Improvements in Apparatus to be used in connection with the Bottling of Liquids and other Substances.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
Improvements in Apparatus to be used in connection with the Bottling
of Liquids and other Substances.
I, WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY, of South Quay, in the City of Worcester,
Sauce Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has relation to apparatus to be used in connection with the
bottling of various liquids and other substances, such for example as Worcester-
shire and other sauce, mineral and table waters, beer, varnish, oils and
like liquid and semi-liquids, also granulated or powdered material,
positions and mixtures, and other substances requiring to be bottled or similarly
enclosed in vessels or jars.
com-
One form of my improved apparatus for use in connection with the bottling of
liquids consists in the employment of a shallow tray having a series of pipes
depending from its bottom suitable for taking into the necks of the bottles or
vessels to be filled. This said tray, which is, in other words, a multiple-piped
tun-dish, fits, when inverted, within an open-topped case, trunnion mounted upon
uprights of a frame and rotated by a winch handle or by gear, into one of the
wheels of which gear, a pawl may drop for the purpose of retaining the tray
perfectly vertical. The necks of a series of inverted bottles are slipped over the
multiple tun-dish pipes and then a second shallow tray is placed over the bottoms
of the inverted bottles and there secured to the tun-dish tray by a clamping or
securing device, consisting, for instance, of a clip or hook-ended bar with a set
screw at one end.
In operation, the multiple tun-dish is inverted and its open mouth dropped into
the trunnion-mounted case and then the necks of the bottles are dropped over the
inverted and erect pipes of the tun dish and the second tray placed over the
bottles and secured by the clamps. The case, trays and bottles are now rotated
bodily and the top tray is now brought uppermost, with the bottoms of the bottles
resting upon the bottom of the second named tray, which is now unclamped and
brought away from the trunnioned case, together with the bottles and multiple
tun-dish.
The liquid to be bottled is now poured into the multiple tun-dish and
is conducted to the bottles and on the same becoming simultaneously filled the
tun-dish is removed from the bottles and replaced in tun-dish case when the same
operation is repeated.
The bottles are next corked in the usual way.
As a modification, I employ a multiple-piped tun-dish and a loose tray as before
but with the inside bottom of the latter provided with a number of shallow sink-
ings of an inside bore equal to the outside diameter of the bottoms of the bottles
which rest therein, so that an operator has only to drop the bottles into the recesses
or equivalents in the form of divisions or compartments (which constitute sets
for determining the positions of the bottle necks) and pass the pipes of the
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page_text: multiple-piped tun-dish down the necks of the bottles and pour in the liquid, when
the whole of the bottles become simultaneously filled.
I also propose to mount the multiple-piped tun-dish in a frame, so that the same
may be capable of sliding up and down therein as required, and it may have a
weight or weights attached to or connected with it, so that when the bottles are
filled it is easily drawn up, and can again be drawn down when the pipes are
required to be placed in the necks of another set of vessels to be filled.
In filling opaque bottles or jars, I may employ a gauge glass depending from the
underside of the tray or indicating floats in the pipes of the tun-dish for showing at
a glance the height of the liquid within the bottles.
As a still further form, I may make the multiple-piped tun-dish form the top
of a frame having end uprights, and with the bottom fitted with cupped and spring
seatings adapted to receive the bottoms of the bottles, which, when pressed, yield
and allow the lips of the necks of the bottles to clear the pipes of the tun-dish
when introducing the necks onto or withdrawing the same from the pipes of the
tun-dish.
If necessary, the pipes of the tun-dish may pass through a casing which when
bottling varnish or like thick liquids, is filled with hot water for the purpose of
rendering the liquid more mobile and easy flowing.
The application of my invention to apparatus for bottling powdered or granu-
lated substances, composition or mixtures differs in no essential respect from its
application to a liquid-bottling machine or apparatus as herein described.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1897.
WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Apparatus to be used in connection with the Bottling
of Liquids and other Substances.
I, WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY, of South Quay, in the City of Worcester,
Sauce 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:―
This invention has relation to apparatus to be used in connection with the
bottling of various liquids and other substances, such for example as Worcester-
shire and other sauce, mineral and table waters, beer, varnish, oils and
like liquids and semi-liquids, and also granulated or powdered material, com-
positions and mixtures and other substances requiring to be bottled or similarly
enclosed in vessels or jars.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents, partly in elevation and
partly in vertical section, an improved apparatus for simultaneously filling a large
number of bottles with liquid, arranged according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the said liquid supply tray or tun-dish, which is provided
with a series of piped or other outlets corresponding to the number of vessels to
be filled at a time.
Figure 3 represents partly in vertical section and partly in elevation a plain
tray to be used in conjunction with the piped-tray as aforesaid.
This apparatus Figures 1 and 2 consists of a shallow tray a, having a series
of pipes a¹, depending from its bottom and suitable for taking into the necks of,
and corresponding in number to, the bottles or vessels to be simultaneously filled.

