IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AERATED WATERS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
PRODUCING AERATED WATERS."--A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte do
Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th June 1854.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR PRODUCING AERATED WATERS" to be as follows:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in an improved mode of con-
structing vessels for producing acrated waters.
The accompanying Drawing shews a vertical section of a vessel, having
the form of an ordinary bottle, which form, however, may be varied, and which
is provided with a double bottom.
Qis a chamber made at the bottom within the vessel; B, an opening in the
double bottom, for the introduction of the powders, and which is closed by a
stopper with a screw thread. The neck of the vessel is closed by a similar
stopper A. and is provided with an ordinary syphon S. The stopper A is

page_text: unscrewed, for the introduction of water after the powders have been placed
in the chamber Q, which, being perforated with several small capillary holes
n, n, allow it to fall into the powders; the gases resulting from the mixture
pass through the said orifices, and saturate the liquid.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Oflice on the 26th December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her 'heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license that
I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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, tlie Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AERATED WATERS," Communicated to
me from a foreigner residing abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument
n writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
he 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed; to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say

page_text: The Invention communicated to me consists in an improved mode of con-
structing apparatus for producing aerated waters.
Figure 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus.
Figure 2 shews details of piston K.
Figures 3 and 4, details of the tube holder T.
Figure 5 shews the stopper H withdrawn.
The apparatus is composed of a glass vessel, at the bottom of which is a
chamber Q, for holding the powders for producing carbonie gases. The mouth
of the apparatus is surrounded with a metallic piece, fixed to the glass by means
of plaster of Paris, and provided with an external thread, upon which the
syphon is adjusted. The tube holder T, fitted in the mouth of the apparatus,
under the syphon R, is provided with a ring of indian-rubber y', which, being
compressed by the syphon, closes the joint of the mouth hermetically.
The glass tube is fixed in the lower end of the tube holder T by means of
a ring of caoutchouc, and, being pressed by the screw i, fastens the tube t to
the tube holder T, and hermetically closes the joint.
The upper part of the chamber Q is provided with a porcelain filter F, with
small lateral openings n, n, to admit the water necessary for moistening the
To this filter a cage is
powders, and serving for the egress of the gases.
attached, in which a moveable ball B, of porcelain or other suitable material, is
enclosed, which, falling down when the apparatus is turned upside down, closes
the holes n, and allows the powders to be inserted. The contrivance H, Figure 5,
for stopping the orifice of the chamber Q, consists of a metal screw piece.
surrounded with a concentric ring of indian-rubber y, of the same diameter as
the top H, and having a flange c and thumb screw P. The indian-rubber
ring y, being screwed up between the flange c and the conical part H, swells
out and closes the orifice a hermetically.
To use the apparatus, the powders are first introduced into the chamber Q
through the orifice by removing the stopper II, which, being replaced, the
syphon R is unscrewed, the tube & withdrawn, and the apparatus filled with
water up to the line E. The tube t is then replaced, and the tube holder T,
which is fitted with a ring of indian-rubber, similar to that of the stopper H, is
forced down by the pressure of the syphon R when screwed upon D, which
makes the indian-rubber ring y' swell out, and hermetically close the joint.
The apparatus is then placed in a horizontal position, to allow the water to
enter the chamber Q containing the powders.
So soon as a small quantity of water has been put in contact with the powder,
the apparatus should be raised to a vertical position, and when the gas rises
through the orifice of the filter F, the syphon R should be unscrewed for a

page_text: moment, to allow the air in the apparatus to escape, and the water to mix with
the carbonic acid gas alone. In about an hour afterwards the water will be
perfectly saturated with carbonic acid gas. By shaking the apparatus several
times vertically the process of saturation will be assisted. The piston K has
at its lower end a cap S, fitted with a concentric indian-rubber ring y", seen
apart, in order to stop perfectly the channel of the syphon R. The piston K
is kept in its place by the spiral spring, by depressing which a passage is
opened between the interior of the apparatus and the spout through the side of
the syphon, as in ordinary apparatus, through which the liquid is forced to
egress by the pressure of the carbonic acid gas.
Having now described the nature of the 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 herein described; but what I claim as new,
and intended to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent, is,
First, the employment of an internal chamber made at the bottom of the
apparatus provided with a filter and moveable ball, as herein-before described
and referred to in Figures 1 and 5 of the Drawing.
Secondly, the application of indian-rubber rings to the stopper II, the tube
and tube holder T, and to the cap of the piston K, for closing the joints
of the apparatus hermetically, as herein-before described and referred to in
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hercunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of
December, in tho year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
L DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)