IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR ICED BEVERAGES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OR ICED BEVERAGES."-A communication from abroad by Gustave D.
Dows, Adolphe Clarck, and Abraham. Van Winkle, of Boulevard
Beaumarchais, Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 27th August 1867, and dated the 27th June 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th June 1867.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF ICED BEVERAGES," to be as follows:-
The subject of this Invention is an apparatus for the manufacture of iced
soda creams and other cooling summer drinks. The apparatus contains all
the ingredients requisite to make the different kinds of soda creams, and also
the various syrups to flavour them with.
The construction of the apparatus is as follows:-There is a case made of
marble or any other suitable material, and of the requisite size to contain all

page_text: the ingredients of which the creams are composed, and provided with a move-
able cover so that anything may be put in or taken out; this outer case or
box contains a number of metallic boxes or cans to hold the syrups, soda,
water, and cream. The central part of this outer case or box is occupied by
an apparatus for cutting block ice so as to reduce it to powder. This appa-
ratus is composed of a cylinder on which are firmly fixed knives at an angle
of about 85°. The ice is placed on a tray with a sliding end to it fixed to two
endless screws, so that as the block of ice is reduced to snow or powder by
the action of the knives it is continually being pushed forward by the sliding
end which is actuated by means of endless screws. The cylinder on which
the knives are fixed and the endless screws that actuate the sliding end of the
tray are put into motion by means of a hand wheel which transmits motion
to the screw shaft by bevil toothed wheels or other suitable gearing. Imme-
diately underneath the ice tray and the apparatus for cutting the ice is a
reservoir containing the cream; in the bottom of this reservoir is fixed a tap
or valve through which the cream is made to flow into the cup in which the
soda cream is to be prepared; this tap or valve is opened by means of a lever,
at the end of which is a handle, so that when this lever is pulled forward the
cream is caused to flow. When no more cream is required in the cup the
lever should be allowed to reassume its original position, which it does
by means of a spiral spring. On either side of this reservoir is a rectangular
space, and in the centre of these spaces is a cylinder having a dome in the
centre; these cylinders contain soda water and communicate with the cellar
below by means of a pipe, so that when the cylinder is empty it may speedily
be refilled from below; the dome is for the purpose of allowing the escape of
any superfluity of gas. The remaining space between the cylinder and the
sides of the rectangular chamber should be filled with ice as closely packed as
possible; a pipe from the bottom of this chamber will carry away any water
that may accumulate from the melting of the ice. In close contiguity with
this chamber are the syrup cans; any number may be provided according to
the number of syrups required. Each of these cans is provided with a separate
tap. The soda water cylinders are provided with a tap of rather peculiar
construction; in the interior of the tap and directly in the course the liquid is
a metallic washer held down by a screw. When the tap is to be turned on
the screw is raised by turning a small hand wheel, and the force of the soda
water by pushing the washer up finds vent in the opening, which is of an
oval form. At the edge of this oval mouth is a small bell-crank lever with a
weight at its end to keep it in its place; at the other end of the lever is a
small cup. The object of this lever is to spread the soda water round the

page_text: interior of the oval mouth so that it will not come with too great force into
the glass; this lever is operated simply by raising the weighted end, and when
the cup at the other end comes directly in the way of the descending liquid
the force of the soda water keeps it from shifting. When the tap is turned off
the weight will bring the lever back to its original position. An ordinary
soda water tumbler may be used to make the decoction in, but it is pre-
ferable to put the glass into a metal support with a handle. To make a soda
cream the cream is first mixed with the pulverized ice or snow, and then
the requisite flavouring syrup is introduced; the soda water is then allowed
to flow with all its force into the tumbler in order to thoroughly mix the
ingredients, then with the edge of the glass the weighted end of the bell-
crank lever should be raised, where it will be maintained by the descending
force of the soda water until the tap is turned off, when it will be brought
into its original position by the counterweight.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Edward Newton, Her special licence that I, the said William Edward
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ICED BEVERAGES," being a communication
to me from abroad by Gustave D. Dows, Adolph Clarck, and Abrahamı Van
Winkle, of Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, in the Empire of France, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Newton,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or

