An Appliance for Rendering Internal Stoppered Bottles Available for Beer and other Non-aërated Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Rendering Internal Stoppered Bottles Available
for Beer and other Non-aërated Liquids.
CHARLES LUCOP, 2, George Street, Hull, Yorkshire, Librarian Hull Mechanics*
Institute do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to utilizing the ordinary internal glass ball stoppered bottle
for bottling beer and other non-aürated liquids; for which purpose I provide a
cylindrical vessel of copper, galvanized iron, or other suitable material of, say,
four feet in length by eighteen inches in diameter perfectly air-tight and capable
of resisting a pressure of fifteen to twenty pounds to the square inch, the lower
part of cylinder is connected by flexible or fixed tube and cock to the ordinary
water supply service, and, by preference, placed in the lowest available position,
from the crown of the pressure cylinder a sinall pipe of say inch internal diameter
is carried to any convenient spot, and terminates with a small wheel cock, and
nipple of cork or other suitable elastic material of the proper size to just enter the
mouth of the bottle; there is also an air cock on the crown of the pressure cylinder
and a waste water cock at the bottom, and gauge on side to indicate the height of
water in cylinder.
The method of working the appliance is as follows, the air and waste cocks being
closed the water service cock is opened, which gives the pressure on the air space:
the mouth of the filled bottle to be scaled is covered by the thumb or finger of the
operator and inverted, when the glass ball falls upon its seat, the mouth of the bottle
is then placed over the nipple and held in position, the small pressure cock is then
opened for an instant which puts the air pressure of the cylinder on the interior of
the bottle the glass ball being firmly pressed on its seat and the bottle securely
sealed.
When the air space becomes nearly exhausted as indicated by the water rising in
the gauge glass, the service cock is closed, the air and water waste cocks are opened
and the water run off, the waste and air cocks are then closed, and the service cock
opened for re-charging.
FOAT
CHARLES LUCOP.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Rendering Internal Stoppered Bottles Available
for Beer and other Non-aërated Liquids.
I, CHARLES LUCOP of 2 George Street Hull, Librarian 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 has for its object to utilize the ordinary ball stoppered bottles
found in commerce, for bottling beer and other non-aerated liquids.
In carrying my invention into practice, I provide a vessel preferably of cylindrical
shape made of copper, galvanized iron or other suitable material and capable of
withstanding a pressure of fifteen to twenty pounds to the square inch. This vessel
is furnished with a water gauge and is connected at its lower part by a cock and a
pipe to the ordinary water service pipe, being moreover furnished with a fixed
cover or dome, in the centre of which is attached a stopcock connected to a pipe
of same length, terminated by a valve and a nozzle of cork or other suitable
resilient material and of convenient size to allow of being readily inserted in the
mouth of the bottle. The said vessel is also provided at the top with an air cock,
and, at the bottom, with a waste water cock.

page_text: In the accompanying rawing,
Figure is an elevational view of my improved apparatus.
Figure 2 is an elevational view of a modified form of said apparatus; and,
Figure 3, shews, separately, to an enlarged scale, a sectional view of the device
for supporting the bottles and supplying same with air.
Like letters of reference being employed to denote corresponding parts throughout
the several views.
The apparatus shewn in Figure 1, consists of a cylindrical vessel or receptacle a,
closed at the top by a fixed dome or cover a', furnished with a central feed cock f
to which one end of the pipe is fixed, whilst its other end is provided with a
valve and a nozzle i surrounded by a piece of india rubber. The vessel a is also
provided with an air cock e, a discharge cock d, a water pressure cock b, and a
water gauge ; the cock being connected, by the pipe e to the water supply pipe
(this latter connection is not shewn in the drawings).
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e:
In the modified construction of apparatus shewn in Figures 2 and 3, I provide
the vessel a with a bracket / upon which is placed the bottle holding and air feeding
device (Figure 3) consisting of the base m furnished with an air inlet a serving to
lead the air through the passages to the passage, to the nozzle i surrounded by a
piece of india rubber. The vertical part of the device is furni hed at top with a
support or rest 7 (Figures 2 and 3) for the bottles; and, turn by means of the
plug (Figs. 2 and 3) into the tubular part of the base, so as to make or break
communication between the passages and (Fig. 3)
The apparatus in accordance with my invention acts as funnows that is to
sayAir being first admitted into the empty vessel a through the air cock the
latter is closed as well as the feed cock and the waste water cock d. The cock b
being now opened, the water from the main rushes into the vess
a and compresses
the air therein against the dome or cover a', rising until it has reached a sufficient
height (indicated by the water gauge). for the air to be compressed to the required
degree, whereupon, the cock is closed. A ball stoppered bottle filled with beer
being now taken up, it is inverted by closing its mouth with the thumb, and the
nozzle is rapidly inserted therein. In the arrangement shewn Figure 1, the bottle
is held in the hand; but, in the apparatus illustrated at Figure 2, the bottle is
placed against the support or rest q. The feed cock being now turned on, the
admission valve (Fig. 1) or the plug o (Fig. 2) is momentarily opened, admitting
the air under pressure into the neck of the bottle and so forcing the ball valve
down upon its seat from the position at which it arrived before (Figs. 1 & 2). The
bottle is now withdrawn and replaced by another; the valve h (Fig. 1) or plug o
(Fig. 2) is opened again. When the air ceases to have the required pressure in
the top of the vessel a, the cock is opened, to allow the water to run out of the
vessel a and is then closed; the air cock e being subsequently opened until the
vessel a is full of air. Water from the main is now allowed to enter the vessel a
and to compress the air in manner hereinbefore described.
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
claim is:
First. The improved apparatus for filling ball-stoppered bottles with non-aerated
liquids, arranged, constructed, and operating, substantially as herein described and
shewn.
Second. The adaptation to the apparatus above described, of a device for
supporting the bottles and supplying same with air under pressure, substantially as
herein described and shewn.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.