Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Bottling Beer.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 20th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Bottling Beer.
[I, PAUL PUVREZ, of 35 Rue d' Isly, Lille, in the Department of the North, in
the Republic of France, Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
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I will describe my invention with reference to apparatus for supplying beer to
internally stoppered bottles but would here remark that it is also applicable to
bottles having corks or other descriptions of stoppers.
My invention relates to the bottling of beer under a considerable pressure of
carbonic acid gas.
The apparatus at present employed for filling internally stoppered bottles with
gaseous waters, lemonade or other liquids is well known and therefore does not
require to be here described in detail.
In ordinary machines for filling bottles with gascous liquids, the carbonic acid
dissolved in. the liquid partly escapes during the filling of the bottle because the
liquid enters a receiver in which the pressure is not in equilibrium with that of the
saturator from which it flows. But this arrangement although suitable for gaseous
waters and liquids which allow the bubbles of carbonic acid gas disengaged there-
from to escape at the surface of the liquid, is not suitable for beer, as in beer, these
bubbles of carbonic acid gas, surrounded with the albuminous matter of the
liquid form a very thick froth which would prevent the filling of the bottle.
The arrangement forming the subject of the present invention has for its object
the filling of internally and other stoppered bottles with beer aërated under high
pressure with carbonic acid gas.
The following is a description of my invention as applied to apparatus for bottling
liquids in internally stoppered bottles.
For introducing into internally stoppered bottles, beer which has been aörated in
an ordinary saturator, at the desired pressure of carbonic acid gas I apply the
following modifications to the apparatus at present used for bottling gaseous
waters.
The pivotal shaft of the bottling machine is constructed in such a manner as to
form a two way cock, so that at the first quarter turn given to the bottle and con-
sequently to the shaft, the carbonic acid of the beer saturator which is placed at a
higher level than the filling apparatus, enters the empty bottle and drives the air
out therefrom into the upper part of the saturator and thus establishes an equaliza-
tion of pressure between the interior of the bottle and the aërated beer in the
saturator. On continuing the rotation and bringing the bottle to the vertical
position, neck upwards, the second cock of the pivotting shaft allows the beer to
How whilst the gas which the bottle contained and which is naturally driven out by
the entrance of the liquid into this bottle returns into the saturator, this arrange-
ment in effect constitutes two communicating receivers, one of which, the saturator,
placed at a higher level than the second, the bottle, pours its contents into the
latter, when the cocks which place them in communication, the one for the pressure,
the other for the liquid are both open.
This arrangement thus enables internally stoppered bottles to be filled, without
production of froth, with beer aërated at high pressure.
To stopper the bottle it is only necessary to turn the neck downwards, this
rotation closes the two supply cocks for the gas and beer and causes the internal
stopper by its own weight to fall against the india rubber ring of the bottle and
thus to close it hermetically without loss of any pressure nor of carbonic acid. gas,
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page_text: The saturator is provided with an escape valve regulated to the pressure
required, the air which is lighter than the carbonic acid gas will thus be driven
out of the saturator whenever the pressure therein exceeds that at which the
escape valve is set, by which means loss of carbonic acid gas is prevented.
In applying my invention to the filling of bottles having corks or other descriptions
of stoppers than that above referred to, the saturator is as above described placed at
a higher level than the bottle to be filled and it is connected at its upper and
lower parts by means of a two way cock or otherwise so as to cause the carbonic
acid gas from the saturator to drive the atmospheric air out of the bottle into the
upper part of the saturator after which the beer is allowed to flow from the
latter into the bottle by the simple difference of level existing between the saturator
and the bottle.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Bottling Beer.
I PAUL PUVREZ of 35 Rue d' Isly Lille in the Department of the North in the
Republic of France Brewer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon:-
I will describe my invention with reference to apparatus for supplying beer to
internally stoppered bottles but would here remark that it is also applicable to
bottles having corks or other descriptions of stoppers.
My invention relates to the bottling of beer under a considerable pressure of
carbonic acid gas.
The apparatus at present employed for filling internally stoppered bottles with
gaseous waters lemonade or other liquids is well known and therefore does not
require to be here described in detail.
In ordinary machines for filling bottles with gaseous liquids, the carbonic acid
dissolved in the liquid partly escapes during the filling of the bottle because the
liquid enters a receiver in which the pressure is not in equilibrium with that of the
saturator from which it flows. But this arrangement although suitable for gascons
waters and liquids which allow the bubbles of carbonic acid gas disengaged there-
from to escape at the surface of the liquid, is not suitable for beer, as in beer, these
bubbles of carbonic acid gas, surrounded with the albuminous matter of the liquid
form a very thick froth which would prevent the filling of the bottle.
The arrangement forming the subject of the present invention has for its object
the filling of internally and other stoppered bottles with beer aërated under high
pressure with carbonic acid gas. The following is a description of my invention as
applied to apparatus for bottling liquids in internally stoppered bottles.
