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US654369A
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  • This invention relates to an improved apparatus for pasteurizing beer, the'object being to provide a simple, cheap, and convenient apparatus for treating the bottled beer to destroy the yeast molecules and germs contained therein, whereby further fermentation is prevented.
  • Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of my improved apparatus.
  • Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.
  • Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the chain on which the bottle-carriers are mounted.
  • Fig. 4. is a similar view illustrating a slightly-different manner of mounting the bottle-carriers on the chain.
  • Fig. 5 is a detail View of the bottle support.
  • Fig. 6 is a detail view of a modified form of bottle-support.
  • ct indicates a tank made, preferably, of sheet metal and divided by partition-walls b and 0 into compartments (1, e, and fiadapted to contain a pasteurizing fluid, thecompart-v ments being provided with suitable supply and overflow pipes.
  • Said tank is supported by vertical standards g, between which are arranged cross-pieces h, preferably T-shaped in cross-section.
  • the standards extend some distance above the tank and are connected at their upper ends by' horizontally-arranged L-shaped rails 2", while crosspieces j also connect the upper ends of the standards.
  • Rails 1 carry suitable journalboxes, in which are mounted shafts having sprocket-wheels l6 and Z, the former beinglocated at the front end of the machine and the latter at the rear end thereof.
  • These sprockets 7c and l are preferably arranged in pairs and are fixed to their respective shafts.
  • m indicates L-shaped rails or elongated brackets, which are secured to the inner faces of the side walls of the several compartments of the tanks near the upper edges thereof, while above the ends of said rails are mounted pairs of idle sprockets n on suitable shafts extending across the top of the tank.
  • 0 indicates idle sprockets of somewhat larger diameter than the sprockets n or of such diameter that the bottles carried by the supports will'clear the shafts of said sprockets.
  • the tank is provided with suitable pockets or offsets p in its side walls for receiving the idlers o for the purpose of enabling said sprockets to run free and not to be partially submerged in the contents of the tank.
  • These sprockets o are in juxtaposition to the partition-walls Z) andc and also arranged between the ends of the several rails m in the tank.
  • q indicates parallel endless chains, which runover sprockets 70, Z, and o and under the sprockets 'n, which last-mentioned sprockets force the chains down onto the rails m, while the sprockets 0, between said rails, cause the chains to rise over the partitions in the tank.
  • Chains q preferably consist of the links o through whose eyes passrods 8, said rods being common to both chains.
  • the usual spacing-blocks t are arranged between the links of 'the chain for well-understood purposes.
  • Rods s carry bottle-supports, preferably such as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, inwhich former the support (marked to) consists of a rod or wire so bent as to form eyes at its extremity,which encircle therods 8, while the middle portion of the rod or wire is looped and then bent to form the rearwardly-opening pocket for receiving the neck of the bottle, the Iflange forming the mouth of t the bottle resting on the rod or wire and supporting the bottle, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5.
  • the bottle-support consists of a wire '22, formed with eyes or bent portions, by which the same may be attached to the rods 8, the extremities of said rod or wire crossing each other and forming a yielding support, having a contracted mouth through which the neck of the bottle is forced and tightly held in position, the bottle being supported by the flange forming the mouth, as shown by dotted lines.
  • the pocket preferably opens toward the rear end of the machine, so that the resistance encountered by the bottles passing through the pasteurizing fluid of the compartments tends to firmlyseat the bottle in this support.
  • the support shown in Fig. 6 in grasping the neck of the bottle may open either toward the front or rear end of the machine, as is obvious, but preferably toward the rear end, and this construction has the advantage of being capable of employment in connection with empty bottles when it is desired to wash them in the tank, the yielding mouth preventing the empties from floating and escaping from their supports.
  • one pair of the idle sprockets n are preferably vertically adjustable by means of a pinion rack mechanism operated by a handwheel. (Shown in Fig. 1.)
  • I provide a housing 9, which incloses the first pair of sprockets 0 and the adjacent sprockets '11, said housing extending across the machine, so asto form a chamber.
  • each support and its suspended bottle is capable of independent movement, substantially as described.
  • the combination with a tank of an endless carrier comprising a pair of chains and connecting-rods, means for driving said carrier, and bottle-supports pivotally mounted on said rods for suspending the bottles by their necks, the pockets in said supports opening only toward the rear end of the machine, substantially as described.

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No. 654,369. Pat ented July 24, I900.
E. WAGNER. APPARATUS FOR PASTEURIZING BEER.
(Application med June 30, 1999.)
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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
EDWARD WAGNER, 0E sT. LOUIS, MissoUnI, ASSIGNOR TO THE MODEL nor'rmne MACHINERY oo'MPAnY, OF SAME PLACE.
APPARATUS FLOR. PASTEURI'ZING BEER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,369, dated. July 24, 19cc. Application filed une 30,1899. Serial r... 722,439. (NomodeL) To all whom it may concerns V Be it known that I, EDWARD WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Pasteurizing Beer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for pasteurizing beer, the'object being to provide a simple, cheap, and convenient apparatus for treating the bottled beer to destroy the yeast molecules and germs contained therein, whereby further fermentation is prevented.
