US773475A - Bottle-holding device. - Google Patents

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No. 773,475. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904. J. F. GHRISTIN. BOTTLE HOLD ING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22, 1.904.

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BOTTLE-HOLDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,475, dated October 25, 1904.

Application filed January 22, 1904. Serial No. 190,157- (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN F.CHRIsTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Holding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The bottle-holder of this invention is intended for use more especially in connection with soda-water fountains for the purpose of enabling the operator to bottle carbonated beverages at the fountain; and the object of the invention is to provide a readily-adjustable bottle-holder which can be quickly and easily applied to or removed from the sealing-head, which bottle-holder will be adapted for the holding of bottles of varying size and at the same time will be so arranged that the bottle when once inserted into place can be quickly and tightly forced against the sealing-head to establish the seal and enable the carbonate water to be drawn into the bottle.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ordinary sealing device having the bottle-holder of the present invention attached thereto; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the bottle-holder, and Fig. 3 a cross-sectional view of the same.

As shown in Fig. 1, the device is applied to a filling-head A of the kind ordinarily employed in bottling carbonated beverages and adapted to be secured to a soda-Water tank, said head having a slidable rod a extending therethrough, which rod is operated by means of a lever B, pivoted to the rod (0 by means of a pivot b, and said lever is provided on one end by a handle C and has its other end pivoted to a link 0, which latter in turn is pivoted to a fixed arm 0, outwardly projecting from the filling-head. The rod (0 is provided on its lower end with a hook c for the purpose of sealing the stopper in the bottle after the carbonated water has been admitted thereinto.

The sealing-head is provided with two oppositely-disposed outwardly-projecting arms D, by which the bottle-holder of the present invention is supported. The bottle -holder itself consists of two supporting rods or bars cl, suitably spaced for the insertion of a bottle and of a length to support bottles of varying size, said supporting-rods being provided at their upper end with curved portions (Z, adapted to hook over the outwardly-projecting arms D, and saidcurved portions or hooks are adapted to quickly and easily slip over the laterally-projecting arms. To said rods is attached a base plate or disk E, through which is screw-threaded a stud e, supportingaplatform 6, which serves as a base or rest for the bottle to be inserted into the holder. The screw-threaded stud a is provided on its lower or outer end with an adjusting-wheel 0 which enables the platform to be raised or lowered in order to adapt the holder for use with bottles of varying lengths. The two arms are held distended by means of a curved brace c, which is attached to the supporting-rods at a suitable distance from their base and is curved to conform to the curvature of a bottle.

In use when it is intended to bottle carbonated beverages at a soda-fountain a sealinghead of the character indicated is substituted for the faucet ordinarily employed and the bottle-holder of the present invention is inserted into place by hooking the supporting rods over the projecting arms on the sealinghead, and a bottle is then inserted into place on the platform, after which said platform may be screwed up, thereby forcing the mouth of the bottle into the sealing-head and at the same time holding the su pporting-rods in rigid contact with the laterally-projecting rods on the sealing-head, and the action of the screwthreaded stud tends at the same time to force the bottle up and draw the rods down at one operation.

It will be'seen that the bottle-holder of the present invention is simple in construction and of a character to be easily attached to and removed from a sealing-head and that it enables the operator to bottle his goods directly at the sodafountain, if so desired, without the necessity for buying goods already bottled, thereby obviating the necessity of keeping a large supply of bottled goods in stock. Although the present invention has been described in connection with a seal adapted for use in connection withsoda-fountains, it is obvious that it may be readily attached to sealing-heads of any ordinary character.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a sealing head adapted to be attached to a soda-water tank and having a slidable hooked rod extending therethrough, a bottle-holder having supporting-rods adapted to be rcmovably secured to the sealing-head, a base to which the supporting-rods are rigidly attached, a support for a bottle, and ascrew-threaded stud for upwardly projecting the bottle-support, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a sealing head adapted to be removably secured to a sodawater tank and provided with a slidable hooked rod extending therethrough, and arms outwardly projecting therefrom, a bottleholder provided with rods adapted to be hooked onto the outwardly-projecting arms, a base to which the rods are rigidly secured, a platform between the arms, and a screw threaded stud attached to the platform and projecting through the base for upwardly projecting the platform to force the mouth of a bottle into the slotted head and hold the sup porting-arms rigidly onto the outwardly-extending arms, substantially as described.

JOHN F. CHRISTIN.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL W. BANNING, \VALknR BANNING.

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