USRE3272E - Improved method of bottlinq fluids under gaseous pressure - Google Patents

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l PAUL SCHMITT, OF NEW YORK, N.Y., ASSIGNEE OF JANE QUANTIN AND H. A. PINTARD,

ADMINISTRATORS OF ALPHONSE QAN'I'IN, DECEASED.

Letters Patent No. 14,368, dated Mel/rch 4,

185e remue No. 3,175, ma otwbefz, 1 dated J 1mm/rg] .19, 1869. l

naPRovED METHOD or Roma mms UNDER GAsEoUs PRESSURE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Pal-:ent and makingpan: of the lame.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of an Improved Apparatus for lBottling Mineral-Water or 'other Fermented Beverage or Fluid 'under Gaseons Press-une, the invention of A1.- rnoxsn QUANTIN, deceased, formerly of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in ,which- Figure 1 represents an outside view orl elevation, partlyin perspective, of an apimratus constructed in accordance with said invention;

Figure 2, a vertical section of the same;

Figure 3, a side or longitudinal view of a surplus or waste-escape valve detached;

Figure 4, a view, from beneath, of the lower end of ther`1 mixing orlmeasnring-chamber of the apparatus; an

Figure 5, a vertical-section of a piston, with it-soperi ating-sclew furnished-to the measuring-chamber of the apparatus.

This invention embraces anew method of drawing otlaerated liquids, such as mineral o r soda-water, into bottles or vessels by the admissionjof any desired quantity of sii-up and aerated liquid through the 4same fillinghead or nozzle, thus effecting the sweetening or sirupingof the aerated liquid while the bottle or vessel is being filled or engaged in themachine, thereby accomplishing by a continuous operation what before required separate ones, as, for instance, first supplying, by fun# nels, or dippers, yor bottles, the sirup to the vessel to be charged or-tilled, and afterward filling the latter with the aemted iiuid from or by'a separate fountain. .This improvement is effect/ed by the combined action of valves'or cocks, operating in unison, to introduce simultancously, or at the one filling, into the `bottle or vessel, both the sirup and minerahwater.v V

.The invention may be further described as embracing a sirup-measuring chamber,`in combination with .the

1 filling-head of 'a bottling-machine; also, means or a method of operating',-whereby the Sirup is expelled from the measuring-chamber, by force applied in rear Also, the invention consists in an air-tube or vent,

'to permit the escape of air from the snap-measuring' opened and closed by the operationpf the chamber, water-drawing valve or cock.

Furthermore, the invention includes or consists in a.

o0mbination,` in the one machine or apparatus, of dis# charging-nozzle, for drawing off the aerated water with a sirup-measuring chambe1',valve controlling the egress of sirup from the measuring-chamber;A with a conduit rfor the passage of the aeiated water; likewise, geared mlfity pro" l Zisfput in m'otion, andbends at lthe returnof -the arm,

connection of cocks or valves, lto admit the aerated admitted or expelled. Y

Referring to the accompanying drawing, which dee picts one form of apparatus, and construction of certain ments- A is a tube, and f A', a cock, applied thereto, for supplying the measuring or mixing-chamber E with soda or mineral-water,

the same being discharged, by passage A", into the upper part of the chamber E,

a tube, B, which is controlled by a cock, B.

by a cock, G, is also fuinishedio the upper part of theA chamber E, or'passagc in communication with the same, to ,establish 'the necessary air-owfor admission 'ot' the sirnp into and ysecure its timely discharge from the chamber E. i

D is a cock for controlling the discharge of the mineral-water and sirup from th :chamber Er vThe sevoperate relatively to each other, substautiallyas folthe cocks A'v and D are closed, and versa. u

lthe above-named cocks or valves.

F is alvalve, arranged in the' lower portion of the chamber E, to freeisaid chamber water which it contains, before admitting the Sirup,

to or connected' with the cock D, and is shut by the action of a spring, L', aicr the passage'of the water E, said lower portion being perforated, for the purpose of allowing the waste wiister topescap'e,

H :is a knee, attached to the valve F, and passing through an4 opening `made in lthe lower partof'the the arm v4L, .that'is attached to' the cock D, by which it to prevent .the action of the valve F.

Gis a piston, furnishcdtothe chamber E, and which may be operatedby a' screw, G', or otherwise, said piston being so applied and operatingwithin the chamber E as to regulate the quantity of sirup admimd and expelled, `by increasing or diminishing the capacity of the charge. m

T is the filling or discharge-nozzle, which may be conncctedwith a cock, N, that has a passage or passes; mm No'. 3,272,

water, with the device or'nleans by which the sirup'is details-,in illustration of the above-named .improve- The sirupiis supplied to said Vchamb'cr,.preferably1at' uf point belowthe ingress of mineral-water' thereto, by .Y

Anair-tnbe or vent, O, which may be controlledl eral cocks are represented as `geared together by cogsegments orwheels, for operationin unison,'and should lows; Vthat is, when the cocks `Band y( l' arezopen, then I is a handle, attached to the cock'A, for operating i This valve isopened by an arm, L, which is attached through the 4Lower portion J. ofthe tube orcliamber chamber E, said-knee. serving to open ythe :valve F by chamber or'spaceonen to the admission of sirup eachV sages in it,- establishing communication, through its Y and retention in its place of the cock N.

