AN IMPROVED PORTABLE CHAMBER OR RECEPTACLE TO CONTAIN AERATED LIQUIDS, AND THE APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH, BY WHICH THE FLOW OF SUCH LIQUID IS REGULATED AND MEASURED
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Max Benjamin Schumann, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PORTABLE CHAMBER OR RECEPTACLE TO CONTAIN AERATED LIQUIDS, AND THE
APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH, BY WHICH THE FLOW OF SUCH LIQUID IS
REGULATED AND MEASURED."
Sealed the 3rd October 1865, and dated the 25th July 1865
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Max Benjamin Schumann
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th July 1865.
I, MAX BENJAMIN SCHUMANN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED PORTABLE CHAMBER OR RECEPTACLE TO CONTAIN AERATED LIQUIDS,
AND THE APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH, BY WHICH THE FLOW OF SUCH LIQUID IS
REGULATED AND MEASURED," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
apparatus for containing aerated liquids, whereby the flow of the same can
be regulated and withdrawn as desired, in an effervescent state.
The improvements consist in the construction of an air-tight cylindrical
chamber or receptacle, having two openings or valves, one for the admission

page_text: and the other for the discharge of the liquor This cylinder is first filled with
cold water, after which it is connected to a vessel containing carbonic gas;
the gas as it enters one end of this cylinder expels the water from the other
end until the whole is charged with gas; the admission end is then connected
by a pipe to the apparatus containing the aerated liquid; this cylinder, when
filled with the liquid, is hermetically closed and placed vertically or otherwise in
a cistern or box containing ice; when in this position it is connected by a pipe
or tube (also surrounded by ice), the extremity or upper end of which is
closed by a valve or tap, through which the liquor is caused to flow as disired,
the acrated properties of which causing each discharge to effervesce and sparkle
as it flows into the vessel placed to receive it. At a junction in the delivery
pipe between the cylinder and the tap an indicator is placed, which is acted
upon and caused to revolve by the liquor as it is drawn from the tap, thus
indicating the quantity discharged from the cylinder or receptacle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Max Benjamin Schumann in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MAX
BENJAMIN SCHUMANN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Ulei most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for llerself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Max Benjamin Schumann, Her special license that I, the said Max
Benjamin Schumann, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Max Benjamin Schumann, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED PORTABLE CHAMBER OR RECEPTACLE TO CONTAIN AERATED LIQUIDS,
AND THE APPARATUS CONNECTED BY WHICH THE FLOW OF SUCH LIQUID IS REGULATED
AND MEASURED," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Max
Benjamin Schumaun, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertam
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the sand
5 Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Max Benjamin Schumann, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
The Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
apparatus for containing acrated liquids, whereby the flow of the same can be
regulated and withdrawn as desired in an effervescent state.
The improvements consist in the construction of an air-tight cylindrical
chamber or receptacle, having two openings or valves, one for the admission
and the other for the discharge of the liquor. This cylinder is first filled with
cold water, after which it is connected to a vessel containing carbonic gas;
tho
gas as it enters one end of this cylinder expels the water from the other
end until the whole is charged with gas, the admission end is then connected
by a pipe to the apparatus contaming the aerated liquid, this cylinder, when
filled with the liquid, is hermetically closed and placed vertically or otherwise
in a cistern or box containing ice, when in this position it is connected by a
pipe or tube (also surrounded by ice), the extremity or upper end of which is
closed by a valve or tap, through which the liquor is caused to flow as desired,
the aerated properties of which causing each discharge to effervesce and sparkle
as it flows into the vessel placed to receive it At a junction in the delivery
pipe between the cylinder and the tap an indicator is placed, which is acted
upon and caused to revolve by the liquor as it is drawn from the tap, thus
indicating the quantity discharged from the cylinder or receptacle
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, Figures 1, 2, and 3 being
made upon a scale of about three inches to the foot, and Figures 4 and 5 about
one inch and a half to the foot; similar letters of reference being marked upon
corresponding parts on all the Figures
Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of the portable cylinder for
containing aerated liquor, shewing its internal arrangement
Figure 2 represents another arrangement or modification of portable
cylinder, but adapted more particularly for manufacturing aerated wateis
Figure 3 represents the construction of cylinder shewn in Figure 1, when filled

page_text: with aerated liquor, and in its position when placed in the cistern or receptacle
containing ice.
Figure 4 represents the front elevation of a booth or structure, constructed
to contain the measuring apparatus, pipes, and taps, to which the portable
cylinders are attached; and Figure 5 represents a plan of the same, shewing
more particularly the arrangement of cylinder when connected to the aforesaid
pipes and taps.
In Figures 1, 2, and 3, a, a, is the cylinder or receptacle having two openings
or valves a¹ and 6; this cylinder before receiving the aerated liquor is charged
with gas equal to a pressure of from four to five atmospheres, after which the
pipe a is connected to a water pipe; the two valves are then opened, at which
time the water-air free is forcibly drawn into and fills the cylinder. The tube
or pipe 6 is now attached to the ordinary mixing cylinder of the machine for
manufacturing aërated waters containing carbonic gas; the pump of this
machine forces the gas into the cylinder through the pipe b, and as it is thus
forced in the water is expelled from the tube a¹, the pump still continues
forcing in the as (the tube a¹ being now closed) until it acquires a pressure
required and indicated by an apparatus or manumcter on the machine
when the required pressure is obtained; the pipe a¹ is connected to a vessel
containing aerated liquor, which is some height above the portable cylinder,
(the tuble being still in connection with the mixing cylinders); the acrated
water flows into the portable cylinder a, and when the same is filled the two
taps a¹ and bare hermetically closed. The portable cylinder now being ready
for removal to any place required, Figures 4 and 5 illustrate the arrangement
and position of the cylinder when placed in the booth or structure prepared
for their reception, ready for the liquor to be drawn off in small quantities as
required, c is the covering or booth; d, the counter; e, e, the taps or
thorougfares for the discharge of the liquor; f, the casterns supplied with ice,
in which the cylinder a is placed as shewn in Figure 3; g is the pipe or tube
which connects the valve a¹ to the tap e.
The quntity of acrated water drawn from the portable cylinder a may be
ascertained by an ordinary indicating apparatus, or if preferred the cylinder
can be weighed when leaving the manufactory, and also again when it returns,
thereby ascertaining the quantity withdrawn.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of canying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details and configuration
of portable cylinders herein shewn, but what I claim is the novel arrangement

page_text: of portable cylinders constructed to receive and contain aerated liquors, and
the apparatus in connection, by which such liquor can be drawn off as required
in a ripe and effervescent state as herein-before described, set forth, and fully
illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Max Benjamin Schumann, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
MAX BENJAMIN SCHUMANN. (L.S.)