Improvements in or relating to the Filling and Bunging of Casks and like Receptacles, and Carbonating Beer or other Liquids contained therein
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
CUBIT LIIM DIMUINIUATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Filling and Bunging of Casks
and like Receptacles, and Carbonating Beer or other Liquids
contained therein
I, ALVES M. HoгMANN, Brewer, of 43 South Green Street, Chicago, Illinois,
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
It may be stated at the outset that I have primarily designed my improvement
for the particular application to beer in barrels or kegs or in bottles, and I
therefore, and for the sake of convenience, hereinafter confine the description of
my invention in its application to racking, carbonating and bunging beer, though
it is also applicable to, and I desue to be understood as intending it for, any
and all liquids or beverages requning similar treatment to prepare them in
receptacles for the market.
A known manner of carbonating a beverage to prepare it for the market 19 to
introduce into the holder containing it a liquid (preferably of the same kind) in
small quantity proportionately to the quantity contained in the holder, but so
highly charged with the gas, for which it affords a vehicle and a mixing or
incorporating medium, as to supply the contents of the receptacle, and thoroughly
impregnate them, with a chaigo of gas adequate for all requirements in the
beverage.
I find that where the carbonating procedure referred to is employed on beer, the
diffusion of the gas though the beer in the receptacle, however thoroughly it may
be produced, is not lasting where the receptacle is not completely, or at least
appioximately, filled with the been to be changed, which it rarely is, since the
space left uufilled affords, as it were, a pocket, in which the gas tends to
accumulate, and whence it quickly escapes on opening or venting the receptacle,
leaving the beet, when pomed or drawn for consumption, insufficiently carbonated.
Incomplete filling of the receptacles is, perhaps, as likely of occurrence where the
receptacles are glass bottles as where they are barrels oi kegs, notwithstanding
that the transparent nuture of the former renders the matter of completely filling
them readily accomplishable. This is probably because of general ignorance of
the deteriorating consequence referred to being attributable to leaving the space,
as stated. In bottling beer, however, the difficulty may, with an appreciation of
the advantage in completely filling the bottles, be ieadily overcome owing to their
tiansparency; while with barrels and kegs, because they are opaque, extraneous
means of inspection must be provided to determine when they are full without
requiring them to over flow to indicate that condition.
My process consists in withdrawing from a receptacle after filling it with beer (taken
by preference directly from the uh-cask) a sintably small portion of its contents, and
replacing the quantity thus withdrawn with an equal, or approximately equal, quantity
of liquid highly charged with gas, thereby, practically, withdrawing the desired
quantity from the receptacle, then charging it excessively with gas, and returning
to the receptacle the same liquid, charged, that was withdrawn from it. Thus, after
a receptacle has been completely filled, or substantially so, with the beer to be
carbonated, (and complete filling of a barrel or keg is a matter as simple as filling
a bottle) by withdrawing a certain quantity to make 100m for the charge, and
replacing it with an equal or substantially equal quantity of the supercharged
carbonating liquid, the desirably full condition of the receptacles is attained

page_text: As an apparatus through the medium of which to practice my improved process,
I have chosen for illustration a machine, of novel construction invented by me
for the purpose, adapted for filling a keg with beer, then carbonating its contents
in the manner stated, aud finally sealing the receptacle The machine, however,
involves elements of patentable novelty irrespective of the particular carbonating
use for which I have adapted it, and the principles employed in which may be used
with advantage whatever form of receptacle the machine may be adapted to
operate on; and its racking and bunging functions are of great utility considered
apart from any carbonating function.
Referring to the accompanying diawings-
Figure 1 shows my improved machine by a view in front elevation.
Figure 2 is a broken section taken at the line 2 on Figure 5 and viewed in the
dnection of the arrow.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 are broken sections taken, respectively, at the lines 3, 4, 5
and 6 on Figure 2 and viewed as indicated by arrows
Figure 7 is a section taken at the line 7 on Figure 1, viewed in the direction of
the arrow and showing a top view of the adjustable support for a keg oi bai rel
while being filled, charged with gas and bunged by the machine
Figure 8 is a section taken at the line 8 on Fige 7 and viewed in the direction
of the arrow.
Figure 9 is a plan view of the bottom frame of the keg or bariel support.
Figure 10 is a section taken at the line 10 on Figue 7 and viewed in the
duection of the arrow.
Figure 11 is a biohen section taken at the line 11 on Figure 5 and viewed in the
direction of the arrow, with a broken section of a keg repiesented in position.
