Improvements in Machines for Bottling Beers, Mineral Waters, and other Gaseous Liquors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
Improvements in Machines for Bottling Beers, Mineral Waters, and
other Gaseous Liquors.
We JOSEPH FLETCHER of 38 Leconfield Road Highbury, London, Engineer,
and RYDER & Co. LIMITED, of Phoenix Works Kingsland Green London
Bottlers' Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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Our invention relates to machines for bottling beers mineral waters and other
gaseous liquors and has reference to the filling tube or valve usually employed in
connection with the kinds of machines which are capable of receiving it.
By our invention we prevent any liquor in the tube from going to waste, and we
also prevent the displacement of liquor which in ordinary fillers is unavoidably caused
by the form of tube employed.
We affix to the frame of the machine a V slide to which is attached a metal
casting which is hollowed out to form a chamber connected with which is the pipe
which carries the liquor into the chamber. In the interior of the chamber we place
a valve having a hollow spindle and on its exterior and inside the chamber, a spiral
spring to act upon the valve. To seal this chamber we employ a cap containing a
stuffing box which also seals the hollow spindle, the whole forming a perfectly gas-
tight chamber. We attach to the bottom of this chamber a filling tube of suitable
dimensions. Into the said tube we place a plunger attached to a rod which passes
through the hollow spindle in the valve chamber, to a fixed bracket at the head of
the machine, where it is held to any required position by means of a set screw.
The tube and valve chamber are carried down the V slide into the bottle to be
filled, the rod with the plunger remaining fixed and ascending in the tube as the
tube and valve chamber are drawn downwards into the bottle. On the tube reaching
the desired depth in the bottle, the plunger having ascended to the lower end of
the valve chamber causes the valve to open and the liquor to flow down the
tube without obstruction into the bottle. The moment the tube is moved by the
o erator in an upward direction, the plunger releases itself from the valve and
the valve closes arresting the flow of liquor. On the upward movement being
continued the plunger descends through the tube and expels therefrom the whole
of the liquor remaining therein and the displacement of liquor in the bottle is
compensated for by the liquor expelled from the tube by means of the plunger as the
tube is withdrawn from the bottle.
Doted the 21st day of September 1905
THEO.
MCKENNA,
17 & 18 Basinghall Street, E.C., Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Bottling Beers, Mineral Waters, and
other Gaseous Liquors.
We JOSEPH FLETCHER of 38 Leconfield Road Highbury London Engineer
and RYDER & Co. LIMITED of Phoenix Works Kingsland Green London.
Bottlers' Engineers 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 machines for bottling beers mineral waters and other
gaseous liquora and has reference to the filling tube or valve usually employed in
connection with the kinds of machines which are capable of receiving it.
By this invention we prevent any liquor from remaining in the filling tube and
thus going to waste and we also provide against the short filling of the bottle which
in ordinary fillers is unavoidably caused by the filling tube displacing liquor in the
bottle and thus preventing the bottles being filled to their full capacity.
We describe our invention by the aid of accompanying drawing.
.
We affix to the frame of the machine a V slide A to which is attached a metal
casting which is hollowed out to form a chamber B connected with which is the
pipe which carries the liquor into the chamber B. In the interior of the
chamber B we place a valve D having a hollow spindle D' which has on its exterior
and inside the chamber a spiral spring E.to act upon the valve. To seal this
chamber B. we employ a cap F containing a stuffing box which also seals the hollow
spindle the whole forming a perfectly gas tight chamber. We attach to the bottom
of the chamber B at G a filling tube G₁ of suitable dimensions. Into the said
tube we place a plunger H attached to a rod J which passes through the hollow
spindle in the valve chamber to a suitable fixed bracket at the head of the
machine where it is held to any required position by means of a set screw.
whole of the metal casting with the filling tube chamber and valve is carried down
the V slide and the filling tube enters the bottle to be filled the rod J with the
plunger H remaining in a fixed position by means of the set screw as before
mentioned and thus ascends in the tube G as the filling tube is drawn downwards
into the bottle.
The
On the filling tube reaching the desired depth in the bottle the plunger H on the
fixed rod J having ascended to the lower end of the valve chamber at K causes
the valve to open and the liquor to flow down the filling tube without obstruction
into the bottle.
The moment the filling tube is moved by the operator in an upward direction
the plunger releases itself from the valve and the valve closes arresting the flow
of the liquor into the bottle. On the upward movement of the filling tube
being continued the plunger descends through the tube and expels therefrom
the whole of the liquor remaining therein and the displacement of liquor in the
bottle by the filling tube is compensated for by the liquor expelled from the
filling tube by means of the plunger as the filling tube is withdrawn from the bottle
as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. In a filling tube the valve D and hollow spindle D'operated by the rod J with
plunger H as described and shewn in the drawings.

page_text: the same and to expel the liquor from the filling tube after the closing or the valve
as described and shewn in the drawings.
3. The combination of parts forming our improved filling tube substantially as
described and shewn in the drawings.
00-11 of lune 1896.
THEO. MCKENNA,
17 & 18 Basinghall Street, London, Agent.