IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS DRAMY DIRECTS WI ANDATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Doo Rawlings, of Nassau Street, Portland
Place, in the County of Middlesex, Soda and Mineral Water
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
DRAMY DIRECTS WI ANDATED LIQUIDS "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Doo Rawlings
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th June 1871.
I, HENRY Doo RAWLINGS, of Nassau Street, Portland Place, in the
County of Middlesex, Soda and Mineral Water Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
EMPLOYED IN FILLING BOTTLES OR VESSELS WITH AERATED LIQUIDS," to be as
follows:-
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the filling of bottles or
vessels with aerated liquids.
In carrying out my improvements the filling apparatus is provided
with a series of valves and valve passages capable of being opened in

page_text: the order desired for effecting vacuum in or exhaustion of atmospheric
air from the bottle or vessel to be filled, for introducing therein the
aerated liquid and other liquid if desired as well as with the plunger for
the corking. Three valves I find a convenient number to employ, but
this may be varied, each of which is borne to its seat by india-rubber or
other suitable spring pressure, and they are opened in the order desired by
cams or tappets applied to a shaft worked by a winch handle or other-
wise, and provided with disc or other wheel, and ratchet and tooth
to effect stoppages or prevent back action, the tooth being removed
by a lever by preference connected to the handle when a handle is
used.
By these means vacuum in or exhaustion of air from the bottle or
vessel may be obtained, aerated liquid supplied, a further vacuum or
exhaustion of atmospheric air produced by an easing or escape passage
from one of the valves, and further aerated liquid introduced, and so on
in the order desired, but all in succession according to the order of
action of the cams or tappets by the simple rotation of the cam or tappet
shaft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Doo Rawlings in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
Doo RAWLINGS, of Nassau Street, Portland Place, in the County of
Middlesex, Soda and Mineral Water Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Doo Rawlings, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Doo Rawlings, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Doo Rawlings, 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
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page_text: APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FILLING BOTTLES OR VESSELS WITH AERATED LIQUID9,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Doo
Rawlings, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describo and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the 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 Henry Doo Rawlings, 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 thercof, that is to say :—
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the filling of bottles or
vessels with acrated liquids.
In carrying out my improvements the filling apparatus is provided
with a series of valves and valve passages capable of being opened in the
order desired for effecting vacuum in or exhaustion of atmospheric air
from the bottle or vessel to be filled, also for introducing therein the
aerated liquid and other liquid if desired, whilst it is also provided with
the plunger for the corking in the ordinary way. Three valves I find a
convenient number to employ, but this may be varied. Each of these
valves is borne to its seat by india-rubber or other suitable spring
pressure, and they are opened in the order desired by cams or. tappets
applied to a shaft worked by a winch handle or otherwise and provided
with disc or other wheel, and ratchet, and tooth to effect stoppages or
prevent back action, the stop being removed by a lever by preference
connected to the handle when a handle is used.
By these means vacuum in or exhaustion of air from the bottle or
vessel to be filled may be obtained, aerated liquid supplied, a further
vacuum or exhaustion of atmospheric air produced, and further aerated
liquid introduced, and so on in the order desired, but all in succession
according to the order of action of the cams or tappets by the simple
rotation of the cam or tappet shaft.
In order however that the Invention may be fully understood I will
by the aid of the accompanying Drawings proceed to describe means
pursued by me in carrying the same into effect.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a front view, Figure 2 an edge view, and Figure 3 a
sectional view of apparatus arranged according to my Invention;
Figure 4 shews an edge view of parts separately. In each of the
views the same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they a
occur.
a represents an ordinary filling nozzle of a filling machine used in
filling bottles with aerated liquids. The dotted lines b represent the
neck of a bottle or vessel being held up into such nozzle to be filled;
c, a cork forced partly into the upper part of the neck of the nozzle a
and held there by the plunger d, so as to allow of a passage to or from
the interior of a bottle or vessel held at 6 only by the pipe e, by which
under ordinary circumstances the aerated liquid is supplied to the bottle
or vessel.
'
According to the arrangement shewn the passage through the pipe e
is connected to the three valve passages or chambers f, g, and h. The
chamber communicates through the valve h¹ with the passage h³, and
that by the pipes h³ and he with suitable exhausting means, so as to
exhaust the bottle or vessel of the atmospheric air it contained. The
chamber by the valve f¹ communicates by the passage f and pipes with a
the reservoir or means for supplying the acrated liquid and other liquid;
also, if desired, by which the bottle or vessel at b is to be filled, whilst
the chamber g communicates by the valve g' with the passage g² and
the small outlet passage or pipe g³ by which an easing or escape of air is
obtained to admit of an escape of gas just before the bottle or vessel at 6 2
is completely filled, and admit of that filling being more completely
effected, and also just before the driving in of the cork into the neck of
the bottle.
The respective valves f, g, h, are formed on or applied to rods
f, g, h, and they are held up to their seats with a tendency to fully a
close the passages through them by the collars ƒ³, gỗ, h³, resting on the
bands or rings of india-rubber, which act as springs to bear the valves
to their seats and yet admit of the spindles being borne in a direction to
open those valves as desired; are plates of metal between the india-
rubber rings i. The collars f³, g, h, are held to their respective a
spindles f, g, h, by pins j, each of which passes through one of the

page_text: collars and its spindle. The valves f¹, g', ', are opened at the times
and in the order desired by the turning of the disc k by the winch
handle applied thereto, such disc being affixed to the shaft or axis m
which is supported to revolve in bearings n, n, of the framing, and has
applied to it the cams or tappets o, p, q. A side view of each of these
cams or tappets is represented at Figures 5, 6, and 7. The enlarge-
ment of the surface of the cam or tappet 9 in the revolution of the
tappet shaft m acts upon the end of the spindle to open the valve h¹,
and thus place the interior of the bottle or vessel held at 6 in communi-
cation with the exhausting means. The projections o¹ on the cam or
tappeto by acting upon the end of the spindle f* open the valve f¹ for
the flowing in of the aerated liquid, whilst the projections p¹ on the
tappet p act upon the spindle g* to open the valve g¹ for the easing of
the interior of the bottle of atmospheric air as desired. The back of the
disk is formed with a series of notches or ratchets r which are capable
of being taken into by a tooth s acted upon by the spring &¹ so as to
prevent the back motion of the disk k, and the re-opening thereby of
either of the valve passages, except in their continuous order; t is a
stop which at starting is held in the recess u of the framing, and it is
withdrawn by the spring lever v being borne towards the handle 7, and
then on its being released after the disc has been moved sufficiently to
release that stop from the recess u it is again in a position to act to stop
the rotation of the disc k, and consequently the action of the parts at
the completion of a revolution of the axis m; f' is an air vessel to the
pipe to lessen the force of the back action on each closing of the
valve. The pipe ³ opens into a condensing chamber h', which
receives any liquid formed by condensation, or which may be drawn over
in exhausting air from the bottles or vessels at b.
Such liquid may
be withdrawn from the chamber 7 by a tap applied at the lower part
thereof. The pipe 7° passes direct to the exhausting means.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details shewn and described, as
variations may be made therein without departing from the peculiar
character of my Invention; but what I claim is, the arranging or com-
bining parts in connection with apparatus for filling bottles or vessels
with aerated liquids that a vacuum or exhaustion of atmospheric air and

page_text: the introduction of aerated liquid may be effected, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Doo Rawlings, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
H. D. RAWLINGS. (L.S.)