Improvements in Bottle Capsuling Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle Capsuling Machines.
I, GEORG LORENZ, of Russelsheim on the Maine, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and
to the figures and letters marked thereon:-
Heretofore capsuling machines in which the capsuling is effected by means of
rubber (caoutchouc) blocks or dies have been fitted with only one pair of such
rubber blocks or dies, so that each machine is fitted only to capsule bottles of one
size of neck.
To enable a single machine to be used in the capsuling of bottles having various
sizes of neck, it has heretofore been necessary to change the rubber pressure blocks
or dies, which continuous changing entails considerable trouble and loss of time.
The present invention, as represented in the accompanying drawings, has for its
object to remedy this evil, and to effect the capsuling of bottles of several different
sizes of neck with one and the same machine.
Figures 1 and 2 represent front views, and Figures 3 and 4 are longitudinal
sections, drawn respectively on the lines x-x Figure 1 and y-y Figure 2, of two
forms of the improved bottle capsuling machine.
As shown in the drawings, the object aimed at is attained simply by fitting
capsuling machines, not merely with one, but with two or several pairs of rubber
pressure blocks or dies, as, for instance, the machines represented in the drawings,
are each provided with four pairs of different sized pressure blocks or dies A A'.
By such new arrangement the same machine will suffice for capsuling bottles of
many different sizes of neck without necessitating a previous exchange of the
pressure blocks or dies.
The pressure blocks or dies A A' in this improved capsuling machine, are fitted
to a common guide frame C, which, according to the arrangement represented at
Figures 1 and 3, revolves on a pin B in such manner that, if the guide frame C is
properly adjusted, each pair of pressure blocks or dies A A' will be placed as
required with its pressure block or die A' over the cam D, so that, by means of the
lever H acting on the cam D, the pressure block or die A' will be moved towards
the corresponding fixed pressure block A for the time being in use.
To fix the revolving guide frame C in position, a spring pin E is provided, but
the fixing of the guide frame C can be effected in other convenient manner.
To obviate the necessity for rotating the guide frame C and fixing it in the
required position, the apparatus may be arranged as represented at Figures 2 and 4,
so that when the lever H moves, all the moveable pressure blocks or dies A' which
are fitted in a fixed guide frame C, shall be simultaneously moved by means of a
corresponding number of arms or wipers on the cam D against the corresponding
fixed pressure blocks or dies A.
Thus the fixing of a capsule on to the neck of a bottle is effected by the pair of
pressure blocks or dies A A¹ between which the neck of the bottle, according to its
size, is inserted.
To lessen friction and to facilitate the working of this capsuling arrangement,
the cam D may be fitted with rollers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Baid
nvention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A bottle capsuling machine for capsuling bottles having different sized necks, in

page_text: which machine the changing of the rubber pressure blocks or dies is obviated, such
machine having two or more pairs of rubber pressure blocks or dies A A¹ varying
in size and fitted in a common guide frame C, which latter, as shown at Figures 1
and 3, is capable of being revolved to bring the required pair of pressure blocks or
dies into position for use, and of being fixed in such position by a stop E, a cam D
operated by a lever H being employed to force the moveable block or die A¹ against
the fixed block or die A for the time being in use, substantially as herein shown
and described and for the purpose stated.
2. A bottle capsuling machine for capsuling bottles having different sized necks,
in which machine the changing of the rubber pressure blocks or dies is obviated,
such machine having two or more pairs of rubber pressure blocks or dies A A'
varying in size, which latter, as shown in Figures 2 and 4, are fitted in a fixed guide
frame C, and the moveable pressure blbcks or dies A¹ are all simultaneously moved
towards the fixed pressure blocks or dies A by a multiple armed cam operated
by a lever, substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
stated.
Dated this 19th day of May 1892
GEORG LORENZ,
By Harris & Mills,
:
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.