IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FILLING GLASS BOTTLES AND JARS WITH SOUPS, JELLIES, AND FRUITS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRESERVING THEM, THE SAID APPARATUS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE FOR FILLING BOTTLES WITH SAUCES, WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, LIQUEURS, AND OTHER STILL AND EFFERVESCING BEVERAGES, ALSO MACHINERY IN COMBINATION WITH THE ABOVE APPARATUS FOR CORKING OR STOPPERING SUCH SAID BOTTLES AND JARS
Year: 1868

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Winter at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th January
1868.
I, JAMES WINTER, the younger, of Wardour Street, Soho, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FILLING GLASS BOTTLES AND JARS WITH SOUPS,
JELLIES, AND FRUITS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRESERVING THEM, THE SAID APPARATUS
BEING ALSO APPLICABLE FOR FILLING BOTTLES WITH SAUCES, WINES, SPIRITS,
BEER, LIQUEURS, AND OTHER STILL AND EFFERVESCING BEVERAGES, ALSO MACHINERY
IN COMBINATION WITH THE ABOVE APPARATUS FOR CORKING OR STOPPERING SUCH
SAID BOTTLES AND JARS," to be as follows:-
This Invention is comprised under two heads; first, apparatus for
filling glass bottles and jars with soups, jellies, fruits, sauces, wines,
spirits, liqueurs, beer, and other still and effervescing beverages; and
secondly, machinery for corking or stoppering such said bottles and jars.
The apparatus consists of an ordinary steam boiler, a vacuum chamber,
a vessel to contain the soups or other things above mentioned, and a
revolving bottle or jar holder. The aforesaid vessel is formed with
a jacket into which steam is admitted from the boiler for the purpose

page_text: of heating the matters placed in the central vessel which is entirely
surrounded by steam. There is a pipe fixed to the top of the inner
vessel for establishing a communication between it and a hollow picce
of metal or nozzle for filling or charging the bottles or jars with soup,
&c., and another pipe proceeds from the boiler to the centre of the
bottle or jar holder above mentioned for admitting steam thereinto, the
said holder being formed hollow and steam-tight, with hollow recesses
therein (say six for example), of the same diameter and depth as the
bottles or jars which they are intended to receive.
I now proceed to describe the machinery I employ in combination
with the above apparatus for corking or stoppering the said bottles or jars,
and the means by which I establish a communication with the interior
of the said bottles or jars and the vacuum chamber for filling the same
from the jacketted vessel as follows:-A pipe fitted with a cock extends
from the vacuum chamber. to the-hollow nozzle-before mentioned, and
an upright sliding plunger is fitted in the said nozzle, which said plunger
is moved up and down by a weighted lever at the top of the said plunger.
The corks, or stoppers are allowed to pass from a hopper and are forced
by a spring into the said nozzle beneath the plunger."
..:
The operations of the above-mentioned apparatus and machinery are
as follows: The jacketted vessel being charged with soup or other
matter steam is admitted by a cock into the jacket, the communication
between the aforesaid vessel and the hollow nozzle being shut off by a
cock or valve. Steam is then admitted by a cock into the hollow vessel'
containing the bottles or jars to be filled, and when the contents in
the jacketted vessel are sufficiently heated, as also the bottles or jars,
the bottle holder is raised by a lever and turned partly round on.
its axis of motion so as to bring the opening in the bottle or jar
immediately under the hollow nozzle and press it air-tight against it,
and simultaneously with this movement the cock leading to the vacuum
chamber will be opened and exhaust the bottle or jar of the air contained
therein, immediately after which the cock communicating with the.
jacketted vessel will be opened and a portion of the contents of the
said vessel will rush into the vacuum formed in the bottle or jar, and
just before it is filled the operator pulls down the plunger and thus
corks or stoppers the bottle or jar, and shuts off by this action the com-
munication with the vacuum chamber and the jacketted vessel; the
bottle or jar holder is then moved round and another bottle or jar filled'

page_text: as before, the filled bottles or jars being removed and replaced by
empty ones, and so on in succession; and it is this novel and peculiar
simultaneous action of the apparatus and mechanism whilst under
the influence of the vacuum that constitutes the essential feature of
novelty and improvement in this Invention.