For introducing into internally stoppered bottles, beer which has been aërated in
an ordinary saturator at the desired pressure of carbonic acid gas I apply the
following modifications to the apparatus at present used for bottling gaseous
waters.
The pivotal shaft of the bottling machine is constructed in such a manner as to
form a two way cock, so that at the first quarter turn given to the bottle and conse-
quently to the shaft, the carbonic acid of the beer saturator which is placed at a
higher level than the filling apparatus, enters the empty bottle and drives the air
out therefrom into the upper part of the saturator and thus establishes an equaliza-
tion of pressure between the interior of the bottle and the acrated beer in the
saturator. On continuing the rotation and bringing the bottle to the vertical

page_text: position, neck upwards, the second cock of the pivotting shaft allows the beer to
How whilst the gas which the bottle contained and which is naturally driven out by
the entrance of the liquid into this bottle returns into the saturator, this arrange-
ment in effect constitutes two communicating receivers, one of which, the saturator,
placed at a higher level than the second, the bottle pours its contents into the
latter, when the cocks which place them in communication, the one for the pressure
the other for the liquid are both open.
This arrangement thus enables internally stoppered bottles to be filled, without
production of froth, with beer aërated at high pressure.
To stopper the bottle it is only necessary to turn the neck downwards, this
rotation closes the two supply cocks for the gas and beer and causes the internal
stopper by its own weight to fall against the india rubber ring of the bottle
and thus to close it hermetically without loss of any pressure nor of carbonic
acid gas.
The saturator is provided with an escape valve regulated to the pressure required,
the air which is lighter than the carbonic acid gas will thus be driven out of the
saturator whenever the pressure therein exceeds that at which the escape valve is
set, by which means loss of carbonic acid gas is prevented..
The shaft of rotation or pivotal shaft of the bottling machine is constructed so as
to form a cock with two ways 1, H, by which the beer arrives from the saturator by
the way I and the carbonic acid gas also from the saturator by the way H.
The bottle is placed in the position shown at Figure 2, with the neck downwards;
in this position the two way cock keeps closed the two openings for the liquid and
the gas; but on the first quarter turn given to the bottle from right to left by
means of the lever D, the opening of the two way cock R, which communicates by
the way H, with the top of the saturator opens and allows carbonic acid gas from
the saturator to enter the interior of the bottle. I have thus in a manner, found two
communicating receptacles, one of which, the saturator, is at a higher level than
the second, the bottle. By continuing the rotation and bringing the bottle into
the vertical position, with the neck upwards as shown in Figures 1 and 3, the
opening of the cock R for the beer allows the gasefied liquid to enter the bottle,
whilst the carbonic acid gas, which filled the bottle and which is driven out there-
from by the beer entering the same by reason of the difference in level, returns
into the saturator and takes the place of the liquid which has just left it.
In this way and by means of this arrangement the liquid fills the bottle without
any froth and at the same time retains all the pressure which it had in the saturator.
If the bottle is now turned so as to bring the neck downwards the two openings in
the cock R close, the internal stopper falls against the india rubber washer in the
neck of the bottle and closes this more hermetically in proportion as the beer
contains a larger quantity of gas and is at a higher pressure.
In order not to waste the liquid remaining in the cock and pipe I from the cock R
to the part A, a valve S furnished with a spring J, held open by means of contacts c,
when the bottle is in a vertical position and as the beer Hows in closes when, the
bottle being full, the machine is turned in order to place the bottle neck downwards.
The contacts c by ceasing to hold the valve S in the position represented in
Figure 3 which permits the liquid coming from the saturator to enter the bottle
allows the spring J to close this valve at O thereby preventing the beer left in the
pipe I from being wasted when the bottle is withdrawn.
In applying the invention to the filling of bottles having corks or other descriptions
of stoppers than that above referred to, the saturator is as above described placed
at a higher level than the bottle to be filled and it is connected at its upper and
lower parts by means of a two way cock or otherwise so as to cause the carbonic
acid gas
from the saturator to drive the atmospheric air out of the bottle into the
upper part of the saturator after which the beer is allowed to flow from the latter
into the bottle by the simple difference of level existing between the saturator
and the bottle.

page_text: 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. The method of and apparatus for bottling highly aërated beer in bottles
provided with internal stoppers substantially as herein shown and described.
2. The method of bottling highly aërated beer in bottles provided with internal
and other stoppers, in which the interior of the bottle is first placed in communica-
tion with the gas in the upper part of the saturator and then in communication with
both the upper and lower parts of the saturator which latter is placed at a higher
level than the bottle all substantially as herein shown and described and for the
purpose stated.
Datel is too way of November 1990.
PAUL PUVREZ.
By Harris & Mills,
,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.