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Arts, Inventions, &C.
ARTS , INVENTIONS , & c .
Bctts ' s Patent Metallic Capsules . Under this head we class a most excellent invention . —Whoever succeeds , in these days of active competition , in producing a superior article of consumption , particularly if it be applicable to general use , must make up his mind to maintain his ground against a host of assailants . Nor must he be surprised if , foremost among his competitors , some will develop the faculty of imitation in a manner closelapproximating to fraud . An inventortherefore
y , , must be forearmed , if it be possible , for his own protection ; ancl , as a sort of trustee in common , for the security of the public , he must be equally in a condition to save every purchaser from imposition . Now this is , perhaps , the fortunate position of some single originator of a good thing out of a thousand of his less successful compeers . Just in that enviable situation stands our worthy Brother , AA'illiam Belts , as one of the firm of J . T . Belts , jun and Co ., proprietors of the
Patent Brand y Distillery , Smithfield Bars . Having made great and well deserved progress in the sale of that article , the purity and healthfulness of which are vouched for by the best chemical analysers , and backed by the opinion and practice , ( by prescription , ) of the highest medical authorities , in the most celebrated hospitals in the kingdom , their success has caused numberless attempts to be made for the introduction of inferior and spurious articles , in substitution of their Patent Brandy , liut , by the use of an invention , patented in this country by Mr . J . T .
Belts , sen ., their predecessor at the distillery , they are enabled to set imitation and fraud at defiance . This invention is called the Patent Metallic Capsule . AA'ith it the neck and mouth of the bottle is hermetically sealed ; and , the capsule having the name and address of the firm embossed upon it , and being necessaril y destroyed on the extraction of the cork , any attempt at fraud must be instantaneousl y detected . The capsules are made of the
celebrated Banca tin , the produce of the East Indies . The machinery by which they are made is so beautiful that it deserves particular mention . The metal is cast in long strips or bands , ivhich are passed successively between four pairs of cylinders , until the proper degree of tenuity and polish is obtained . The ribbands of metal are then placed in the grip of another machine , ivhich cuts them into circular discs . The process of shaping die discs into capsules is very ingenious ; ancl the machinery
employed is complex ancl elaborate . The discs are dropped into a hopper , and each one is separately thrust by a plunger , or stamper , into a circular orifice , which gives to the disc its first approximation to the cap form ; the embryo capsule is then transferred , by the self-acting movement of an eccentric wheel , to about a dozen other stampers ; by each of which it is thrust successively into corresponding orifices , until it is completel y formed . The name and device required are
subsequently stamped with a die by the usual process . The method of fastening the capsule on the bottle or jar is very simple : a small cord twisted round the neck of the vessel , bow-string fasliion , effectually secures it , with the addition of a touch of cement .
Of course the valuable application of this invention is not confined , by the proprietor , to his own immediate purposes . It is of the most extensive utility ; ancl has been already adopted by a long list of wine merchants , soda water manufacturers , pickle and sauce makers , and , in
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Arts, Inventions, &C.
ARTS , INVENTIONS , & c .
Bctts ' s Patent Metallic Capsules . Under this head we class a most excellent invention . —Whoever succeeds , in these days of active competition , in producing a superior article of consumption , particularly if it be applicable to general use , must make up his mind to maintain his ground against a host of assailants . Nor must he be surprised if , foremost among his competitors , some will develop the faculty of imitation in a manner closelapproximating to fraud . An inventortherefore
y , , must be forearmed , if it be possible , for his own protection ; ancl , as a sort of trustee in common , for the security of the public , he must be equally in a condition to save every purchaser from imposition . Now this is , perhaps , the fortunate position of some single originator of a good thing out of a thousand of his less successful compeers . Just in that enviable situation stands our worthy Brother , AA'illiam Belts , as one of the firm of J . T . Belts , jun and Co ., proprietors of the
Patent Brand y Distillery , Smithfield Bars . Having made great and well deserved progress in the sale of that article , the purity and healthfulness of which are vouched for by the best chemical analysers , and backed by the opinion and practice , ( by prescription , ) of the highest medical authorities , in the most celebrated hospitals in the kingdom , their success has caused numberless attempts to be made for the introduction of inferior and spurious articles , in substitution of their Patent Brandy , liut , by the use of an invention , patented in this country by Mr . J . T .
Belts , sen ., their predecessor at the distillery , they are enabled to set imitation and fraud at defiance . This invention is called the Patent Metallic Capsule . AA'ith it the neck and mouth of the bottle is hermetically sealed ; and , the capsule having the name and address of the firm embossed upon it , and being necessaril y destroyed on the extraction of the cork , any attempt at fraud must be instantaneousl y detected . The capsules are made of the
celebrated Banca tin , the produce of the East Indies . The machinery by which they are made is so beautiful that it deserves particular mention . The metal is cast in long strips or bands , ivhich are passed successively between four pairs of cylinders , until the proper degree of tenuity and polish is obtained . The ribbands of metal are then placed in the grip of another machine , ivhich cuts them into circular discs . The process of shaping die discs into capsules is very ingenious ; ancl the machinery
employed is complex ancl elaborate . The discs are dropped into a hopper , and each one is separately thrust by a plunger , or stamper , into a circular orifice , which gives to the disc its first approximation to the cap form ; the embryo capsule is then transferred , by the self-acting movement of an eccentric wheel , to about a dozen other stampers ; by each of which it is thrust successively into corresponding orifices , until it is completel y formed . The name and device required are
subsequently stamped with a die by the usual process . The method of fastening the capsule on the bottle or jar is very simple : a small cord twisted round the neck of the vessel , bow-string fasliion , effectually secures it , with the addition of a touch of cement .
Of course the valuable application of this invention is not confined , by the proprietor , to his own immediate purposes . It is of the most extensive utility ; ancl has been already adopted by a long list of wine merchants , soda water manufacturers , pickle and sauce makers , and , in