Improvements relating to the Charging and Storing of Unfermented Aërated Beverages.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 8th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Charging and Storing of
Unfermented Aërated Beverages.
I, JAMES MURRELL of 6 Chenery Street, St. Margarets, Ipswich, Mineral Water
Maker and Machinist do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
RELATING TO THE CHARGING, STORING, AND DELIVERY OR DRAWING OFF, OF UNFERMENTED
AERATED BEVERAGES to be as follows:-
Instead of as has hitherto been usual, charging and storing aërated beverages into
and in any of the ordinary types of corked or stopped bottles in which aërated
beverages are usually contained and sold. I, in accordance with my Invention charge
said beverages, under pressure, into sufficiently strong wooden casks or stone or
earthenware jars, in bulk, that is to say, in quantities for instance, of from half a
gallon and upwards. I provide, by means of a suitable check valve, for the retention
of pressure within the containing receptacles aforesaid when charged; and, the
contents are drawn off for consumption by means of any of the well known or other
taps used for drawing off the contents of casks or jars.
Dated this Second day of April 1889.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Charging and Storing of
Unfermented Aërated Beverages.
I, JAMES MURRELL of 6 Chenery Street, St. Margarets, Ipswich, Mineral Water
Maker and Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
:-
Instead of as has hitherto been usual, charging and storing aerated beverages into
and in any of the ordinary types of corked or stoppered bottles in which aürated
beverages are usually contained and sold.-I, in accordance with my Invention
charge said beverages under pressure, into sufficiently strong wooden casks or in
some cases into stone or earthenware jars, in bulk; that is to say in quantities for
instance of from half a gallon and upwards. I provide a suitable arrangement of
valves for filling the cask or other vessel with the beverages under pressure, and for
the retention of pressure within the containing receptacles aforesaid; and, the
contents are drawn off for consumption by means of any of the well known
"drawn off or other taps used for drawing off liquids.
In order that my Invention may be the better understood I have appended the
accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a containing
vessel having my improvements adapted thereto, and Figure 2 a sectional elevation
shown detached and to enlarged scale of the valves employed by me in carrying out
said Invention.
In accordance with my Invention I employ, as the containing vessel, a cask A,
composed of the requisite number of staves. The heads B, B, of the cask are mitred
into the staves as shown instead of being made in the ordinary manner with chimes,
and, in addition 1 provide an extra head b, b, the two heads B, b; B, b, thus formed
being rivetted to each other at cross grain of the wood.
In constructing a cask in the manner just described I employ a suitable composition

page_text: of india rubber and gutta percha or the like which is inserted between the staves and
between the mitred heads so that any crevices which may be left between the
meeting edges when putting the cask together are effectually closed. The cask is
treated internally with such composition so that the carbonic acid gas is retained
therein, and moreover the contained beverages are thus prevented coming in contact
with the wood of which the cask is made.
The ends of the hoops a of the cask A instead of being rivetted, as is ordinarily
the case, are welded together. To do this tho hoops are first driven on the cask
when hot, and afterwards shrunk, so as to draw the staves and heads rigidly together
and so prevent leakage of the contents. The hoops a,-which in cross section may
be either half round or flat-are driven tight on the cask, screws being inserted
through same and partially through the stavos. A suitable thumb draw off valve or
tap C is adapted to the lower end of the cask A.
The beverages, as also the gas, are charged direct into the cask from pumps or
cylinders through a double acting filling and venting valve which is screwed into a
gunmetal bush which in turn is screwed in the top of the cask, the valve box. being
removeable from the bush when the interior of the cask is to be washed or
otherwise cleansed.
Figure 2 represents this combined filling and venting valve shown detached to
enlarged scale. D is the valve box which screws into the gunmetal bush E. F is
the filling valve, and G the venting valve. The spindles f, g, of the valves F, G,
work through the glands H, H the valves being retained on their seatings by
the springs assisted also by the pressure of the gas contained in the cask.
The lower end of each spring bears against a perforated plate d, and d' which
are screwed into position and through which the valve spindles are capable of vertical
movement, the upper end of each pring bearing against a collar e and e¹,
secured to each of the spindles f, g. The valves F, G, are faced with leather
or like material.
When charging the cask it is placed on a suitable apparatus and raised by
the foot of the operator-pressing on a pedal-against the mouth of the filling
machine. Figure 2 shows the gland H of the filling valve F bearing against
the mouth M of the filling machine. The pressure of the liquid and the
gas
contained in the filling machine depresses the valve F, the liquid and gas being
then forced through the orifices i in the gland H and through the perforated
plate d past the valve F into the cask. Upon removing the cask from the
mouth M of the filling machine the valve F is closed by the pressure of the
spring I and by the pressure of the internal gases in the cask. A lever J is
pivoted to the mouth M of the filling machine. When charging the cask this
lever is depressed, whereupon the valve G is removed from its seating and the air
allowed to escape through the orifices in the gland H and through the plate or
disc d¹.
The spindles f, g, of the valves F, G, work vertically within holes-which are
preferably round-in the glands H, H. These spindles may also be round to
correspond with said holes; if desired the spindles may assume a square or triangular
or other shape in cross section, and have longitudinal grooves formed therein, in which
case the orifices i, i, would be dispensed with.
A suitable gauge is employed for ascertaining the pressure of the gaseous
contents of the cask or other vessel employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
:
First The method of and means employed for charging and storing, un-
fermented aërated beverages from casks or other vessels substantially as herein
set forth.

page_text: Second: The employment of a cask built up in the manner herein described
having valves to permit of the unfermented beverages and gas being charged
thereinto and to allow of the air contained in the cask ог other vessel
escaping, substantially as herein set forth and shown Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of January 1890.
JAMES STEVENSON,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.