Im- PROVEMENTS IN AERATED BEVERAGES, AND IN THE APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THEIR MANUFACTURE
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Evariste Vignier at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
April 1873.
I, EVARISTE VIGNIER, of Great Tower Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declaro the nature of my said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN AERATED BEVERAGES, AND IN THE APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN
THEIR MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention relates to certain novel aerated beverages, and to the
apparatus to be employed in their manufacture, and consists in the
admixture by the aid of the improved apparatus herein-after described,
or of the apparatus described in the Specification of the Patent of Clark
and Winkle, No. 353, A.D. 1868, of aerated water with brandy, or of
champagne with brandy of the best quality, whereby in the first instance
an aerated alcoholic beverage, which I designate "sparkling brandy," is
obtained at a cheap rate, and in the second case an entirely novel, creamy,.
and sparkling beverage of the first quality, which I designate "Cognac
Cremant" is produced.

page_text: By increasing the proportion of champagne to be mixed with cognac
brandy, a sparkling and creamy cognac may be produced without having
recourse to any acrating apparatus, by the mere use of the well-known
apparatus ordinarily employed in champagne districts for decanting
without loss of gas sparkling wine from one bottle to another.
In carrying out my Invention the liquor to be operated upon will be
first heated by having hot air injected into it, and be well agitated in a
largo vessel or vat for the purpose of cleansing. It will then bo drawn
off and filtered or fined, and the clean liquor then conveyed into a strong
earthenware or glass cylinder cased with strong copper, forming part of
my improved acrating apparatus. Between this earthenware or glass
vessel and its copper casing there is a double lining, the first of gutta
percha or some other elastic material, and the second of sheet lead and
tin of sufficient thickness to neutralize any undue expansion.
The carbonic acid gas is generated in another strong earthenware or
glass vessel, which I shall call the generator. This vessel is protected
by triple coverings, the first being a composition of lead and tin, the
next sheet gutta percha, and the outer covering being of strong sheet
copper. From this generator the gas forces itself into a purifyor, which
consists of an earthenware or glass vessel with outer coverings of gutta
percha, composition of lead and tin, and strong sheet copper, applied in
the same manner as to the earthenware or glass vessel or receiver of the
clean liquor. This purifyer is to be more than 3 parts filled with pur
water, through which the gas passes, and is in connection with th
receiver into which the purified gas forces itself, and where it is read
for the bottling operation.
• A simple contrivance may be employed for continuously supplying th
clean liquor, and the gas will by its own pressure be forced into th
liquor, and thereby caused to permeate or aerate it thoroughly,
regulated oscillatory movement of the vessel being maintained at th
same time.