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scum on top, ;ifter whicli the bottle may bo 

 scaled immediately. 



There is a filling device known as a goose- 

 neck for filling bottles with honey that will 

 leave no frotli. It is a sort of honey-gate 

 with a long snout, the otlior end of which 

 connects witli one end of a piece of rubber 

 hose that leads from a tank of hot honey. 

 The neck or snout should be long enough to 

 reach down to the bottom of the deepest 

 bottle used. The bottles, after washing or 

 cleaning, are placed in a tray holding one or 

 two dozen bottles at a time. This tray 

 is then put within reach of this rubber 

 hose, on the end of which is the gooseneck. 

 To fill, the snout of the implement is placed 

 near the bottom of the first bottle, when 

 the hand lever opening the device allows 

 the honey to escape from the end of the 

 snout. As the honey passes out, the snout. 



remains stationary and tlie stream of honey 

 is supplied to each bottle. This saves han- 

 dling of the bottles, which, of course, saves 

 time. But the great feature of the goose- 

 neck is not so much in tiie saving of time 

 as it is in the elimination of white froth in 

 the top of the bottle. 



When a stream of honey si.x or eight 

 inches long runs out from an ordinary 

 lioney-gate into a bottle, it gathers momen- 

 tum as it falls and carries with it bubbles 

 of air which, on rising to the top, form a 

 scum or froth. When the gooseneck is used, 

 the stream of honey is not more than half 

 an inch long; and as it passes out from the 

 end of the snout it does not carry any air 

 bubbles, but neatly and nicely it fills the 

 bottle in inuch less time than it takes to tell 

 about it; and, best of all, it leaves no froth. 



For the present, at least, a good niachin- 



The gooseneck — a device for filling jars witliout 



forming air bubbles in the honey. The snout is 



]. laced down into the jar near the bottom, then 



raised as the jar is filled. 



or gooseneck, is slowly lifted by the hand, 

 always keeping it within half an inch of the 

 surface of the honey as it rises. As soon as 

 the honey reaches the desired point in the 

 neck on the bottle the lever closes the 

 valve, when the operation is repeated with 

 the other bottles in the tray, each time care 

 being taken to introduce the snout to the 

 bottom of the bottle and raising it as the 

 bottle fills. In this way the whole dozen or 

 more bottles can be filled one at a time 

 without moving or touching a bottle. The 

 operator simply moves the gooseneck from 

 bottle to bottle. la the old-fashioned way 

 of filling a bottle from a honey-gate, the 

 honey falls from above the neck of the bot- 

 tle, the bottle moves and the gate remains 

 stationarv. With the gooseneck the bottle 



Diagram showing constructiou of the gooseneck 

 filler. K. one-inch gas pipe T; J and L, two long 

 one-inch nipi^les ; B, ping screwed into upper part 

 of T, forming a stuffing-box; M, lever; A, valve 

 stem; C, fulcrum for lever; E, valve spring; C;, 

 radial arms; F. valve; H, washer, held in place 

 by pins through nipple J; I, valve seat of soft 

 metal. 



ist can make one of these goosenecks from 

 the illustration shown herewith by making 

 use of a one-inch gaspipe T and two long 

 one-incli nipples, one forming the snout and 

 one at right angles to it forming the con- 

 nection with the hose line attached to the 

 tank containing the honey to be bottled. 

 The opening in the bottom of the snout 

 should be in the form of a poppet valve that 

 is used in such a large way on automobiles 

 nowadays. The bottom seat should be sol- 

 dered in, and both parts of the valve should 

 be ground to a fit. To make the valve seat 

 properly so it will cut off the honey in- 

 stantly, there should be little radial arms 

 fastened on the valve stem that project out 

 like the spokes of a wheel far enough to 

 come in contact with the inside of the gas- 

 pipe. The projecting arms will guide the 

 valve head into place. In the top opening 

 of the gaspipe T there should be screwed 

 a stuffing-box through which passes the 

 valve stem. On the end of this stem should 



