IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Tapp, of Mexbrough, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING AERATED
AND OTHER LIQUIDS."..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles. Tapp at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with. his Petition, on the
6th March 1874.
I, CHARLES TAPP, of Mexbrough, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
BOTTLING AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-

page_text: Patent, bearing date the 4th September 1872, No. 2634, or any other of
a similar kind.
For bottling acrated liquids the bottle is fixed in a frame mounted on
the pipe by which the liquid is supplied, and having a tubular arm
terminating in a suitable filling nozzle or mouth-piece to which the
bottle to be filled is held by a screw clamp. To fill the bottle the tubular
arm is made to communicate with the pipe, and one way of effecting this
is to fit the frame to swivel upon a taper plug (somewhat like that of an
ordinary cock) upon the said pipe, so that by partly rotating the frame
on the said plug a side passage therein may be made to coincide or not
with that of the tubular arm, the liquid supply being thus controlled by
merely altering the position of the frame itself; other forms of cocks
or valves may however be employed, When filling, the bottle is held by
the frame in, say a horizontal position, the stopper being loose in the
interior. When the bottle is full the frame is partly rotated so as to
invert the bottle whereupon the supply of liquid is cut off, and the
stopper simultaneously falls into its seat in the neck and securely closes
the bottle, which may then be removed.
.
For bottling non-acrated liquids I use a tube which may be funnel-
shaped at one end for convenience in filling. The other end which is
passed into the bottle is so made as to spring over and grip the head of
the stopper and enable the same to be drawn tightly up to its seat when
the bottle is filled;
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Charles
: Tapp in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
TAPP, of Mexbrough, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in "the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did; for Herself, Her heirs and suc-

page_text: combined. In filling, the bottle is held in, say, an upright position, the
stopper being loose in the interior, and when full the frame is rotated
until the bottle is inverted, whereupon by this one motion the supply of
liquid is cut-off and the stopper falls into its seat in the neck and
securely closes the bottle.
Figure 1 shows the apparatus with the bottle in position as in the act
of filling, and Figure 2 shows the same when inverted to cut-off the..
liquid and stopper the bottle.
A is the supply or inlet pipe fixed on a suitable bench B and
terminating in a taper plug C on which is fitted the shell D, cast in one:
with the two arms E, E', which arc symmetrical on either side of the
shell D, as shown. At a is represented in dotted lines the elbow
passage in the plug C communicating with the bore of the pipe A, and b
indicates the corresponding passage in the arm E leading from the shell
D to the ordinary filling nozzle or nipple c. In Figure 1 this passage b
is shown as coinciding with a, so that the liquid will flow through into
the bottle; but in Figure 2 it is cut off and the bottle stopped, as shown.
F is the screw working through a corresponding female screw in arm E
and by which the bottle is held up to the nipple c.
In conclusión I would observe that I am aware of the Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to H. Codd, bearing date August
22nd, 1871, No. 2212, but my Invention differs materially from this,
inasmuch as the frame and bottle are inverted to allow the stopper to
fall into the neck of the bottle, and the supply of liquid is cut off by
one and the same motion with one hand only, leaving the other free to
remove the filled bottle and replace it by an empty one, whereby the
operation of filling may be carried on with great rapidity. Morcover it.
will be seen that owing to the symmetrical construction of the arms
E, E, the frame is very compact and requires but little space to
rotate in..
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of per
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be
protected 'by the hercin-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the

page_text: filling frame and tap combined, constructed and operating, substantially
as and for the purpose herein specified and represented in the Drawing.
In witness whercof, I, the said Charles Tapp, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
foun
Wittness,
FRANCES TApp:
CHARLES TAPP. ·(L.S.)