IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES OR OTHER ARTICLES PROVISIONAL SPATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Abraham Martin, of No. 20, Newman Street,
Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
** IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES OR OTHER ARTICLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Abraham Martin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st May 1875.
I, ABRAHAM MARTIN, of No. 20, Newman Street, Oxford Street, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES OR OTHER
ARTICLES FOR WHICH CAPSULES ARE OR MAY BE EMPLOYED," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
capsuling bottles or other articles for which capsules are or may be
employed.
The apparatus may be explained as follows:-The principle employed
is based upon an india-rubber or other flexible ring being enclosed in
the mouth of a tube and when the neck of the bottle or other article to

page_text: be capsuled is brought in contact with the ring in the tube the ring
turns or rolls, and by its pressure upon the capsule completely fastens
same without injury altho' the article to be capsuled may be fastened
with wire or other material.
The apparatus should be fixed upon a bench or any solid basis, and
the article to be capsuled placed in position. The tube containing the
ring acts on a pivot and is made to move by means of a lever working
backwards or forwards by hand or foot & with or without springs. The
neck of the bottle or other article to be capsuled on entering the tube
with the capsule thereon being perfectly capsuled by the pressure of the
ring in the tube.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Abraham Martin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ABRAHAM
MARTIN, of No. 20, Newman Street, Oxford Strect, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Abraham Martin, Her special license
that I, the said Abraham Martin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Abraham Martin, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES OR OTHER ARTICLES FOR WHICH CAPSULES
ARE OR MAY BE EMPLOYED," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Abraham Martin, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the

page_text: same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Abraham Martin, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
capsuling bottles or other articles for which capsules are or may be
employed.
The apparatus may be explained as follows:-The principle employed
is based upon an india-rubber or other flexible ring being enclosed in
the mouth of a tube and when the neck of the bottle or other article to
be capsuled is brought in contact with the ring in the tube the ring
turns or rolls, and by its pressure upon the capsule completely fastens
the same without injury although the article to be capsuled may be
fastened with wire or other material.
The apparatus should be fixed upon a bench or any solid basis. The
article to be capsuled being placed in position the tube containing the
ring is made to move by means of a lever working backwards or forwards
by hand or foot, and with or without springs. The neck of the bottle or
other article to be capsuled on entering the tube with the capsule upon
it is perfectly capsuled by the pressure of the ring.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings here-
Figure 1 is a side view and Figure 2 an end view of the apparatus,
arranged in the manner which I prefer.
a, a, is a frame; b, a lever to be acted on by the foot of the workman,
it has its fulcrum at ; c is a spring tending constantly to draw the
lower end of the lever 6 forward towards the foot of the operator; the
upper end of the lever b is forked to embrace the tube d, and slotted for
the passage of the pins d' fixed to the tube, one on either side. Thus
when the workman thrusts back the lower end of the lever the

page_text: tube & advances, it slides through a standard e fixed on the top of the
frame, and a similar standard e¹ receives and guides the stem d which is
fixed into the hinder end of the tube. The bottle or article to be
capsuled having had the capsule placed loosely upon it is laid securely
in a cradle f fixed on the frame in front of the tube d, and by the action
of the lever the tube d is caused to advance as far as it can come over
the capsule and neck of the bottle or other article, then the pressure on
the lever being no longer exerted the spring draws back the lever and
tube and the operation of capsuling is completed.
Figure 3 shows to a larger scale a section of the tube d and the parts
in connection therewith. It contains within it the vulcanised india-
rubber ring g, and at the front end of the tube a mouth-piece is fixed
which is of a size to suit the article to be capsuled, and whilst retaining
the ring to allow the neck with the capsule upon it to enter, the
elastic ring 9 embraces the capsule as it passes it and squeezes it down
on to the neck. The ring 9 being of circular section rolls up the neck
as it is pushed forward and the ring entering the tube d is strongly
compressed by the incline or taper at its mouth, and is so made to
bring the capsule into close contact with the neck of the bottle or other
article. d** is a lining within the outer tube d, it also is taper at the
entrance and serves to compress the ring 9 and the capsule which it
surrounds.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim
as my Invention of improvements in apparatus for capsuling bottles and
other articles the combination of the tube d with the incline or taper
within it with the elastic ring 9 or their equivalents, acting substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Abraham Martin, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this First day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
ABRAHAM MARTIN. (L.S.)