Improvements in Machines for Charging Bottles with Aerated Waters.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Charging Bottles with Aerated
Waters.
I, WILLIAM DURANT of Chapeltown near Sheffield in the County of York
Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to machines employed for charging bottles with acrated
waters such machines being generally known as turnover filling machines and
consists of introducing certain improvements therein as follows.
In order to collect the waste ejected from the snifter and prevent the same falling
about the machine as is the case in machines constructed in the ordinary way
arrange a collector which is preferably in the form of an annular box which fits or
is secured round the working shaft of the machine and immediately behind bottle
holder and I conduct a suitable pipe from the lower portion of said collector to the
back of the machine stand.
The syrup pump I preferably arrange at the top of the machine in the usual way
and I regulate the stroke of said pump piston so as to pump more or less syrup by
means of a lever which is pivotted or fulcrummed at one side of the frame.
The portion of said lever extending under the pump barrel is coupled up to the
pump piston rod or plunger and its end is arranged with a suitable pointer which
bears against or points to a graduated scale indicative of the amount of syrup the
stroke will cause the pump to supply.
The opposite end of said lever is connected by means of a vertical screw to a
hand wheel which bears on a bracket made with or attached to the frame of
machine.
The said lever is either weighted or has a spiral or other spring connected to it
in order to pull it downwards and it is operated upon so as to give the pump plunger
the necessary stroke by means of a loose cam arranged with a runner the latter
coming in contact with the under part of said lever.
The said loose cam fits loosely upon the machine shaft and is operated upon by
means of a projection so fixed on said shaft that it only moves said cam every
quarter or other required portion of the revolution of said shaft.
In turnover filling machines arranged as hitherto it has been found that when an
extra pressure of syrup is upon the valves which allow said syrup to enter the
pump barrel the syrup passes freely by said valves and more than the regulated
quantity is allowed to be pumped into the bottle being filled to obviate this
arrange the pump valves so that they are worked in a similar manner to the
water regulating supply valves that is to say I place the inlet and outlet valve to
the syrup pump so that they are operated upon by means of a cam or cams fixed
upon the machine shaft.
In working my improved machine by other than hand power I fix a worm-wheel
on the working shaft and revolve the same by means of a worm fitted to a cross-
shaft driven by a belt or other meaus.
The bottle holder is constructed with the usual handle for turning the machine
by hand and the said holder is so constructed that the lifting of its top portion in
order that a bottle may be placed in charging position therein is performed by
means of arranging a cam either upon the upper part of the annular box or other
position on the machine and securing to the back part of upper part of said bottle
holder a connecting rod which has at its lower end a runner supported at the end of
an arm pivoted or working on a pin secured to a bracket fixed to side of said
holder.
In charging a bottle with aerated water and syrup when working the machine by

page_text: other than hand power as just before described it is possible to miss placing the
bottle in filling position within the holder at the required time which would be the
means of wasting the water and syrup therefore to prevent such waste I arrange
my improved machine so that the cam which operates the pump and valves is
automatically thrown out of gear or the stop on the working shaft which operates
said cam is thrown out of fixed position with said shaft by means of a clutch box
or equivalent device which may be operated by a lever or equivalent means fixed to
any suitable part of the bottle holder and when the cam will not operate the
machine may be turned by hand in the usual manner.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Charging Bottles with Aerated
Waters.
I WILLIAM DURANT of Chapeltown near Sheffield in the County of York
Electrician 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 employed for charging bottles with aerated
waters such machines being generally known as turnover filling machines and
consists of introducing certain improvements therein which I will now describe by
the aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side view of my improved machine with the lower part of the stand
removed and the handle at top position and
Fig. 2 is a back view of said machine with the syrup and water pipes removed.
Fig. 3 is a side view of my machine when arranged to be driven by power by
means of a belt or other gearing and
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of collector showing holder attached and in bottom
position and
Fig. 5 is a front elevation of said collector.
Fig. 6 is a front view in detail of cam for operating syrup pump &
Fig. 7 is a side view in detail of projection for operating said cam.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view.
In order to collect the waste ejected from the snifter s, and to prevent said waste
falling about the machine I arrange a collector C which is preferably in the form
of an annular box as shown, and it is secured to or made with the bearing m³, and
fits around the working shaft S, and is situated immediately behind the bottle
holder H. I conduct a suitable pipe P from the lower part c¹ of the collector C to
the back of the machine stand M. The syrup pump N I arrange at the top of
machine in the usual way and I regulate the stroke of the piston p' thereof so as
to pump the desired quantity of syrup by means of a lever L which is pivotted
at on one side of the frame F. One portion of the said lever L is coupled up
to the piston p by the connecting rod R and the end of said lever L has fixed to
it a suitable pointer which bears against a plate på marked with a graduated.
scale indicative of the amount of syrup the stroke will cause the pump to supply.
The end of the lever L is arranged to come in contact with a screw when
moving upwards so that the stroke of the piston p' may be regulated in its
downward movement and the said end is supported upon a rod which is fitted
to or made with a spring box 6' containing a spiral spring and the pressure upon
the same is regulated by a screw K and a hand wheel K. This spring box
and rod forced back the lever L so as to lift the piston p¹ as will be well
understood.
The said lever L is operated upon so as to give the pump piston p' the required

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stroke by means of a loose cam c' which comes in contact with a runner ³ which
latter is pinned to said lever. The cam c' fits loosely on the machine shaft S and
is operated upon by means of a projection made with or secured to the shaft S
and shown in detail at Fig. 7 the cam c¹ being shown in detail at Fig. 6.
cam c' having a projection c³ on it so that the projection only moves the cam c¹
every quarter or other required portion of the revolution of said shaft S that is to
say as soon as the projection comes in contact with the projection c³ the latter
moves it round to over the centre of gravity when the cam will fall. In working
my improved machine by other than hand power I fix a worm wheel w², (Fig. 3)
on the working shaft S and revolve the same by means of a worm w³ fitted to a
cross shaft s which is driven by a belt 6. The bottle holder H is constructed
with the usual handle h¹ for turning the machine by hand and the said holder is so
constructed that the lifting of its top portion in order that a bottle
may
be placed
in charging position therein is performed by means of arranging a cam e preferably
upon the upper part of the annular box or collector C, and securing to the bottle
holder a connecting rod which has at its lower end a runner the said connecting
rod bearing in a bracket b'.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. In a turnover filling machine for charging bottles with aerated water the use
of an annular or other similar box C arranged to collect the waste ejected from the
snifter substantially as described.
2. In a turnover over filling machine for charging bottles with aerated water the
working of the syrup pump piston p' by the combination of a lever L pivotted
at with a loose cam c¹ moved by catch the strike being regulated by screw s³
pressing on part 1 substantially as described.
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3. In a turnover filling machine driven by belting or similar gearing the
combination of a worm and worm wheel with a cam on collector arranged
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Commercial Street, Sheffield, Agent.