page_text: their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
The apparatus which forms the subject of the present Invention is
designed to make iced soda creams, and is shewu in the accompanying
Drawings.
The apparatus is composed of a box made of marble or any other suitable
substance, and contains, first, cans or compartments containing various syrups
to be used in the manufacture of the iced beverages; second, reservoirs for
cooling the syrups and the cylinders containing water charged with carbonic
acid gas; third, an arrangement of. pusher and a cutter to chop up block ice
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and reduce it to powder; fourth, a reservoir containing the cream.
sides of the apparatus are arranged taps, which communicate with the syrup
cans; taps are also attached to the pipes communicating with the soda water
cylinders. I will now describe these different parts of the apparatus in
succession, and also their several special arrangements, in order that the
apparatus may thoroughly fulfil the conditions required.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the apparatus
taken in the line A, B, of the plan view, Fig. 3; Fig. 2 is a vertical section
taken in the line C, D, of the same Figure; Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view,
taken in line E, F, G, H, of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an elevation of part of the
exterior of the apparatus; Figs. 5 shew in elevation and vertical section an
improved kind of glass holder.
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a is a marble box enclosing the apparatus, and is furnished with a marble
covering 6; c, c, are handles for the covering 6; and d, d, a reservoir enclosing
pieces of ice to cool the syrups, the cream, and the soda water; e, e, are soda
water cylinders or reservoirs; f, pusher for pushing forward the ice; 9,
with shoulder forming a joint; h, h, cans or compartments containing the
syrups, and provided with taps i, i, which are secured by the nuts j in the
interior of the compartments; the levers k of the syrup taps, which are in the
form of eagles, serve to open the taps. 1 is the soda water tube; m, dome of
the reservoir e; n, tube that goes to the bottom of the reservoir or cylinder e.

page_text: Exhausting pipes o, o, serve to draw off water from the compartments d, d.
P
is the exit tap of the gas in the dome m; and q, the tube for drawing off
the soda water; r is a leather washer, forming a valve in the top of the
tube 9; and s is the screw for securing the tap q; t is a pressure screw for
closing the valve; and is a hand wheel for working the same; v is an oval
opening in the tap 9; and a, a cap fixed to the bell-crank lever y; z is a
reservoir for cream, provided with a tap w; A is a rotating cylinder provided.
with a cutter B for cutting up the lump of ice; C, C, is the gearing, whereby
it is driven; and D is a hand wheel for working the same; E is the cast-iron
case of the ice cutter; and F, a pusher for pushing forward the block; G is
the handle of the fly wheel D; and H, a long screwed shaft turning on
bearings I; K is hopper for receiving the cut up ice which falls into the soda
water glasses L which rest in supports or holders M.
The apparatus represented in the annexed Drawings is double. In the
centre is the cream reservoir z and the apparatus for pulverizing the ice; on
either side of this are the soda water receivers e, e, and the syrup cans h, h.
The whole is enclosed in a case a of a rectangular form, and furnished with
ornaments more or less rich according to the destination of the apparatus.
The case a is made of marble, but it may be made of any other substance.
A covering 6 made of marble and furnished with two buttons c, c, serves to
cover the opening through which the ice (broken into small fragments d) is
introduced into the compartments enclosing the cylinders 6, and allows of
placing a block of ice between the pusher f and the cutters of the rotating
cylinder a, which reduces it to snow, which serves to cool the drinks. Two
of the sides of the outer case enclose a series of cans or rectangular compart-
ments made of pure tio, tinned metal, or any other suitable substance, and
contain the different syrups. The syrups are kept cool by their immediate
contact with the compartment d, in which the ice is enclosed. Each can is
furnished with a tap i, which may be more or less ornamented according to
the elegance of the apparatus.
In the annexed plan the syrup taps are shewn in the form of a ball
surmounted by an eagle with its wings spread; they are made of German
silver, and may be silvered over; the ball i has a socket screwed into its lower-
part, the hollow part of which serves as a seat for a valve fixed to the end of
a pin, which joins the lever k formed by the body of the eagle. A spiral,
spring which surrounds the valve piu constantly reinstates the valve in its seat
immediately that the lever k ceases to be moved. The taps i are connected
with their respective compartments by means of a tube terminated by a
shoulder, the extremity of which is tapped and traverses the outer marble

