Improved Automatic Soda-water Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1899-Accepted, 17th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Automatic Soda-water Apparatus.
We, SIGMUND HERCZEG, Machinist, and JOHANN DEREKAS, Merchant, both of
No. 12, Föuteza, Aszod, subjects of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, in the
Kingdom of Hungary, do hereby declare the nature of our 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:-
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This invention relates to a soda- or mineral-water apparatus, in which the
soda-water is produced automatically, the carbonic acid itself being utilized for
pumping the necessary water into the mixing vessel before such carbonic acid
saturates the water.
Referring to the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 shows the apparatus partly in elevation and partly in vertical section.
Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross section on line - of Fig. 1 and
Fig. 3 is a detail of the apparatus drawn to an enlarged scale.
The apparatus consists of a hollow cast-iron standard s securely mounted by
means of a base plate s¹, such standard being provided at about the centre or
other convenient part with a flange or gallery 2 and above it a platform. 3. On
the flange or gallery s² are arranged the washing vessels w (see also Fig. 2) and
on the platform 3 is located the mixing vessel g, consisting of a copper helm,
provided with a safety or check valve v, water gauge, and manometer, such mixing
vessel being secured in such a manner that the platform 3 forms its bottom
or base.
Laterally to the standards and below the platform s³ there is mounted a vertical
cylinder c with slide valve chest c¹, and, below the gallery s2, there is provided a
water pump p. The cylinder e and pump p have one common piston rod k. The
piston of the cylinder c is operated by the carbonic acid that is employed to
saturate the water, such carbonic acid being fed through the pipe from a suit-
able source and through a reducing valve into the valve chest of the cylinder c.
The piston of the cylinder operates, by means of the piston rod k, the pump p.
which pump sucks water through the pipe 2 and conducts it by means of the
pressure pipe d, passing centrally through the standards, into the mixing vessel g,
where it issues in thin streams from a rose d¹ forming the end of the pressure
pipe d in the upper part of the mixing vessel g for being saturated with carbonic
acid which passes into the mixing vessel from the sieve-like perforated serpen-
tine pipe surrounding the pressure pipe d. This serpentine pipe forms the
end of a conduit of pipes 1-2-3-4 conducting the carbonic acid, exhausting from
the cylinder c, through the washing vessels w, such carbonic acid being thus,
cleaned or purified and fed into the mixing vessel g.

page_text: The impregnated water (soda-water) now passes through a pipe z to the filling
apparatus adapted to fill the soda-water into so-called siphon bottles provided, as
usual, at the bottle head with an outlet tube and a locking lever. The filling
apparatus consists of a bracket or support t mounted on the standards and carrying
below the bottle-holding device and above the filling head.
The bottle-holding device consists of the vertically guided plunger or slide o*
with the head o adapted to receive. the head of the bottle to be filled. The
plunger o is always pressed upwards by a weight lever o³. In the head o (Fig. 3)
of the plunger is mounted a cam o¹ which is connected to the bracket or support t
by a strong non-tensioned spring o³ in such a manner that the latter, acting as a
rod, turns the cam o¹ into its lowest position the weight lever o³ being raised on
the downward movement of the plunger of, whereas the spring o² brings the cam
into its highest position on the upward movement of the plunger o so that the
cam o presses against or opens the locking lever of the soda-water bottle head.
The filling head consists of a 4-shaped casing or frame a, b in whose vertical
part is mounted a piston e, which is slidable upwards and under the control of a
spring pressing the piston downwards. The piston e, in its normal position,
shuts off the bore or passage a¹ of the horizontal frame piece a communicating
with the filling pipe z whereas, on the piston e being lifted, such bore or passage a¹
communicates with the axial bore or passage of the piston by means of a cross
bore of the same. The piston e and its bore e¹ are extended into a hollow lug e²,
entering the mouth of the bottle during the filling thereof. The siphon bottle to
be filled is placed with its head end on the head of the plunger in such a
manner that the bottle head is located in the hollow of the curved
or bent nose 05 of the head 0 of the plunger, whereas the
locking lever is situated on the cam o¹, and the outlet tube, through which the
bottle is filled, projects vertically upwards and, as above stated, communicates
with the hollow lug e² of the filling head. If the plunger of is raised, it lifts the
bottle, the head of which raises the piston e and the cam o turns itself in the
above stated manner into its highest position, thus pressing the locking lever
whereby the same is opened so that the soda-water can pass out of the vessel g
directly into the bottle. Should a sprinkling or squirting of the bottle on a
difficult filling of the same be necessary, a still further raising of the piston e will
suffice to cause the bore or passage a¹ to be shut off and the bore or passage e¹ of
the piston e to communicate, by means of a second bore ¹ of the piston, with
a cock 22.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is : -
1. In an automatic soda-water apparatus, the method of utilizing the carbonic
acid that is employed to saturate the water to pump such water into the mixing
vessel substantially as set forth.
2. In a soda-water apparatus, the combination of a cylinder and piston, a pump
connected thereto, a mixing vessel, and a connection between the cylinder and
the mixing vessel, the carbonic acid, intended to impregnate the water in the
mixing vessel, being adapted to operate the pump which forces the water into such
mixing vessel, substantially as set forth.
3. An automatic soda-water apparatus in which the carbonic acid adapted for
saturating the water is fed to a cylinder e by means of a reducing valve and thus
operates the piston of the cylinder, which actuates, by means of its rod %, the
water pump directly connected therewith, such pump forcing the water to be
saturated into the mixing vessel g, into which vessel the carbonic acid, exhausting
from the cylinder e, is also conducted after being previously purified by passing
through suitable washing vessels w for the purpose of saturating the water sub-
stantially as described and shown in the drawing.

page_text: 4. The soda-water apparatus constructed substantially as described and as illus-
trated in the accompanying drawing.
A. F. SPOONER,
323; High Holborn, London,
Agent for the Applicants.