Figures 12, 13 and 14 are sections taken, respectively, at the lines 12, 13 and 14
on Figure 11 and viewed as indicated by arrows
Figure 15 is a broken perspective view, partly in section, showing valve-
mechanism for controlling the flow of beer from the keg.
Figure 16 is a section taken at the line 16 on Figure 2, viewed in the duection
of the arrow and enlarged.
Figure 17 is a section taken at the line 17 on Figure 16 and viewed in the
dnection of the arrow to show the construction of a valve-detail.
Figure 18 is a top plan view of the gear-mechanism in the frame of the machine
for actuating the various parts to perform their functions.
Figures 19 and 20 are broken sectious taken, respectively, at the lines 19 and 20
on Figure 18 and viewed as indicated by arrows; and
Figure 21 is a broken view, enlarged over the scale observed in Figure 1, and
showing in section, the sping-controlled rod through which to actuate the valve,
for controlling the flow to the keg of carbonating liquid from the supply-holder
thereof.
A descuption of the general construction and mode of operation of the machine
will tend to render the more readily comprehensible the details of construction
and then particular functions hereinafter described, and following is such a
general description:
A keg is seated upon an adjustable support with its bung-hole directly below
and in alignment with a vertically adjustable filling tube, into which a beer-supply
pipe leads, preferably from a ruh-cask, and also a pipe from a holder containing
beet highly charged with carbonic acid gas, the pipes containing valves for con-
trolling the flow through them; and the holder for the carbonating liquid also
communicates with the filling-tube though a valve-controlled pipe having intor-
posed in it a pump. The filling-tube is lowered deep into the keg through its
bung-hole, when the keg-support is raised to force the keg tightly against the
head through which the tube extends and produce a tight junction about the bung-
hole between the keg aud head, and the lowering of the tube actuates a bung-feed
to move a bung adjacent to the tube to be afterward forced into the latter in
aligument with a vertically recipiocable bung-duver therem. All is then ready

page_text: for filling the keg, which is done by opening the valve in the beei-supply pipe, an
operation performed by hand This valve should be left open till the keg 18
completely filled, for ascertaining which a suitably arranged lantern or glass gage
having a float-valve is provided, leading to a vent and in the passage to which
lantein there is a shut-off valve coupled with that in the pipe leading to the pump
to cause the two to be simultaneously and similarly operated When the keg has
been filled the supply is shut off and a clutch is manipulated to set the machinery
in action to perform, successively, the following functions: First, to pump out
of the keg a predetermined comparatively small portion of its contents and
force it into the carbonating-liquid holder, where it is thoroughly mixed with
its contents of highly charged beer and charged therein with gas; then to shut
off the pump and glass-gage from the filling-tube and admit into the keg from
the holder, though the filling tube, by opening the valve in the pipe leading
from the holder, beer carbonated to a high pressure and in quantity equaling,
o approximately equaling, that withdrawn from the keg, when the supply is
shut off, next to aise the filling-tube out of the keg and feed the bung over
the bung-hole; then actuate a bung-driving rod in the filling-tube to descond
forcibly against the bung and drive it, and finally to unclutch the mechanism
from the duving-power, when, after lowering the keg-support and the Leg, full
of beer ready for the market, the machine is in condition for another operation.
It may be stated that it requires less than a minute to thus place a barrel and
fill it and carbonate its contents and bung the barrel by my machine.
The frame of the machine, as I have constructed it, is less than twelve feet high
and four feet transversely in either duection, and is formed with four corner-posts
o uprights on a bed and carrying bearings for the various parts of the mechanisın.
At the center of the front side of the machine is rigidly supported in vertical
position in the frame a guide-sleeve A having fastened in the head at its lower end
a soft-rubber gasket g. From the front of the sleeve A, near its lower end, theio
projects forward a short pipe-section (see Figure 2) to a safety or "pop" valve B
(see Figure 16) and through a passage containing a shut-off valve B to a glass-
gage o lantern B' having a float-valve v near an outlet u'. The construction of
the valve B is shown in Figure 17 to mvolve a housings having pivotally
supported in it on a stem sa gate s' adapted to be turned in opposite directions
respectively to obstruct the passage v and to open the same.
