Apparatus for Filling Powder into Bottles and like Receptacles.
Year: 1899

page_text: We, HARRY REGINALD WILD, of The Bee-Hive, Magpie Lane, Bickley, in the
County of Kent, Director of Public Company, and ALFRED TRUGEON SMITH, of
44, Sandbourne Road, Brockley, in the County of Kent, Assistant Works
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for filling all kinds of powder into bottles
and like receptacles.
According to the invention we provide a reservoir for containing the material
to be filled into the bottle or other rceptacle, and in the said reservoir we arrange
a feed device which is adapted to be actuated therein by suitable means either
hand or power. The mouth of the bottle is held against an outlet at the lower
end of the reservoir so that when the aforementioned feed device is actuated the
powder contained in the reservoir is forced down through the outlet and into the
bottle.
In carrying out the invention we advantageously make the reservoir in the
shape of a hopper or funnel and the feed device is preferably in the form of a
screw made in two diameters, the portion of larger diameter being in the conical
portion of the hopper whilst the portion of smaller diameter is placed in the
spout of the funnel or hopper in which it fits. The lower end of the spout of the
funnel is provided with a rubber or similar lip which is adapted to fit over the
mouth of the bottle and the latter is placed upon a support preferably elastic
which is adapted, when the bottle is to be filled, to be brought up against the
elastic mouth of the funnel for example by means of gear actuated by the foot
of the operator.
In practice we find it advantageous to construct an apparatus comprising a
number of such filling devices all adapted to be driven and controlled simul-
taneously.
Apparatus for Filling Powder into Bottles and like Receptacles.
We, HARRY REGINALD WILD, of The Bee-Hive, Magpie Lane, Bickley, in the
County of Kent, Director of Public Company, and ALFRED TRUGEON SMITH, of
[Price 8d.]

page_text: 44, Sandbourne Road, Brockley, in the County of Kent, Assistant
Works
Manager, 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 apparatus for filling all kinds of powder into bottles
and like receptacles.
According to the invention we provide a reservoir for containing the material
to be filled into the bottle or other reeptacle, and in the said reservoir we arrange
a feed device which is adapted to be actuated therein by suitable means, either
hand or power. The mouth of the bottle is held against an outlet at the lower
end of the reservoir so that when the aforementioned feed device is actuated the
powder contained in the reservoir is forced down through the outlet and into the
bottle.
In carrying out the invention we advantageously make the reservoir in the
shape of a hopper or funnel and the feed device is preferably in the form of a
screw made in two diameters, the portion of larger diameter being in the conical
portion of the hopper whilst the portion of smaller diameter is placed in the spout
of the funnel or hopper in which it fits. The lower end of the spout of the
funnel is provided with a rubber or similar lip which is adapted to fit over the
mouth of the bottle and the latter is placed upon a support preferably elastic
which is adapted, when the bottle is to be filled, to be brought up against the
elastic mouth of the funnel for example by means of gear actuated by the foot
of the operator.
In the accompanying drawing :-
-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of apparatus made according to the invention
and adapted to fill a number of bottles simultaneously:
Figure 2 is a vertical section thereof.
The hopper or funnel forming the reservoir comprises the upper portion a
which is common to all the filling devices and a number of spouts b, b all open-
ing from the lower end of the said reservoir a. c, c are the lips of rubber or
similar material which are fitted to the lower ends of the spouts b, b and d, d
are standards upon which the machine is mounted.
e, e are the spindles forming the feed devices, the said spindles being formed
with screw-threads of different diameters, that is to say, the portion f of cach
spindle which is located within the reservoir a being of larger diameter than the
portion g which rotates within the inside of the spout into which it fits. The
upper ends of these spindles are rotatably held in the cross-piece fitted to
the standards d and are provided with bevel wheels i, i gearing with bevel
pinions, mounted upon the spindle k which is driven from the handle
through the medium of the chain-wheel m, chain n, chain-wheel and spur
wheels 2, q, as clearly shewn.
The bottles A are inserted in holes r, r upon an elastic beds in a movable
supports, the said support being adapted to be operated by the treadle t which
is pivoted at t to the frame of the apparatus and operates the link which is
connected at one end to the treadle and at the other end to the bottle support s¹.
With this construction of apparatus the support s¹ being lowered by relieving
the treadle of pressure, the bottles A are placed in position, the treadle t is
depressed so as to raise the bottles until the india-rubber or other lips c cover
the mouths thereof after which the handle is turned by the operator. The
rotation of the handle as above described revolves the screw spindles and the
powder contained in the reservoir a is fed down through the spouts b, band into
the bottles. The operator can judge when the bottles are filled by the resistance
which is offered to the rotation of the screw spindles.
Although we have shewn and described apparatus adapted to simultaneously
fill a number of bottles it will be clear that it can be constructed to take only
one bottle at a time if desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. Apparatus for filling powder into bottles and like receptacles comprising a
reservoir for containing the powder, a feed device such as a screw and means for
operating the feed device so as to charge the bottles with powder from the reser-
voir, substantially as described.
2. Apparatus for filling powder into bottles and like receptacles comprising a
hopper having a spout into which the mouth of the bottle or the like fits, and a
feed screw, a portion of which fits into the spout and the rotation of which feeds
the material from the hopper into the bottle, substantially as herein before
described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the apparatus for filling
powder into bottles and like receptacles, hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.