IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING BOTTLES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Bardsley, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Soda Water Manufacturer's Manager, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING BOTTLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Bardsley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1881.
ROBERT BARDSLEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Soda Water
Manufacturer's Manager.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING BOTTLES."
According to this Invention convenient means are provided for introducing the
desired quantity of syrup or other flavoring or coloring substance in bottles which
are to be filled with ærated or other beverages in machines, in which one or more
bottles are acted upon in a gradatory or continuous manner, such, for instance, as
the bottling machine patented by Allen Macdonnell, A.D. 1875, No. 2551, and
A.D. 1877, No. 3902, on which this present Invention may be said to form an
improvement.
Heretofore it has been usual to introduce the syrup in the bottles by entirely
independent means before the bottles are brought to the machine, or in the
machine itself, by the employment of a pump, which by means of separate pipes
delivers the syrup to each of the several bottles.
Now according to this Invention the syrup is introduced by a single small pipe
to each bottle in succession before it is placed on the revolving cylinder, cone, or
table of the machine from one syrup pump, which is worked from some suitable
moving part of the machine. This pipe may be of glass or other suitable material,
and is by preference bent into the form of an inverted syphon; it has a tap or
valve near the outlet. When this tap is closed the syrup passes back through the
relief valve of the pump to syrup supply cistern.
The bottle may be placed on a stand or bracket attached to the side or frame of
the machine, conveniently for the attendant to remove it when charged with the
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page_text: syrup to the revolving part, where it is to be filled with the beverage and
corked.
The bracket may be arranged as follows:-
In the end of the bracket I screw a bottle cup or rest, which is made of a shape
to suit either oval or flat bottomed bottles, and can be regulated to suit any length
of bottle, and be secured in position by a lock nut or other fastening. This rest
is bored through, so that in case a bottle is not placed on in proper time the syrup
flows into a small drip tin which hangs on the bracket, or into some other suitable
receptacle, or passes back into the syrup supply cistern.
Or according to another arrangement for bottles, which are served to the
bottler in boxes containing one dozen or more bottles, the attendant is, by means
of a flexible tube, able to dose the dozen by guiding the nozzle with the hand as
they stand upright in the box before being moved to the filling machine.
Or according to another arrangement the bottles may be placed on a movable
table, and pass in succession into the nozzle at the end of the pipe from syrup
pumps.
By this Invention I avoid conducting the syrup from the pump to the bottle
through complicated pipes or passages under pressure, and materially expedite the
work.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Robert Bardsley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th December 1881.
ROBERT BARDSLEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Soda Water
Manufacturer's Manager.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY for FIllinⱭ BottleS.”
According to this Invention convenient means are provided for introducing the
desired quantity of syrup or other flavoring or coloring substance in bottles which
are to be filled with aerated or other beverages in machines, in which one or more
bottles are acted upon in a gradatory or continuous manner, such, for instance, as
the bottling machine patented by Allan Macdonell, A.D. 1875, No. 2551, and
A.D. 1877, No. 3902, on which this present Invention may be said to form an
improvement.
Heretofore it has been usual to introduce the syrup into the bottles by entirely
independent means before the bottles are brought to the machine, or in the machine
itself by the employment of a pump, which by means of separate pipes delivers
the syrup to each of the several bottles.
Now according to this Invention the syrup is introduced by a single small pipe
to each bottle in succession before it is placed on the revolving cylinder, cone, or
table of the machine from one syrup pump, which is worked from some suitable
moving part of the machine. This pump may be driven either from the working
part of the bottling machine itself or from any independent source of motion, but
so arranged as to make one stroke of the pump for each bottle to be charged with
syrup or colouring material. This pump is by preference made partly of glass
and provided with a relief valve, by which the liquid escapes through a suitable
tube. If the usual outlet is closed the pump is driven by an arrangement by
which the stroke can be adjusted to various lengths, according to the amount of
liquid required to be injected into each bottle. The pipe from the pump may be
of glass or other suitable material, and is by preference bent into the form of an
inverted syphon; it has a tap or valve near the outlet. When this tap is closed
the syrup passes back through the relief valve of the pump to the syrup supply
cistern, or into any suitable receptacle. The bottle may be placed on a stand or
bracket attached to the side or frame of the machine, conveniently for the attendant
to remove it when charged with the syrup to the revolving part, where it is to be
filled with the beverage and corked.
The bracket may be arranged as follows:-In the end of the bracket I screw a
bottle cup or rest, which is made of a shape to suit either oval or flat bottomed
bottles, and can be regulated to suit any length of bottle, and be secured in position
by a lock nut or other fastening. This rest is bored through, so that in case a
bottle is not placed on in proper time the syrup flows into a small drip tin which
hangs on the bracket, or into some other suitable receptacle, or passes back into
the syrup supply cistern.
On the accompanying Drawing I have shown a side elevation of a Macdonell
machine constructed according to his aforesaid Patent, No. 3902, of 1877, but in
dotted lines only, and in full lines I have delineated the new parts, which, according
to this present Invention, are added thereto.
A is a light frame or stand, to one side of which is fixed a pump B for supplying
the
syrup. This pump is here shown as being worked by a crank pin G from a
shaft C, which by tooth wheel D and pinion E derives its motion from the driving
shaft F of the machine. The crank pin G is adjustable in a slot, so that the stroke
of the pump can be altered as desired for any required amount of syrup to be
injected into each bottle, one stroke of the pump being adapted for the supply for

page_text: each bottle. The pump is fitted with a suitable relief valve for the escape of the
liquid to a suitable receptacle in case the shut off tap on the delivery pipe should
be closed. His the delivery pipe of an inverted syphon shape, as shown, and
fitted with shut off tap I. The pipe terminates in the nozzle K. The bottle L is
placed on the cup or rest M, which is screwed into the bracket N attached to the
frame A. The cup or rest M has a screwed tail or stem O, which passes through the
correspondingly screwed bracket, and can thus be adjusted to suit bottles of different
heights, and secured in position by a lock nut, as shown. The stem is bored
through, so that any syrup which does not enter the bottle placed in the cup may
run down through the stem and be received into a drip tin or receptacle.
I should mention that the pump in itself is not new, inasmuch as it has already
been used in connection with Macdonell's aforesaid machine.
The improvements described are equally applicable to other forms of the said
Macdonell machine.
Or according to another arrangement for bottles, which are served to the bottler
in boxes containing a number of bottles, the attendant is, by means of a flexible
tube, able to dose each bottle in succession by guiding the nozzle with the hand as
they stand upright in the box before being moved to the filling machine.
Or according to another arrangement the bottles may be placed on a movable
table and pass in succession under the nozzle at the end of the pipe from syrup
pumps.
By this Invention I avoid conducting 'the syrup from the pump to the bottle
through complicated pipes or passages under pressure, and materially expedite
the work.
And having thus described and ascertained the nature of this Invention, and in
what manner it is or may be carried into effect, I declare that I claim,―
First. The arrangement and combination of parts for charging bottles with
syrup, substantially as described, and also as shown on the accompanying
Drawing.
Second. The described mode of charging bottles with syrup, each bottle being
charged with the desired quantity by one stroke of a pump with adjustable stroke
previously to the bottle being placed in the filling machine, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Bardsley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
ROBERT RARDSLEV