An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Aerating or Carbonating Liquids in Bottle or other Receptacle.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Aerating or Carbonating
Liquids in Bottle, or other Receptacle.
ALGERNON BROOKER JACKSON of 16 Great Tower Street, in the City of London and
County of Middlesex Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
inventon and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object the aeration or carbonation of any liquid in any
bottle or bottles receptacle or receptacles whereby the liquid is mixed with oxygen
carbonic acid or similar liquid or compressed gas issuing from a Gas Holder under
automatic regulated pressure in such manner that the liquid operated on does not
come into contact with any metal or other deleterious substance and whereby it
is not exposed at any moment during the process to ordinary atmospheric influences.
The machine or apparatus consists of a vessel containing gas in a liquid or
compressed condition. This vessel is so fixed on the apparatus as to be easily replaced
when exhausted & is connected with a reducing valve, whereby the pressure of the
issuing gas may be automatically regulated as desired. After leaving the Reducing
valve the gas passes through a pipe connected to the tail-piece of a revolving head
mounted on a stand and carrying a double-frame, one end of which supports a fixed
vessel or mixer, the other having a clamping arrangement to hold the bottle
containing the liquid to be aërated or carbonated, the two vessels being connected in
the centre by a three-way tap of special construction. This tap has one gas-inlet
& two outlet ways. The inlet way is at right angle to the outlets, which latter
are opposite to each other. By means of a corresponding plug & handle I can
communicate with the three passages and disconnect one from the other at will.
One of the outlet passages connects with the permanently fixed glass vessel or mixer;
the opposite outlet with a disk and pad which receives the neck of the bottle or
receptacle containing the liquid to be operated on.
The bottle is previously filled with the wine, beer, water, or water containing
solutions of soda, lithia seltzer, and the like or flavoured syrups in any ordinary way
as may be most convenient.
The bottle being placed in position I first fill the permanently fixed vessel with
gas, by bringing the corresponding passages of the three-way tap & plug into their
relative positions & then blow off the atmospheric air compressed therein, afterwards
shutting off communication with the gas container. now open the passage between
the fixed mixer & the bottle and then making the frame describe half-a-revolution,
I allow part of the contents of the bottle to fall through the column of gas into the
mixer. At the same time some of the displaced gas from the same occupies the
vacuum left in the bottle & thus both vessels are charged with gas & liquid.
Oscillating the frame two or three times & thus mixing the contents of both
vessels I finally allow the now perfectly aerated or carbonated liquid to run again into
its original receptacle-when the same can be removed & stoppered as required.
In the accompanying drawings I have shewn the apparatus as adapted for one
bottle only but with slight modification in design it can be altered to take any
required number.

page_text: ig. 1. 15 a Front Devation.
Fig. II. is a plan of the said apparatus.
Like letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the drawings.
A is the gas container; B, the automatic gas pressure reducing valve, C the gas-
inlet connection tube, D the reduced pressure gas-outlet tube, joined to the tail-piece
of revolving head T. E is a three-way tap to which is connected the double bracket
or frame for holding the permanently fixed vessel F & the removable bottle G.
Having now described the nature of my said invention & in what manner the same
is to be performed I claim:
1. A three-way tap revolving in a box & mounted on stand, as explained &
shewn in drawings.
2. A combination of the two vessels F & G jointly acting as condensers or
mixers for the purpose above specified.
3. The improved apparatus, consisting of the parts constructed & combined
substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings and operating
as, and for the purposes, above specified.
Dated this 12th day of April 1897..
A. B. JACKSON.