Into one side of the tube A neai its lower end, and just above the plane of the
gasket, there opens a horizontally supported duct affording a bung-passage C (see
particularly Figs 11 and 14) containing a reciprocable rack-ba p terminating at
its muer end in a soft-ubber head p', which snugly fits the passage and thus seals
it, and into the passage Copeus a bung-feeding tube C₁ supported thereon in
vertical position, and containing the supply of bungs C, which feed successively by
gravity into the path of the reciprocable head p' in the passage C. A pinion-
segment on one end of a bell-crank ps, fulcrumed ou the frame at z, meshes with
the lack p, the opposite end of the bell-ciank being pivotally connected by a rod p²,
slotted toward its lower end, with one end of a cam-lever D pivotally supported
between its extremities, at a³, on the frame. E is a hand-lever fulcrumed at one
end on a bearing to projecting from a side of the frame and extending thence across
the front thereof through the bifurcated portion of the rod p and through a
stationary slotted segmental guide E', having a notch near its upper end to be
engaged by an ordinary sping-dog u adapted to be actuated from the grip-end of
the lever. E is a cam-lever fulcrumed to the frame near one side at and
connected from between its ends by a link y with the lever E between its
extremities.
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Fis the filling-tube extending through the guide-tube A, in which it is supported
by the adjacent end of the cam-lever E extending between a pair of collars z
adjustably fixed, by means of set-screws, on the filling-tube and having arm
extensions loosely surrounding a tube F, hereafter described, to prevent
turning of the filling-tube in being raised and lowered by the action of the lever E'.

page_text: The tube F is shown (see Figure 12) to be provided with three ports or
openings o, o' and o² at different elevations and on successive quaiters of long-
tudinal sections of its cncumference, for use, respectively, in filling barrels,
haif-barrels and eighth-barrels, as hereinafter described; and to produce closure of
the two of the poits not in use for filling, a supplemental filling-tube F', having
three ports or openings o³, of and o³, at different elevations and in alignment with
each other, is provided, being sustained, as shown in Figure 11, to extend inside
the tube F, in which, near its lower end, is an offset of to seat the lower end of the
tube F. It may here be explained that whichevet of its three ports the tube F
is adjusted vertically to present to the mouth of the beer-supply pipe, or inlet in
the head on the lower end of the sleeve A, it has to be turned axially, after
loosening the collars z, to bring that port coincident with the one in the secondary
tube on the same plane
Inside the tube F extends the stopper-diivet shown as a bung-duving planget-
rod G on one end of a lever E fulcrumed near its center to the frame at . and
having a car cam-extension ².
The tube is stationarily supported in vertical position on the frame adjacent
to the tube l'and contains a spring-controlled valve-tod n (see Figure 21) pivotally
-connected at its upper extremity with one end of a lever E fulci umed near its
center to the fame at ', the lower end being connected with the stem of the
shut-off valve Bm the changing-hquid supply-pipe hereinafter described.
At the reni side of the machine is supported in horizontal position the holder H
for the supply of charging-liquid and containing a rotary shaft m cauying heads m'
near its opposite ends in the holder (only one of which is shown, however, in
Figme 6), and between the heads extend the spally aanged stung-blades m
At one end the shaft mcanies a beveled geai m³ meshing with a similar gear m
on one end of a short notably supported shalt m³ caying at its opposite end a
sprocket-wheel geared to the diving mechanism of the machine as hereinafter
described, whereby the contents of the holder H are constantly agitated to
thoroughly impregnate the beer therein with the gas diuing the operation of the
machine The holder may be charged with gas through a pipe 2 and is shown to
be provided with a pressure-gage ³.
Between the holder H and the tube A is supported, in upright position, the
pump (see Fig 3) comprising a cylinder containing a piston having its iod 1
extended though the upper cylinder-head with a supplemental shorter guide-1od 1,
the 1od being pivotally connected with a stud 13 on an adjusting sciew / working
In a slotted head secured at its upper end to the rear side of a cog-wheel near
its cential shaft 'Journaled on the fiame of the machine. The pump-cylinder
communicates from its base through a pipe with the holder H at the bottom neni
one end of the latter, the pipe containing a backwardly opening check-valve
(indicated at in Figure 5,) whereby when the pump-piston is raised to such
from the keg the desned quantity of its contents (according to the extent of stiohe
of the pump gaged by setting the rod on the head ), "the down-stroke of the
pump-piston forces it past the check-valve into the holder II
Fiom the holder, near the end thereof opposite that at which the pipe enters,
there proceeds a pipe into one side of a nose at a side of the hollow head of
the guide-tube A; and near the Junction the pipe / contains a valve 13³ like the
valve B and having its operating stem linked to the lower end of the spung-1od n
in the tube F', the upper end of which 10d is pivotally connected with one end of
the level E*.
