Improvements in Machines for Bottling Beer, Mineral Waters, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left 16th Nov
1894-Accented
5th Jan 1205
Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left 16th Nov 1804 Accented 5th Jan 1205
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Bottling Beer, Mineral Waters, and
the like.
I TOM SUTCLIFFE of 19 Kings Road Brownswood Park London Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in machines such as are used for bottling
beers mineral waters and other such liquids.
My invention may be applied to any class of filling machines capable of
receiving it.
My invention consists in a valve which is placed in the filling tube in such manner
as to prevent the least waste of liquor and to minimize the foaming or fobbing.
The seat of the valve is placed at the bottom end of the filling tube the valve being
made any shape but preferably conical has attached to it a rod which goes right
through the tube and passes through a stuffing box provided in a small receptacle
on the top of the tube to which receptacle an inlet for the liquor is attached. The
rod projects above the receptacle for the necessary distance according to the length
of the bottle to be filled. A spring is arranged in the said receptacle which fits
over the rod and is compressed between a ledge provided on the said rod and
the top of the inside of the receptacle or is arranged in some other suitable manner
or place the object of the spring being to keep the valve closed down on to its
seating. The opening of the valve is performed by a collar being fastened by a
set screw so that its position can be regulated on the part of the rod projecting
above the stuffing box on the top of the said receptacle, such collar coming into
contact with a stop when the tube is travelling down into the bottle the stop being
placed in a suitable position on the frame of the machine but preferably in such
a position as to operate the valve when the tube is near the bottom of the bottle.
The effect of the collar and the stop.coming into contact is to hold the valve whilst
the tube which is so regulated travels a sufficient distance further to render the
space between the valve and its seating capable of allowing a free flow of the
liquor. It will be seen that the least upward motion of the tube brings the valve
and its seating together again.
Dated the 15th day of October 1894.
Improvements in Machines for Bottling Beer, Mineral Waters, and
the like.
I TOM SUTCLIFFE of 19 Kings Road Brownswood Park, London, Engineer
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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in machines such as are used for bottling
beers, mineral waters and other such liquids.

page_text: My invention may be applied to any class of filling machines capable of receiving
it and consists in a valve which is placed in the filling tube in such manner as to
prevent the least waste of liquor and to minimise the foaming or fobbing.
To make my invention more clearly understood I have made a drawing of the
filling tube as it would be attached to my machine for which application for Patent
was made under No. 12195 of 1894.
I now proceed to describe the said apparatus.
A. is the frame of a filling machine.
B. is the filling tube which is attached in a suitable manner to any pelal or other
arrangement for operating it. In my drawing I show its operation by the lever a¹
which is attached by means of a rod a' to a foot pedal. A link a is attached at
the end of the lever a¹ and is connected to the tube B. by a suitable pin on the back
of the receptacle C. At the foot of the tube B. I affix a seating E¹ with a
valve E. of a shape suitable for the seating-preferably conical. To the valve
is attached a rod H. which passes through the tube B. and a stuffing box C. and
projects to the necessary distance beyond it. On the top of the tube a receptacle C.
which contains a spring D, which is used to press the valve E. back on to its
seating E when the bottle is filled. The receptacle C. has an inlet F. preferably
at its side. K. is a collar with a set screw so that it can be regulated to any
distance on the spindle H. L. is a stop fixed on a suitable place on the frame of
the machine. M. is a shoulder on the spindle H. d is the chuck or cup attached
to the bottom of the tube and fits over the mouth of the bottle to be filled. Upon
the filling tube B. being operated the chuck d. covers the bottle month and a tight
joint is made. The tube B. and the spindle H. which it carries continues to travel
through the chuck into the bottle and when such tube is almost at the bottom of
the bottle the collar K. on the spindle comes in contact with the stop L. The
collar K. is so arranged that it only meets the stop when the tube is almost at the
bottom of the bottle. The meeting of the collar K. and stop L. brings the valve E.
to a standstill while the tube B. with the seating E' continues to travel for a
distance sufficient to open the valve and give free passage to the liquor, and at the
same time compresses the spring in the receptacle C. placed between the shoulder M.
and the inner surface of the top of the receptacle C."
When the filling operation is complete the tube is withdrawn from the bottle and
releasing of the said spring forces the valve E. back on its seating.
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 combination of a filling tube fitted with a valve at its end and an external
collar so arranged as to come in contact with a stud and open the said valve when
the filling tube is near the bottom of the bottle.
.4.
2. A filling tube substantially as described and shewn in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the 16th day of November 1894.
THEO.
MCKENNA,
17 & 18, Basinghall Street, London, Agent.