IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLING MACHINES
Year: 1884

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SPECIFICATION,
We ROBERT SAMUEL LLOYD of the firm of Hayward Tyler & C° of 84 Whitecross
Street Saint Lukes in the County of Middlesex and HENRY WILLIAM DOWELL in
the employ of said firm Engineers do hereby declare the nature of said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLING MACHINES," and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement.
The object of this Invention is to adopt the Macdonell and other power bottling.
machines to the bottling of such bottles in which a stopper is used having a valve
which when depressed from without admits the fluid into the interior of the bottle;
such a stopper is for instance the socalled Barretts screw stopper with valve.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a vertical section through the mouth
piece of a Macdonell machine constructed with a new form of movable plunger or
plug and Figure 2 a vertical section through the mouth piece of a Macdonell
inachine constructed with a new form of "stationary plug or so called cone."
Referring to Figure 1. A is the plunger which for the purpose here in view is
given a sensibly shorter stroke than heretofore and a descending action another
moment of time in the action that is to say heretofore when the bottle had been
filled the plunger descends to drive the cork into the neck of the bottle but in this
adaptation when the bottle is filled the plunger rises thus allowing the small valve
in the stopper to close; a sensibly shorter stroke being also required than heretofore.
The bottom of the plunge A is bored up to receive a helical spring B which
exerts its pressure against a nipple C. This latter has an inner passage C¹ which
by small lateral openings e communicates with the interior of the bottle when in
action; that is to say when in the position here shewn where the plunger A is in
its lowest position and the nipple consequently has depressed the small valve D¹
in the bottle stopper D, which latter is of the ordinary Barrett screw stopper con-
struction with valve. K is the socket in which the plunger and other parts are
arranged. E shews the neck of the bottle to be filled. The top of the neck seats
itself gas tight against the india rubber washer F. G is a brass washer which is
to protect and guide the lower smaller part of the nipple C, and H a leather washer
on the top of it. I I are two leather washers held in the screwed bellmouth shaped
gland J and serving to guide the neck of the bottle sideways. The plunger A is
guided in the socket K by means of the gland K' and cup leather packing K

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The aërated liquid is admitted to the space L in the interior of the socket K and
passes into the interior of the lower recessed end of the plunger A through small
lateral holes a, and then into the interior of the nipple C and by the lateral holes e
into the valve passage provided in the screw stopper D. The valve D¹ in the
stopper is normally held closed or in the raised position by means of the helical
spring d¹.
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Referring to Figure 2, all, the previously described parts are arranged and
constructed in the same manner only that in this case the so called " cone or
plug A is constructed so as to receive the nipple C and its helical spring B. This
plug A¹ is secured gas tight in the socket K. As the plug A¹ is stationary the
valve D¹ is in this case depressed and opened when the bottle is brought up into
the position shown, whereas in Figure 1 the valve D₁ is opened when the plunger A
is made to descend. The aërated liquid supply is admitted to the space L which
by the passages a communicates with the interior C₁ of the nipple O.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
The adaptation of the Macdonell and other power bottling machines to the
bottling of bottles in which a stopper is used having a valve which when depressed
from without admits the fluid into the bottle, namely by the construction and
mode of action of the plunger which is formed with a recess communicating with
the aërated liquid supply and made to receive a helical spring for acting on a
nipple which serves to open the valve in the bottle stopper, also by the construction
of the so called "cone " which is also formed with a recess communicating with the
aërated liquid supply, and made to receive a helical spring for acting on a nipple
which serves to open the valve in the bottle stopper substantially as described and
shewn.