A beer-tube g, communicating at one end with the supply (rub cask, not shown)
leads at its opposite end into the pipe between its junction with the nose 4 (see
Fig. 5) and the point of its communication with the pump, and shut-off valves B
and B, constructed like the valve B', are provided, iespectively in the pipe near
the nose and in the pipe g near its junction with the pipe i. The operating stem
of the valve B' (see Figure 15) is linked to the lower end of a bell-cianki,
fulcrumed to the frame at and having its upper end adjustably connected by t

page_text: link with the short aim of a lever fulcrumed to the frame at " and controlled
from its short arm by a sping confined on a 1od passing at one end loosely
through a beaung on the frame and pivotally connected at its opposite end with
the short arm of the lever f² near its end The lever is connected from the end
of its long arm by a link with one end of a lever, weighted at its opposite end
and fulcrumed between its extremities to the frame at 7, and the lever /
extends to the link fo through a longitudinal slot in a rod "supported to extend
and recipiocate vertically and connected at its lower end with the operating handle
of the valve B. The valve 13 has a handle connected with its operating stem
to adapt the valve to be opened and closed by hand to produce and shut off the
How of beer through the pipe g.
The gearing for actuating the parts of the mechanism thus described is supported
at the upper end of the frame
,
On the drive-shaft 1, Journaled in the frame, is the belt-wheel I, a sprocket-
wheel e connected with the sprocket-wheel me on the shaft m³ by a chain el passing
over idleis e, e; and the pinion 12 between the two geni-wheels K and 1³
respectively on rotary shafts K' and I' The shaft carries a pinion L' meshing
with a gear-wheel L loose on a rotable shaft L2 and provided with an automatic
sping-releasing clutch-device M of any suitable construction, that employed by
me being well-known as the "Stiles clutch, and therefore not illustrated in detail.
The handle M of the clutch M extends into conveniently accessible position with
relation to the handled of the valve B. The shaft L also carries a gear L³
provided with an abutment c at one side and meshing with the pump-actuating
gean-wheel, the latter carrying on its hub a cam N in the path of which extends
the operating lever d' of an ordinary self-releasing sping-clutch device M* for the
gear-wheel K, which is normally loose on the shaft K' Secured to the end of the
shaft Kis the crank-arm O carrying an anti-friction roller at one side near its
outer end, into the path of which projects the cam-extension of the lever E³,
(see Figure 20) connected by a collar with the upper extension of the bell-ciank
rod p, and at its hub-portion the arm carries a cam b' to engage the end of the
lever in its path.
The adjustable support for sustaining the keg P, while being filled, at the base
of the machine, is shown in detail in Figures 7 to 10, inclusive. On a rock-
shaft R Jounaled to extend across the front of the base of the frame are fastened,
near its opposite ends, the tinnsversely extending heads R', from opposite ends of
each of which project, in contrary directions, wedge-ams R and R³ between
flauged rollers R' and R, one of the former being journaled near each coiner of a
rectangular frame S, having journaled on its upper side, near each corner, a
roller S, adapted to tuin parallel with the sides of the frame, and the iollets R$
are journaled, to coincide cach with a roller R', on the base of the frame of the
machine. To one end of the shaft R is fastened an operating lever T carrying a
spring-dog T to engage an adjacently supported segmental rack T, from which
the dog is elensable in a usual mauner by gupping the lever-handle, whereby
turning the lever in one direction forces the arms R, R³ between the rollers R*, R³,
thus raising the frame S, which is supported in its clevated position by engagement of
the dog with the rack, aud throwing the lever in the opposite direction withdraws
the arms between the flanged 1ollers and permits the frame to lower by gravity
On the frame S is imposed a rectangular carriage V, which seats on the rollers S'
and may thus be readily shifted slightly lengthwise back and forth, and in its
four corner-portions are journaled the inwardly tapening rollers V', which conform
to the parts of a keg unposed upon them lengthwise of the carriage, a different
length of which latter should be provided for each different size of the receptacle-
barrel, half, quarter and eighth.
