US696955A - Bottle-filling machine. - Google Patents

Description

No. 696,955. Patented Apr. 8, |902.

E. FIGUEREDD & L. ECHEMENDIA.

BDTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

(Application filed Oct. 29, 1901.)

` Patented Apr. 8,` |1902. E. FIGUEREDU & L. ECHEMEHDIA.

-BTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

(Application filed Oct, 29, 1901.)

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EMILIO FIGUEREDO AND LEANDRO ECHEMENDIA, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-FILLING lVlACHlN E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,955, dated April 8, 1902.

pplication led October 29, 1901. Serial No. 80,430. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, EMILIO FIGUEREDO, a citizen of Venezuela, and LEANDRO ECHE- MENDIA, a citizen of the United States, both residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle-filling machines or apparati.

The main objects of the invention are to produce a compact, cheap, and simple machine or apparatus of this character which is especially adapted for bottling spirituous liqnids of a volatile nature-such as chloroform, alcohol, and acids-where loss by evaporation will take place under exposure,to adapt such machine to avoid such exposure and consequent resulting loss while bottling, and finally to adapt such machine or apparatus to automatically and accurately measure the discharge into such bottles.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims. y

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bottle-filling machine or apparatus embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 represents details of two of the measuring-plugs. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the lower valves.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In its preferred form the machine comprises the two cylinders or reservoirs 1 2, the same being constructed of glass, metal, or other material of a non-corrosive nature or provided with a lining of such nature as may be desired. These cylinders 1 and 2 are rigidly connected in the present instance by cross-bars 3, vertically journaled, in which is a shaft 4, the ends of which extend beyond its bearings. The two cylinders are connected immediately above their lower ends by transverse upper and lower pipes 5 and 6, respectively, lthe upper pipe being provided at its center with a `two-way rotating valve 7 and the lower pipe being similarly provided with a two-way rotating valve S, the parts in one valve being oppositely disposed to those in the other. The upper valve is mounted upon and adapted to be operated by a stem 9, and the lower valve is mounted upon and adapted to be operated by a similar stern lO. The upper stem 9 is provided at its front end with an operating-handle 11 and immediately back of the same with a spur-gear 12, the latter being iXedly mounted and meshing with a companion gear 13, similarly mounted upon the lower stem 10. It will be obvious that a rotation of the upper stem 9 through the handle 11 and its valve will thus cause a reverse movement of the stem 10 and thc valve carried thereby. The case 14, in which the two valves are mounted, is provided at its rear side with a nipple 15, which communicates with the upper valve only, and to which may be connected, through a tube 16, the source of supply-the retainers-which latter may be any distance away; At the lower end of said valve-case 14 and communicating with the lower valve only is a discharge-nipple 17, which may be tapered, so as to be inserted into the neck of a bottle, or, if desired, such nipplemay be connected to a flexible tube 18, Iitted at one end with a nozzle 19, adapted to enter a bottle. (See dotted lines, Fig. 1.)

At the upper end the vertical shaft 4 may be provided with a beveled gear-wheel 19, the lower end of said shaft also carrying a similar gear-wheel 20, preferably of segmental shape. This latter gear-wheel 20 meshes with and is operated by a corresponding gear-wheel 21, mounted upon and adapted to move with the upper valve-stem 9, so that, as will be apparent, movements of said stem 9 will cause a partial rotation of the shaft 4.

At the upper end of the cylinderl is avalvecase 22, a corresponding valve-case 23 being mounted on the upper end of the companion cylinder 2. Within the valve-case 22 is seated a horizontally-disposed valve-stem 24, which at its inner end extends beyond the case and is there provided with a beveled gear-wheel 25, preferably of segmental shape and which meshes with and is adapted to be driven by the upper gear-wheel of the vertical shaft 4. This valve-stem carries a valve 26. A similar valve-stem 27, carrying a similar valve 27 a and gear-wheel 28, is seated in the companion casing 23, the said gear-wh eel 28 meshing with IOO are connected to the opposite branches of aV T-shaped coupling 33, one of the branches of which, by a tube 34, may lead to the retainer or other source of supply.

At one side of each of the overflow-nipples 29 is located an air-vent 35, which extends 'upwardly above the valve-cases.

closed, Aand vice versa,

vided 'at its lower end with an eiteriorly'- threadedjbase 39, the lower ends of the c'yl- v inders 1 and 2 being open and'li'kei ise {eX-1 terielytliread@ as at 40, TO P'IOrlde for theread'y withdrawal yand insertion of thesel plng`s,"th'e lat-ter maylh'aveformed on or attachedto the under sides ofl their'fbases webs '1 or flangestl.

