AN IMPROVED GASOGENE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Fréderic Vasserot, of the firm Wells and
Vasserot, of 45, Essex Street, Strand, London, Patent Agents, Mecha-
T
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd January 1857.
I, CHARLES FREDERIC VASSEROT, of the firm Wells and Vasserot, of .45,
Essex Street, Strand, London, Patent Agents, Mechanical Draughtsmen, &c.,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
GASOGENE," a communication, to be as follows:-and consists of a vessel made
of glass, china, or other ware, having a partition piece extending from top to
bottom of the vessel, so as to divide it into two compartments. The pouring
lip is so formed that it opens into the two compartments, so that on pouring
the liquid from the vessel the solutions mix and form an aerated beverage.
In one compartment of the vessel the acid is placed and in the other the soda
or other preparation, and then filled with water or other liquid so as to dissolve
the powders.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERIC VASSEROT, of the firm Wells and Vasserot, of 45, Essex Street,
Strand, London, Patent Agents, Mechanical Draughtsmen, etc., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Fréderic Vasserot, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Fréderic
Vasserot, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Fréderic Vasserot, 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
"AN IMPROVED GASOGENE" (a communication) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that J, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, do hereby s
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:-
This Invention consists of a vessel made of glass, china, or other ware,
having a partition piece extending from top to bottom of the vessel, so as to
divide it into two compartments.. The pouring lip is so formed that it opens
into the two compartments, so that on pouring the liquid from the vessel the
solutions mix and form an aerated beverage. In one compartment of the
vessel the acid is placed, and in the other the soda or other preparation,
the two compartments are then filled with water or other liquid so as to
dissolve the powders. By pouring the liquid from the apparatus the two

page_text: solutions will mingle as they enter the glass, & will form an aerated
beverage.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of July One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.