The operation is as follows:
A keg P being imposed on the carriage V, the frame S is raised, by turning the
lever T, till it is pressed, about the bushing g' in its bung-hole a, tightly against

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it is illustrated in Figure 1, thereby lowering the tube F through the bung-hole to
cause it to reach nearly to the bottom of the keg, the lowering being effected by
the pull against the lower collar exerted by the cam-lever E through the medium
of the link y. The rod p', where the levei E extends through its slotted portion,
being some distance from the lever-fulcium, the movement of the lever abuts it
against the rod and pulls the latter slightly downward, causing it to turn the
bell-crank p to swing the pinion-segment sufficiently in the direction to actuate the
anck p to shove a bung C, in its path in the passage C, close to the inlet therefrom
into the head of the tube A The handled of the valve B in the pipe y is then
manipulated to open the beer-supply pipe and permit the keg to fill with the flat
beer from the ruh-cask (not shown), and the valves B and B are also open. AB
the keg fills, the au mit escapes through a vent a' in the side of the tube A where
it is surrounded by the bung-hole, and which leads above the plane of the keg
through the passage v past the float-valve therein to the outlet . When the
keg is quite full, the pressure of the liquid in the passage v against the valve »
therein closes the latter Then the handle dis turned to shut off the flow through
the pipe
Meantime the shaft I is being continuously driven, with the only constant effect,
however. (besides keeping the idle genis 1, L, K, 18 and L' in motion) of tuning
the sprocket-wheel e to dive the stiri ei-shaft in the agitator, or charged-beei
holdei, II.
By now moving the clutch-handle M' to clutch the gear-wheel L to the shaft L',
the rotating shaft I dives the shaft I through the medium of the piou L',
thereby turning the pinion on shaft I to revolve the gear-wheel Kidly on its
shatt K and the gear-wheel L on the shaft L to dive the gear-wheel A
complete revolution of the gear raises the piston of the pump H' to withdraw
into it a predetermined quantity of beer from the keg through the pipe i, and then
lowers the piston to force the contents of the pump into the holder II. But before
the downstroke of the pump begins, the projection c on the gear-wheel L³ strikes
the weighted level 7 and slowly, at first, raises it to pull upward on the rod ƒ
till the lost motion of the lever in the slot of the rod and in straightening with
relation to the spring-tod, has been expended, by which time the downstroke of
the pump-piston will begin to discharge the contents of the pump into the holder II,
when the lever, by engaging the rod fe at the upper end of the slot therein, will
suddenly close the valve B and the spring-rod, having passed its alignment with
the lever, will, by the resilient action of its spring, bend suddenly downward at
its junction with the lever, thereby actuating the connections" and with the
handle of valve B' to close the latter.
At the end of the upstroke of the pump the cam N on the shaft of gear/
contacts with the level of the spring-clutch M and causes it to engage the
gear-wheel K with its shaft K' to rotate the latter through a complete revolution,
whereby the arm O makes a complete revolution producing the following functions
in succession ⚫ First the cam & strikes the lever E and depresses the nod to
open the valve B, and admit a quantity of the charged liquid into the keg from
the holder H through the pipe h, the cam being gaged to hold the valve open till
the admitted charged liquid about equals in quantity that withdrawn by the pump,
when the cam passes the lever E, which is returned to its normal position by the
rise of the rod under the control of its spring to close the valve; then the roller b
on the end of the crank-aim O engages the cam-lever E, thereby raising it on its
pivot and withdiawing the tubes F, F out of the keg and at the same time
raising the lever E into its initial position wherein it is held by engagement of the
dog with a notch in the upper end of the guide E'. Immediately after with-
drawal of the filling-tube, the roller strikes the lever D, thereby causing
depression of the iod p' to turn the bell-crank p³ and actuate the rack to feed
the bung in advance of the head p' into the head of tube A, where it is below the
driving-rod G, which is then actuated to drive the bung into the bung-hole of the
keg by contact of the roller b with the lever E³, the connection of the cam-

page_text: extension of which with the rod praises the latter and actuates the bell-crank pª
and its pinion-segment p³ to withdraw the lack p till its head p' is in front of the
bung-tube C, ready to act on another bung then fed by gravity into its path in
the passage
At the end of a single revolution of the gears K and I, their
clutches are actuated by their respective springs to unclutch them from their shafts,
when the gear-nechauism stops, leaving only the shaft and belt-wheel 1' aud
gears I, 1, L, L and K and shaft I* idly in motion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the saine is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 18-
1. The process of preparing carbonated liquid in n package for the market,
which consists in first filling the receptacle with the uncarbonated liquid, then
withdrawing therefrom a portion of its contents, supplanting the withdrawn liquid
with liquid highly charged with gas, and finally sealing the package, substantially
as described.
