NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CHARGING BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS WITH GASEOUS OR EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING AND OPENING BOTTLES PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Waugh, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR CHARGING BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS WITH GASEOUS OR
EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING AND OPENING BOTTLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Waugh at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd March 1875.
I, JAMES WAUGH, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
5 Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "New
or Improved Apparatus for CHARGING BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS WITH GASEOUS

page_text: OR EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING AND OPENING DOTTEDES
CONTAINING SUCH LIQUIDS, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," to be as
follows, that is to say :—
The first part of this Invention, which relates to apparatus to be
employed for charging gascous or effervescing liquids into bottles or
other vessels, consists of a disc or its equivalent mounted upon a shaft
or stud, on which it is capable of being turned so as to invert it. On
the face of the disc or its equivalent is carried the spout or cock, from or
through which the gaseous or effervescing liquid to be charged into the
bottles or other vessels issues. Below the spout or cock is a cup or plate
upon which the base of the bottle when in position to be filled rests, and
it is provided with a spring which forcibly presses the bottle or other
vessel up against the orifice of the spout or cock. A lever is provided
for acting upon the spring so as to allow the air to escape from the
bottle or other vessel when being charged. When the bottle or other
vessel is charged the apparatus holding it is inverted, and the elastic
stopper herein-after described falls into the neck of the bottle, and being
thus acted upon by the pressure of the gas closes it.
The second part of this Invention, which relates to a new or improved
means for closing and opening bottles containing gaseous or effervescing
liquids, consists of a hollow clastic ball made of caoutchouc or analogous
elastic material which is placed inside the bottle. The ball is formed
with a hollow stem or short pipe, which when the bottle is charged with
the gaseous or effervescing liquid serves the twofold purpose, namely, by
its weight of maintaining or balancing the ball in the required position,
also of admitting the carbonic acid or other gas with which the liquid is
charged to the interior of the elastic ball. The lower part of the neck
of the bottle is conical, so that the pressure of the gas when the bottle is
charged therewith and with the liquid both forces the ball into the
conical neck, and by passing to the interior of the ball expands it so as
to fill the neck, thereby closing the bottle. The upper part of the elastic
ball is thicker than its lower part, and the upper part is that upon which
the instrument for opening the bottle acts.

page_text: and in opening a bottle the instrument is passed into the neck of the
bottle, and being pressed downwards by the hand forces in the elastic
ball. The elastic face on the instrument at the same time is brought in
contact with the mouth of the bottle, and so prevents waste of the liquid
or the wetting of the hand at the instant the bottle is opened.