BOTTLING MILK BY MACHINERY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 309, 5 November 1910, Page 2

BOTTLING MILK BY MACHINERY.

The filling of miik bottles by ordinary methods is such a tedious task for large metropolitan milk companies that a machine to do the work has become an absolute necessity. The latest form of milk bottling machine ib" operated by two men, one to operate the machine itself, the other to see that it is properly fed with bottles ; it has a capacity of 7,680 bottles an hour. Each operation, which takes about fifteen seconds, fills with milk twelve quart bottles in one carrier and twenty pint bottles in another. With almost human intelligence the machine picks up a carrier of empty bottles, straightens it, if it happens to be out of line, moves it under and lifts it against a battery of spouts from which the milk issues, lowers and carries it to an apparatus which automatically caps each bottle and then discharges the carrier upon a car. This cur carries the filled bottles either to a coldstorage room or a platform from which waggons are loaded. The machine is claimed to be absolutely sanitary, even the caps for the bottles being sterilized after they arc placed within it. The rate of operation may be regulated to the fraction of a second by a speedadjuster, operated by a hand-wheel. This is necessary because it takes more time to fill a quart bottle than a pint. Half-pint bottles, which have a neck the same size as a pint bottle, are also used, the machine being adapted for cream a* well as milk, also for bcttermilk. Cream and mnttermilk flow much slower than milk—another reason for the speed-adjuster.