2. The process of preparing carbonated liquid in a package for the market.
which consists in first filling the receptacle with the unca bouated liquid, theu
withdrawing therefrom a portion of its contents and storing and changing with gas
the withdrawn portion, returning into the receptacle and mixing with its contents
a quantity of such stored and changed liquid, and finally sealing the package,
substantially as described.
3. The process of filling a receptacle with liquid and changing its coutents with
gas, which consists in introducing the liquid to be changed into the receptacle till
it is completely full, or approximately so, then withdrawing therefiom a
predetermined portion of its contents, and introducing into the receptacle a
quantity, substantially equal to that withdrawn, of liquid highly charged with gas,
substantially as described.
4. The process of filling a receptacle with liquid and charging its contents
with gas, which consists in introducing the liquid to be charged into the receptacle
till it is completely full, or approximately so, then withdrawing therefiom a
predetermined portion of its contents and storing the withdrawn liquid and charging
it with gas, and returning into the receptacle and mixing with its contents a
quantity of such stored and charged liquid, substantially as described.
5 In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles and
charging then contents with gas, a filling tube, into which the liquid-supply pipe
leads, reciprocably adjustable to insert it, at one end, to and withdraw it from a
receptacle, a pump exhaustively communicating with the filling-tube, to withdraw
from said receptacle liquid by the same passage in the filling-tube though which
it entered the receptacle, a holder for the supply of gas-charged liquid, communicating
with said tube, and automatic actuating means operating successively to work the
pump to withdraw liquid through the tube and discharge charged liquid from said
holder through the tube, substantially as described
6 In an apparatus for aching beer and other liquid into receptacles and
charging then contents with gas, a filling-tube into which the liquid-supply pipe
leads, reciprocably adjustable to insert it, at one end, into and withdraw it from a
eceptacle, a holder for the supply of gas-charged liquid communicating with the
filling-tube, a pump communicating with the tube and holder, to withdraw from said
1eceptacle quid by the same passage in the filling-tube through which it entered
the receptacle, and automatic actuating means operating successively to work the
pump to withdraw a predetermined quantity of liquid though the tube and
discharge it into said holder, and discharge from the latter a predetermined quantity
of its charged contents though the tube, substantially as described.
7. In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles and
changing their contents with gas, a reciprocably supported filling-tube into which
the liquid-supply pipe leads, a pump exhaustively communicating with the filling-
tube, a holder for the supply of gas-charged liquid communicating with said tube,

page_text: a bung-feed leading into the tube, a bung-diver, and automatic actunting means
operating successively to work the pump to withdias quid through the tube and
discharge it into the holder, discharge liquid from said holder through the tube,
ase the filling-tube, feed a stoppe into position to be driven and drive the
stopper, substantially as described.
8 In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles, a
ecipiocable filling-tube for a receptacle, a stationary head in which the filling-tube
15 supported and through which the liquid-supply pipe leads into the filling-tube,
and a stopper-driver reciprocably supported in and movable independently of said
tube, substantially as described.
9. In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles, a filling-
tube reciprocably supported to be inserted into and withdrawn from a receptacle
and longitudinally adjustable to regulate the extent of its insertion, an inlet for the
liquid in the tube-support, and openings at different points along the filling-tube
registrable by its adjustment one at a time with said iulet according to the size of
the receptacle on depth to which the tube shall be inserted therein, substantially
as described.
10. In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles, a filling-
tube reciprocably supported to be inserted into and withdiawu fiom a receptacle
and longitudinally adjustable to regulate the extent of its insertion and rotably
adjustable on its support, au inlet for the liquid in the tube-support, openings at
different points along the filling-tube in different longitudinal sections thereof, and
a supplemental tube in and longitudinally movable with said filling-tube and having
aligning openings facing the plane of sand inlet, whereby the filling-tube and its
contamed tube may be adjusted lengthwise to bring either opening in the latter
comcident with the inlet and the filling-tube may be turned to present its colle-
sponding opening to the inlet, while the inner tube closes the other openings in the
filling-tube, substantially as described.
11. In an apparatus for acking beer and other liquids into receptacles, a filling-
tube reciprocably supported to be inserted into and withdrawn from a receptacle
and longitudinally adjustable to regulate the extent of its insertion and notably
adjustable on its support, an inlet for the liquid in the tube-support and a stopper-
jusertion opening therein, openings at different points along the filling-tube in
different longitudinal sections thereof, a supplemental tubo in and longitudinally
movable with said filling-tube and having aligning openings facing the plane of
said inlet, a stopper-driver recipi ocably supported in said supplemental tube and a
stopper-feed communicating with the stopper-insertion opening, substantially as
described.