The invention consists in the improved apparatus hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the chain on which the bottle-carriers are mounted. Fig. 4. is a similar view illustrating a slightly-different manner of mounting the bottle-carriers on the chain. Fig. 5 is a detail View of the bottle support. Fig. 6 is a detail view of a modified form of bottle-support.
Referring now more particularly to the drawings,ct indicates a tank made, preferably, of sheet metal and divided by partition-walls b and 0 into compartments (1, e, and fiadapted to contain a pasteurizing fluid, thecompart-v ments being provided with suitable supply and overflow pipes. (Not shown.) Said tank is supported by vertical standards g, between which are arranged cross-pieces h, preferably T-shaped in cross-section. 'The standards extend some distance above the tank and are connected at their upper ends by' horizontally-arranged L-shaped rails 2", while crosspieces j also connect the upper ends of the standards. Rails 1 carry suitable journalboxes, in which are mounted shafts having sprocket-wheels l6 and Z, the former beinglocated at the front end of the machine and the latter at the rear end thereof. These sprockets 7c and l are preferably arranged in pairs and are fixed to their respective shafts. m indicates L-shaped rails or elongated brackets, which are secured to the inner faces of the side walls of the several compartments of the tanks near the upper edges thereof, while above the ends of said rails are mounted pairs of idle sprockets n on suitable shafts extending across the top of the tank. 0 indicates idle sprockets of somewhat larger diameter than the sprockets n or of such diameter that the bottles carried by the supports will'clear the shafts of said sprockets. The tank is provided with suitable pockets or offsets p in its side walls for receiving the idlers o for the purpose of enabling said sprockets to run free and not to be partially submerged in the contents of the tank. These sprockets o are in juxtaposition to the partition-walls Z) andc and also arranged between the ends of the several rails m in the tank.
q indicates parallel endless chains, which runover sprockets 70, Z, and o and under the sprockets 'n, which last-mentioned sprockets force the chains down onto the rails m, while the sprockets 0, between said rails, cause the chains to rise over the partitions in the tank.
Chains q preferably consist of the links o through whose eyes passrods 8, said rods being common to both chains. The usual spacing-blocks t are arranged between the links of 'the chain for well-understood purposes. Rods s carry bottle-supports, preferably such as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, inwhich former the support (marked to) consists of a rod or wire so bent as to form eyes at its extremity,which encircle therods 8, while the middle portion of the rod or wire is looped and then bent to form the rearwardly-opening pocket for receiving the neck of the bottle, the Iflange forming the mouth of t the bottle resting on the rod or wire and supporting the bottle, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5.
In Fig. 6 the bottle-support consists of a wire '22, formed with eyes or bent portions, by which the same may be attached to the rods 8, the extremities of said rod or wire crossing each other and forming a yielding support, having a contracted mouth through which the neck of the bottle is forced and tightly held in position, the bottle being supported by the flange forming the mouth, as shown by dotted lines.
In using the construction shown in Fig. 5 the pocket preferably opens toward the rear end of the machine, so that the resistance encountered by the bottles passing through the pasteurizing fluid of the compartments tends to firmlyseat the bottle in this support.
The support shown in Fig. 6 in grasping the neck of the bottle may open either toward the front or rear end of the machine, as is obvious, but preferably toward the rear end, and this construction has the advantage of being capable of employment in connection with empty bottles when it is desired to wash them in the tank, the yielding mouth preventing the empties from floating and escaping from their supports.
As shown in Fig. 3, the eyes of the supports which encircle the rods 8 abut against each other, and thus space the supports the proper distance apart, or, as shown in Fig. 4, washers w may be strung on the rods 8, between the supports, to act as spacers therefor. Sleeves a: are also preferably employed on the rods 8 to act as distance-pieces between the chains; but these sleeves can be dispensed with, in which event the bottle -supports proper will act as distance-pieces. Any suitable gearing or power-transmitting device may be employed for driving either of the sprockets 7a or Z; but I prefer to drive the rear sprocket, as the weight in the construction shown in Fig. 1 is on the lower side of the chain and will then be pulled through the tank.
An attendant stands at the front end of the machine and introduces the bottles in their supports, which bottles are then carried-onward. by the chains and submerged in the pasteurizing fluid of compartment d. The sprockets are partially relieved of the weight of the bottles by the rails m, the sprockets n at the ends of said rails holding the chains in the proper position thereon. As the bottles approach the rear end of the first compart= ment the chain is elevated by the first pair of sprockets-o and the bottles clear the partition I), after which they sink into the pasteurizing fluid of the second compartment e,where-' in the chains are likewise supported by rails m, the idle sprockets n at the ends holding said chains in their proper position. As the chains are elevated by the second pair of sprockets o in order that the bottles may clear the partition 0 said bottles receive the spray from a pipe y. The chains in this compartment are supported on said rails m, being held thereon by idle sprockets n, as already described, after which the chains rise upwardly to the driving-sprockets l, and in rising the bottles receive the spray from a second pipe y; An attendant at the rear end of the machine receives the bottles as they emerge from the last tank and removes them from their supports.
