Improved Means of Capsuling or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other Receptacles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
Improved Means of Capsuling or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other
Receptacles.
I, JAMES EDWARD BENNETT, of 167, Kingsland Road, in the County of London,
Brewer's Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to improved means of capsuling or stoppering bottles,
jars and other receptacles (hereinafter referred to as "bottles") serving to contain
still liquids, preserved fruits, essences, extracts or other substances of a non-effer-
vescent nature (hereinafter referred to as preserves,") the invention being
especially applicable to the capsuling or stoppering of bottles of preserves which
require to be hermetically closed from access of air until required for use, and
adapted to effect such operation automatically and on bottles in quantity at a
time.
To this end, the invention consists in or is characterized by the use, in combina-
tion, of a platform, an open mouthed exhaust chamber or bell and vacuum
producing apparatus, respectively adapted as hereinafter described; the platform
being adapted to support adjustable means of supporting the bottles to be treated
in tiers of any required or convenient number, and with means of effecting an
air tight closure with the rim of the bell, and with means of guiding the bell
in its movements, and with means of connecting the vacuum producing apparatus
with the interior of the bell: and the bell being counterweighted or provided
with other raising gear, and guided, and adapted with means of regulating the
degree of vacuum produced within it and with means of suddenly admitting air
at atmospheric pressure to within it.
The platform is or may be supported on standards or otherwise in any con-
venient manner. Centrally, it is fitted with a standard which serves to support a
series of adjustable diaphragms which are preferably perforated and serve to
support the bottles to be treated in superposed tiers, the diaphragms being sup-
ported by collars secured to the standards by screws or otherwise in any convenient
manner. Peripherally, the platform is formed with a surrounding groove serving
as a seating to a compressible elastic tube upon which the rim of the bell is
adapted to seat when the apparatus is in operation and then serves to hermetically
close the mouth of the bell.
The platform is also fitted with standards which serve as guides to the move-
ments of the bell and ensure the true seating of the bell on the compressible
seating.
Any suitable arrangement of air pump or vacuum producing apparatus may
be used, the suction pipe thereof being connected to an air outlet aperture made
in the platform.
The bell is truly turned on the face of its rim and adapted to seat truly
on the elastic seating, and, peripherally, is fitted with guides adapted to engage
with the standards rising from the platform, and is also fitted with a vacuum

page_text: gauge and with a large bore air-inlet fitted with a slide or other suitable means
of closing and opening such inlet and serving to enable the air under atmospheric
pressure to be suddenly admitted to the bell to effect the object of the invention.
The bell and its adjuncts is or may be connected to a counterweight, the
connection being supported by suitably supported pulleys. The bell may, if
required, be fitted with one or more glazed sight holes.
The described apparatus is particularly applicable to the hermetic closure of
bottles which are formed with slightly coned external seatings around the mouth
end of the bottle neck fitted with an elastic ring or washer and which are
externally capsuled by slightly coned metal or other capsules held to said seatings
by atmospheric pressure, but the apparatus is equally applicable to the closure
of bottles formed with slightly coned internal seatings around within the mouth
end of the bottle-neck fitted with an elastic ring or washer and which are internally
stoppered by slightly coned stoppers held to said seatings by atmospheric pressure,
and to the capsuling or stoppering of other bottles which are closed by capsules or
stoppers held in position by atmospheric pressure, and is designed to avoid the
disadvantages incidental to the existing means of expelling the air from the
bottle before closing the same and to enable a large number of bottles to be
treated simultaneously and as it were automatically and under conditions in
which all of the number will be treated alike.
In using the apparatus, the diaphragms (while the bell is raised from the
platform) are charged with botiles to be closed, each of which is lightly covered
with an external capsule or is otherwise loosely fitted with a capsule or stopper
adapted to be held in position by atmospheric pressure, after which, the bell is
lowered onto its elastic seating, whereupon, the air pump is gently worked to
exhaust the air within the bell and the bottles without disturbing the capsules
on the bottle-necks and until a sufficient degree of vacuum is indicated by the
gauge, whereupon, the bell is suddenly charged with air at atmospheric pressure
through the air inlet, and which is effective in forcing all the respective capsules
or stoppers simultaneously on or in their respective seatings on or in the whole
series of bottles under treatment and hermetically closing the contents thereof,
without liability of the capsules being unseated by any ordinary usage.
the capsule or stopper is required to be removed, it is only necessary to prick a
hole in it to admit a counter-balancing air pressure to within the bottle, where-
upon, the capsule or stopper can be immediately removed.
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When
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Means of Capsuling or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other
Receptacles.
I, JAMES EDWARD BENNETT, of 167, Kingsland Road, in the County of London,
Brewers' 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 improved means of capsuling or stoppering bottles,
jars and other receptacles (hereinafter referred to as bottles") serving to contain
still liquids, preserved fruits, essences, extracts or other substances of a non-effer-

