A MACHINE FOR ADDING SWEETENING AND OTHER INGREDIENTS TO AERATED, MINERAL, AND OTHER BEVERAGES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ralph Alfred Hope, of Brelade House, Saint
Clement's, in the Island of Jersey, Civil Engineer, for the Invention
of "A MACHINE FOR ADDING SWEETENING AND OTHER INGREDIENTS TO
AERATED, MINERAL, AND OTHER BEVERAGES."
Sealed the 21st August 1868, and dated the 27th February 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ralph Alfred Hope
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th February 1868.
I, RALPH ALFRED HOPE, of Brelade House, Saint Clement's, in the
Island of Jersey, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A MACHINE FOR ADDING SWEETENING AND
INGREDIENTS TO AËRATED, MINERAL, AND OTHER
OTHER BEVERAGES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention has for its object a machine for adding sweetening and
other ingredients to aërated, mineral, and other beverages, the machine
being arranged as shewn in the accompanying Drawing.
The tap or cock a communicates through the passage 6 with the supply
of beverage to be treated and through the passage c with the bottling

page_text: apparatus; this tap is regulated by means of the slotted handle d, which
communicates motion to the pump plungere by means of jointed
connecting rods f, so that by moving the handle d backwards and
forwards, supplies of the beverage and sweetening or other ingredient in
the proper respective proportions are admitted into and mixed together
in the channel, passage, or chamber c, from whence they are forced into
the bottling apparatus. The supply of sweetening or other ingredients
to the pump is regulated by means of the tap or cock g. h, h, are the
pump valves.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Ralph Alfred Hope in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th August 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RALPH
ALFRED HOPE, Civil Engineer, of Brelade House, St. Clement's, Jersey,
Channel Islands, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in
the thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Ralph Alfred Hope,
Her special licence that I, the said Ralph Alfred Hope, my execu
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Ralph
Alfred Hope, 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 "A MACHINE FOR ADDING SWEETENING AND OTHER INGREDIENTS TO AERATED,
MINERAL, AND OTHER BEVERAGES," upon the condition (amongst others),
that I, the said Ralph Alfred Hope, 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 nature 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

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ralph Alfred Hope, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the 'Sheets
of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say): :-
This Invention consists of a machine for adding the necessary
ingredients in compounding and mixing aërated, mineral; and other
beverages; it is either applicable to the machines now used, or in a
modified form may with great advantage be substituted for them; each
tap or valve may be furnished with an index to adjust and proportion
the quantity of sweetening, carbonic acid gas, water, or other ingredients
passing through them to what is called the mixing chamber, thereby
ensuring the same quality and flavour to every quantity of the beverage
made. The machine may be made of glass, metal, or other suitable
material.
The annexed Drawings represent three arrangements of these
machines.
(Sheet. 1) Fig. 1, shews an elevation, and Fig. 2 a section of one
arrangement. The letters on each view refer to the same part. At i
connection by cap and lining or otherwise is made with the aërating
machine, the opposite end j is also connected to the bottling apparatus.
d is the slotted handle for opening and closing the tap a (to admit or
shut off. the aerated water) and work the pump plungere at the same
time by means of the connecting rod f which can be moved in the
slotted handle d, thus shortening the stroke of the pump, as it is fixed
nearer to the centre, and "vice versa," thereby regulating the force
and quantity of ingredients fed to the pump by the taps g, h, and h',
and through the valves and to the mixing chamber c where it meets
the aërated water turned on by the tap a at each stroke of the slotted
handle d.
(Sheet 2) shews three views of a modification. Fig. 1 is an elevation,
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a cross section thro' y, z.
Connection with the aërating machine is made at n (see Fig. 3); the
aerated water is turned on at the valve o by means of the rod p being

page_text: pressed down by an inclined plane (marked q) at each stroke of the
slotted handle d; all the other parts work as in Sheet 1.
(Sheet 3) shews an elevation and longitudinal section of another and
more important modification, connection is made with the water supply
at n and with the carbonic acid gas supply at m, the sweetening or
other ingredient coming, as before said, from g, h, and h¹ and through
the valves and 1 (as in Sheet 1 and 2); the connecting rod fis coupled
by the link w to the pump plungers e and e', carbonic acid gas entering
at m passing through the valves and v¹ to the mixing chamber c where
it meets the ingredients supplied by the other pump, also the water from
the tap a.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood
that I do not confine myself to the precise details of construction
therein described; but what I claim as new and intended to be pro-
tected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, a combination
of any variety of taps, valves, and pumps, working in combination for
aforesaid purpose, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ralph Alfred Hope, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.