12. A bairel on keg support for sustaining and reciprocably adjusting the barrel
or keg with relation to the filling-tube of a beer-1acking apparatus, said support
compusing a bed having journaled in it a rock-shaft R provided with an operating
handle and rollers R, a fiame S cauying rollers R' to coincide with the rollers R,
and heads R on the shaft, each cariying at its opposite ends wedge-aims extending
in contrary directions between adjacent olleis R, R, whereby turning the shaft
extends or withdraws the wedge-aims between said rollers to raise or lower the
frame, substantially as described.
13. A barrel or keg support for sustaining and recipiocably adjusting the banel
or leg with relation to the filling-tube of a beer-1aching apparatus, said support
comprising a vertically reciprocable frame on a buse and provided with means for
reciprocating it, and with rollers Journaled near its corner-portions to revolve
parallel with the sides of the frame, and a carriage for the keg o barrel resting in
the frame on said olleis, substantially as described.
14. A barrel or keg support for sustaining and recipiocably adjusting the barrel
or keg with relation to the filling-tube of a beer-racking apparatus, sand support
comprising, in combination, a bed having journaled in it rolleis R, a rock-shaft R
provided with an operating handle and means for securing and releasing it, a frame S
carrying rolleis R, to coincide with the rollers R°, and rollers S', heads R' on the

page_text: shaft, each carrying at its opposite ends wedge-arms extending in contrary dnections
between adjacent olleis R, R, whereby tinning the shaft extends or withdraws the
wedge-aims between said rollers to raise or lower the frame, and a carriage V carrying
tapered rollers V₁ and seated in the frame S on the rollers S', substantially as
described.
15. In an apparatus for tacking beer and other liquids into receptacles and
bunging the latter, the combination with the frame of a guide or sleeve provided
with an inlet, a vertical filling-tube reciprocably supported in said guide and also
provided with an inlet adapted to register with said first-mentioned inlet in the
guide, a bung-driver reciprocably supported in said tube, a bung-feed leading
laterally into the guide, and diving-means operating to successively raise the filling-
tube, actuate the hung-feed to introduce a bung into said guide and the bung-driver
to drive sand bung, and finally restore the bung-feed to its initial condition,
substantially as described
16. In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles and
bunging the latter, the combination with the frame of a vertical filling-tube recipro-
cably supported in a guide provided with an inlct leading into the tube, a cam-
levei engaging the filling-tube, a bung-feed leading into sand guide, a bung-driver
reciprocably supported inside said tube, a cam-lever connected at opposite sides of its
fulcium respectively with the bung-driver and bung-feed, a 1otably supported clank-
arm, a cam-lever free at one end and at its opposite end engaging the bung-feed, and
diving-mechanism with which said crank-arm is geared to be revolved and engage
at different points in its path said filling-tube-lever to raise the tube, said cam-lever
to operate the feed and said bung-divet lever to actuate the bung driver and restore
the hung feed to its initial condition, substantially as described
17 In an apparatus for racking beer and other liquids into receptacles and
bunging the latter, the combination with the frame of a vertical filling-tube recipio-
cably supported in a guide provided with an inlet leading into the tube, a cam-lever
engaging the filling-tube, a bung-feed comprising a rack-bat having a head
recipiocably confined in a passage lending into Faid guide, a bell-ciank having at one
end a pinion-device and connected at its other end with an operating rod, a bung-
duver reciprocably supported side said tube, a cam-level connected at opposite
sides of its fulcium respectively with the bung-driver and said rod, a can-lever
connected at one end with said rod below the hung-driver lever, a rotably supported
crauk-am, and during-mechanism with which said crank-arm is geared to be
revolved and engage successively said filling-tube lever to inise the tube, said rod-
lever to actuate the bung-feed in one direction and said bung-driver level to actuate
the bung-dive and the bung-feed in the opposite direction, substantially as
described
18. In au apparatus for filling a receptacle with beer or other liquid and
changing its contents with gas, the combination with the frame of a vertical
filling-tube reciprocably supported in a guide provided with an inlet leading into
the tube, a holder for charged liquid having a pipe-connection with said inlet
containing a shut-off valve normally closed by a spring-rod, a bung-driver
eciprocably supported in said tube, a bung-feed leading into the guide, and
driving-means operating to successively open, temporauly, said valve, raise the
filling-tube, actuate the bung-feed to introduce a bung into said guide and the
bung-driver to dive said bung, and finally restore the bung-feed to its initial
condition, substantially as described.