By arranging the endless conveyer whereby it passes downwardly at an inclination into the tank at the forward end thereof and up wardly at an inclination from the rear end and in returning travels above the sameevery bottle on the conveyer is at all times accessible to the operators hand and inconvenience in loading and unloading is obviated, because the operator can stand close under the ap proaching or receding line of bottles and with ease place or remove the same. It is also obviouslyea'sier to install a plant of this character,where the conveyer passes on supports over instead of under the machine.
In order to take up the slack of the chains,-
one pair of the idle sprockets n are preferably vertically adjustable by means of a pinion rack mechanism operated by a handwheel. (Shown in Fig. 1.)
To prevent the bottles being affected by the atmosphere after they are dippedin the pasteurizing fluid of compartment 01, I provide a housing 9, which incloses the first pair of sprockets 0 and the adjacent sprockets '11, said housing extending across the machine, so asto form a chamber.
Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is
l. In an apparatus of the character de, scribed, the combination with a tank of an endless carrier, and bottle supports pivotally' mounted on said carrier, the pockets of which open toward the rear end of the machine, said supports cooperating with the necks of the.
bottles to suspend them, substantially asdescribed.
2. In an apparatus of the character de-v scribed, the combination with a tank of an endless carrier, individual bottle supports carried by said carrier, said supports cooperating with the necks of the bottles to suspend them,whereby each support and its suspended bottle is capable of independent movement, substantially as described.
3. In an apparatus of the character de-- scribed, the combination with a tank of an endless carrier dipping into said tank and in dependently-movable bottle-supports pivoted v to said endless carrier, saidbottle-supports for suspending the bottles by their necks, substantially as described.
6. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a tank of an endless carrier, comprising a pair of chains and connecting-rods, means for driving said carrier, and bottle-supports pivotally mounted on said rods for suspending the bottles by their necks, the pockets in said supports opening only toward the rear end of the machine, substantially as described.
7. The combination with parallel chains, composed of links and spacing blocks, of pivot-rods or pintles passing through the eyes of said links and spacing-blocks, and bottlesupports mountedon said rods or pintles and interposed between said chains, said bottlesupports receiving the necks of the bottles whereby said bottles are suspended and capable of independent movement, substantially as described.
8. The combination with parallel links and chains, com posed of links and spacing-blocks, of pivot-rods or pintles passing through the eyes of said links and spacing-blocks, and a plurality of bottle-supports mounted on said rods or pintles, said bottle-supports being so arranged as to assist in spacing the chains, substantially as described.
9. The combination with parallel chains composed of links and spacing-blocks, of pintles common to both chains and passing through the eyes of said links and spacingblocks, sleeves or washers on said pintles between the chains, and a plurality of bottlesupports mounted on the pintles between said chains, substantially as described.
10. The combination with parallel chains, composed of links and spacing-blocks, of pivot-rods or pintles passing through the eyes of said links and spacing-blocks, sleeves encircling said pintles for spacing said chains, and a plurality of bottle-supports mounted upon said pintles between said chains, substantially as described.
11. The combination with a tank,of sprockets arranged at each end thereof, idle sprockets arranged above the tank inpairs, some of which idle sprockets are of larger diameter than others, an endless carrier passing over and under said sprockets, bottle-supports pivotally mounted on said endless carrier for suspending the bottles by their necks, and partition-wallsin the tank opposite the sprockets of larger diameter, substantially as described.
12. The combination with a tank having said rails beyond the ends of the tank, sprockets mounted along the upper edges of the tank, an endless carrier composed of chains and connecting-rods which cooperate with said sprockets in such manner that the chains travel at an angle downwardly into and upwardly from the ends of the tank and follow a serpentine course or zigzag path between the ends of the tank, and bottle-carriers mounted on said connecting rods, substantially as described.
15. The combination with a tank of an endless carrier, bottle-carriers pivotally mounted on said endless carrier adapted to cooperate with the necks ot the bottles, raiils supported above said tank extending beyond the ends thereof, sprocket-wheelsmounted upon said rails beyond the ends of the tank, and sprocket-Wheels mounted upon the upper edges of the tank at or near its end, so that said endless carrier will,in its course of travel,
pass at an angle downwardly into the front end of the tank and upwardly and outwardly from the rear end of the tank, substantially as described.
16. The combination with a tank having sprockets mounted thereon, of sprockets supported above and beyond each end of the tank, and an endless carrier passing around all of the sprockets and thereby in its course of travel passing downwardly at an angle into the tank at the front end thereof and upward] y and outwardly at the rear end thereof, substantially as described.
In testimony whereof I hereunto alfiX my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 22d day of June, 1899.
EDWARD WAGNER.
Witnesses:
HUGH KPWAGNER, A. S. GRAY.
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