IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CORKING BOTTLES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Johann Jakob Hermann Schultz of Alter Steinweg 19,
Hamburg Germany for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR
CORKING BOTTLES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Johann Jakob Hermann
Schultz at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st March
1883.
JOHANN JAKOB HERMANN SCHULTZ of Alter Steinweg 19, Hamburg, Germany
* IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CORKING BOTTLES
"
This invention relates to improvements in corking-machines in which the cork
is compressed automatically and the objects of these improvements are first to avoid
the dropping of the cork-dust mixed with the liquid wherein the cork is softened
into the bottle and second to clean the bottom of the cork from this mixture before
entering into the bottle neck.
To attain these objects I arrange the mechanism for compressing the cork in
such a manner as to allow a horizontal oscillating motion and I produce such
motion by the vertical sliding of the slide-piece which serves to act upon the cork
compressing mechanism and to push the compressed cork into the bottle. I there-
fore cause the cork compressing mechanism either to oscillate alone or together
with the sliding piece by providing the latter with a crooked guiding notch or a
pair of projecting guides of a crooked shape into which gears a roller or a pin.
When such pin or the pivot of such roller is fixed to the frame of the machine it
will cause the sliding piece to oscillate horizontally when being pushed down and
by arranging the cork compressing mechanism on a movable plate provided with a
slit of a form as to allow the passage of the sliding piece the compressing
mechanism will be forced to oscillate too. But when the sliding piece moves up
and down in fixed guides which prevent an oscillating motion the above mentioned
roller or pin may be attached to the moveable base plate of the compressing
mechanism and the crooked notch or the pair of parallel crooked guides may be
arranged on the sliding piece and thereby causes the compressing mechanism to
oscillate alone.
Such oscillation which is produced after compressing the cork brings the cork in
its proper place above the mouth of the bottle and thereby cleans the bottom of
the compressed cork by drawing it over a cleaning brush or other suitable device
arranged in the circular line which describe the jaws of the cork compressing
mechanism during its oscillation.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Johann Jakob Hermann Schultz in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th September 1883.
JOHANN JAKOB HERMANN SCHULTZ of Alter Steinweg 19, Hamburg Germany
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CORKING BOTTLES
"
This Invention relates to improvements in corking-machines, in which the cork
is compressed automatically, and the objects of these improvements are first, to
avoid the dropping of the cork-dust mixed with the liquid wherein the cork is
softened, into the bottle, and second, to clean the bottom of the cork from this
mixture before (entering into the bottle neck.
To obtain these objects I arrange the mechanism for compressing the cork in
such a manner a to allow a horizontal oscillating motion and I produce such
motion by the vertical sliding of the slide-piece, which serves to act upon the
cork-compressing-mechanism and to push the compressed cork into the bottle.
I therefor cause the cork-compressing-mechanism either to oscillate alone or
together with the sliding-piece by providing the latter with a crooked guiding
notch or a pair of projecting guides of crooked shape, into which gears a roller or
a pin.
When such pin or the pivot of such roller is fixed to the frame of the machine,
it will cause the sliding piece to oscillate horizontally when being pushed down,
and by arranging the cork-compressing-mechanism on a movable plate or frame,
provided with a slit of a form as to allow the passage of the sliding piece, the
compressing mechanism will be forced to oscillate too. But when the sliding-piece
moves up and down in fixed guides, which prevent an oscillating motion, the
above mentioned roller or pin may be attached to the movable base plate of the
compressing-mechanism and the crooked notch or the pair of parallel crooked guides
may be arranged on the sliding-piece and thereby the compressing-mechanism may
be caused to oscillate alone.
Such oscillation, which is produced after compressing the cork, brings the cork to
its proper place above the mouth of the bottle and thereby cleans the bottom of
the compressed cork by drawing it over a cleaning brush or other suitable device
arranged in the circular line, which describe the jaws of the cork-compressing-
mechanism during its oscillation.
In order to make my invention more clearly understood, I will describe it with
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which similar letters refer to similar
parts throughout the several views.
In the construction illustrated by Figures 1 to 6 the slide piece a is provided at
both extremities with the sliding pivots a¹, which rotate in the bearings b b. One
of these pivots a¹ or both have a notch of the form shown in figure 5, into which
engage the points of screws c fixed to the bearings b. When the slide-piece a is
lowered by tho weight-lever of the machine, the form of the notch causes the
slide-piece to oscillate. The cork-compresser resting at the plate d, in which the
slide-piece a is guided, moves sidewards and compresses in this position (figures 2
and 4) the cork thus preventing the softening liquid to enter into the bottle, the
head of which is in contact with the mouth-piece e; during the oscillation, the
cork before entering the mouth-piece e is cleaned at the brush fand after having
been cleaned is pushed by the piston g, when the slide-piece is lowered farther
more, into the neck of the bottle.
A groove of similar form as the above mentioned notch causes the oscillation
of the slide-piece a of the construction in figures 7 to 13 and thereby the sidewards
motion of the cork-compresser. The guiding groove & may also be arranged just

page_text: as well as the upper part of the slide-piece as at the lower one. The figures 9, 11
and 13 show the compresser while being sidewards moved.
In the construction illustrated by figures 14 to 17 the slide-piece a is moved up
and down without oscillation, only the compresser oscillates. A notch 2 (of the
shape of that arranged in the pivot a¹) is provided in the slide-piece a; the point
of a screw a fixed to the plate of the compresser engages into such notch &. The
plate is loose at the platform d. The neck of the notch forces the compresser to
swing during the lowering of the slide-piece a, as the latter sliding in fixed guides
cannot be moved to either side.
Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by
Letters Patent is :-
First. In a machine for corking bottles the combination of the slide-piece a
with the horizontally oscillating cork-compresser, substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
Second. In a machine for corking bottles the application of a brush for its
equivalent over which the bottom of the cork is passed before entering into the
bottle-neck.
Third. In a machine for corking bottles the combination of the slide-piece a
with pivots a provided with a crooked guiding notch, with the bearings b and
screw c, substantially as set forth.
Fourth. In a machine for corking bottles the combination of the groove
with the slide-piece a and guiding roller y, substantially as described.
Fifth. In a machine for corking bottles the combination of the frame
plate d and slide piece a provided with the notch with the oscillating
compresser-plate d¹ and screw 21, substantially as
and for the purpose
specified.
In witness whereof I the said Johann Jakob Hermann Schultz have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Twenty sixth day of September One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.
TOTTANTAT TAAD HRDA ATAT SATT mo
JOHANN TAKOD HIRD MA ATAT
SCHULTZ
(U.S.)