Syruping Artificial, Mineral, and Aërated Beverages.
Year: 1886

page_text: Syruping Artificial, Mineral, and Aërated Beverages.
We, JOHN HENRY GALLOWAY and JAMES WILLIAM GALLOWAY, both of
100 Bark Street, Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Aërated Water Engineers,
do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines well-known as "Filling-
Machines" with or without syrup pump-used for bottling aërated beverages,
such as, Soda Water, Lemonade, Gingerbeer, and so forth, and consists principally
in constructing a machine whereby internal spherically stoppered bottles, known
as Codd's patent and others wherein the stopper is arrested by a nip at the bottom
of the neck to prevent the same falling to the bottom of the bottle, can be filled
and stoppered in an upright position, i.e. with the mouth of the bottle upright or
at the top, thereby dispensing with the well-known turn-over or turn-round filling
machines hitherto employed for the purpose.
On a suitable stand or fixing is mounted a valve-box provided with an aërated
water inlet valve: this valve is operated by a lever pivotted to the said valve box.
The underside of the valve box is fitted with the ordinary mouth piece to admit
the mouth of the bottle, and is provided with a centre nipple or pap round which
the aërated water is admitted, being guided by a spiral worm, or through an
augular passage from the aërated water valve chamber to the side of the outlet
passage, by which a whirling action is given to the liquid when being admitted to
the bottle. If desired a conical preparation may be formed round the centre nipple
or pap so as to direct the liquid to the side of the bottle. As the bottle is filling
the atmospheric air therein is forced up a passage in the centre nipple or pap
and carried away in any convenient manner. When the bottle is nearly full of
aerated water the pressure of gas and the force of escaping air immediately forces
or blows the spherical stopper into its seat and closes the bottle. The bottle when
being filled is supported on an adjustable stand or table secured to a slide mounted
in the stand or fixing, the same being worked by a lever operated by hand or foot,
by which the various lengths of bottles are compensated for.
In fixing a syrup pump it is operated by the hand or foot-lever employed for
holding the bottle or by another lever specially provided for the purpose, or in any
of the ordinary methods employed for the purpose.
Dated the 6th day of 1000
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: Syruping Artificial, Mineral, and Aërated Beverages.
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We, JOHN HENRY GALLOWAY and JAMES WILLIAM GALLOWAY, both of
100 Bark Street, Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Aërated Water Engineers,
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for
CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR FILLING AND SYRUPING ARTIFICIAL, MINERAL,
AND AERATED BEVERAGES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to 5
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Filling-
This invention relates to improvements in machines well-known as
Machines" with or without syrup pump-used for bottling aērated beverages,
such as, Soda-Water, Lemonade, Gingerbeer and so forth, and consists principally
in constructing a machine whereby internal spherically stoppered bottles, known
as Codd's patent and others wherein the stopper is arrested by a nip at the bottom
of the neck to prevent the same falling to the bottom of the bottle, can be filled
and stoppered in an upright position, i.e. with the mouth of the bottle upright or
at the top, thereby dispensing with the well-known turn-over or turn-round filling
machines hitherto employed for the purpose.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a vertical or stationary filling machine—without
syrup pump with our improvements applied-Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of filler head through line A. B in Fig. 4-Fig. 4
is a sectional plan of filler head through line C. D. in Fig. 3.
On the stand or fixing 1 is mounted the valve box 2 provided with the aërated
water inlet valve 3. The aërated water inlet valve 3 is attached to the spindle 4
which passes through the stuffing box 5 to the outside, where it is operated upon
The aërated water inlet valve 3
by the hand lever 6 pivoted to the valve box 2.
is held against its seat by the spring 7 when released from the action of the hand
lever 6. The underside of the valve box 2 is fitted with the ordinary mouth
piece 8 to admit the mouth of the bottle when being filled with aërated water.
Aërated water is admitted through the pipe 9, the pressure of which holds the
valve 3 tight on its seat until liberated by the hand lever 6, when the aërated
water passes into the chamber 10, down the angular passage 11 to the chamber 12*
round the nipple or pap 12, being guided by the spiral worm 13 which gives a
whirling action to the aërated water or liquid as it is admitted to the bottle
causing the same to be thrown against the side of the latter which allows the
atmospheric air contained therein to rise up the centre and force its way up th
centre passage 14 in the nipple or pap 12, which can be carried away as show
through the pipe 15, or in any other convenient manner.
When the bottle being filled is nearly full of aërated water the pressure of ga
contained therein and the force of atmospheric air escaping centrally forces o
blows the spherical stopper-such as used in Codd's patent and others wherei
the stopper is arrested by a nip at the bottom of the neck to prevent the same fallin

page_text: to the bottom of the bottle-into its seat and closes the bottle, the same being done
automatically without moving the bottle, or without the aid of twitching the bottle
suddenly away by hand as is generally done in vertical filling machines to give
impetus to the stopper. We are fully aware that bottles have been stoppered in
vertical filling machines by the latter process.
The bottle when being filled is supported on the adjustable stand or table 16
secured to the slide 17 mounted in the stand or fixing 1, the same being operated
by means of the levers 18 and 19, and the rod 20 connecting the slide 17 with the
levers. The levers 18 and 19 are supported on the centre 21 mounted in the stand
or fixing 1. The adjustable table or stand 16 admits of various lengths of bottles
by simply moving the lever 18 in one or other direction as indicated by the dotted
centre lines.
In another modification-shown in Fig. 5-the spiral worm 13 is dispensed with
and substituted with the conical ended nipple or pap 12, by which the aërated
water or liquid is directed down the side of the bottle, thus allowing atmospheric
air to escape centrally up the outlet passage 14 with the result previously described,
or the whirling action can be performed by drilling the angular passage 11
tangentially to the circumference of the chamber 12* round the nipple or pap 12
as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. In a vertical or stationary filling machine the method of filling and auto-
matically stoppering internal spherically stoppered bottles-known as Codd's
patent and others wherein the stopper is arrested by a nip at the bottom of the
neck to prevent the same falling to the bottom of the bottle-in an upright
position without twitching the bottle from the mouth of the machine, the same
being performed by directing the aërated water or liquid down the side of the
bottle to allow the atmospheric air to escape centrally, substantially as herein
described.
2. In a vertical or stationary filling machine the combination and arrangement
of apparatus for carrying out the method hereinbefore described, consisting of the
nipple or pap 12 with the air passage 14 and the spiral worm 13, substantially as
herein described and shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
3. In a vertical or stationary filling machine the combination and arrangement
of apparatus for carrying out the method hereinbefore described, consisting of the
nipple or pap 12 with the air passage 14 and the angular passage 11 placed
tangentially to the circumference of the chamber 12*, substantially as herein
described and shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
4. In a vertical or stationary filling machine the combination and arrangement
of apparatus for carrying out the method herein before described, consisting of the
conical ended nipple or pap 12 with the air passage 14, substantially as herein
described and shown in Fig. 5.