Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
Fig. 9 is a plan view partly in section of the filling plate.
Fig. 10 is an enlarged sectional view of part of the plate shewing the filling
passages.
Fig. 11 is a plan view of the bottle supporting plate.
The whole apparatus is carried by a support A on which a pillar B is mounted
serving as a bearing for the movable part carrying the bottles, on the pillar
a cone or valve body D is screwed. The latter is provided with an inverted
domed brass plate e carrying a glass cylinder E covered on the top by a domed
plate Both plates are made tight by means of rubber washers on the upper
and lower ends of the glass cylinder and can be adjusted by means of bolts
with thumb screws . On the lower plate e a pipe for the beer or liquid
entrance provided with a stop valve is cast and a channel & central in the
valve body D is in connection with the interior of the cylinder E. This channel
at its lower end is formed with three branch channels which exit at the
side of the valve body Figs. 1, 4, 6, 8.
On the covering plate e a safety valva J is mounted which is closed by
means of a lever à provided with a stationary weight and movable weight i¹.
The end of the lever is connected with the stop valve F by means of a rod (
closing the same and preventing the entrance of the beer coming through el
into the glass cylinder when the safety valve J is lifted in consequence of too
great pressure in the glass cylinder, a manometer H on the latter indicating
the pressure in the same. Upon the valve body D a movable disk plate D
with preferably 12 radially directed and symmetrically arranged channels D³
is arranged. Three of these can communicate at the same time with the three
channels. The channels D extend downwards at their outer ends and are
prolonged by short tubes D³ which pass into the bottles to be filled. Through
these tubes air pipes E' of smaller diameter pass, leading from twelve, (or as
the case may be), air channels or pipes carried by the disk D' three of which
can simultaneously communicate with three air channels of the valve body D.

page_text: The channels E³ extend into a common pipe f open at the top and which
reaches in the cylinder E to nearly its upper end. The lower ends of the
pipes are flared outwards so that the liquor passing through D³ flows out
through an annular opening and flows down the interior wall of the bottle
neck, whilst the air in the bottle escapes through E without forming froth
into E, the three pipes Es communicating with f are sufficient for the three
beer channels din connection with the respective channels D³.
A movable plate K carries the bottles and is joined by a sleeve L with the
plate D. The feed plate K is provided with twelve (or as the case may be)
inetal plates or tables M covered with felt or the like N and arranged exactly
under the pipes D³; these plates rest on springs 0 seated in cylindrical
housings P cast on the plate K. Guiding sockets Qserowed on the underside
of the plate 11 provided with rubber washers Q limit the lifting under the
influence of the springs of the bottles. The bottles are put upon the tables M
and pushed under their sockets so that the pipes D³ lie in their necks, the
springs O pushing them against the indin rubber washers Q¹ preventing the
exterior escape of air or liquid.
On the support A a lerer R is pivoted having a handle R¹ and drawn upwards
by a spring S. This lever can be inserted into one or other of the notches T
provided on the plate K so that the plates K and D¹ can be adjusted with
regard to one another so that three of the channels D communicate with the
channels or all the former are cut off from the latter. A set screw U
sented in the sleeve L allows the clamping of the movable parts upon the
column B.
An oiler is arranged for oiling the bearing spaces of the column B; if
in the position in which the channels D are closed, twelve empty bottles are
arranged in position, the plates are turned by means of the handles R" on
plate K, after setting free the lever R until the same engages again in a slot
of the plate K so that the position wherein three channels D³ communicate
with the channels is produced and consequently also the three corresponding
pines Es with the channels F³.
Then the air in E will first, being under pressure, partially flow through the
pipe into the beor bottles. As the beer flowing in through the pipes D has
no pressure and as already shown the air flowing out of the bottles can escape
freely there is no cause for froth formation.
By the valve weight the safety valve J is set for the highest admissible
filling pressure after surpassing which it opens and the beer flow is cut off
by the valve F. By turning the disk plates further three more bottles are
filled and the filled bottles are either removed whilst the others are being filled
or after the whole number are filled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
An improved apparatus for filling bottles with liquid, in which two disk
plates D and K connected by a sleeve L, and mounted movably on a column;
the lower of these plates K being provided with a number of elastic supports
for pressing the bottles tightly against abutments provided on the lower face
of the upper plate '; radially arranged channels for the liquid provided in
this plate D, being put by means of a stationary valve body D in connection
with the liquid in such a manner that preferably three of these channels are
simultaneously put in such connection; the said apparatus being provided with
air outlet pipes arranged so as to extend into the bottles, and are in connection
with a chamber E containing air and the filling liquid under pressure said
chamber E having an adjustable safety valve, which on opening closes by
means of a lever gear a valve of the pipe supplying the liquid to the apparatus;
the outlets of the liquid pipes which extend into the bottles being formed in

page_text: an annular fashion so that the air can escape freely through the middle of the
neck, the whole substantially us and for the purpose described and illustrated
in the annexed drawings.
Dated this 8th day of November 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.