A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE COMBINED MINIATURE APPARATUS OR MACHINE FOR MAKING AND BOTTLING AERATED MINERAL WATERS, OR OTHER AERATED OR EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bull at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th March 1877.
WILLIAM BULL, of Knight's Hill, Norwood, in the County of Surrey, Engineer.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE COMBINED MINIATURE APPARATUS OR MACHINE
FOR MAKING AND BOTTLING AERATED MINERAL WATERS, OR OTHER AERATED OR
EFFERVESCING LIQUIDS."
This Invention consists of a new or improved combined aerated mineral water
making apparatus and bottling machine in miniature form, suitable for hotels, clubs,
taverns, refreshment bars, and the like, or for general or private use.
In carrying out this Invention I make use of a strong oak cylinder or vessel,
divided into two or more compartments, or of two or more cylinders or vessels
capable of being connected with each other. I charge one or more compartments
or vessels with alkaline liquid, and one or more compartments with acidulated
liquid or compressed carbonic acid gas. In one or more of the said compartments,
as the case may require, I fit rotary or other beaters, and in connection with the
said cylinder compartments, cylinders, or vessels I fit a small force pump, so that
thereby the air, gas, or liquid contained in one can be drawn therefrom and forced
into the other or others, or by which air or gas and liquid can be forcibly injected
into one or all compartments, or cylinders, or vessels, and the liquid and gaseous
contents be then voilently agitated or mixed as required by the said beaters.
In some cases I use the force pump as an air pump only, or dispense therewith
and connect the said compartments, cylinders, or vessels, externally or internally,
by means of suitable pipes, upon which stop-cocks or valves are placed for opening
and closing such connection or connections. In all cases however I prefer to
combine an air pump with the cylinder, compartments, or vessels in order to maintain
the required pressure therein as the aerated or other liquid is drawn off into bottles
or other liquid receptacles.
The whole being however in miniature and portable form, and adapted for the coun-
ter or table use, in connection with the said cylinders or vessels, I combine bottling
mechanism adapted for filling and closing bottles, made and fitted as described in
the Specification filed in the Great Seal Patent Office in pursuance of one of the
conditions of Her Majesty's Letters Patent, bearing dated the 29th day of April,
A.D. 1876, and Numbered 1751, or for filling and corking bottles made in the ordinary
way. This bottling mechanism consists of a flexible tube and stop-cock, and union

page_text: screw coupling for coupling the same at its free end to a tap or valve fitted to each
compartment, or cylinder, or vessel, so as to draw off the same separately.
In lieu of the compartment, cylinder, or separate vessels herein-before described a
single compartment, cylinder, or vessel may be used, and a small gas generator, and
connected force pump, and agitator, or aerated and liquid mixer be combined there-
with. The opposite end of the flexible tube before mentioned is joined to a short
pipe opening into the plugway of the bottle filling tap, which tap is made to rise
and fall in vertical bearings or sockets, and when intended for filling bottles made
and fitted as described in the said Specification of the said Patent herein-before
referred to, is made with a simple terminal capped nipple, but when intended for
filling and corking bottles formed in the ordinary way this terminal nipple is
enlarged in the bore, and made with a hollow cork-holding head or tube above the
tap, in which tube there is a lateral opening for inserting the cork. In this case a
descending plunger rod fitted in the cork-holding head for pushing the cork down
through the aperture in the plug of the tap (enlarged), and down the enlarged bore
of the nipple into the mouth and neck of the bottle. In the other case an ascending
rod is fitted below the bottle rest for pushing the plug up into its closed position in
the bottle when filled.
A suitable stand is provided when required upon which the combined miniature
apparatus is mounted. This stand is provided with suitable bottle baskets or bottle
carriers at each side, and with a gas generating cylinder and hometer under the
same. When required the miniature combined apparatus inay however be placed
upon the counter, table, or sideboard, and is provided with handles for lifting and
moving it as circumstances may render necessary or convenient.