page_text: case as well as the side of the syrup receiver on which the joint is made by
means of two leather washers and a screw nut j. . On either side of the appa-
ratus and immediately behind the syrup cans are tinned copper compartments
which enclose the cylinders e, each cylinder receives by a tube the water
charged with the carbonic acid coming from apparatus placed in the cellar or
any adjoining place. The cylinder e has a sort of dome m furnished at its top
part with a tap p, which allows any excess of carbonic acid gas to escape
when the pressure in the cylinder becomes too great. The free space between
the cylinders e and the sides of the compartments in which they are enclosed
is filled with ice broken into small fragments and introduced through the
opening . A pipe o conducts away the water caused by the melting of the
ice. A pipe is introduced into the cylinder e and extends down to the
bottom, and serves to draw off the soda water. It joins a tap q which as well
as the syrup taps is made of German silver, and presents several particular
arrangements which will tend to prevent the loss of the carbonic acid contained
in the water, This tap passes through the marble outer case a, to which it is
fixed by means of a screw nuts and jointed to the reservoir e, thus putting it
into, communication with the pipe l. The interior of the tap is provided with
a tube of pure tin, so as not to communicate a bad taste to the liquid, and to
prevent all oxidation of the metal. This tube joins the tap and abuts on a
plane surface or seating of the valve or tap, on which rests a leather disc r
which serves as a valve. On this leather rests a inetallic washer which
receives the pressure of a screw t actuated by a hand wheel. The body 9 of the
tap is further pierced with an oblique hole intended as a passage for the liquid
and also joins the plane surface or seat of the tap close to the orifice of the
central pipe which conducts the liquid, Immediately that the screw t is
loosened the leather washer r is raised by the pressure of the gas contained in
the water, which can then find vent by the orifice of the tap. On the opposite
movement being applied to the hand wheel u the washer is pressed closely
against the plane surface or seating, and is compressed by the metallic washer
interposed between the leather r and the screw t, all communication is therefore
cut off between the apparatus and the exit. This exceedingly simple and solid
mode of closing insures the complete tightness of the tap whatever may be the
pressure of the gas contained in the liquid. To the bottom part of the tap is
adapted by means of a screw a hollow cavity of an oval form, in the centre
of which is a cup a mounted on the extremity of a bell-crank lever y moved
and balanced by a counterweight, and arranged in such a way that when it is
in its ordinary position the cup a cannot encounter the jet of liquid. Imme-

