US785001A - Machine for bottling liquids. - Google Patents

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- PATENTED MAR-.14, 1905.

, J. A.VHI GKS. MACHINE FOR BOTTLING LIQUIDS.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 27, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented. March 14, 1905.

PATENT O FICE.

JOHN AUGUSTUS HICKS, OFSUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY

MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE AUTO STOPPER COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR BOTTLING LIQUIDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,001, dated March 14, 1905.

Application filed July 2'7, 1904. Serial No. 218.342. 7

of New Jersey, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Machines for Bottling Liquids, of which the following is a specifiing Fig. 1.

cation.

My invention relates to machines for bottling liquids; and it consists in certain elements and combinations of elements fully specified and claimed hereinafter. v

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may understand, construct, and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a bottling-machine to which I attach my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section on line X X, but without the framework. This view is taken looking from right to left of the draw- Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section of the bottling-head looking from the front of the machine as illustrated in Fig. 1 and showing my invention in enlargement of Figs. 1 and 2 without lettering and describing the parts of the machine which are common to most bottling-machines and well known to those skilled in the art of bottling liquids, Whether under pressure or not.

I will describe the particular parts which are novel and my invention.

A is the usual bottling-head, secured in cross-frame B by nuts C. D is the taper tube which runs vertically through this head A, and through this a plunger E operates up and down. This tube D has no openings into its inner circumference, as is the usual custom, for the entrance of the fluid into it in its passage to the bottle which is being filled nor for the exit of the air,

which escapes from the bottle while it is being filled, called by bottlers snifling.

account the tube D is smooth and unobstructed throughout its whole length, and therefore cannot abrade the cork which is forced through it by the plunger in corking the bottle after On this and not, as is usual, to the tube D. H is an opening in the bottling-head for the discharge of air from the bottle while being filled and has a passage J to connect it with the bottom of the bottling-head instead of to the tube D, as is usual. Into the opening H is screwed a discharge-pipe having a valve to regulate the airdischarge, usually called the sniffing-valve. At the bottom of the bottling-head A a flange K is fastened by screws Land having an opening in its center equal to the diameter of the lower end of the taper tube D. A washer M, located between the bottom of the bottlinghead and the flange K, separates the two a slight distance, so that a space is provided for the entrance into it of fluid through passage G and the exit of air to passage J. A rubber gasket N is secured beneath flange K by a flanged nut O. This gasket N has a hole in it of proper size to fit the top of bottle which is to be filled and makes a tight joint between flange K and the bottle-mouth. The tube D carries the stopper when the machine is being operated to fill bottles and cork or seal them.

In Fig. 3 is shown a bottle being in position to be filled, with the stopper in the tube D. Q is the bottle. upon the bottle-mouth and having an opening in the top surface centrally of said surface and of smaller diameter than the diameter of the bore of the bottle.

The gasket N is shown compressed upon a shoulder S on the bottle-neck to make a tight joint between the bottling-head and the bottle. Fig. 4c shows a top view of the flange K.

T is the valve which opens or closes the R is the sealing-cap secured connection of the bottling-head passages G with the source of supply for the fluid, usually under great pressure.

Fig. 1 shows the bottling-head and its vari-- ous parts compressed upon the bottle-mouth by means of foot-lever U and its connections with the sliding frame B, which carries the bottling-head in the usual manner.

The operation of filling a bottle by the bottling-machine as illustrated in the drawings is as follows: The valve T being closed, the traveling cross-head, which carries the plunger E, being at,its topmost limit of throw, and the lower end of the plunger above the top of the bottling-head, a stopper of larger diameter than the top of the tube D is placed in the tube D and the plunger forced down upon it, driving it downward in the said tube and squeezing it to the diameter of the lower part of the taper tube D to about the position shown in Fig. 3. The bottle to be filled is then placed under the bottom of the bottlinghead and tube D and resting on the table in a cup Y. The bottling-head A is then brought down upon the bottle Q by the foot-lever U and its connections to said head, so that the gasket N rests upon the bottle Q, firmly, making a tight joint, as shown in Fig. 3. The valve T is then opened and the fluid under pressure is led into the bottle Q through the passage Gr and the bottle filled nearly to the top, the air which was in the said bottle escaping through passage J and the sniflingvalve above referred to and which is a wellknown device and is a spring-valve set to the desired pressure. The plunger is then forced downward by the hand-lever Z and its connections until the stopper has entered the bottle-mouth to the desired extent. In the bottle the bottle-cap and seals the bottle by pressure from within the bottle. The bottle is then removed and 'the operation is repeated with another bottle.

As there are no openings in the circumference of tube D, there can be no abrasion of the stopper, as in the case with bottling-tubes which are perforated by the filling and the air-discharge openings and are both filling and corking tubes.

Having now fully described my invention and the manner in which I have embodied it, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bottling-head for bottling-machines, the combination consisting of the corkingtube as D; a flange-plate secured to the base of said bottling-head, surrounding the base of said corking-tube, and forming a space between the said flange and the base of said bottling-head; passages for conveying fluid and for air-discharge leading to and from the space between said flange and the base of said corking-tube, all combined and arranged substantially as specified, whereby the fluids in their passage to and air in its passage from a vessel being filled, passes beneath the corkingtube into the bottle substantially as specified.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 25th day of J uly, A. D. 1904:.

JOHN AUGUSTUS HICKS.

Witnesses:

JAMES M. HICKS, N. P. BARR.

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