Saidcock is turned, to effect its opening andl closing, by a lever, M, which is here4 shown as also serving to turn a cylinder, P, that turns the top of the stopper of the bottle in gear orfeonnected with thel filling-nozsle; that is,where bottles having such suitable or peculiarlyconstructed stoppers, as hereinafter referred to,

To operatean apparatus constructedl vasv described,

y the nozzle vl is inserted into the mouth of the vessel or bottle, or opening inthe stopper of the latter, when, the chamber E containing the' requisite measure of sirup, the cock A is opened,` by swinging laterally iu the one direction the level-1I, which permits the mineral-water to'enter the tube or chamber E, and there tomix with or force along with or before it the sirup, tlough the cock D, which is also opened, and from thence both sirup and water pass through the cock N or nozzle T'to the vessel or bottle under operation of being filled. Alter this, the lever M is turned, to close the cock N, and, in case of using such device, to give a half turn to the cylinder 1?, to close `the upper portion of the stopper, which completes the operation, supposing hottles having Stoppers to be used,A similar, for instance, to the form described in Letters- Patent issued, July 25, 1854, to the within-named AL- rnossn QUANTIN.

The. one bottle or vessel-having thus been-filled, to

repeat the operation, the lever I is reversed, or worked laterally in an opposite direction, so as t0 shut the cocks A and D, and open the sirup-cock B'vand aircock (Y, which causes the sirup, 'fed from any suitable' source through the tube B, to enter the measuring-- chamber E, regulated, as specified, by the piston G, that acts upon the top of the sirup or fluid, and.deter mines the Vquantity to be used each'charge. This done, upon turning th'e lever M, to Vopen the cock N,and

shitting the lever I,"to close the 'cocks B' audand open the cocks lA' and D', the bottle or vessel is again lled.

ns, it. will be seen that the y'sirup and minerali water, the former in any given o1" desired quantity, are supplied to the bottle or vessel by one continuous operation, audthat force isappliedto the tcp o i the column or charge of the sirup other than that of mere gravity to" expel the sirup or iniect it thi-'ou the 'lll ing-head into the-bottle or vessel 4along with t e aerated water, the same ciiectually clearing the measuring chamber cach opelaticn of sirup. The importance of the air-vent C to secure the passage of the sirup will he readily understood.v

Among the general advantages incidental to an appera'tusofthis description, may bev mentioned, the bottling ordispensing ofthe aeratcul'ivater with, if required, sirup, to davor the same, by one operation, aud which is'altogether distinct from mixing the two liquids in the metallic `foi1ntain that supplies the water, that is objectionable, on acwuut oi' galvanic' action, anil'othe'1'--` wise. 'Another general advantage is the saving Cof time, labor, liability to breakage, exposure toxinsects or dust, and waste or spilling attendant'upon the ordinary or previous method -of first puttingthe sirup, by a separate vessel, into the bottle', and atterward removing` the latter, to be' iilled with aerated wate'r'fl'om the fountain.

v The `mixing-portion of this apparatus, whichv secures I the greatest regularity', with any' desired variation in 'quantity of sirup to alcharge, may be adapted to other iillingdevices; and theA apparatus generally, thongh -particularlyjsuitable for mineial-water, isequally applicable to bottling or dispensing fermented liquids or otheriiuids under gaseous pressure.

What is here claimed, and desir d to be secured by Leners Patent, is-

1. The above-describeddevice, for filling bottles or other vessels with aerated water and sirup, consisting of conduits or passages Aand B, a sirup-rneasuring chamber,and a discharging-nozzle or their known mechanical equivalents, so arranged that the water and sirup .may be discharged from said nozzle common .-to both, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination and arran gement in one draughtapparatus of the sirup-measuring chamber and a cock or valve shown and described.

3. The 'ariangementot the sirup-conduit and the water-conduit, as a consequence of which the sirup is expelled iron: its couduit,'and s uch sirup is vmingled wth-the water `at somev distance from their common outlet, vsubstantially as shown and described.

4. The combination, substantially as described, of a valve or cock for drawing the water,'and a device for receiving and dispensing the sirup, as a consequence of which the reception and dispensing of the sirup are accomplished bythe manipulation of the valve or cock for drawing the water.

5. The construction and arrangement of the ventopening aud closing device and the water-'drawing valve or cock, as a consequence ci' which they are both operated simultaneously by the movement of water-drawing valve, substantia1ly as shown and described.

,PAUL SCHMITT. Witnesses:

. FREDERICK Tsar., Jr., Oms. .D. Wums.

for drawing'aerated water, substantially as-

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