Improvements in Bottling Apparatus for Aerated Liquids.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug.. 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 21st Sept., 1888
Improvements in Bottling Apparatus for Aerated Liquids.
I, FREDERICK WALTER, of 47 Hassett Road, Homerton, in the County of
Middlesex, Mechanical draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved device for the bottling of aerated liquids
whereby the same is effected without risk to the loss of aeration, and in a simple,
efficacious and economical manner.
My invention consists essentially in a pillar pivotted on a casting and provided at
the top with a tap in communication by a tube with the main supply and provided at
the bottom with a pivotted lever worked by a spring pressed stop to hold the patent
stopper bottle or syphon bottle in position against the mouth of the tap. Upon the
tap being turned and the bottle being in position the bottle is filled. Upon this
being effected rotation is given to the bottle the tap turned off when a bye pass brings
into communication the mouth of the bottle and a waste pipe thus relieving the air
pressure and when the whole is inverted allowing a gravity stopper to drop on to
its seating and be secured thereto by means of the internal pressure of the dissolved
gas.
I also provide a smaller pump in communication with a reservoir of syrup or
Hlavouring material fitted with a plunger and a small mouthpiece through which may
be squirted a suitable quantity of the flavouring liquid.
Dated this 30th day of December 1887.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, FREDERICK WALTER, of 47 Hassett Road, Homerton, in the County of Middlesex,
Mechanical draughtsman, 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:-
.
My invention relates to an improved device for bottling aërated liquids, whereby
the same is effected without risk of loss of aëration, and in a simple, efficacious and
economical manner.
My invention consists essentially in providing a bottling machine, such as is
hereinafter described and which may be modified in its detail to suit the particular
form of bottle employed, with a tap in communication by a tube with the main supply,
and whilst the siphon, gravity-stoppered or other bottle is being held in position
against the mouth of this tap, the tap is turned, and the bottle, being in position, is
filled. Upon this being effected, so far as the accumulated air pressure in the bottle
will allow, the tap is partially turned, and by a bye-pass brings into communication
the mouth of the bottle and the waste pipe, thus relieving the air pressure without
waste to the aeration of the liquid, and, allowing a further charge of aerated liquid to
be again admitted to further fill the bottle. If necessary, this operation of partially
turning a supply cock to effect alternate relief of accumulated air and admission of
further supply of aërated liquid, may be repeated several times.
When it is a gravity-stoppered bottle that has to be filled by my apparatus, I first
fill the bottle in a vertical position with the mouth upwards, the bottle being supported
upon a pivoted frame. When the bottle is filled, the frame, in which the bottle is
supported by a pivoted lever, is rotated, and the operation of the bye-pass allows a
small portion of air or gas to be released, and thus to bring the gravity stopper down
upon its seat, and be secured thereto by reason of the internal pressure of the
dissolved gas.
Where the bottle to be filled is a syphon, or ordinary hand-corked bottle, I may, by
changing the form of the mouth piece of the tap, and of the supporting bracket or
stand, equally conveniently carry out their filling on the said bottling frame, and the
rotation of the frame is not necessary and may be dispensed with.
I also provide a small pump in communication with a reservoir of syrup of
flavouring material fitted with a plunger and small mouthpiece, through which may
be pumped a suitable quantity of the flavouring liquid into the bottle before charging
with aërated liquid. In order that my invention may be the better understood, I now
proceed to describe the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference
being had to the letters and figures marked thereon. Like letters refer to like parts
throughout the drawings.
Figures 1 and 2 are a side and front elevation respectively of my improved
reversible bottling head and bye-pass tap.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section of my improved bye-pass tap.

page_text: The base of the bottle is placed upon the spring pressed stand A, which may be
lowered by the handle B to receive the bottle. The neck of the bottle is forced
by the pressure of the spring up into the mouthpiece C, through which the charge
of aerated liquid is admitted.
When the supply is checked by the accumulated air pressure in the bottle, the
handle D of my improved tap E is turned, so that the plug F is in a position as
shown in horizontal sectional plan (figure 3), the mouthpiece being placed in
communication by the bye-pass G in the plug with a waste pipe H. On release of
the accumulated air pressure the tap may be again turned to re-admit the aurated
liquid. When the bottle has been properly filled, the whole frame K and the bottle is
inverted, when a gravity-stoppered bottle is employed, by means of the rotary joint L,
so that the mouth of the bottle is brought vertically downwards. In this position
a further shifting to waste, by means of the tap E, allows the gravity stopper to be
pressed tightly home upon its seating by the internal pressure, and the bottle is
thereby hermetically closed for removal.
To enable the aforesaid rotation to be effected on a fixed frame, the bracket M
is attached thereto, and the flange L on the frame K makes an approximate joint upon
the face of the chamber M. The waste from the tap by the pipe H is admitted
into the interior of this chamber, and is allowed to escape through the fixed frame by
the pipe H. The supply pipe O is continued through the hollow chamber M to
the opposite side of this chamber, where it terminates in a packed union joint N,
by which it is rendered capable of making rotation upon the fixed supply pipe P.
The usual guard is provided, surrounding the bottle. It is obvious that by
substituting a modified form of mouthpiece to the tap E and by changing the
stand A and the lever B for another suited to the particular shape of syphon or
bottle employed, my apparatus may be equally well adapted to the filling of any
form of bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. The combination of a bottling stand and frame, in which the bottle frame is
capable of rotation about a centre (to permit the fall of the gravity stopper after
filling) with a tap, provided with a bye-pass in the plug, substantially as and for the
purposes described in reference to figures 1, 2 and 8.
2nd. The combination with a bottling machine for filling aërated liquids of a tap,
provided with a bye-pass in the plug and a waste orifice, by which the alternate
charging with aerated liquid and the snifting of the accumulated pressure may be
effected, substantially as described.
3rd. The construction of a supply and snifting tap with a main passage, and a
bye-pass in the plug of the tap, communicating alternatively with a main supply and
waste pipe at will, for employment with aërated liquid bottling apparatus, substantially
as and for the purposes described.