elastic arms connected at their lower ends
at 7 with a sleeve which can slide vertically on the guide rod m. The sleeve 71
is controlled by a lever n, pivoted at o and provided with a roller on which a
cam 72 (shewn separately in underside plan and in development at Figures 18
and 19) presses; this cam is mounted on the vertical shaft G2 driven by the
wheel E gearing with the pinion F2. A spring p tends always to raise the lever.
At the moment when one of the receivers is above the lifting rods L2, and con-
sequently above one of the pins of the drying plate, the cam 72 allows the lifting
rod to rise under the action of the spring p: the rod introducing its two branches
into the openings jl of the plate k passes through the openings of the pin plate,
at the right and left of a pin, then through the bottom of the receiver and lifts
the capsule contained therein. The receiver continues to move allowing the rod
to pass with its lifted capsule; the rod is then lowered by the action of the cam and
deposits the capsule on the pin. The pin plate moves either laterally, or longi-
tudinally, to present a fresh pin for the reception of a capsule from the next
following receiver.
The loaded pin plates are taken out at one end of the plate P2 and others, empty,
are placed on the plate at the other end,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a machine for automatically polishing colouring and distributing on a
drying plate capsules for bottles, a table carrying stems for receiving the capsules 5
which table is slowly rotated for the purpose of conveying the capsules to the
drying plate capsules for bottles, a table carrying stems for receiving the capsules,
having imparted to it a rapid rotary movement on its axis, substantially as
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. In a machine such as is referred to in Claim 1 the arrangement of polishing
belts working alternately on the sides and tops of the capsules, the said belts being
divided into two groups one of which works with a wet material for cleaning the
capsules while the other works dry for burnishing them, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. In a machine such as is referred to in Claim 1, the construction of a carriage 1
carrying the systems of rollers for the lateral polishing belts which carriage
effects the vertical displacement of the said rollers by a to and fro movement, so
as to cause the belt to traverse the whole length of the side of the capsule, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In a machine such as is referred to in Claim 1 the arrangement of the rollers
for the belts for polishing the tops, these rollers receiving a slight vertical displace-
ment each time that a capsule is presented for polishing substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
5. In a machine such as is referred to in Claim 1, actuating all the straps by
means of rollers with concavely curved surfaces, the curvature being made to
correspond with the periphery of the revolving table each belt being nipped
between the said concave roller and a guide roller so that the capsule in passing
is brought under the action of all the belts arranged in a coresponding curve
substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
6. In a machine such as is referred to in the first claim, the arrangement of
brushes for applying the colour or varnish to the surfaces of the capsules in groups
of two, the one brush being made to act upon the sides of the capsule and the
other on the top, which brushes are mounted on supporting pillars carried by
pitch chains which engage with toothed rings of the revolving table, so as to
accompany the capsule during the time required for applying the colour, while
during the other part of the travel of the chains the brushes are made to take up
colours from colour cups for which purpose they have the requisite up and down
motion imparted to them by cams, substantially as described with reference to the
drawings.
7. In the mechanism for actuating the brushes referred to in the 6th claim,
effecting the turning of the horizontal brushes into a vertical position for dipping
into the colour, by means of pivoted levers having enlarged ends which come in
contact with projections so as to cause the lever and brush to be brought from a
vertical into a horizontal position while when the enlargement is free of the
projection, the lever and brush are free to drop into the vertical position by
gravity, substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
8. In a machine such as is referred to in Claim 1, the drying mechanism com-
prising a carrier provided with receivers which receive the capsules from rods
raised at the required moment through the axes of the stems so as to lift the
capsules off the latter, the said receivers conveying the finished capsules above
plates provided with pins on which the capsules are successively disposed by a
double rod passing through openings on each side of the said pins, substantially
as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
9. In a machine such as is referred to in Claim 1, the mechanism for the
automatic lateral displacement of the carriage carrying the pin plates referred to
in the 8th claim in combination with the equally automatic longitudinal displace-

page_text: ment of the pin plate for the purpose of presenting always an unoccupied pin
for the reception of a capsule which has been coloured, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 90th dow of Th1 1007
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.