US1124246A - Apparatus for preventing waste. - Google Patents

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Patented Jan. 12, 1915' IN 1/ EN TOR 4 VVi/IhE/m fi/bmc/vi A TTOR/VEV W. ALBRECHT.

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APPLICATION FILED MABJ, 1911.

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WILHELM ALBRECHT, OF BGSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FGR PREVENTING WASTE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 7, 1911. Serial No. 612,825.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W'ILHELM ALBRncn'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, Suffolk county, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Preventing Waste, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in racking apparatus, and the same has for its object more particularly to provide a simple, ellicient and reliable device for preventing waste due to overflow in the operation of racking liquor from a cask in the course of the operation of bottling or packing.

Further, said invention hasfor its object to provide a device which may be readily disposed within the bunghole of a barrel and adapted to receive the filling tubes by means of which the bottles or packages are filled.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a device which may be readily fitted into the bunghole of a cask, and provided with a receptacle for receiving the liquid which is displaced by the air and liquid tubes, and from which receptacle liquid so forced into the same will be returned to the cask as liquid is withdrawn from said cask, and into the bottles or packages to be filled.

Further, said invention has for its ob ject to provide a device which can be readily taken apart in order to permit of the cleaning thereof.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully clescribed and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side view, partly broken away and in section, showing a cask and means for filling a plurality of bottles combined with a device for saving waste, constructed according to and embodying my said invention; Fig. 2 is a side view of the device for preventing the waste; Fig. 3 is a top view thereof, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged, de

tail central sectional view, showing the interior construction and arrangement of the several parts of the device.

In said drawings, 10 designates a cask, or other suitable receptacle, containing the liquid to be racked off into bottles or packages 11, 11.

12 denotes a hollow, preferably hemispherical, receptacle made of metal, or other suitable material, having a flange 12 along its edge, and provided upon its outer side with loops or eyes 13, 13 to wh ch are pivotally secured screws 14, 14: provided at their threaded ends with wing nuts 15, 15.

17 denotes a removable top or cover having a central opening 18; an air vent or aperture 19, and a series of recesses 20 20 in its outer edge adapted to receive the threaded ends of the screws 14, 14. The cover 17 is further provided upon its under side, adjacent to its edge, with a depending flange 17*.

20 denotes a tube centrally arranged within the receptacle 12 and secured thereto adjacent to its lower end; The upper end of said tube 20 is open and adapted to eX- tend through the central opening 18 in the cover 17, and the lower end or said tube projects through the bottom of the receptacle 12. Adjacent to its upper edge said tube 20 is provided with a flange 21, and below said flange, but within the receptacle 12, said tube 20 is provided with overflow apertures 22, 22.

23 denotes an annular packing of rubber, or other suitable material, interposed between the outer edge of the cover 17, and the rim 12 of the receptacle 12, and 2% denotes a similar packing arranged upon the flange 21, and surrounding the upper end of the tube 20.

25 denotes an annular bushing made of Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

rubber, or other suitable material, disposed upon the lower projecting portion of the tube 20, and having a laterally projecting flange 26 at its upper end adapted to contact with the under side of the receptacle 12. The said bushing 25 is adapted to be fitted into the bunghole 27 of the cask 10, in order to effect an air-tight closure between said receptacle 12 and the cask 10.

28 denotes a hollow rubber plug having its upper end curved and arranged in a position substantially at right-angles to the main portion of saidplug, and provided with an end or head 29 having a series of openings 30, 30 therein adapted to receive a series of liquid tubes 31, 81 made of rubher, or other suitable material, which tubes are fitted snugly within said openings 30, 30 in the head 29, and extend downwardly through the plug 28, the tube 20, and into the cask 10 to a point ad acent to the bottom thereof.

32 denotes an air tube also made of rubber, or other suitable material, extending through the head 29 in the plug 28 and the tube 20, and terminating at a point directly below the lower end of the tube 20. The outer end of the air tube 32 is adapted to be connected with a suitable source of air supply for the purpose of conducting air into the cask above the liquid contained therein, while the outer ends of the liquid tubes 31, 31 are adapted to be inserted into the bottles or receptacles 11, 11 to be filled with the liquid from the cask 10.

