Improvements in Apparatus for Filling Bottles and other Vessels.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct, 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895,
GUMY GMIN SELETATION,
Improvements in Apparatus for Filling Bottles and other Vessels.
I, EDUARD SCHEIBLICH, of Kibitzberg bei Meyenburg, Prignitz Pinssin,
Germany, Landed Proprietor, do hereby declate the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same s to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement
The object of this invention is to produce apparatus for filling bottles and other
vessels which works in such a manner that a valve automatically shuts off the influx
as soon as the inflowing liquid has reached a certain beight in the vessel to be filled.
An overflow of the liquid is thereby provented.
The apparatus 15 represented in the accompanying diawings in which
Fig. 1 shews a vertical section of the invention fitted to a bottle ;
Fig 2 is a partly sectional elevation the section being taken on the line ..
of Fig 1. and
Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y of Fig. 2
The same letters of reference denote the same parts.
The apparatus comprises a chamber a having an mlet which is secured to the
cask or other vessel or reservon and a tapering funnel outlet e on to which the
bottle or other vessel to be filled is fitted. Within the chamber a, a pin c is fixed
on which is fitted a lever bb' which turns on said pin c as a fulcrum To the
end of the lever is linked a wne, 1od or arm d which passes though
the funnel outlet e into the interior of the bottle or other vessel A and is provided
at its lower end with an adjustable float k To the other end of the lever b b 18
linked a wire, rod or aim h on the extremity of which is fixed a ball or other
valve g g is the valve seating situated between the valve and the lever bb and
the valve is closed on to its seat by the raising of the float k in the vessel A The
arm of the level and the attached wire, od or aim d are together somewhat
heavier than the aim b and its attached wire, iod or arm h, consequently when
the bottle or vessel is in its proper upright position the valve gis normally kept off
its seat by reason of the gieater weight of the parts on the other side of the
fulcrum c.
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The apparatus works in the following manner 3-After the corduit of the cask
or other vessel to be emptied of its contents has been connected with the inlet ƒ
by means of the reduced end 2, and the funnel e has been fixed in the neck of the
bottle or other vessel A to be hilled, the quid from the cask flows through the
chamber a into the bottle ou vessel, the valve g being meanwhile held off its seat g¹.
In order to close the valve automatically, the float is adjusted and fixed on the
rod & d in such a manner that the rising liquid in the vessel A laises it at the
moment that the quantity of liquid still required to fill the vessel to the necessary
beight is contained in the chamber a, the funnel e, and the inlet f. As soon as the
valve is closed the liquid contained in the appnatus will flow into the vessel T'he
apparatus or the vessel is then removed and the funnel e is thou secuted to another
bottle to be filled.
In order to prevent the overflow of the liquid whilst transferring the apparatus
from one bottle to another, by the accidental raising of the valve, the rod or
aim is bent round at its fice end and led upwards in a groove (Fig. 3) provided
along the side of the funnel e, which said groove also allows the air to escape from
the bottle during the filling process. During the transfer of the apparatus to the
bottle to be filled the end of the wire lying on the out side of the chamber a 18

page_text: held fast so that the parts are kept from moving and the valve is held close on
its seat.
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
clum is;
(1) Apparatus for filling bottles and other vessels distinguished by a valve g
which is attached to level mechanism which is actuated and the valve closed
by the sing of the liquid running into the bottle or other vessel which is
being lled, the shut off being effected when the quantity of liquid required
to the bottle to the necessary height is contamed in the apparatus
under the valve, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
diawings
(2) Apparatus for filling bottles and other vessels of the kind indicated in the
pieding claim, in which the valve g is actuated by a rod or aim which is linked
to a lever whose other end is linked to a rod or aim reaching into the bottle
or vessel to be filled and carrying an adjustable float & on its lower end, substantially
as and for the purpose herembefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings
(3) In apparatus for filling bottles and other vessels of the kind indicated
an the preceding clan the aangement of the we, ind o arm deallying
the float, in such a manner that its end is bent 1ound and passed outwards
though the neck of the bottle in order to prevent the opening of the valve
duing the transfer of the apparatus from one bottle to another by diawing up of
the wire, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings
Do this 10th dual On
1005
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.