AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SYRUPING AERATED WATER BOTTLES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 20th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1887
FRANCIS LYDON Whitehall Galway Ireland Blacksmith, do hereby declare the
nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SYRUPING AERATED
WATER BOTTLES to be as follows:-
My said Invention relates to the supplying a certain quantity of syrup to each
bottle for Aerated beverages. (In connection with Steam or Hand bottling
machines), and has also for its object to diminish the labor and time required in
syruping aerated water bottles.
In my said invention I use a tank or vessel for holding the syrup to be used and
to said tank or vessel is attached a stopper. (Said tank or vessel is placed in any con-
venient place near the corking nozzle of the corking machine that may be used).
Also a measure holding the exact quantity of syrup to be used in each bottle. The
said measure is attached to cork plunger of the bottling machine that may be used by
means of a rod. The bottom portion of said rod is made so as to form two bearings
to take an axle to which said measure is attached and to the said axle of said
measure is attached a trigger, the said measure may or may not be weighted at
bottom. When the cork plunger of said bottling machine that may be used in
connection with my said invention is actuated upwards the said cork plunger causes
the said measure to be also actuated upwards (the said measure being at this time
filled with the syrup in the said tank or vessel) until the said trigger that is attached
to axle of said measure strikes the stop that is attached to said tank or vessel the
contact of which causes the said measure to topple or turn over and discharge the
syrup it contains into a spout or funnel said spout or funnel being in connection with
the corking nozzle of the bottling machine that may be used through which the
syrup is conveyed into the bottle. The said bottle being in position for filling before
the cork plunger was actuated upwards. The cork is now inserted into corking
nozzle and the bottle filled with whatever aerated beverage that may be required.
The cork plunger is then actuated downwards to drive the cork into bottle, the said
cork plunger at the same time actuates the said measure into the tank or vessel that
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page_text: contains the syrup, the said measure at the same time righting itself (either by the
extra weight on bottom or by any other suitable device) so that when it enters the
syrup in tank or vessel that it will refil itself again and be ready for next bottle.
The above tank or vessel may be kept properly full by means of a ball valve or any
other suitable device.
With this improved machine the attendant worker has simply to take care that
there is a certain quantity of syrup in the said tank or vessel also with this machine
he can not put too much or too little syrup into any bottle.
This improved machine can be attached to any corking machine used.

page_text: FRANCIS LYDON Blacksmith Whitehall Galway Co. Galway Ireland do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SYRUPING
AERATED WATER BOTTLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to construct a machine for syruping aerated water
bottles and to diminish the time and labor required in syruping said aerated water
bottles.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of syruping aerated water
bottles by my said invention may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet
of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to and representing a syruping
machine as made with my improvements.
Figure 1 is the plan of my invention.
Figure 2 is the elevation of my invention with the front side taken out so as to
show the internal arrangement of machine.
Figure 3 represents the syrup measurer discharging the syrup into the bottle
through the corking nozzle of the corking machine to which the syruping machine
may be attached.
Figure 4 shows the measurer hung on its axle to the said axle being attached
the trigger.
According to my invention as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed drawings
A is a tank or vessel for containing the syrup to be used to the said tank or vessel A
is attached a stopper B, Figures (1, 2 and 3).
Said tank or vessel A is placed in any convenient position to the corking nozzle C
of the corking machine that is to be used in connection with my invention.
Referring to Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 D is a measure which contains the exact
quantity of syrup to be used in each bottle.
The said measurer D is attached to the cork plunger E (Figs. 2 and 3) of whatever
corking machine that may be used in connection with my invention by means of the
rod F (Fig. 2.) The bottom portion of said rod F is made so as to form two
bearings G, G (Figure 4) to take the axle H (Figure 4) to said axle H is attached
the measure D, the above axle H revolves in the bearings G, G, to the axle H of
measurer D is attached the trigger I (Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4).
The measure D may or may not be weighted at bottom.
When the plunger E of said bottling machine that may be used in connection with
my invention is actuated upwards the said plunger E also actuates the rod F which
also actuates the measure D upwards (the said measure D being at this time full of
the syrup contained in the tank or vessel A) until the said trigger I that is attached
to the said axle H (Figs. 1, 3 & 4) of said measure D strikes the stop B
(Figs. 1, 2 & 3) that is attached to said tank or vessel A. The said striking of
trigger 1 with the stop causing the measure D to topple over and discharge the

page_text: syrup it contained into the spout or funnel K as shown in Figure 3 said spout or
funnel K being in connection with the corking nozzle of whatever bottling
machine that may be used and through which nozzle U the syrup is carried into
the bottle L the bottle L being in position for filling before the cork plunger E was
actuated upwards.
The cork is now inserted into the corking nozzle and the bottle filled with
aerated water. Then the cork plunger E is actuated downwards to drive the cork
into the bottle L the said cork plunger E actuating the said measure D downwards
and into the syrup contained in tank A the said measure D at the same time righting
itself (either by the extra weight at bottom or by any other suitable device) so that
when the measure D enters the syrup in tank or vessel A that it will fill itself again
and be ready to syrup next bottle.
With this improved machine the attendant worker has simply to take care that
there is a sufficient quantity of syrup in tank or vessel A to fill the measure D
this can be done by means of a ball valve or other suitable device. Also with this
machine he cannot put too much or too little syrup in any bottle, also with this
machine the syruping of bottles is only limited by the workers dexterity and
quickness.
This improved machine can he attached to any corking machine (either hand or
power) used in the manufacture of Aerated Water Beverages.
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. The combination of the measurer with the other parts of the machine substan-
tially as herein before described.
2. The improved construction of the syruping mechanism as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 18th day of October 1887.
FRANCIS LYDON.