19. In an apparatus for filling a receptacle with beer or other liquid and
charging its contents with gas, the combination with the fiame of a vertical
filling-tube reciprocably supported in a guide provided with an inlet leading into
the tube, a holder for charged liquid having a pipe-connection with said inlet
containing a shut-off valve normally closed by a spring-rod, an agitator in said
holder, a bung-drive reciprocably supported in said tube, a bung-feed leading
to the guide, and driving-menus operating to successively open, temporarily,
said valve, raise the filling-tube, actuate the bung-feed to introduce a bung into
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page_text: said guide and the bung-driver to drive said bung, and finally restore the hung-
feed to its initial condition, substantially as described
20. In an apparatus for filling a receptacle with beci or other liquid and
changing its contents with gas, the combination with the frame of a vertical
filling-tube reciprocably supported in a guide provided with an inlet leading into
said tube, a holder for chaiged liquid having a pipe-connection with said inlet
containing a shut-off valve normally closed by a spiug-1od, a bung-driver
reciprocably supported in said tube, a pump communicating with the filling-tube
and discharging into said holder, a shut-off valve in the communication between
the pump and tube, a bung-driver 1cciprocably supported in said tube, a bung-
feed leading into the guide, and driving-means operating to successively actuate
the pump, shut off the valve in the passage to the pump and temporarily open
that controlling the flow from the holder, raise the filling-tube, actuate the bung-
feed to introduce a bung into said guide and the bung-driver to drive said
bung, and finally restore the bung-feed to its initial condition, substantially as
described
21 In an apparatus for filling a receptacle with beer or other liquid and
charging its contents with gas, the combination with the reciprocable filling-tube,
charged-liquid holder controllably commumeating therewith and then actuating
means, of a pump communicating with the tube and holder and having its
piston-iod adjustably connected with said during-means to regulate its stroke,
substantially as described
22 In an apparatus for filling a receptacle with beer or other liquid and
charging its contents with gas, the combination with the reciprocable filling-tube,
charged-liquid holder controllably communicating therewith and then actuating
means, of a pump communicating with the tube and helder, a head on which
the piston-1od of the pump is adjustably pivoted, and a rotably-supported cog-
wheel in gear with said actuating meaus and cauiying said head to iotate with
it, substantially as described.
23. In an apparatus for filling a receptacle with beer or other liquid and
charging its contents with gae, the combination with the frame of a vertical
filling-tube reciprocably supported in a guide provided with a gasket y, and having
an inlet leading to said tube and an outlet, a lautern B2 having an outlet vi and
provided with a float-valve v and communicating with said guide-outlet through a
passage» containing a valve B' and provided with a safety-valve B, a holder for
charged liquid having a pipe connection with said inlet containing a valve B
normally closed by a sping-iod, a vent a leading froin between the gasket and tube
into said passage, a bung-driver reciprocably supported in said tube, a pump
communicating with said helder and guide-let through a pipe containing a
valve B and a check-valve, a connection between valves B and B having an
actuating rod extending upward from it, a bung-feed leading into the guide, and
driving-means operating to successively actuate the pump, shut off valves B' and B
though the rod and temporarily open valve B' though said spring-rod, actuate
the bung-feed to introduce a bung into said guide, and finally restore the bung-feed
to its initial condition, substantially as described.
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24. In an apparatus for filling, a receptacle with beer on other liquid and
charging its contents with gas, the combination with the frame of a guide-sleeve A
terminating in a hollow head and having an inlet and an outlet and containing a
gasket and a reciprocably supported filling-tube, a bung-driver G in said tube,
a pipe leading to said inlet and containing a valve B', a charged-liquid holder H
communicating with said inlet through a pipe h containing a valve B having a
spring-1od connection, a pump H' communicating with said holder and mlet though
a pipe containing a check-valve and a valve B, a bung-feed having its bell
crank p connected with a bifurcated 1od p, a cam-level E engaging the filling
tube, a hand-lever E linked to said cam-lever, a cam-lever D engaging the rod p
a lever E engaging at opposite ends the bung-driver and 1od p', a lever E engaging
said spring-rod, a lever connected with rod f, and a train of driving-geais, ou

page_text: of said gears carrying an abutment c and another of said gears cariying a cam N
to engage a clutch-device M³ on a shalt K' cari ying the gear-wheel K, and a crank-
arm and a cam 6' on said shaft, the whole being constructed and arranged to
operate substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of December 1894.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.