IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA WATER AND OTHER AERATED LIQUIDS
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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA
WATER AND OTHER AERATED LIQUIDS."-A communication from abroad by
John Matthews, junior, of the City and State of New York, United States
of America.
Sealed the 17th December 1867, and dated the 3rd July 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd July 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA
WATER AND OTHER AERATED LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
In constructing an apparatus for the manufacture of soda water and other
aerated liquids the pump feed and agitator to the condenser are connected
together without joints to the latter above the average level of the water.
therein. The feed and agitator are operated 'through the base or lower
portion of the condenser, and the discharge or feed pipe passes from the pump
into the condenser and imparts to it a reciprocating action by or with the,

page_text: pump, so that the pressure of gas or liquid in the condenser is made to assist
the pump in its discharging or feeding stroke to the condenser by acting upon
the exposed end of the discharge pipe. In combination with the reservoir
or condenser there is a pump for charging and keeping up the supply to the
latter. The constituent parts of this pump are a stationary hollow plunger
and a reciprocating cylinder with suitable inlet and delivery valves and an
upper reciprocating discharge or feed pipe. By this arrangement great
simplicity of working parts is effected and a steady guiding action secured to
the pump.
The Invention further consists in arranging on the end or portion of the
discharge pipe which projects into the condenser from below one or more
volutes or their equivalents, so as (in the reciprocating action of the punip)
to catch and distribute the gas in the water, and to agitate the latter within
the condenser for the purpose of effecting a thorough mixing of the gas and
water.
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 2nd January 1868.
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 Third day of July, 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 thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and yend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA WATER AND
OTHER AERATED LIQUIDS," being a communication to me from John Matthews,
junior, of the City, County, and State of New York, United States,

page_text: upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward
Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their bands 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 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 Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
In constructing an apparatus for the manufacture of soda water and other
aerated liquids the pump feed and agitator to the condenser are connected
together without the application of joints to the latter above the average level>
of the water therein. The feed and agitator are operated through the base
or lower portion of the condenser, and the discharge or feed pipe passes from.
the pump into the condenser and imparts to it a reciprocating action by or
with the pump, so that the pressure of gas or liquid in the condenser is made
to assist the pump in its discharging or feeding stroke to the condenser by:
acting upon the exposed end of the discharge pipe or devices connected there--
with. In combination with the reservoir or condenser there is a pump for:
charging and keeping up the supply to the latter. The constituent parts of
this pump are a stationary hollow plunger and a reciprocating cylinder with
suitable inlet and delivery valves and an upper reciprocating discharge or feed
pipe. By this arrangement great simplicity of working parts is effected and a
steady guiding action secured to the
pump.
The Invention further consists in arranging on the end or portion of the
discharge pipe which projects into the condenser from below one or more?
volutes or their equivalents constructed so as (in the reciprocating action of:
the pump) to catch and distribute the gas in the water, and to agitate the
latter within the condenser for the purpose of effecting a thorough mixing of
the gas and water.
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In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1. represents a sectional elevation of an
apparatus constructed according to this Invention applicable to the manu-
facture and dispensing of soda water; Fig. 2 is an outside elevation of the
same seen at right angles to Fig. 1, and Figures 3 and 4 are inverted plans of "
the reciprocating volutes used for mixing the gas and water in the reservoir or
condenser.
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page_text: A, A, are uprights or portions of the general frame, the same being suitably
braced or connected, and carrying a table B at their top on which is secured
the condenser or reservoir C for holding the carbonic acid gas and water mixed.
therein, and which reservoir by the present improvement is or may be free
from all joints below its water line, the average level of the latter being
indicated by the line a in Fig. 1. Inserted through the table B are
tubes m, n, for attachment of the usual bottling nipple and pressure guage or
safety valve. Connected with the frame at or near its base is a stationary
hollow plunger D communicating below by a branch 6 with a valve box E
the valve c of which is arranged to open upwards and control the suction by
a passage d with or through branches e, f, one of which serves as the induction
pipe for the water and the other for the carbonic acid gas from any suitable
reservoirs or vessels. F is the working cylinder which plays up and down
over or outside of the stationary plunger D and is connected so as to be
operated by a reciprocating yoke G driven by any suitable power through a
crank H having play in an oblong slot g of the yoke.. This cylinder F is
provided at its upper end or portion with a delivery valve h, which in the
descent of the cylinder allows of the gas and water entering in the up stroke
of the cylinder through or beneath the valve c, the plunger D to be forcibly
expelled through.. a branch pipe I and vertical pipe J by perforations & into
the reservoir C. The plunger D and cylinder F act as a guide below this
reciprocating arrangement, while the pipe J working through a stuffing box i
in the table B or base of the reservoir C operates as an upper guide thereto.
K is a cock or valve for shutting off communication between the pump and
reservoir C when necessary for repair of the valves or otherwise while the
reservoir is full or under pressure. The gas and water which are forced out
through the perforations s in or during the action of the pump are admitted
into the reservoir C, or gas may be admitted to water contained therein, and
to effect the mixture of the gas and water any desired number of volutes L, M,
may be adapted to the reciprocating discharge pipe J where it projects within
the reservoir C, the one volute L causing the gas as it rises to work spirally
outwards, and passing up into or under the upper and larger reverse volute M
to be worked in an opposite direction or spirally inwards, and finally escaping
by a central orifice, In this way an effectual agitation is kept up, and thorough
mixing of the gas with the water is produced by the volutes as they are
worked up and down within the reservoir C.
Any other suitable description of agitator may, however, be employed in
connection with the arrangement or combination of parts hereiu-before described
or certain of them.

