IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AERATED OR GASEOUS LIQUIDS
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Jackson Chapman and
Howard Busby Fox at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
'with their Petition, on the 14th April 1875.
We, THOMAS JACKSON CHAPMAN and HOWARD BUSBY Fox, both of
Oxton, in the County of Chester, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AERATED OR
GASEOUS LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to an improved apparatus for bottling aèrated
or gaseous liquids, and has for its object the construction of a duplex or
manifold machine, so that aerated or gaseous liquids can be bottled with
greater rapidity than by the machines now in use.
An apparatus constructed according to our Invention consists of a
suitable frame or stand which carries a vertical rack or a series of vertical
racks This rack or these racks are operated by a toothed quadrant or
quadrants, which are worked by a combination of levers and rods. The
end of each rack is provided with a cross head which carries duplicate
tubes or pipes, which pass through stuffing boxes and in through the

page_text: necks of the bottles, and are used as internal pipes for drawing the air
from the bottles. The frame or stand is provided with a series of valves
which communicate with the internal pipes on the racks and the interior
of the bottles as is usual in such cases. The frame or stand is also
provided with a treadle, which operates a standard which is provided i
with an adjustable cap or socket, which holds the bottle in position for
filling.
In order that our Invention may be more clearly ascertained and
understood, we will describe a duplex machine as constructed according
to our Invention, but we would have it understood the same may
be indefinitely carried out as a manifold machine according to our
Invention.
The duplex machine consists of a vertical frame which carries a
vertical rack worked by a toothed quadrant operated by a lever and
connecting rod, which is worked by an overhead hand lever or lever
actuated by the intermittent action of a crank, eccentric, cam, or other
equivalent mechanical contrivance driven by a steam engine or other-
wise. The toothed rack is provided with a horizontal cross head which
carries two vertical pipes, which pipes pass through duplicate stuffing
boxes so situated on the frame as to hold two inverted bottles in parallel :
vertical position These stuffing boxes are respectively connected to a
system of valves operated by a lever worked by hand or by a mechanical
equivalent having intermittent action and driven by a steam engine or
otherwise. These valves are used for the emission of air from the bottle,
and for filling the bottle with the liquid to be contained therein. S
Behind the rack and on the same frame there is fitted a vertical rod or
standard worked by a treadle, and provided at its upper end with a cross
head which consists of duplicate caps used for holding the parallel
duplicate bottles in position while filling
The apparatus thus described may be indefinitely carried out, and
form a manifold machine before mentioned, each rack taking two or
more bottles.
In operation the bottles are placed in an inverted position with their
necks in the respective stuffing boxes; the treadles are then operated
and the caps on the vertical standard hold the bottles in position. Upon a
the rack lever being operated, the internal pipe enters the bottle and the

page_text: air is free to escape by the opening of the air valve, and by the opening
of the liquor valve the bottles are filled.
Our Invention is particularly adapted to be used for filling bottles
which are stoppered from the inside by pressure, as is understood, but
our Invention can be adapted to apparatus now in use for stoppering
bottles with ordinary corks to be tied in the usual way.