Improvements in Apparatus for Passing Liquids and Air or Gas into Bottles or other Vessels.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Passing Liquids and Air or Gas into
Bottles or other Vessels.
I DENNIS WICKHAM of The Star Brewery, Ware, Hertfordshire, Brewer and
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for passing liquids and air
or gas into bottles or other vessels.
To carry my invention into practice I enclose a tube in a jacket against the
lower cushioned part of which a bottle to be charged is placed with pressure on
the jacket can be forced down upon the bottle. Between the jacket and a shell is
a spring abutting against the jacket and a flange to keep the jacket at its desired
position.
The jacket or the tube is grooved or recessed in the length and said tube has a
valve and a piston which when the tube is lifted open the passage for the gas or
air simultaneously or about so with that of the liquid which is otherwise closed by
another valve.
The piston on the tube fit a chamber of a socket in which another spring is
provided for pressing the air or gas valve upon its seat.
The jacket is packed at a certain portion and the ring above is capable of being
brought into contact with the valve stock to lift it.
The tube feeds the liquid and has a valve at its lower end governable by a wire
for opening and closing, to let out or retain any liquid that may remain in the tube.
I may provide a float valve in a branch pipe chamber to check the back flow of
liquid when the bottle or other vessel is removed..
Dated this 5th day of December 1893
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said D. Wickham.
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Improvements in Apparatus for Passing Liquids and Air or Gas into
Bottles or other Vessels.
I DENNIS WICKHAM of The Star Brewery, Ware, Hertfordshire, Brewer and
Engineer 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 relates to improvements in apparatus for passing liquids and air
or gas into bottles or other vessels.
To carry my iuvention into practice and as 1 show by the annexed drawings
Figure 1, section
Figure 2, plan
Figure 3, section on line a-a of Figure 1.
I enclose a tube A in a jacket B against the lower cushioned part C of which a
bottle to be charged is placed with pressure or the jacket can be forced down upon
the bottle. Between the jacket B and a shell D is a spring E abutting against the
jacket B and a flange F to keep the jacket B at its desired position.
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page_text: The jacket B or the tube A is grooved or recessed in the length and said tube
has a valve G and a piston H which when the tube A is lifted, opeus the passage I
for the gas or air simultaneously or about so with that of the liquid which is
otherwise closed by another valve J.
The piston H on the tube A fits a chamber of a socket K in which another
spring L is provided for pressing the air or gas valve G upon its seat.
The jacket B is packed at a certain portion and the ring M above is capable of
being brought into contact with the stock of valve G to lift the valve G from its
seat.
The tube A feeds the liquid and has a valve N at its lower ond governable by a
wire P for opening and closing, to let out or retain any liquid that may remain in
the tube A.
I may provide a float valve Qin the chamber of a branch pipe R to check the
back flow of liquid when the bottle or other vessel is removed.
The float valve chamber has a byepass S for the accumulation and passage of
the froth arising from the liquor due to the agitation of the liquid by the air or
gas, the float only rising when liquids enter the branch R to put the valve Q in
contact with its seating.
.
The valve G on the tube A is so "sett" with relation to the valve J that the
gas or air passage is opened slightly in advance of the valve J for the bottle to be
partially supplied with that agent before the liquid enters, by which means the
liquid is aerated to better advantage than when the air is admitted on to or with
the liquid only.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 show a slight modification of some of the parts previously
referred to. In this arrangement the spring B is substituted by a diaphragm T and
instead of the spring E being enclosed it is exposed as shown to return the cushion C
when the pressure of the bottle is removed, said spring pressing upon a crosshead V
which is in connection with cushion nozzle by the rods U, U, which are guided by
ears projecting from one of the flanges by which the diaphragm is held, the tube A
being secured by collar and nut in a well known manner.
W is part of an arm or bracket by which the apparatus is secured to a pillar
or wall.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. The foregoing improvements in apparatus for passing air or gas and liquids
into bottles or other vessels as described with reference to the annexed drawings on
Sheet 1 and also the modification referred to with regard to the figures represented
on Sheet 2 of the drawings.
2. In an apparatus for bottling liquids to be aerated the simultaneous opening of
the gas or air valve with the liquid valve by the pressure of a bottle or like vessel
against a moveable nozzle and of an internal tube as set forth and substantially as
shown on the annexed drawings.
3. Arranging the valves of a bottling apparatus in relation to the liquid tube
that the gas or air valve is opened slightly in advance of the liquid valve by an
operation of the tube due to the pressure exerted on the bottle by the operator as
described for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 5th day of September 1894
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, Loudon,
Agent for the said D. Wickham.