follows: The capacitiesot the cylinders havving'beenadjusted, if necessary, in the in'an-` ner described and the'bottle vplacedin position, thevm'a'chin'e is ready for operation. It

will be'observed'that-one of the cylinders-in this Vinstance the cylinder l--isinopen conimu'nication with'the retainer and has -therefore'be'coine filled. Astheeylinder becomes filled any excess of liquid will-pass the overiiow-pipe tothe lheight of the liquid in the retainer. The filling of a'cylinder will be evidenced throughthe glasssight-tube, or, if

the cylinder'be of glass, it will also'be ob-4 seen that as one cylinder is emptying the other is refilling, so that the operation of measuring and filling is practically continuous. It will be further observed that this operation of the handle through the train of gearing described also relatively operates the set of upper valves. Thus, as shown in Fig. 1,'when the cylinder 2 is filling the overliowpipe thereof isfopen and the air-vent closed, while in the cylinder l, which is emptying, Ithe 'overiow-pipe is closed, so that no liquid can escape back into the cylinder from the over- How-pipe, and the vent is open. In this manner accurate measurement always results.

From the foregoing description, in connection with thelaccoinpanying drawings, it will l be apparent that the machin'eis practically The tworotary valves 26 and 27 afeachhjave l twc transverse ports 36 and 37, 'the ports'of each valve heingdisposedata right'angle to 'each lother'and communicating withtlie ov'eri flow nipples or ports and the air vents. By` this arrangement, as will be apparent, when thela'ir-ventsjare open the overflow-port'sare continuous in its operation in that as o'ne'cylinder is automatically filling its companion is discharging its contents into a bottle or other receptacle. I t willfurther be seen'thfat although the lliquid thus transferred from the retainer yto the bottles is each tiineactually and accurately measured, yet it (the liquid) 1 is at no time exposed to the atmosphere, so

vIt will be understood that the cylinders 1 and? are dfn prdterli Capacita-and; lfor the purpose of varyingthis capacity there may be provid-ed anynumber of plugs 38H preferably hollow. These plugs beinggradii- 1 atedas to size will accordingly diminish the size-of tliecylinders. Eachplug maybefprothat no loss by evaporationoccrs.

Having described our invention, what we Vthfelower case provided with 'iiileLt and 'dis- 'charg'eportsavalve seated in the upper case and provided with ports at variance 4with each other, upper and lower valves located -in the lower case, the one communicating with the discharge-port *and vthe other with the inlet-port and 'thoseof 'theltwo'valvesbeling at variance with each other, whereby Thiscom'pletes the description ofthe iin` proved bottle-filler, and the 'opera-tion is as when one is open, the other is closed, and means for simultaneously operating thethree valves.

2. In a iillingma'chine, the combination of a 'pair of reservoirs,`valvecases` mountedthe'reen and provided with lreturn or overflow jports and air-ports, rotary valves seated in the said cases and each provided with apair of ports disposed at a variance to eachother "and to those of the companion valve,alwer case common to both reservoirs and having lnlet-ports communicating with thereservoirs and with-a source of' supply, and dischargeports leading'from each reservoir to a common discharge, pair ofvalves locatedin'said lower case, the upper valve having an angular portleading from the source of'supply' and 'to one ofsaid reservoirs, and the lower valve having an oppositely-disposed angular port leading from the other of said reservoirs to the discharge, and a mechanism commento all for operating the valves of each set reve'rsely to each other.

In a lling-machine, the combination of opposite reservoirs,each provided with a valve-case at its upper end having overflowports, a valve 1n each case, upper and lower IOO IIO

pipes connecting the lower ends of the reservoirs, a supply-pipe leading to the upper pipe, a discharge leading from the lower pipe, a two-way valve located in the upper pipe, an oppositely-disposed two-way Valve located in the lower pipe, and means for simultaneously operating the four Valves for the purpose de'- scribed.

4. In a lling-machine, the combination of opposite reservoirs, a valved air-vent and a valved overflow at the upper end of each of the same, a discharge-valve for the reservoirs, a Valved inlet for the same, and means for positively alternately and reversely operating the Valves of the overflow and outlets of the opposite reservoirs simultaneously with the operation of said discharge and inlet Valves.

5. In a lling-machine, the combination of opposite reservoirs, an intermediate Valvecase having an inlet-port communicating with each reservoir and with a discharge leading from each cylinder, oppositely-disposed twoway valves located in said case, intermeshing gearscarried by the stems of said valves, an operating-handle on the lower stem and a gear on the upper stem, a valve-case on the upper end of each reservoir, air-vents in the same, overflow-ports also in said cases, rotatable valves for the cases each having an airport and overflow-port, the two being arranged at an angle to each other, gears on the inner ends of the stems of said valves, a vertical shaft, gears on the upper and lower ends of the same, said gears meshing with the gears of the upper valve-stems and with that of the lower inlet-Valve, and tubes adapted to lead from a source of supply to the inlet-port and from the overiiow-ports to said source of supply.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EMILIO FIGUEREDO. LEANDRO ECHEMENDIA. y

Witnesses:

H. WEINHAGEN, H. H. WEINHAGEN.

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