page_text: This said tray, which is, in other words, a multiple-piped tun-dish, has used with
it a shallow tray b, which when the bottles are inverted and in the position as
in Figure 4, fits upon and encloses the bottoms of them as shown in the modified
form Figure 5.
These top and bottom trays with bottles are then collectively laid hold of at both
ends, by person bottling, and bodily reversed or inverted, thus bringing the
multipled piped tun-dish-tray uppermost, as represented in the further modification
Figure 6.
When these combined trays with bottles are in the inverted position as afore-
said, then liquid is poured into top and multipled piped tray, and the bottles,
simultaneously filled.
Figure 5 represents a modified form of my bottling device, and shows the trays
braced and clamped together by end straps, so that the bottler has only to
invert the coupled-together trays with bottles as in Figure 5 for filling.
a is the piped tray, 6 the plain tray and c the end clamping straps secured to
tray a, and hinged at c', and with eyed or looped ends ², adapted to engage with
and take upon catches or snugs c³, and may be there secured by a cross pin c4,
placed in a hole c³.
As a modification, I may employ a multiple-piped tun-dish and a loose tray as
before but with the inside bottom of the latter provided with a number of shallow
sinkings of an inside bore equal to the outside diameter of the bottoms of the bottles
which rest therein, so that an operator has only to drop the bottles into the recesses
or equivalents in the form of divisions or compartments which constitute sets
for determining the positions of the bottle necks and pass the pipes of the
multiple-piped tun-dish down the necks of the bottles and pour in the liquid when
the whole of the bottles become simultaneously filled.
In filling opaque bottles or jars, I may employ a gauge glass depending from the
underside of the tray or indicating floats in the pipes of the tun-dish for showing at
a glance the height of the liquid within the bottles.
As a still further form, I may make the multiple-piped tun-dish form the top
of a frame having end uprights and with the bottom fitted with cupped and spring
seatings adapted to receive the bottoms of the bottles, which, when pressed, yield
and allow the lips of the necks of the bottles to clear the pipes of the tun-dish
when introducing the necks onto or withdrawing the same from the pipes of the
tun-dish.
If necessary, the pipes of the tundish may pass through a casing which when
bottling varnish or like thick liquids, is filled with hot water for the purpose of
rendering the liquid more mobile and easy flowing.
The filled bottles remaining in the bottom tray are collectively removed, in the
tray, to the corking machine and corked in the usual way.
Figure 6 represents a further form of my invention, and consists in mounting
the coupled-together trays as aforesaid, in a frame which is trunnion-mounted for
the purpose of reversing the positions of the bottles and tun-dish.
a is a piped-tundish-tray, 6 is a shallow plain tray as before, clamped to one
another by end framings c, provided with journals c¹, which are mounted in
open-topped bearings c, supported by standards c³. Each of these end framings c,
have rests or clamping flaps e, rearwardly jointed at 5, and having side ears e,
and secured in their supporting or clamping positions by a cross pin c', taking
through a hole, in the said clamping flap and through a hole e, in a part of
the arm clo, forward of the joint c5.
To fill the frame, throw back one set of the flaps to the position as represented
in dotted line, then drop the tray a, pipes upwards, into the frame, and then
pass the necks of the bottles over the said pipes into the position as represented
in Figure 4, then place the shallow tray b, in position, bring down the flapped
ears, and place the cross pins c into the coincident holes in flap and frame
and then rotate the whole by the handle d.
The application of my invention to apparatus for bottling powdered or granu-

page_text: lated substances, composition or mixtures differs in no essential respect from its
application to a liquid-bottling machine or apparatus as herein described.
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:-
First: In apparatus for bottling liquids and other substances, the employment
of a multiple-piped tun-dish or receptacle for the liquid or the like, with the pipes
thereof adapted to take into the necks of a series of bottles to be collectively filled,
substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly-In apparatus for bottling liquids and other substances, the employ-
ment in conjunction with a multiple-piped tun-dish as referred to in the pre-
ceeding claim, of a tray which may be invertible with the tun-dish and bottles,
or which may have sets corresponding to the pipes of the tundish for determining
the positions of the bottles, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly: In apparatus for simultaneously filling a number of bottles with
liquids or other substances, the employment in conjunction with a multiple-piped
tun-dish the pipes of which are passed into the necks of the bottles to be filled, of
a tray adapted to take over the bases and the said bottles and to be clamped or
braced to the tun-dish, to admit of the tun-dish tray and bottles being collectively
inverted, substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth.
Fourthly: An apparatus for simultaneously filling a number of bottles with
liquids or other substances, comprising a multiple-piped tun-dish and a bottom
tray, between which the bottles to be filled are placed, and a frame or carrier,
to which the tun-dish and tray are secured, and provided with suitably mounted
bearings to admit of the whole being bodily inverted or rotated, substantially as
described and set forth.
Dated this 15th day of July 1898
WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
34, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
4, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.