Im- PROVED APPARATUSES FOR RECEIVING, CONTAINING, AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVED APPARATUSES FOR RECEIVING, CONTAINING, AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS."
-A communication from J. C. J. L'Hôte, of Paris.
Sealed the 1st March 1859, and dated the 4th September 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th September 1858.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVED APPARATUSES FOR RECEIVING, CONTAINING, AND DELIVERING
LIQUIDS," (communicated to me by J. C. J. L'Hôte, of Paris,) to be as
follows:-
These apparatuses are intended to receive, contain, and deliver liquids which,
on coming together, react chemically upon each other, producing effervescence,
&c., such, for example, as solutions of carbonate of soda and tartaric acid,
which are brought together and drunk as beverages while effervescing, that is,
while carbonic acid is rapidly generated and given off from the mixture.
They consist, first, of an apparatus formed of two or more vessels combined
together, or of one vessel divided into two or more compartments, such vessels
or such compartments being each furnished with a spout or exit passage, and
the whole of the spouts or exit passages having a common point of delivery, so
that when the combined vessels or the divided. vessel are or. is inclined, the

page_text: liquids flowing from the several respective vessels or compartments shall
mingle and fall together into the cup, glass, or other vessel which receives
them. In the interior of the aforesaid vessels or compartments are placed
screens or projecting parts, which prevent the exit of deposits with the
liquids poured out, and also aid in regulating the outflow of the liquids. Each
vessel or compartment has an opening at top for the introduction of the liquids,
chemicals, &c., and all the openings are closed by one lid or stopper, or by
more than one.
They consist, secondly, of an apparatus formed of two or more vessels combined
together, or of one vessel divided into two or more compartments, such vessels
or compartments being intended to contain supplies of the solutions aforesaid
or of other solutions, and being each provided with a tap and cover or stopper.
From this apparatus, apparatuses of the kind before described may be con-
veniently supplied in refreshment rooms and elsewhere.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th March 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E.C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria; by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVED APPARATUSES FOR RECEIVING, CONTAINING, AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS,"
(a communication from J. C. J. L'Hôte, of Paris,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the naturo

page_text: of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
These apparatuses are intended to receive, contain, and deliver liquids which,
on coming together, react chemically upon each other, producing effervescence,
&c., such, for example, as solutions of carbonate of soda and tartaric acid,
which are brought together and drunk as beverages while effervescing, that is,
while carbonic acid is rapidly generated and given off from the mixture.
They consist, first, of an apparatus formed of two or more vessels combined
together, or of one vessel divided into two or more compartments, such vessels
or such compartments being each furnished with a spout or exit passage, and
the whole of the spouts or exit passages having a common point of delivery, so
that when the combined vessels or the divided vessel are or is inclined, the
liquids flowing from the several respective vessels or. compartments shall
mingle and fall together into the cup, glass, or other vessel which receives
them. In the interior of the aforesaid vessels or compartments are placed
screens or projecting parts, which prevent the exit of deposits. with the liquids
poured out, and also aid in regulating the outflow of the liquids. Each vessel
or compartment has an opening at top for the introduction of the liquids,
chemicals, &c., and all the openings are closed by one lid or stopper, or by
more than one.
They consist, secondly, of an apparatus formed of two or more vessels
combined together, or of one vessel divided into two or more compartments,
such vessels or compartments being intended to contain supplies of the solu-
tions aforesaid or of other solutions, and being each provided with
tap and
cover or stopper. From this apparatus, apparatuses of the kind before
described may be conveniently supplied in refreshment rooms and elsewhere.
The first part of the Invention is illustrated by the Figures 1 to 6 of the
Drawings hereunto annexed, in which is represented an apparatus of the kind
first described.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the said apparatus; Figure 2 is a vertical
section of it; Figure 3, another vertical section at right angles to Figure 2;
Figure 4, a plan of the front half of the apparatus; Figure 5, an entire plan;

page_text: .and Figure 6, a similar plan, with different parts marked in dotted lines. The
section, Figure 3, is taken through the line A, B, of Figure 5; and the
..section, Figure 2, is taken through the line C, D, of Figure 6. The apparatus
comprises two compartments a, b, each furnished with spout 9 and g¹ respec-
tively, which have a common orifice of delivery at the nozzle g³. In the
interior of the compartments a, b, are the screens f, f,f", for retaining the
deposits and regulating the outflow of the liquids; h, h', are the openings for
the introduction of the liquids, and these are closed by the cover i, which is
connected by the chain; to the eye k; 1 is the handle. The uses and action
of the apparatus have been already explained.
The second part of the Invention is illustrated by the Figures 7 and 8 of the
.Drawings annexed, in which is represented an apparatus of the kind secondly
.described. Figure 7 is an elevation of the said apparatus partly in section;
and Figure 8 is a sectional plan of the same. A, A¹, are the two compart-
ments of the apparatus; b, b, are the taps; and C is the cover. The uses and
.action of this apparatus also have been already described.
"
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the construction of an apparatus comprising two or more vessels, or two
..or more compartments, with a spout or exit passage to each vessel or compart-
..ment, and with the whole of the spouts or exit passages having a common
point of delivery, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
Secondly, the construction of an apparatus comprising two or more vessels
or compartments, each provided with a tap and cover or stopper, in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
Thirdly, the employment in the vessels before described of internal screens
or projecting parts, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before
described.
Fourthly, the employment of a single nozzle for leading off the liquid from
several vessels.or compartments, in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.