page_text: vescent nature (hereinafter referred to as "preserves") the invention being
especially applicable to the capsuling or stoppering of bottles of preserves which
require to be hermetically closed from access of air until required for use, and
adapted to effect such operation automatically and on bottles in quantity at a
time.
To this end, the invention consists in or is characterized by the use, in combina-
tion, of a platform, an open mouthed exhaust chamber or bell and vacuum produc-
ing apparatus, respectively adapted as hereinafter described; the platform being
adapted to support adjustable or fixed means of supporting the bottles to be treated
in tiers of any required or convenient number and with means of effecting an
air tight closure with the rim of the bell, and with means of guiding the bell
in its movements, and with means of connecting the vacuum producing apparatus
with the interior of the bell; and the bell being counterweighted or provided
with other raising gear, and guided, and adapted with means of regulating the
degree of vacuum produced within it and with means of suddenly admitting air
at atmospheric pressure to within it; as hereinafter more particularly described
with reference to the accompanying drawings, on which,
Fig. 1, represents the improved apparatus in central sectional elevation;
Fig. 2, represents a transverse section through A-B, Fig. 1.
and
a, represents the platform; b, the open mouthed exhaust chamber or bell;
and c, the vacuum producing apparatus.
The platform, a, is or may be supported on standards, a¹, or otherwise in any
convenient manner. Centrally, it is fitted with a standard, a³, which serves to
support a series of adjustable or fixed diaphragms, a³, which are preferably
perforated and serve to support the bottles, d, to be treated in superposed tiers
as represented, the diaphragms, 3, being supported by collars, a', secured to the
standard by screws, a³, or otherwise in any convenient manner. Peripherally,
the platform is formed with a surrounding groove, a, serving as a seating to a
compressible elastic tube, a', upon which the rim, b, of the bell is adapted to
seat when the apparatus is in operation and then serves to hermetically close the
mouth of the bell. The platform is also fitted with standards, a8, which serve
as guides to the movements of the bell and ensure the true seating of the bell
on the compressible seating, a.
c, represents any suitable arrangement of air pump or vacuum producing
apparatus, the suction pipe, c', of which is connected to an air outlet aperture, a³,
made in the platform.
The bell, b, is truly turned on the face of its rim, b', and adapted to seat
truly on the seating, a', and, peripherally, is fitted with guides, 62, adapted to
engage with the standards, a8, and is also fitted with a vacuum gauge, 63, and
with a large bore air-inlet, b, fitted with a slide, 65, or other suitable means of
closing and opening such inlet and serving to enable the air under atmospheric
pressure to be suddenly admitted to the bell to effect the object of the invention.
The bell and its adjuncts is connected to a counter-weight, al, the connec-
tion, a, being supported by suitably supported pulleys, 2 The bell may, if
required, be fitted with one or more glazed sight-holes, a
The described apparatus is particularly applicable to the hermetic closure of
bottles which are formed with-slightly coned external seatings around the mouth
end of the bottle-neck fitted with an elastic ring or washer and which are
externally capsuled by slightly coned metal or other capsules held to said seatings
by atmospheric pressure, but the apparatus is equally applicable to the closure
of bottles formed with slightly coned internal seatings around within the mouth end
of the bottle-neck fitted with an elastic ring or washer and which are internally stop-
pered by slightly coned stoppers held to said seatings by atmospheric pressure, and to
the capsuling or stoppering of other bottles which are closed by capsules or
stoppers held in position by atmospheric pressure, and is designed to avoid the
disadvantages incidental to the existing means of expelling the air from the
bottle before closing the same and to enable a large number of bottles to be

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treated simultaneously and as it were automatically and under conditions in
which all of the number will be treated alike.
In using the apparatus, the diaphragms, a, (while the bell, b, is raised to a
sufficiently elevated position) are charged with botiles, d, to be closed, each
of which is lightly covered with an external capsule, d', as represented, or is
ctherwise loosely fitted with a capsule or stopper adapted to be held in position
by atmospheric pressure. after which, the bell is lowered onto its elastic
seating a, whereupon, the air pump,., gently worked to exhaust the air within
the bell and the bottles without disturbing the capsules on the bottle-necks and
until a sufficient degree of vacuum is indicated by the gauge, 3, whereupon, the
bell is suddenly charged with air at atmospheric pressure through the inlet b*,
and which is effective in forcing all the respective capsules, d', or stoppers
simultaneously on or in their respective seatings on or in the whole series of
bottles under treatment and hermetically closing the contents thereof, without
liability of the capsules being unscated by any ordinary usage. When the capsule
or stopper is required to be removed, it is only necessary to prick a hole through
it to admit a counter-balancing air pressure to within the bottle, whereupon, the
capsule or stopper can be immediately removed.
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:
In apparatus for capsuling or stoppering bottles, jars and other receptacles
serving to contain still liquids, preserved fruits, essences, extracts or other
substances of a non-effervescent nature; in combination; a platform, an open
mouthed exhaust chamber or bell and a vacuum producing apparatus; the platform
being adapted to support adjustable or fixed shelves serving to support the bottles
to be treated in tiers of any required number, and with an elastic seating serving
to effect an air-tight closure with the rim of the bell, and with vertical guides
serving to direct the bell in its movements, and with means of connecting the
vacuum producing apparatus with the interior of the bell; and the bell being
counterweighted or otherwise raised. and fitted with guides cooperating with
those of the platform, and adapted with means of regulating the degree of vacuum
produced within it, and with a large bore air inlet and with means of suddenly
admitting air at atmospheric pressure to within it, as set forth.
Dated this 6th day of May 1898
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.