page_text: diately that the lever y is raised the cup a prevents the soda water from
flowing directly into the glass to be filled, and makes it spread out on to the
sides of the hollow cavity v, the liquid is therefore compelled to flow down
the sides into the glass.
In order to prepare a soda beverage by using this new tap the screw t
should be slightly loosened in order to allow a certain quantity of liquid to
flow into the glass, where it will arrive with great force, and will immediately
become mixed with the syrup cream and pulverized ice already there, then
with the edge of the glass the lever y should be slightly raised, and the cup
being interposed between the jet and the glass will arrest the shock of the
water, the great pressure of which will keep it in its place; the tap then
should be completely opened and the glass becomes full. The operation being
finished the tap should be shut by screwing down the screw t, and the cup
being no longer pressed by the liquid will resume its original position under
the action of the counterweight.
This new and particular arrangement is intended to prevent the loss of the
gas contained in the water, and constitutes one of the principal characteristics of
the Invention; it can also be applied to other apparatus contained in a gaseous
fluid, and in which it is desirable to avoid the loss of the gas contained
therein,
Another kind of tap may be employed with two internal conduits, one of
small diameter and the other considerably larger. The same hand wheel
serves to operate both the taps united into one. The first movement that is
communicated to the tap opens the smallest tube, the second movement opens
the larger one. It may easily be understood that by this means a similar
result to that just described may be arrived at by permitting the liquid at first
to flow with great force, then by increasing the size of the aperture the force
of the liquid will diminish sensibly, and the gas will remain dissolved in the
water instead of allowing it to pass off in the form of froth.
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As will be seen by referring to the annexed plans the apparatus is madė
double, and having on its opposite sides an arrangement similar to that above
described, so that two persons can at the same time prepare a soda beverage
and serve it to the consumer.
It will be easily understood that an apparatus having the taps only on one
side
may be made so that the apparatus can be placed against the wall or in a
recess. The central part of the apparatus is accupied by the ice cutter imme-
diately under which is the cream reservoir z. The cream reservoir is
maintained firmly in its place by means of the two icing chambers d, and has
in its bottom part a tap w terminated by an opening for the liquid to flow

page_text: through, and is shut by a metallic valve kept in its place by means of a
spring. The tap is worked by means of a lever and a metallic wire terminated
at its other extremity by a handle.
The ice cutter is composed of a metallic cylinder A, carrying on its
periphery the knives B which are screwed to the cylinder. Motion is com-
municated to this cutter by means of bevil gearing C actuated by the hand
wheel G.
The whole arrangement is enclosed in a galvanized iron case E intended to
receive the blocks of ice to be reduced to snow, and which are kept in close
contact with the cutter by means of a metal pusher F. On either side of the
case E and on the outside are two long screw shafts H, having motion com-
municated to them by means of gearing connected with the axle of the hand
wheel. The endless screws transmit the necessary motion to the pusher F by
means of the tapped bearings I. When the pusher F has arrived at the
extremity of its course, and it is necessary to bring it back to its original
position to replace the blocks of ice, a lever J will allow of the operation
without moving the screw H. In fact the lower parts of the bearings I are
moveable, and it is only necessary to raise the lever J in
contact cease between the bearings I and the screws H.
no longer retained is pushed back to its original position, and the lever being
allowed to fall communication is re-established between the pusher and the
screws. In order to direct the cream from the reservoir z and the pulverised
ice into the glass a kind of funnel k is placed underneath, and a tap w is
placed in an opening prepared for it.
order to make all
The pusher being
In Fig. 5 is shewn the kind of glass and the support or hold it is intended
to use in conjunction with the apparatus. These conical or cylindrical
glasses L are when filled with the iced soda water placed in the metallic
holder or supports M, which are more or less ornamented and furnished with
a handle N, so as not to soil the fingers when the glass is wet, which would
be frequently the case on account of the froth.
Having now described the Invention which has been communicated to me
as aforesaid, and having explained the manner of carrying the same into
effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid,
the apparatus collectively or in detail as above described and shewn in the
accompanying Drawings, and which comprises,-
First, an ice cutter, as shewn, and which reduces the ice to snow.
Second, the cream reservoir which allow a the cream and the ice to flow
conjointly so as to form iced cream.

page_text: Third, the syrup cans constructed of metal or other suitable substance, and
as shewn in the Drawing.
Fourth, the soda water cylinders with a dome to contain any excess of gas.
Fifth, the icing chambers which contain the soda water cylinders, and
which cool the soda water and the syrups.
Sixth, the soda water tap constructed as shewn in the Drawings, and
which allows of more gas being introduced into the glass than by any other
system.
Seventh, the syrup taps, as shewn in the Drawing, by which means various
kinds of syrups can be drawn very rapidly.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.B.)