Apparatus for Carbonating Liquids.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 9th July,
1898
Apparatus for Carbonating Liquids.
I, WILLIAM HUMPHREY WHEATLEY, of the Firm of Wheatley and Mackenzie,
Engineers, and Patent Agents, of 40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:-
My invention relates to apparatus for carbonating liquids, and will be under-
stood from the following description and claims when taken in conjunction with
the annexed drawing, in which:-
Fig. 1 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation of my improved
apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a detail section, and
Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section taken on the line x, x, of Fig. 2.
Referring by letter to said drawing;
A indicates the base and B indicates the closed mixing vessel. This vessel B
has a safety valve a, and water glasses 6 and it is provided with shafts cd, the
former having a sprocket wheel e and a gear wheel f, and the latter having a
pinion g which meshes with gear wheel f, and a wheel h equipped with peripheral
buckets i.
C indicates a carbonic acid gas cartridge which is provided with a discharge
valve j connected with vessel B by a pipe k having a pressure gauge 1; D indicates
a valved discharge pipe for the carbonated liquid which leads from the vessel B
to a fountain or to a refrigerating device intermediate of the vessel and the
fountain; E indicates a pipe for conducting water into the vessel B, which has its
discharge end so arranged as to discharge the water against the buckets i of
wheel and thereby cause said wheel to turn; and F indicates an endless chain
of about the proportional length illustrated which takes around and depends from
the sprocket wheel e and is provided with buckets m.
Water or other liquid to be carbonated is conducted under pressure into the
vessel B, through the pipe E and is discharged against the buckets i of wheel h
so as to rotate said wheel and cause the chain to travel in the direction indicated
by arrow. In virtue of this, when the cartridge C is connected with vessel B and
the upper portion of said vessel is occupied by carbonic acid gas, the buckets m
will raise the liquid and after passing over sprocket e will discharge the same in
showers. Consequently the liquid and gas will be quickly commingled and the
carbonating of the liquid will be materially accelerated. Again it will be seen
that after the discharge of the liquid the buckets m will be occupied by gas which
they will carry down into the liquid and thus further accelerate the carbonating
of the same.
G indicates a force pump, which may be of the ordinary or any suitable con-
struction and need not therefore be specifically described. This pump which may
be operated by a lever n is connected by a pipe p, which may be equipped with

page_text: a meter 4. with a scource of supply and said pump has its discharge chamber con-
nected with the pipe E; said pipe E being preferably connected to the discharge
air chamber of the pump. When the pump is operated water will be drawn
through the pipe p into its induction chamber and will be discharged through its
eduction chamber and the pipe E, so as to charge the vessel B and also drive
chain F. In this way the water in the vessel will be carbonated while the vessel
is being charged with water. When a sufficient quantity of water is placed in
the vessel B, a three-way cock H on pipe p is turned to shut off communication
between the pump and the source of supply and establish communication between
a pipe I leading from the lower portion of the vessel and the induction chamber
of the pump.
Also the valve is closed and the pump is then operated. When
this is done, the water or other liquid will be circulated in a closed cycle from the
lower portion of vessel B through pipe I, pump G, pipe E, to the upper portion
of the vessel and will consequently be quickly commingled with the gas contained
therein.
To further accelerate the commingling of the gas and liquid, I provide the
pipe J which connects the vessel B and the discharge chamber of the pump. By
reason of this pipe J, when the pump is in operation and liquid is being forced
through the pipe E, gas will be syphoned from the upper portion of the vessel B
and will be drawn into the discharge chamber of the pump and the pipe E and
carried by the latter back to the vessel B; being commingled with the liquid
en route.
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―
1 In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closed vessel,
a liquid elevator therein, a liquid supply pipe leading into the closed vessel, and
mechanism arranged to be operated by the stream of water from said supply pipe
and connected with the liquid elevator so as to transmit motion to the same, sub-
stantially as specified.
2 In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closed vessel,
a pump, a conduit leading from the eduction chamber of the pump to the closed
vessel, a liquid conduit connecting the induction chamber of the pump and the
closed vessel, a pipe J connecting the upper portion of the closed vessel and the
pump, and a water elevator arranged in the closed vessel and operative by
the stream of liquid from the first named conduit, substantially as specified.
3 In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closed vessel,
a liquid elevator therein, a pump, a pipe leading from the pump into the vessel,
and mechanism arranged to be operated by the stream of liquid from said pipe
and connected with the liquid elevator so as to transmit motion to the same, sub-
stantially as specified.
4 In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closed vessel,
a liquid elevator therein, a pump, a pipe leading from the discharge chamber of
the pump into the vessel, mechanism arranged to be operated by the stream of
liquid from said pipe and connected with the liquid elevator so as to transmit
motion to the same, and a pipe connecting the vessel and the induction chamber of
the pump, substantially as specified.
5 In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closed vessel,
a liquid elevator therein, a pump, a pipe conducting the discharge of the pump and
the vessel, mechanism arranged to be operated by the stream of liquid from said
pipe and connected with the liquid elevator so as to transmit motion to the same,
a pipe I connected with the vessel, a three-way cock connected with said pipe I,
and also with a pipe leading from a source of liquid supply and a pipe leading
to the induction chamber of the pump, substantially as specified.
6 In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closed vessel,
a pump, a pipe leading from the discharge of the pump into the closed vessel and

page_text: a water elevator arranged and adapted to discharge in the closed vessel and
operative by the stream of water from the pipe, substantially as specified.
7-In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, a closed vessel forming part of a
close cycle, a pipe forming part of the closed cycle and having its discharge end
arranged in the vessel, a water elevator arranged in the vessel and operative by
the stream of water from the pipe, and means for maintaining a circulation of
liquid through the closed cycle, substantially as specified.
Dated this 26th day of April 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.