US726621A

US726621A - Corking apparatus.

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Publication number: US726621A
Application number: US11059702A
Authority: US
Inventors: Erich Berliner
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-06-07
Filing date: 1902-06-07
Publication date: 1903-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 1920-04-28

Description

No. 726,621.- PATENTED APR. 28, 1903.

' E. BERLINER.

CORKING APPARATUS.

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50 the grooves 51 on the sleeve.

FNITED' .ERIOH BERLINER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

CORKING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,621, dated April 28, 1903. Application filed June 7, 1902. Serial No. 110,597. (No model.)

vented certain new and useful Improvements,

in Oorking Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for the corking of pasteurizing vessels with the exclusion of air, which is especially adaptable to pasteurizing of beer in large transport vessels.

This apparatus comprises an overflow-chamber screwed on the cork-support and fitted I 5 with a corking-machine provided with a sleeve or case to hold the cork and furnished with grooves. The object of these grooves is to allow of the passage of the liquid from the vessel to the chamber or in the opposite di- 2o rection during the pasteurization after placing the cork in position, and the cork may then be forcedinto the bung-hole with the desired exclusion of air.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 2 5 and 2 show in section the corking apparatus when the vessel is open and closed, respectively; and Fig. 3 shows in side elevation the sleeve or case provided with grooves.

As can be seen from the drawings, the ap- 0 paratus comprises a chamber 20, capable of being temporarily secured to the cork-holder 40, containing the bung-hole, said cork-holder being permanently fixed to the wall of the vessel containing the liquid. The said cham- 5 ber is secured to the cork-holder by means of the clamping-screw 50, which engages excluding air therefrom, the combination of a chamber, a tubular neck leading therefrom, a cork-holding coupling in the wall of the vessel containing the liquid, a movable sleeve the tubular neck 21. In this tubular neck is a sleeve 52 for holding the cork, and it is provided on its outside with longitudinal o grooves, while inside it receives the enlarged lower end of a Vertically-movable plunger or piston 45. The sleeve52, in which the cork i1 is placed, will sometimes be in the'upper extended part of the support and'sometimes 5 in the lower tubular portion 21 of the chamber 20, so that after screwing the clampingscrew 50 onto the support the passages between the bung-hole and the interior of the chamber 20 will be established by means of If now the liquid to be corked up is heated for pasteurizing, it passes, by means of the passages 51, into the chamber -20 during its increase in volume, while during the cooling of the pasteurized liquid the latter by the same channel again flows back into the pasteurizing apparatus. To close the vessel, pressure is applied, by means of the plunger 45, t0 the cork 41', placed in the sleeve 52, and the cork is forced into the bung-hole, as shown in Fig. 2, sothat the pasteurizing-chamber is closed with the desired exclusion of air, after which the clamping-screw may be unscrewed from the support 40 of the chamber 20, and

the corkingmachine arranged therein may be taken apart from the support.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In an apparatus for corking vessels while excluding air therefrom, the combination of a chamber to receive the surplus liquid, with a plunger passing therethrough to force the cork into its hole, a tubular connection between said chamber and the bung-hole, a sleeve in said tubular connection to hold the cork arid provided with grooves on its exterior forming passages from the vessel to be scribed.

2. In an apparatus for corking vessels while excluding air therefrom, the combination of a chamber, a plunger to force the cork into its hole, a sleeve to hold said cork and provided with grooves and a tubular support holding said sleeve and supporting said chamber, substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus for corking vessels While having external longitudinal grooves and located in said tubular neck, a plunger working through said sleeve, and a clampingscrew for securing the'neck to the cork-hold- .ing coupling, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ERICH BERLINER.

corked to said chamber, substantially as de-