IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AËRATED WATERS, AND IN VESSELS TO CONTAIN AERATED AND MINERAL WATERS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
GYE, Junior, of South Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Tenth day of December, in the ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Frederick Gye, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Frederick Gye,
my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick Gye,
my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AËRATED WATERS, AND IN VESSELS TO CONTAIN
AERATED AND MINERAL WATERS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained.
a proviso that I, the said Frederick Gye, should cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Frederick Gye, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to. be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):-
My improvements in manufacturing aerated waters consist,―
First, in adding to those mineral waters which are found in a natural state
an extra dose of carbonic acid gas, so as. to render them more effervescing.
The evil now existing with regard to the use of the natural mineral waters is
the loss of the small portion of carbonic acid gas which they contain naturally
by transit, and from other causes. When bottled, the carriage of bottles is
expensive. By this Invention, such mineral waters may be transmitted in
casks or large vessels, and even more than their original freshness imparted to
them by my process.
I first filter the mineral water, and for this purpose I
employ a filter composed of alternate layers of animal charcoal and well
burnt and well washed sand; the water is then to be charged with carbonic
ȧcid gas, after the manner in which soda water is inanufactured, and to be
bottled in the usual way. And. it should be stated, that what I mean by
mineral waters are those natural spring waters which contain so large a
proportion of foreign matter as to render them unfit for common domestic use,
and confer upon them a sensible flavour, and a specific action upon the animal
frame.
Second, instead of the usual manner of securing the corks in bottles,
containing aerated liquids, I propose that a hole shall be made on each side of
the rim of the neck of the bottles, as shown at Fig. 1, and that a pin or wire
with a head or button shall be used instead of the common wire; the pin will
be made to enter one of the holes from the under side of the rim, and, being
passed over the cork, put downwards through the opposite hole, is to be turned
upwards and fastened by being twisted through the other part of the pin, see
Figure 2.
A second method of securing the corks is by making a hole on one side
only of the rim, and on the other a sort of double recess or niche, as at Fig. 3,
or a projecting stud would answer the same purpose, as shown at Fig. 4..
Instead of using a pin, as in the previous case, I use a piece of common wire
bent, see Fig. 5. This wire is then hooked on the stud or projecting piece of
glass, and the double ends passing over the cork are both put downwards
through the hole on the other side and fastened ás in the first manner, see
Fig 6. This method will ensure the wire or pin pressing on the centre of the
cork, and tend to keep it more securely in the bottle.
: A third method of securing the-corks which I propose is, to make a double

page_text: recess on each side of the rim as shewn at Fig. 7 (or projecting studs would
answer the same purpose as shown at Fig. 8, the under sides of such studs
being in each case slightly bevelled inwards at the point of juncture with the
bottle to prevent the wire slipping off, as shown at Fig. 9. I then take a
wire bent as shown at Fig. 5, and, having hooked it on one side of the rim,
pass the two ends over the cork down through the two recesses on the other
side, and then twist them fast together underneath the stud, as shown at Fig. 9;
or when the corks and bottles are made of a size sufficiently uniform so that
one cork will, when driven, project nearly the same distance from the bottle as
another, I then employ an elongated ring of thin metal or wire, Fig. 10,
and, having hooked it on the stud on one side, pass it over the cork and hook
it on the stud on the other side; these rings should be of a length somewhat
less than the distance over the cork from one stud to the other, so that the
operator shall be obliged to depress the cork when the ring is in its place;
the cork will from its natural elasticity regain its form and tighten the ring.
I claim,-
First, the aerating mineral waters as herein described.
Secondly, I claim the particular modes which I have above described of
securing corks in bottles containing aërated liquors.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Gye, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 10th day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.