AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FILLING OR PARTIALLY FILLING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES WITH ANY KIND OF LIQUID, SYRUP, PASTE, OR SEMI-LIQUID SUBSTANCE, AND FOR CORKING, CLOSING, OR STOPPERING THE SAME OR ANY OTHER RECEPTACLES.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Reynolds and William Reynolds, both of
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124, S. Paul's Road, Camden Town, S. Pancras, London, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FILLING OR PARTIALLY FILLING
BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES WITH ANY KIND OF LIQUID, SYRUP, PASTE,
OR SEMI-LIQUID SUBSTANCE, AND FOR CORKING, CLOSING, OR STOPPERING THE
SAME OR ANY OTHER RECEPTACLES.'
"
ealed the 2nd April 1875, and dated the 17th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Reynolds and
William Reynolds at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 17th October 1874.
We, JOHN REYNOLDS and WILLIAM REYNOLDS, both of 124, S. Paul's
Road, Camden Town, S. Pancras, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FILLING
OR PARTIALLY FILLING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES WITH ANY KIND OF
LIQUID, SYRUP, PASTE, OR SEMI-LIQUID SUBSTANCE, AND FOR CORKING, CLOSING, OR
STOPPERING THE SAME OR ANY OTHER RECEPTACLES," to be as follows:-
A well or receiver has a cylinder passing through its bottom, and is

page_text: is a piston and valve. A piston rod and connecting rod or rods
transmit the motion of a lever or of a revolving shaft in the upper part
of the framework to the piston.
The lever may be attached to a handle by a connecting rod, or the
revolving shaft may be geared to a revolving wheel or drum for the 5
purpose of giving motion to the parts of the machine. Attached to the
cylinder is a bulb or tube containing a valve, and from this bulb or tube
the substance to be operated upon is conveyed to the receptacle by
another tube or by a prolongation of the same.
A sliding bar, which may be attached to the lever or to the revolving 1
shaft before mentioned by a connecting rod and another lever, or by a
connecting rod only, or may have motion given to it by levers worked
by the hand or foot of the operator, has attached to it a plug which may
be forced through a tube, or it may be attached to a pair of pincers of
suitable shape. This arrangement is for corking, closing, or stoppering 1
the receptacles.
loond in
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Reynolds and William Reynolds in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 17th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, John
REYNOLDS and WILLIAM REYNOLDS, both of 124, St. Paul's Road,
Camden Town, St. Pancras, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Reynolds and William Reynolds, Her
special licence that we, the said John Reynolds and William Reynolds,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
John Reynolds and William Reynolds, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from time to time

page_text: and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FILLING OR
PARTIALLY FILLING BOTTLES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES WITH ANY KIND OF LIQUID,
SYRUP, PASTE, OR SEMI-LIQUID SUBSTANCE, AND FOR CORKING, CLOSING, OR
STOPPERING THE SAME OR ANY OTHER RECEPTACLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Reynolds and William
Reynolds, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly.
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
'
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Reynolds and William
Reynolds, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being
had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon, that is to say :—
A well or receiver has a cylinder passing through its bottom, and is
supported by a framework of wood or metal. Working in the cylinder
is a piston and valve. A piston rod and connecting rod or rods
transmit the motion of a lever or of a revolving eccentric crank or
cam shaft in the upper part of the framework to the piston.
The lever may be attached to a handle by a connecting rod, or the
revolving eccentric crank or cam shaft may be geared to a revolving
wheel or drum for the purpose of giving motion to the parts of the
machine. Attached to the cylinder is a bulb or tube containing a valve,
and from this bulb or tube the substance to be operated upon is
conveyed to the receptacle by another tube or by a prolongation of the
same.
A sliding bar, which may be attached to the lever or to the revolving
eccentric crank or cam shaft before mentioned by a connecting rod and
another lever, or by a connecting rod only, or may have motion given
to it by levers worked by the hand or foot of the operator, has attached
to it a plug which may be forced through a tube, or it may be attached

page_text: to a pair of pincers of suitable shape. This arrangement is for corking,
closing, or stoppering the receptacle.
The bottles or other receptacles to be operated upon may be fed into
and removed from the machine by any well known automatic feeding
apparatus, such for example, as an endless band or sliding board. By
these arrangements both the filling of a receptacle and the corking or
stoppering thereof, or of another receptacle previously filled, may be
effected in one machine by a single motion of the levers up and down,
or by one revolution of the eccentric crank or cam shaft.
In the Drawings Figure 1 represents a front elevation partly in
section of a machine constructed in accordance with our Invention ;
Figure 2, a transverse section on line a, a, of Figure 1; Figure 3, a
partial section on line b, b, of Figure 1; and Figure 4, a partial plan on
line c, c, of Figures 1 and 3. Similar letters refer to like parts in each
of these Figures.
A is the cistern containing the liquid or semi-liquid substance to be
bottled or placed in other receptacle. Such cistern may be connected to
and form part of the machine, as shown, or it may be placed in any
desired position at a distance therefrom. B is a cylinder connected, by
preference, directly to the cistern A, as shown, or if the latter is placed
at a distance connected therewith by a suitable tube as will be readily
understood.
When, as in the Drawings, the cylinder is attached directly to the
bottom of the cistern, we prefer to insert in the piston Ơ of such
cylinder a valve D, opening downwards, against the resistance of a slight
spring, as shown, as the said piston C is raised to allow part of the
contents of the cistern A to flow into the lower part of the cylinder,
and closing when the said piston is depressed. Such depression of the
piston forces the substance then below it through the tube E, which has
placed in it or in an enlargement thereof, as shown, a check valve F to
prevent the return of the substance or any part thereof into the cylinder B
during the up stroke of the piston C. The tube E is sometimes turned
up, as shown, and terminates in a bib or lip E¹ to which the mouth of
the bottle or other receptacle is to be applied, as seen in Figures 1
and 2, the bottle being shown in dotted lines.
The piston O is operated by means of a rod G sliding in a guide H,
connecting links I, I, jointed to a lover J, which is connected to main

