US1442138A

US1442138A - Receptacle filling and measuring machine for liquids

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Publication number: US1442138A
Application number: US468991A
Authority: US
Inventors: Falkiner Edward John
Original assignee: MULTIPLEX PACKETING AND FILLIN
Current assignee: MULTIPLEX PACKETING AND FILLIN; MULTIPLEX PACKETING AND FILLING MACHINE Co
Priority date: 1921-05-12
Filing date: 1921-05-12
Publication date: 1923-01-16
Anticipated expiration: 1940-01-16

Description

E. 1. FALKINER. v RECEPTACLE FILUNG AND MEASURING MACHINE FOR LIQUlDS.I

man MAYlz. |921.

Jan. 16, 1923.l

Patented Jan. 16, 1923.

UNITED. STATES y 1,442,138 PATENT oFFlc-E.

EDWARD JOHN FALKINER, OF PADDINGTON, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUS- TRALIA, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE MULTIPLEX PAGKETING AND FILLING MACHINE COM- PANY, OF WELLINGTON, NEW' ZEALAND, A COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND.

RECEPTACLE FILLING AND MEASURING MACHINE FOR LIQUIDS.

Application iled May 12,

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD JOHN FALKI- NER, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at aPaddington, Sydney, New South l/Vales, Australia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Receptacle Filling and Measuring Machines for Liquids; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to measuring apparatus for rapidly dividing stock quantities of mobile liquids in relatively small quantities of equal volume, such apparatus having its chief utility in warehouses and retail shops for the rapid bottling of stock liquids into uniform volume.

The invention consists in certain structural improvements particularized in the gravity flow type of such machines in which the liquids are measured simultaneously' in a plurality of telescopic vessels of adjustable dimensions, and the measured quantities are delivered therefrom directly into bottles.

In the accompanying. drawings,

Figure 1, is a plan view, and

Figure 2, is a longitudinal sectional elevation. y

Referring to the drawings, the stock liquid is supplied through a main pipe 100 terminating in a head 101, which is set immersed to obviate foaming, into a receiving vessel 102 is provided with a gauge glass 103. ii'ais vessel is set up within the supply eisten 104 and it is fitted with a drop foot valve 105 controllable by a pull lever 106. Liquid in the cistern 104 is maintained at a normal level therein by means of an overow pipe .107, the lower end of which is a telescopic fit in a delivery pipe 108, fitted with a valve 109 by which it may be opened into the transfer fistern 117. When this valve 109 is opened, liquid contained in the cistern 104 above the top end of the pipe 107 will flow from the cistern 104 into the transfer cistern 117 The valve 109 is controllable'by means of a hand lever 119 fixed on its spindle 120, said spindle passing through the bottom of the cistern 117, to enable tting of the hand lever ,119 in an accessible place.

The cistern 104 is mounted on the main table 110 and said table is carried on studs the sleeve 108 and the valve` 109, are contained in a cistern 117 which is carried on a table 113, which is movable by jack screws 114, all of which are geared to a shaft 115' fitted Vwith a hand wheel 116 by operating which the table 113y may be raised or lowered as required. 121 is a displacing vessel. It is a cylinder carried on a lever arm 122 which is provided with a fixing device 123l by which its vertical position may be controlled. The displacing cylinder 121 is guided on a post 124 which is a free sliding lit through its tubular centre. -125 are measuring vessels, of which there maybe any required number. The capacity of each of these vessels is determined by the adjustment of the tubular ended conical heads 126 which are fixed on the depending tubular studs 127, said studs being screwed up to the table 110 so as to permit'individual adjustment of the capacities of the vessels 125. 128 are air evacuating holes in the tops of the tubular studs 127. The conical heads 126 are fitted with piston rings (not shown) to form a liquid tight fit in the vessels 125. These piston headsl are fitted with two air evacuating devices; firstly, a central tube 129 for which clearance is provided within the tubular studs 127, and secondly a lateral tube 130 connected into a vent hole 131 leading to a flute or groove 132 on the side of the cone face of the pis-` ton head. The lower ends of the chambers 125 are conical as shown at 133 andV lead into necks 134 which are screw mounted in a socket 135 on the bottom of the cistern 117. Screwed up in this socket is also the reduced portion 136 of the control valve casing 137. The chambers 125 are filled through the inflow pipes 140, 141 being angularly disposed sockets having aV closure plug 142 at their ends to facilitate insertion of cleaning means into the passageway. The valves 144 are slotted through between their cheeks which are neatly contained in pockets in the casings 137, but a sector portion 153, sufficient to close the necks 134, is left. The outlet necks of the valve casings 137 are provided with spouts 146 adapted to direct measured liquid into bottles 147 located on a tray 148, preferably slidably mounted on a table 1419 lixed on the base structure. The valves 1411 are connected by their crank arms 150 to links 151 and are operatable as a gang by moving' said linlis by pushing or pulling on the hand grips 152.

