provements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Aërated or Gaseous Liquids and for Filling or Charging the same into Bottles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVIDIUNAL DE PICATION
Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Aërated or
Gaseous Liquids and for Filling or Charging the same into
Bottles.
We, GEORGE WILLIAM CHINNERY, LUTHER GEORGE CHINNERY, SWARTZ
MARTYN CHINNERY, SAMUEL BOSTOCK, and CARDROSS GRANT, all of Leaden-
hall Buildings, in the City of London, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the manufacture of
aerated or gaseous liquids and for filling or charging the same into bottles or
syphons.
In carrying out our invention we preferably employ an apparatus such as
that described in the Specification of our former Patent No. 16791 dated the
6th December 1887, but we provide the outlet with three additional passages, one
of which is provided with a water and a pressure gange; each of the other outlets
is provided with a three-way cock. One of the said three-way cocks is in con-
nection with the compressed gas receiver and with the apparatus, and also allows
of the passage of the aërated liquid into the bottle to be filled. The other
three-way cock allows of feeding the apparatus with a supply of water and
provides for an additional compressed gas receiver if required.
By this arrangement if the apparatus is charged with water the three-way cock
is turned so as to allow of sufficient. gas being passed into the apparatus. As
soon as the water has become thoroughly aürated, the cock is turned so as to
shut off the supply of gas and open a connection from the apparatus to the bottle
filling apparatus, which in the case of internally stoppered bottles is a turnover
machine with a suitable snifting apparatus. The bottle being filled the supply is
shut off and a new bottle placed in position, and so on.
When the apparatus is to be used also for filling syphons an additional three-way
cock is employed, which operates in a similar manner to that above described.
Dated the 11th day of June 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Aërated or
Gaseous Liquids and for Filling or Charging the same into
Bottles.
We, GEORGE WILLIAM CHINNERY, LUTHER GEORGE CHINNERY, SWARTZ
MARTYN CHINNERY, SAMUEL BOSTOCK, and CARDROSS GRANT, all of Leaden-
hall Buildings, in the City of London, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to apparatus for the manufacture of aërated or gaseous
liquids, the improvements being especially applicable to apparatus of the kind
described in the Specification of a former Patent granted to Luther George
Chinnery and Swartz Martyn Chinnery No. 16791, dated 6th December 1887,
that is to say, to apparatus in which an agitator is provided for causing the
intimate mixing of the gas with the liquid to he aërated.

page_text: The object of our invention is to provide such apparatus with means for filling or
charging bottles or syphons.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a sectional front elevation of the improved apparatus, certain parts
being removed for the sake of clearness.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same, and
Figure 3 is a side elevation partly in section of a portion of the apparatus.
In carrying out our invention we provide a reservoir a in which the water to be
aërated is contained, and within which is arranged an agitator having a handle a¹
for operating the same; the said reservoir and agitator being preferably con-
structed as described in the Specification before referred to. The outlet of the said
reservoir is provided with a three way connection b, one arm of which has
connected to it a water-gauge e', the upper part of which is connected to the
reservoir a by a three-way cock on the cock and connected therewith is a
pressure-gauge for indicating the pressure within the reservoir, and the other
arms of the commection have connected to them three-way cocks g
respectively. The cock fallows of feeding the apparatus with a supply of water
through a pipe, whilst the cock allows the passage of the aërated liquid into
the botiles to be filled.
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Each three-way cock is provided with a socket to which a compressed gas
containing vessel, such as a cylinder shewn in connection with the cock
attached, the three-way cocks also serving to allow the escape of the gas into the
reservoir a as required.
The bottles to be filled are cach placed in a cradle i adapted to be rotated on a
trunnion, one part of which cradle is provided with a passage to serve as a
filling tube and is adapted at its extremity to receive the mouth of the bottle, whilst
the other end is provided with a table acted upon by a spring in such a manner
that the mouth of a bottle placed upon the said table will be pressed Lightly into
contact with the filling tube. A lever fulcrummed beneath the cradle i and
pivotted to a prolongation of the stem m carrying the table j. serves for moving the
table so that the bottle can be removed from the cradle.
The filling tube when the bottle is in the position shown in Figure 1,
communicates with a passage in the trunnion extending to the cock y so that
liquid from the reservoir can enter the bottle; when, however, the cradle is
rotated upon the trunnion the connection between the passages is closed as
will be obvious; a small cock n communicating with the passage serves for
allowing the snifting of the air from the bottle during the filling of the same.
In order to allow of filling syphons I attach to the front of the three-way
connection an elbow o, provided with a three-way cock adapted to receive at one
end the spouty of a syphon to be filled, as shown in Figure 3, the syphon with its
spout in this position being supported in a cage » carried upon an arms attached
to or formed upon the underside of the three-way connection b. The cage is
mounted upon a tablet arranged in guides 1, so as to be adjustable, and is acted
upon by a spring and lever in the same manner as the table; the table t, however,
is provided with a lever z which, when the syphon is in place serves for opening
the valve of the syphon by acting upon the lever thereof, as clearly indicated in
Figure 3.
The operation of the apparatus herein before described is as follows, that is to
say, we first fill the reservoir through the cock by means of a pump or other
suitable means; we then close the said cock and operate the cock to permit the
compressed gas from the chamber or cylinder to enter the reservoir a; the
amount of gas thus entering being indicated by the gauge when the required
pressure within the reservoir has been obtained the cock y is closed and the liquid
in the reservoir is agitated by means of the agitator to cause an intimate mixing of
the water and gas.
If now it is required to fill bottles, for instance, Codd's bottles, the bottles are
each placed in the cradle in the manner hereinbefore described, the bottle and cradle

page_text: being in the reverse position to that shewn; the cradle is then turned over and the
cock y is turned to allow the liquid from the reservoir to enter the bottle. When
the bottle is filled the cradle i is reversed to shut off the supply of liquid, and allow
the stopper to fall to its seat and prevent the escape of the liquid from the bottle.
The filled bottle can then be removed.
If a syphon is to be filled, it is placed in the cage r, as shewn in Figure 3, with
its spout in connection with the cock p, the latter is then opened to fill the bottle
and then again closed prior to the removal of the same. The said cock is formed
with an auxiliary opening p' through which the air from the syphon is snifted when
filling.
In order to allow of the withdrawal of the liquid directly into a glass we provide
the elbow o with a valve e, so that, by placing a glass or tumbler beneath the
cock P when open, and then opening the valve the liquid will enter the glass.
In the foregoing description we have referred to the aëration of the water by
means of gas contained in a special cylinder h, but it is obvious that the gas may be
acrated within the reservoir a in the manner described in the Specification of the
Patent before referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is —
The combination with apparatus for the manufacture of aërated liquids of bottle
and syphon filling devices arranged and operating, substantially as described.
the 4th day of February 1831.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.