US667518A - Capsuling-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 667,5l8.

E. D. HARRINGTN.

4CAPSULING MACHINE. (Application lerl July 19, 1960.)

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Patented Feb. 5, |901.

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E. n. HAnnmGToN. GAPSULING MACHINE.

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CAPSULING-IVIACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 667,518, dated February 5, 1901.

Application filed July 19, 1900. Serial No. 24,174. lllo model.)

To MZ whom. t ntay/ concern:

Be it known that I, ELI DAY HARRINGTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Westfield, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Capsuling- Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specifica tion.

The invention relates to machines for covering the stoppered ends of bottles, jars, and othersimilar receptacles with soft-metal caps; and the object of the invention is to provide a new and improved capsuling-machine which is simple and durable in construction, very elfective in operation, readily adjustable for different-sized bottles, and arranged to securely and accurately attach the cap to the neck of a bottle without danger of breaking the bottle.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure lis a side elevation of the improvement. Fig. 2 is asectioual plan view of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofthe same with the eccentric-plate removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of the sameon the line 4 4 in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a perspective View of one of the elastic jaws.

The improved capsuling-machine is mounted on a suitably-constructed 'frame A, to the base of which is bolted or secured a cupshaped receptacle B, containing a jaw C, of rubber or other elastic material, and operating in conjunction with a movable jaw CQ likewise made of rubber or other elastic material and contained in the free cup-shaped end Dof a lever D, fulcrumed at D2 on the main frame A. The side edges of the jaws C C are beveled and arranged to move in contact with each other when the leverD swings into a lowermost posit-ion to insure a firm and perfect fitting of the cap upon and around the neck of the bottle.

The lever D is normally held in an upper,-

most position by a spring E, resting on the base of the frame A and pressing on a cross-bar D2of the lever D to hold the jaws in an open position, and thereby allow of conveniently placing the cap and the bottle in position between the jaws. In order to hold the jaws C and C' in position, suitable removable front plates F F are provided and secured to the cup-shaped receptacle B and the front end of the lever D, respectively. Y

In order to give movement to the lever, the following device is provided: In the top of the free end of the lever D is formed a socket D4, engaged by the ball G' of a connection G, having a segmentally-grooved upper end G2, engaged by a ring H, loosely held on an eccentric-disk H, secured on a shaft I, journaled in suitable bearings in the upper end of the frame A, said shaft carrying fast and loose pulleys J, connected with other machinery for rotating the shaft when the machine is to be used. The connection G can be lengthened or shortened to press the jaw C more or less in contact at its side edges with the jaw C, and for this purpose said connection is made in two parts, of which the ball G' forms one part and has a threaded shank G2, screwing in the upper end G2 of the connection, and a nut G1 for locking the shank G8 in place on the end G2 after the desired adjustment is made between the two parts of the connection.

It is evident that when the shaft I is rotated the eccentric-disk H by the ring H causes a downward movement of the connection G, and as the latter has a ball-and-socket-joint connection with the lever D it is evident that a downward-swinging movement is given to the lever to cause the jaws C C' to properly press the cap around the bottle-neck, as previously explained.

The ring H fits against an annular shoulder H2 on the eccentric-disk H, and the front face of said ring is engaged bya disk or plate H2, screwed or otherwise fastened to the face of the eccentric-disk H, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 4, said shoulder H2 and the plate H3 holding the ring in proper positionthat is, against lengthwise movement.

By having the loose and adjustable connection G above described it is evident that the IOO operator is enabled to set the jaws C C in the desired relation one to the other, according to the size of the bottle-neck under treatment.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of a stationary jaw, a swinging jaw, a rotating drive-shaft the axis of which is transverse to the axis of movement of the swinging jaw, and a connection between theA drive-shaft and the swinging jaw to drive the latter, such connection comprising a ball and socket permitting the connection to accommodate itself to the swinging movement of the jaw.

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