VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A VESSEL, MACHINE, CYLINDER, RESERVOIR, OR FOUNTAIN.
Year: 1813

page_text: PLINTH, of Temple Street, in the City of London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of April,
in the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Charles
Plinth, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Charles Plinth, my exors, admors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein
mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, an Invention communicated to me by certain Foreigners
residing abroad, of" VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A VESSEL,
MACHINE, CYLINDER, RESERVOIR, OR FOUNTAIN. (WHICH I DENOMINATE THE
REGENCY PORTABLE FOUNTAIN'), USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATER SIMPLY
IMPREGNATED WITH FIXED AIR OR CARBONIC ACID, AND OF ARTIFICIAL, Mineral,
AND SODA WATERS, AND IN THE DELIVERY OF THE SAME THEREFROM, AND ALSO
IN THE, DELIVERY OF CYDER, PERRY, AND OTHER LIQUIDS;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Charles Plinth, shall
not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar mouths next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, deter-
mine, and become void, as in and' by the same, relation being thereunto lind,
may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Plinth, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in manner following, that is to say:
The said improvements are made in the vessel, machine, cylinder, reservoir,
or fountain, into which, in making or manufacturing of waters or watery solu-
tions impregnated with fixed air or carbonic acid gas, the said waters or
watery solutions are usually put, and the said fixed air or carbonic acid gas
forced by an air pump or other apparatus for injection, and the whole con-
tents thereof therein agitated by means and methods which are all well known,
and I do denominate the said vessel, machine, cylinder, reservoir, or fountain,
when so improved, "The Regency Portable Fountain ;" and the said improve-
ments are,
Firstly, instead of making, constructing, joining, and connecting the said
vessel, machine, cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, in one apparatus, along with
the said air pump, and the other vessels for producing or .extricating and
supplying the said fixed air or carbonic acid gas and other matters and things
thereunto appertaining, I do make and construct the same seperately and
distinctly from the said air pump and other vessels, matters, and things, and
do join and connect the same with the said air pump by means of a thimble
joint or double screw piece or other known means of joining or connecting
tubes together, and by and with the intervention of a cock or other perforated
stopping piece, in order that so soon as the impregnation shall or may
have been compleated, or at such other times as may be needful, I may be
enabled to seperate, remove and take away the said so as aforesaid improved
vessel, machine, cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, with its contents, from the
said air pump and other vessels, matters, and things. And I do accordingly
so seperate and remove the said so. as aforesaid improved vessel, machine,
cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, for various useful and desirable purposes, and
more especially for conveying the impregnated fluid to be bottled, distributed,
or used at any place at a distance from the said air pump and other vessels,
matters, and things.
And, secondly, instead of bottling, serving, or supplying the said impregnated
fluid by or from a cock in the usual manner, from the said so as aforesaid
improved vessel, machine, cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, whether attached to:
or seperate from the said air pump and other vessels, matters, and things, I
do make use of a cock or other perforated stopping piece screwed, fixed, or
applied in the upper part of the said so as aforesaid improved vessel, machine,
cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, and terminating within the said so as aforesaid
improved vessel, machine, cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, in or by a pipe or

page_text: tube continued nearly as far as to the opposite internal surface thereof, and
open only at the lower end; and to the outer channel or perforation of the said
cock or stopping piece, I do join, fix, or apply a nozle, adjutage, or tube (with
a cock or other perforated stopping piece attached thereto), of such a form or
figure as shall and may conveniently deliver the said impregnated fluid into
glasses or other vessels, or convey the same to a distance, upon the principle
and in the manner of the fountain commonly used with condensed atmospheric
air; but in the said improvements the condensed fixed air or carbonic acid
gass performs the same office. And with regard to the delivery of cyder, perry,
porter, ale, and other liquids, from the said so as aforesaid improved vessel,
machine, cylinder, reservoir, or fountain, I do effect the same by the introduc-
tion of fixed air or carbonic acid gass, which becomes more or less absorbed,
and operates by its pressure in the same manner as is seen with regard to
the delivery of impregnated water and the other fluids before mentioned or
referred to.
I
And, lastly, I do, along with the said improvements, combine, connect,
practise, and use, all the several means of operating, whether chemically or
mechanically, and the several apparatus of vessels, tubes, cocks, screws, agitators
or rousers, and other matters and things, which are practised and known to be
best calculated for producing a strong and effectual impregnation of and with
the said fixed air or carbonic acid gass. But I do not claim any exclusive
right or privilege unto the said means and apparatus except and unless as
connected with the said improvements.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Plinth, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.