An Improved Aërator, Rouser, and Mixer for Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th July. 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Aërator, Rouser, and Mixer for Liquids.
We, JAMES WILLIAM GARTON, of Sales House, Shepton Mallet, in the
County of Somerset, Brewer, and CHARLES HRNRY MEYER, of Brewery House,
Shepton Mallet, aforesaid, Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be follows:-
This invention consists of a globular, cylindrical, barrel, or other suitably shaped
vessel, fitted with radial perforated pipes, and screw blades, all capable of receiving
circular motion when placed in a vessel containing liquid and other materials to be
operated upon.
At the bottom, and sometimes also round the sides of the central vessel, one or
more inlet valve or valves is or are fitted. A spindle attached to the valve or
valves, projects several inches below the bottom. A few small perforations are
sometimes also formed therein. The radial pipes have a number of perforations in
a line on one side only, and each pipe also carries or is fitted with a helical or a
flat screw blade. The outer ends of the radial pipes are fitted with movable caps,
and the inner ends are open to the central vessel. Instead of pipes and plates, the
screw blades may be made of thin metal, cambered, and joined at their edges, so
as to form flattened tubes, a row of perforations being formed at or near one edge.
The upper end of the central vessel is fitted with a plate or plates, a hook, and
ball or roller bearings, so that it may freely revolve, independently of the means of
support.
The apparatus is suspended in the tun by a rope or wire, one end of which is
attached to the hook above mentioned. The rope passes over pulleys, and the
outer end is attached to a drum mounted on the side of the tun or vessel containing
the materials to be aërated. This drum is fast on an axle fitted with a pinion,
driven by a mutilated toothed wheel, or other suitable gear; and fitted with a
lever or handle for actuating the same; and the whole being so mounted upon
the tun or vessel as to be capable of removal for application to other similar
vessels.
In using the apparatus the driving gear is moved to and fro by means of the
lever. The pinion and drum or their equivalents are thereby rotated alternately
in opposite directions; the rope upon the drum being alternately wound and
unwound. The apparatus attached to the outer end of the rope is thereby raised
and lowered in the tun. When the valve spindle touches the bottom of the tun,
the valve or valves is or are opened, and the heavy wort at the bottom enters
the central vessel. On the apparatus being raised the valves close. The rising
and falling motion causes the screw blades to revolve in the liquor; distributing
the heavy wort in and upon the liquor, through the holes in their sides..
Dated 15th December 1891.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8,. Quality Court, London,, W.C.,, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Aerator, Rouser, and Mixer for Liquids.
We, JAMES WILLIAM GARTON, of Sales House, Shepton Mallet, in the County
of Somerset, Brewer, and CHARLES HENRY MEYER, of Brewery House; Shepton
Mallet aforesaid, Brewer; do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and
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page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists of a globular, cylindrical, barrel, or other suitably shaped
vessel, fitted with radial perforated pipes and screw blades, all capable of receiving
circular motion, when placed in a vessel containing liquid and other materials to be
operated upon.
At the bottom, and sometimes also round the sides of the central vessel, one or
more inlet valve or valves is or are fitted. A spindle attached to the valve or
valves projects several inches below the bottom. A few small perforations are
sometimes also formed therein. The radial pipes have a number of perforations on
one side only, and each pipe also carries or is fitted with a helical or a flat screw
blade. The outer ends of the radial pipes are fitted with movable caps, and the
inner ends are open to the central vessel. Instead of pipes and plates, the screw
blades may be made of thin metal, cambered, and joined at their edges, so as
to form flattened tubes, a row of perforations being formed at or near one edge.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is an elevation partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan, partly in section; and
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation, illustrating the method of using the apparatus.
a is a barrel shaped vessel. b is a valve fitted with a spindle c, which acts
as a parallel guide to the valve. d d are tubes, to which the screw plates e
are attached. Short nozzles ware attached to the vessel a, upon which the
tubes d are fitted and held by pins ff, or otherwise, to render them detachable for
cleaning out. 99 are movable caps fitted to the outer ends of the tubes. is a
handle for sustaining the vessel when in use.
In Fig. 3 the vessel is shown suspended in a tun or other vessel x, by means
of a rope, wire, or chain m (herein after called the rope) passing over pulleys n n.
One end of the rope is wound upon a barrel o, fast upon an axle fitted with a
pinion p.
is a mutilated toothed wheel to which a handles is fitted. The
vessel a may be suspended to a hook fitted with ball bearings to enable it to
rotate upon its centre with a minimum of friction.
Upon a rising and falling motion being imparted to the vessel a, while
immersed in liquid as shown in Fig. 3, by the alternate winding and unwinding of
the rope m, the action of the blades e causes the vessel a to rotate in opposite
directions.
The valve b is opened by the contact of the spindle c with the bottom of the tun,
whereby the heavy wort enters the vessel a. On the vessel being raised the valve
closes. The rising and falling motion causes the screw blades to revolve the vessel
in the liquor, distributing the heavy wort in and upon the liquor, through the holes
in their sides. The rotation is also assisted by the emission of the liquor from the
perforations in the tubes d. A number of holes may also be made in the vessel a,
as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In an aërator, rouser, distributer and mixer, for liquids, the improved com-
bination of a perforated or unperforated vessel, having an open top and one or
inore inlet valve or valves at or near the bottom; fitted with radial movable tubes
having movable caps or plugs and helical or flat screw blades; or radial flattened
or cambered tubes forming helical or flat bladed screw surfaces; the said tubes
being perforated so as to throw liquid outwardly and assist in causing rotation,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. In combination with an improved rotary aërator, rouser, distributor and
mixer for liquids as aforesaid the application and used of a hook k fitted with ball
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page_text: bearings, a rope, wire, or chain m, carried over pulleys n n to a drum o, the axle of
which is fitted with a pinion p driven in alternate directions by a mutilated toothed
wheel and handle s, severally operating substantially as herein before described
and illustrated by the drawings.
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3. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming our invention of an improved aërator, rouser,
distributor and mixer for liquids, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the drawings.
Dated 95th Tul. 100
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.