Improvements in Draw off Taps for Powders and Liquids Used as Aërated and other Drinks.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Draw off Taps for Powders and Liquids Used as
Aërated and other Drinks.
1 ALFRED SOWERBUTTS of 2 Merritts Building, Worship Street, Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a novel construction or arrangement of draw off taps to
onable powder or powders to be supplied therefrom in fixed quantities, said taps
preferably being in connection with a liquid supply. reservoir from which given
quantities of liquid can be drawn to enable aërated drinks (effervescent and others) to be
supplied, the combination being effected in a vessel or receptacle into which they are
discharged, if both are measured from the taps.
The tap or taps may be used alone or in combination with any coin receiving
apparatus in which the release of mechanism can take place on the insertion of a coin
so that the tap or taps can then be acted upon.
For the purpose of my invention I use an ordinary plug tap in the plug of which I
form one or more grooves or hollows. The shank of the tap is in connection with
a reservoir and when the tap is off the groove or hollow becomes charged with powder
which can be discharged therefrom when the plug is turned, the powder falling into,
say, a glass beneath, a further supply of powder being shut off until the plug is turned
back again to its first position.
The plug may be of sufficient length to be in connection with a water reservoir,
which water may be aerated or plain and when the tap plug is turned both the powder
and liquid are discharged into the glass simultaneously or in lieu of the water being
drawn off by means of the tap a syrup or essence can be drawn with the-powder to
mix with water in the glass or into which water can be poured.
I prefer that the water be drawn from the vessel holding a given quantity, to which
a fresh supply from a main vessel is admitted when the tap is turned off; or instead
of a tap having a water way and a powder chamber, two distinct taps may be so
connected by one handle that they can be operated by the movement of one lever.
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page_text: I prefer to put the foregoing arrangement or arrangements of taps in connection
with a coin receiver apparatus and apply a releasing mechanism to the handle or plug
of the tap or taps which on the insertion of a pre-determined coin will enable the
handle to be operated. This can be easily effected by arranging the opposite end of
the lever on which the coin falls with a rod and catch, which catch could engage the
weighted end of say the tap lever and prevent it moving until the lever be tilted
A tell tale could be arranged with a lever, rod or handle- which would indicate
the number of times the handle had been moved and act as a check to the actual
amount of money which should be in the till.
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page_text: Improvements in Draw off Taps or Powders. and Liquids Used as
Aerated and other Drinks.
I, ALFRED SOWERBUTTS, of 2 Merritts Buildings, Worship Street, Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 relates to a novel construction or arrangement of draw off taps to
enable powders to be supplied therefrom in fixed quantities, said taps preferably being
in connection with a liquid supply reservoir from which given quantities of liquid can
be drawn to enable aërated drinks (effervescent and others) to be supplied, the com-
bination being effected in a vessel or receptacle, into which they are discharged if both
are measured from the taps. The tap or taps may be used alone or in combination
with any coin receiving apparatus in which the release of mechanism can take place
on the insertion of a coin, so that the tap or taps can then be acted upon.
For the purpose of my invention which I show in the annexed drawings, Figure 1
being a sectional elevation and Figure 2 a front_view of an apparatus, Figures 3,
4, and 5 being detail views, 1 use an ordinary plug tap, in the plug A of which
I form a groove or hollow B.
The tap is in connection with a reservoir C and when the tap is turned off by
the handle D the groove or hollow B becomes charged with powder, as indicated
at Figure 1, which can be discharged therefrom when the plug is turned to bring
the groove opposite the discharge nozzle E, the powder falling into, say, a glass
beneath, a further supply of powder being shut off until the plug is turned back again
to its first position.
The plug A is of sufficient length to be in connection with a water reservoir G,
which water may be aërated or plain and when the tap plug is turned both the
powder and liquid are discharged into the glass simultaneously, the liquid passing.
down the nozzle H or in lieu of the water being drawn off by means of the tap
a syrup or essence can be drawn with the powder to mix with water already in
the glass or into which water can be poured.
I prefer that the water be drawn from the vessel holding a given quantity to
which a fresh supply from a main vessel I is admitted by the pipe J when the
tap is turned off, or instead of a tap having a water way and a powder chamber,
two distinct taps may be so connected by one handle that they can be operated by
the movement of one lever.
I prefer to put the foregoing arrangement or arrangements of taps in connec-
tion with a coin receiver apparatus, such as at K, and apply a releasing mechanism L
to the handle or plug of the tap or taps, such as I show at Figure 3, which
on the insertion of a predetermined coin down the shoot K, will fall on to the
lever. M and lift the opposite end N out of a notch in the disc L.to enable the
handle D to be operated

page_text: Supposing now the handle to have been turned for the discharge of the powder
and liquids the knob P on the disc L strikes against the uplifted end N of the lever
and lifts it still higher for the purpose of discharging the coin from the end M, the
lever then recovers itself but the end bears upon a plain part of the disc L and when
the handle D is being returned to its first position, the end M is again struck by the
knob P and in recovering itself, a paul Q rides over ratchet teeth R with which a
portion of the disc is provided until the end M drops again into the notch of the disc.
Should any attempt be made to move the handle in the reverse direction after partially
closing the tap and before the insertion of a fresh coin, the paul Q and teeth R would
act in conjunction to prevent such forward motion.
A tell tale could be arranged with a Jever rod or handle which would indicate the
number of times the handle had been moved and act as a check to the actual amount
of money which should be in the till.
Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view through the liquid passage of the tap
showing the plug in position for drawing the flow of water from the pipe J to
the reservoir G through the pipe G¹, the reservoir G being provided with a vent G³
which rises above the level of the water in the cistern I consequently the reservoir G
fills with a fixed quantity of liquid.
Figure 5 shows a transverse section of the powder receiving groove B in the
plug A, the nozzle E being also in section.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The apparatus shown on the annexed drawings for the supply of effervescing
drinks after the reception of a coin in the manner described, the powder and liquid
being discharged simultaneously from a single tap and in fixed quantities as described.
2. The employment of a tap plug A with a groove B in it for tlie reception of
powder from a reservoir and the discharge of such powder from the groove
when in connection with a supply of liquid-and-constituting an effervescing drink as
'described.