The method of operation is as follows The table 113 having been adjusted for position so as to bring the piston heads into proper vertical posit-ion in the chambers 125 so that the clearance space Will contain the precise quantity of liquid required to be delivered at each operation, liquid is supplied to the receiving vessel 102 through the pipe 100. The valve 105 is lifted by operating` the lever 106 to allow liquid to flow from the vessel 102 into a eist-ern 10-1. The valve 105 is then closed, and the valve 109 opened by means of its lever 119. The overplus of the liquid above the top end of the pipe 10T flows down through said pipe and through the pipe 108 and is passed by the valve 109 into the transfer rislern 11T which is normally kept filled to the top level of the pipes 1110. The liquid overflowing into the pipes 110 fills the measuring vessels 132 and then rises above pipes 1110. The valve 100 is then closed and the displacing vessel 121 .is raised, with theresult that the surfaee level or the liquid in the transfer eistern 11T is caused to drop below the mouths of the intake pipes 1li-0. Air displaced from the vessels 125 finds way out through the air pipe 129 and the lateral air duet and air pipe 130, so that. the Whole of the clearance space in the vessel becomes quite filled with liquid. The valves lee being now operated by forcing over the gang links 151, the liquid so measured flows through the spouts 11G into the bottles 1&7. Un completion of delivery the valves 144 are closed by the reverse morement, the displacing' vessel is aga-in lowered and the same operations are repeated-- that l claim is:

l, Liquid measuring apparatus comprising' a stock cistern on a vfixed table, a vertical movable table below the saine with inter- ;Yeared jack screws for altering` its vert-ical location, 'a charging cistern on said movable table a valved telescopic pipe for diseharging liquid from the stoel( eistern into the charging' cistern, means'to operate the valve 'from outside the eharging' cistern, a. displacing device carried on a lever adapted. for altering' the surfaee level vin said eli-arging cistern, measuring' vessels within the Charging cistern having their lower ends fitted through the bottoni of said oistern, stand pipes adapted to flow liquid into said vessels when the liquid level in said eharh'- kine' cistern above said pipes, eoned heads carried pendently by the liked table and in said vessels as the table levels are relativelyl altered to vary the measuring` gauge, and airi` vents disposed centrally and laterallyl through said heads.

2. Liquid measuring apparatus comprising a fixed and a \f'ertically movable table, a stoel( cistern and a charging eistern carried respectively on said tables, measuring ves- Within the charging,r eistein having outlets fitted through the bottom of said eistern, gang 'ral below the adjustable table controlling the se veral measuring' vessel outlets, teleseopine; liquid transferring means between the cisterne with a valve Within the charging eistern at the lower end of the lower section and having such section tixed to the charging cistern, means external to the charging eistern for operating said valve, liquid displacing,` means in the charging` eistern, and air vented ad instable slide heads carried by the fixed table and extending' into the measuring vessels,

3. In liquid measuring apparatus of the type herein described, the combination of a receiving` vessel int-o Which stoel( liquid may llo'xv through a pipe terminating near the bottom thereof, a lift valve for passing liquid from said vessel into a supply cistern enclosing' the receiving` vessel, a valve telescopio pipe adapted to pass liquid from said supply eistern to a transfer cistern below it, a plurality of measuring vessels in said transfer eistern with valved outlets passing through the bottom thereof, conieal heads teleseopically slidable in said vessels by varying' the vertical position of said transfer cistern relatively to said supply oistern, stand pipe lillers for said measuring vessels, and a liquid displacing' vessel mounted on a lever for altering' the surface level of liquid in said transfer eistern.

in testimony `whereof, I have signed my .tame to 'this speeilieation in the pre'senee'of two subscribing witnesses.

EDVA RD JOHN FiiLKlN'ER. lVi tnesses Guion A, lvfaonixv, Marienthal INGALLsMArs.