US734809A - Bottle-filling machine. - Google Patents

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APPLICATION FILED OUT. 9, 19.02.

NO MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. BROWN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO BROWN'- WVINSTANLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF 'LOS ANGELES, CALlFORj- NIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

DPECIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 734,809, dated July 28, 1903.

Application filed October 9, 1902. Serial No. 126,462. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. BROWN, of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Filling Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains IO to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and highly efficient means for automatically controlling the filling of bottles with still liquids without loss from overflow,

[5 the supply being automatically cutoff as soon as the proper amount of liquid has been supplied to a bottle.

A further object is to provide a machine of this character suitable for bottles of different sizes.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 2 is a similar view, on an enlarged scale, of the reservoir and a portion of a bottle.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a pan or other reservoir mounted onasupport- 0 ing-arm 2 of right-angular formation, the vertical member of such arm being adjustably held in a tubular standard 3 bya screw 4.

5 designates a bottle support or platform, which, through alink 6 and a lever 7, is mounted after the form of an ordinary weighingscale, the lever 7 being fulcrumed on standard 3 and having an adjustable weight 8 mounted on its outer arm. From the bottom of the reservoir depends a short outlet-tube 9 of 0 somewhat less diameter than the opening in a bottle-neck. A valve 10, controlling the outlet, is mounted on the upper end of a stem 12, passed down through tube 9 and then bent laterally and thence upwardly to en 5 gage the outside of the tube and be guided therebyin its up and down movements. The extreme end 13 of the valve-stem is outwardly flanged, so as to be engaged by the end of-a bottle. The latter by reason of its engagement at diametrically opposite points with the outlet-tube and thenpwardly-bent portion of the valvestem is securely held as against displacement, and the bottle is free to move up and down under the action of its scale-support.

Upon placing a bottle on the platform with its upper end inclosing the lower end of the outlet-tube the Weight 8 being heavier will tilt lever 7 and cause the bottle in its upward travel upon contacting with the flanged end of the valve-stem to unseat such valve and allow the liquid to pass through the outlet-tube to the bottle. When the weight of the fluid in the bottle is a trifle greater than the counterbalancing-Weight 8, the latter will be overcome, and the bottle in moving downward with its scale-support allows the reseat ing of the valve before any waste or overflow can occur.

When it is desired to fill larger or smaller bottles, the set-screw 4 is loosened, and the reservoir and its supporting-arm may be moved up or down the proper distance and then held by the tightening of the screw.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination with the tubularstandard, of the bottle-support, the link connecting the latter to the standard, the lever fulerumed on the standard and pivoted tosaid support, a weight adj ustably secured on the outer arm of the lever, the reservoir, the support therefor extended into said standard, the binding-screw for holding such support, the outlet-tube leading from the reservoir in line with the bottle-support, the valve over the upper end of such tube having its stern extended through the latter and to one side thereof, such valve being unseated by a bottle under the action of the weighted lever, and researed when the weight of the bottle counterbalances the lever, as set forth.

2. The combination with the tubular standard, of the bottle-support, the link connecting the latter to the standard, the lever fulcrumed on the standard and pivoted to said 5 support, a Weight adjustably secured on the outer arm of the lever, the reservoir, the right-angular support therefor having its vertical member extended into said tubular standard, the binding-screw for holding such 10.0

support, the outlet-tube leading from the In testimony whereof I have signed this ing witnesses.

WILLIAM E. BROWN. 7

Witnesses:

valve over the upper end of such tube having its stem extended through the latter and 5 to one side thereof, such valve Being unseated by a bottle under the action oi the Weighted lever, and reseated when the weight of the bottle co'unterbalztnces the lever, as set forth.

'ZENA B. WVALZES, L. L. WAsHB RN.

reservoir in line with the bottle-support, the specification in the presence of two subserib- I0

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