Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Effervescing Drinks, and for Corking Bottles containing the same.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1895--Accepted, 1st June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Effervescing
Drinks, and for Corking Bottles containing the same.
I, MARTIN MALMEDE, Manufacturer of Nipper near Cologne in the Province
of Rhineland and Kingdom of Prussia 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 :-
The apparatus hitherto in use for the manufacture of effervescing drinks and for
bottling at the same have the disadvantage that the bottles cannot be corked until
after they have been removed from the apparatus, there being no arrangement for
corking the bottles in any of the apparatus known at present.
It goes without saying that during the time elapsing between the removal of the
full uncorked bottle from the apparatus and the introduction of the stopper (cork
and the like) a quantity of carbonic acid gas must escape from the liquid to the
destriment of the latter.
This disadvantage is removed, as far as is possible, by the apparatus represented.
in the annexed drawing.
Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing show the apparatus in side- and front-view,
Figures 3 and 4 represent in a larger scale a cross- and a longitudinal-section,
of the valve-cock.
In this apparatus the mixing of the liquid with the carbonic acid gas.a well.as
the filling and the corking of the bottle are done at the same apparatus.
The arrangement of the apparatus.is as follows.
The bottle a containing the carbonic acid gas is, as is well known, attached in a
frame by means of a bow c and provided with the reducing-valve d, through which
the carbonic acid gas that is contained under great pressure in a leaves the bottle:
under the desired pressure.
A trestle t is attached to the frame b bearing a stuffing-box f into the one end
of which there is introduced a tube f1 starting from the reducing-valve and
provided with a cock e, while at the other end the hollow cross-piece s 1 with..the.
levers is moveably mounted in such a manner that the part of the apparatus to the.
right hand of the frame b as regards the spectator can be turned about the horizontal
hollow pin s 2 of the cross-piece s 1. The cross-piece s 1 is connected by the tube l
with the mixing-vessel g, in which the liquid is mixed with the carbonic acid gas
coming from a through f1, f, s 2, s 1, 1, r.
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Below the mixing vessel is the cock k, represented as already mentioned on an
larger scale in Figures 3 and 4. Its arrangement will be described later on.
is provided below with the pipe m (Figure 2) which runs into the cylinder n.
The latter together with the stamp p and the lever (see Figure 1) from the
corking machine. The lower part of the cylinder n serves for the reception of the
mouth of the bottle that is to be filled, which is placed on a plate 1 moveably
mounted on the lever s by means of an angle-piece q. A lever 92 as well as a
spring 93 serve to press the bottle against the apparatus. Above the mixing
vessel a spring-bolt o is attached which can enter into a hollow of the rod h serving
as guide to the lever i and being a continuation of the stamp p. This is the case
when the stamp p is raised i.e. when the bottle is ready to be corked.
The above mentioned cock k serves to connect the bottle with the mixing vessel g
while the acid and the liquid are being mixed and to shut off the mixing-vessel while
the filled bottle is being corked or a new one is being put into position. This cock k

page_text: consists of the case and a valve o contained in it; this valve is raised by an eccentric
disc w mounted on the axis z. This disc w is a guide-case v1 situated above on the
circumference of the disc and is thus raised more or less according to the position of
the disc w.
The apparatus is worked in the following manner.―
After carbonic acid gas has been introduced into the vessel g through the opening
of the cock e, the cock k is shut off and the bottle, which is filled with water is
placed on the plate q 1 and placed with its mouth firmly in the lower mouth of the
cylinder n.
By raising the lever i in the direction of the arrow the stamp p is raised out of
the cylinder n a cork n 1 is introduced into the latter and by pressing down the
lever i the stamp as well as the cork are brought into the position drawn in Fig. 2,
above the mouth of the pipe m into the cylinder n. The right position is made
observable by snapping of bolt o into the hollow of the rod h.
Now the cock k is opened and by means of the levers the whole apparatus is
turned about the pin s 2. In consequence of the water flows from the bottle through
the pipe m and the cock k into the mixing vessel g and becomes intimately mixed
with the carbonic acid gas therein contained. When the mixing has taken place
the apparatus is again brought into the position shown in Figure 1, so that the liquid
which now contains carbonic acid gas can flow back through the cock k and the
pipe m-into the bottle.
Now the cock k is shut and by pressing down the stamp p by means of the lever i
the cork n 1 is driven into the bottle where upon the latter is removed from the
apparatus.
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:
1. Improvement in apparatus for the manufacture of effervescing drinks and for
corking bottles containing the same distinguished by the arrangement of the
mechanism for corking the filled bottles at the apparatus consisting of the cylinder n
connected by the tube m with the mixing vessel g, of the stamp p contained in the
cylinder n and moving up aud down in it, of the lever i which actuates the stamp p
as well as of the spring bolt o by the entrance of which into a hollow of the rod h
forming the continuation of the stamp p the right position of the cork n 1 in the
cylinder n is indicated.
2. The arrangement of a cock k between the mixing-vessel g and the corking-
mechanism, the cone of which is moved up and down by a disc w, eccentrically
mounted on the axis z.
Dated this 29th day of May 1896.
For MARTIN MALMEDE,
Bernh. Brockhues.