The operation of the device is as follows: In order to initiate the siphoning operation to withdraw the liquid from the cask 10, it merely becomes necessary to insert the tube 20 of the receptacle 12 into the bunghole of the cask and effect a tight closure between the bushing 25 and the bunghole 27. Hereupon the hollow plug 28 is inserted into the upper end of the tube 20, and the ends of the tubes 31, 31 immersed in the liquid, to a point directly above the bottom of the cask 10. The air tube 32 is then so adjusted within the hollow plug 28 that its inner end shall project slightly beyond the lower, inner end of the tube 20. Hereupon, the outer ends of the liquid tubes 31, 31 are disposed within the mouths of the bottles or packages to be filled. To start the siphoning action, it merely becomes necessary to introduce air through the air tube 32, and cause the same to act upon the liquid contained within the cask 10, and force the same upwardly through the liquid tubes 31, 31, and into the receptacles or bottles 11, 11. As soon as the flow of the liquid has been established, the same will continue until said flow is stopped by the operator when the bottles or packages 11, 11 are filled to the desired extent. It will, 9f course, be understood that when the air is introduced into the cask, through the air tube 32, that the air vent or aperture 19 in the receptacle 12 must be closed, which may be done by pressing the finger upon the cover or top 17 directly over said aperture. Any liquid which may be forced upwardly within the tube 20, when the liquid tubes 31, 31 are inserted in a full cask through the tube 20, will be caused to issue through the openings 22, 22 in the portion of the tube disposed within the receptacle 12, and cause the liquid to collect within the receptacle 12. hen the siphoning action has been duly initiated, and the flow of liquid from the cask has been established, the 'air pressure is discontinued by uncovering the air vent 'or aperture 19 in the top 17. The overflow will thereupon be permitted to return from the receptacle 12 into the cask 10 through the openings 22, 22, and the tube 20.

It will be readily apparent that by means of my device, 1 am enabled to fill bottles and other packages in the ordinary manner, and at the same time prevent all loss due to overflow when the liquid tubes are inserted into the full cask, or air pressure first applied.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat, cut, is

1. A device of the character described, comprising a closed receptacle having an aperture in the top thereof, a tube arranged in said receptacle having its upper end open and projecting through the top of said receptacle, and its lower end projecting beyond the bottom of said receptacle, and having openings provided in the portion thereof arranged wholly within said receptacle, and a bushing disposed upon the lower end of said tube below said receptacle, substantially as specified.

2. A device of the character described comprising a receptacle, a cover therefor having a central opening therein and a smaller aperture to the side thereof, means for securing said cover to said receptacle, a tube secured adjacent to its lower end in said receptacle and having its upper end open and extending through the central opening in said cover and having its portion disposed within said receptacle provided with perforations, a flange upon said tube adjacent to its upper end, an annular packing disposed upon said receptacle intermediate its edge and said cover therefor, and a packing disposed upon the flange arranged upon said tube, substantially as specified.

3. A device of the character described 0 comprising a receptacle, a cover therefor having a central opening therein, a smaller aperture to the side thereof, a tube extending through said receptacle having the portion thereof arranged within said receptacle 1 5 perforated and provided adjacent to its upperedge with an annular flange, and its extreme upper end adapted to be fitted into the central opening in said cover, an annular packing disposed upon the edge of said re- 120 ceptacle, and a similar packing surrounding the upper end of said tube and resting upon the flange adjacent to the upper end thereof, and means adapted to engage said cover whereby to hold the same detachably se- 125 cured to said receptacle, substantially as specified.

4:. A. device of the character described, the combination of a, receptacle, a cover secured thereto having an aperture therein, a tube 130 arranged in said receptacle open at its top air tube extending through said plug, suband bottom; said tube having its upper end stantially as specified. secured to said cover and projecting there- Signed at the city of Boston, in the county through, and its lower end projecting beof Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachu- 5 lOW the base of said receptacle, and the porsetts, this first day of March, one thousand 15 tion thereof disposed Within said receptanine hundred and eleven.

cle provided With perforations, a bushing WILHELM ALBRECHT. disposed upon said tube, a plug disposed Witnesses: in the upper end of said tube having a plu- Gno. MILLER,

10 rality of flexible liquid tubes, and a flexible A. L. SCI-IUBERT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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