page_text: lever K by link L, the connecting rod M connecting the main lever K.
to the lever handle N. The main lever K is extended beyond its
fulcrum O at K³, such extension being connected by a link P to a
lever Q, which operates a rod R sliding in guides, as shown, and carrying
at its lower end the corking plug or plunger S, by means of which the
cork T is forced through the corking tube U into the bottle V, which
rests upon the adjustable wedge W. The corking tube U is, by
preference, hinged to the framework by a pin X, as shown, whereby it
can readily be withdrawn from under the plunger S for the more easy
insertion of the cork into the corking tube without the danger of
injuring the fingers of the attendant engaged in that operation by the
premature descent of the plunger S.
We prefer to adapt the lower end of the corking tube with a conical
or trumpet shaped mouth-piece Y, whereby the mouth of the bottle is
guided with certainty and facility into a position suitable for receiving
the cork from the tube U.
The action of the machine is as follows:-On raising the handle N
the piston C is depressed in the cylinder B, and the substance below it
is forced by the tube E into the bottle (shown in dotted lines) applied
to the bib or lip E. The corking plunger S is raised at the same time.
The bottle, as soon as filled at the bib E', is placed in position on the
adjustable wedge W, as shown, under the corking tube U, and a cork T
inserted in the tube U. The handle N being then depressed the piston o
of the cylinder B is raised, and the lower part of the cylinder again
filled from the cistern A. through the valve D in the piston. The same
motion of the lever N depresses the corking plunger S, forcing the
cork Tout of the tube U into the mouth of the bottle, in the manner
well understood. Instead however of allowing the pressure required to
force the cork T through the tube U into the bottle to be resisted by the
bottle itself, as heretofore practised, we adapt a bracket or other
support Z attached to or cast with the frame or bed of the machine to
receive and resist the said pressure, whereby the risk of breaking bottles
in the act of corking is very greatly reduced.
We have herein described and illustrated by the Drawings a machine
operated by a system of levers and connecting rods and links, but it will
be readily understood that similar effects may be obtained by means of a
shaft revolving in bearings in the upper part of the framework, such

page_text: shaft having mounted thereon or formed therewith suitable eccentrics,
cranks, or cams, connected to the piston and to the corking plunger by
connecting rods or links, as may be required.
We have not deemed it necessary to illustrate such an arrangement of
apparatus, as any competent mechanic will be able to prepare such an
arrangement from the verbal description given above.
It is obvious that whether levers or eccentric, crank, or cam shafts be
employed they may be either arranged, as illustrated in the Drawings,
so that the filling of a bottle or receptacle shall take place by, say, the
upward motion of the handle N, or say, one half of a revolution of the
eccentric, crank, or cam shaft and the corking of the same bottle by
the downward motion of the handle or of the other half revolution of
the eccentric, crank, or cam shaft, as the case may be. Or the filling
of one bottle and the corking of the one previously filled may be effected
at one and the same time, that is to say, simultaneously, by either the
upward or downward motion of the handle N, or by the complete
revolution or any portion of a revolution of the eccentric crank or cam
shaft. We however prefer to employ the arrangement of levers and
other parts, as described and illustrated, or equivalent arrangements
acting in such manner as that the corking operation shall not take place
at the same time as the filling of another bottle.
It will be readily understood that instead of the corking apparatus.
other means of closing or stoppering may be operated by the action of
the levers or eccentric, crank, or cam shaft, as may be required, as for
example, a pair of pincers to close the tubes used as receptacles for
colours.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to or may be performed, we would have it
understood, that we do not confine ourselves to the precise arrangement
and disposition of parts of the machine, as described and shewn, as they
may be varied without departing from the nature of our Invention; but
what we do claim is,―
First. The bottling and corking machine so arranged, combined, and
operated, that the movement up and down of the lever or the revolution
of the eccentric, crank, or cam shaft shall perform the double operation
of filling and corking, or otherwise closing or stoppering the bottle

page_text: or other receptacle, substantially as herein-before described and
illustrated.
Second. The use of a cylinder, piston, and valve, arranged, adapted,
and applied to the cistern in such manner that the liquid or semi-liquid
substance contained therein shall flow by gravity from such cistern
through the piston to the under side thereof, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
Third. The use in connection with the corking tubes of corking
machines of the conical or trumpet shaped mouth-piece for the purpose
of guiding and steadying the mouth of the bottle, as herein-before
described and illustrated.
Fourth. Hinging the corking tube to the frame of the machine, sub-
stantially as herein-before described and illustrated and for the purpose
set forth.
Fifth. The use of a fixed support to receive the pressure arising from
the frictional resistance of the cork whilst being forced through the
corking tube, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Reynolds and William
Reynolds, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
TATT
JOHN REYNOLDS.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM REYNOLDS. (L.S.)
Patentees.