page_text: . It may be here observed that in some cases instead of the gas being forced
into the reservoir C..by. the pump along with the water the gas may be
separately admitted under pressure to the reservoir from its generator, and the
water only be forced in by the pump.
Among the advantages which are claimed for the improvement here described
may be mentioned. dispensing, with all joints above the water level in the
reservoir C, the importance of. which will be readily understood when the
great pressure of the gas contained in the reservoir is considered, and the great
difficulty that consequently exists in making a joint above the water level tight
against the escape of gas; likewise that the pump is aided in its descent or
discharging stroke into the reservoir C by the pressure of the gas, or gas and
water contained therein acting on the head of the discharge pipe or agitator
that reciprocates, within the reservoir. Thus the pump is aided in producing
further compression or condensation by the pressure previously effected by it,
or where the pump is merely used to force in the water the same is assisted in
supplying the reservoir C by the pressure of the gas separately admitted
thereto.
In addition to these advantages may be mentioned the great simplicity
of the working parts and steadiness of action as produced by the reciprocating
cylinder F on the plunger D and discharge pipe J into and through the bottom
of the reservoir, the distance apart of the guides to the pump aiding in this
result, and the reciprocating action of the pipe or connection J in a longitudinal
direction, being preferable to a rotary one for working the agitator as offering
greater security against leakage at the stuffing box. Here, it may be
repeated, however, that any suitable agitator may be employed and such
need not necessarily be worked by the discharge tube of the pump; for
instance, a rod might be substituted for the pipe J to work the agitator, and
the pump feed to the condenser may be established by a flexible tube con-
necting it at a different point with the condenser either directly through its
bottom or through its side near the bottom below the water level, such lateral
arrangement also if desired being adopted for operating a suitable agitator.
It is preferable, however, to make one stuffing box or joint serve both for the
working of the agitator and pump discharge into the condenser.
Instead of a stationary hollow plunger a working one and stationary cylinder
may be substituted for the pump arrangement shewn in the Drawing with
like effect in many respects at least, in which case if desired the discharge
pipe J may be so connected as to reciprocate with the plunger instead of with
the cylinder, suitable communication being established through the plunger
with the nine J.
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page_text: 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,-
First, a soda water or other aerating apparatus having its pump feed and
agitator or mixer so arranged in relation to its condenser or reservoir that all
joints in the latter above its average water level may be dispensed with as
herein specified.
Second, in soda water or other aerating apparatus I claim the combination
with the reservoir or condenser C of a reciprocating discharge pipe or tube J
with the pump, as and for the purpose or purposes herein set forth.
Third, the combination of the stationary hollow plunger D, reciprocating
pump cylinder F, réciprocating discharge pipe J connected therewith. and
with suitable receiving and delivery valves and reservoir or condenser C as
specified.
Fourth, the volutes L, M, or their equivalents acting as agitators or
mixers arranged on the reciprocating pump discharge pipe where it projects.
into the reservoir C; or otherwise similarly driven for action therein as set
forth.
Fifth, the combination with the pump for direct action thereby of an
agitator or agitators within the condenser..
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the First day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.S.)