IMPROVED MEANS OF CHARGING LIQUIDS WITH GASEOUS BODIES (SOLID OR LIQUID), AND IN APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH OR THEREFOR
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Marescot at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
June 1874.
I, ARTHUR MARESCOT, of No. 14, Passage de l'Opera, in the City of
Paris, in France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OF CHARGING LIQUIDS WITH GASEOUS BODIES
(SOLID OR LIQUID), AND IN APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES CONNECTED THEREWITH OR
THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the charging of liquids in
bottles and other vessels with a gaseous body, such as carbonic acid gas
in a solid or liquid form, whereby the liquids become aërated, such
charging or aërating being effected at any time at the option of the
dealer or of the consumer, whereby the usual method of transporting
bottles or other vessels can be dispensed with.
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The Invention consists, firstly, in storing or reserving sufficient
gaseous or aërating body or agent in a solid or liquid form, in a
receptacle which can at any time be inserted into say the neck of a
bottle, and be retained there in a charged state until the liquid in the
bottle is required to be drank, at which time the receptacle as a capsule

page_text: can be punctured or otherwise operated upon for the gaseous body to
discharge itself into the liquid to aërate it, after which the aërated liquid
can be drawn off in the usual manner.
I prefer to use the machine known as Thiborier's, in order to compress
the carbonic acid gas or other gaseous agent into the solid or liquid
form..
The Invention consists, secondly, in the manufacture of capsules or
holders in metal and in any desired shape or form, the end or side of
which can be closed by a screw or other plug after being charged with
carbonic acid gas or the ingredients or substances from which an
equivalent gas can be formed, for the purposes explained under the first
head of my Provisional Specification.
One manner of carrying this second part of my Invention into effect
is to mould by stamping or otherwise) a hollow case, and then to cut or
form a screw thread upon the rim over or into which a threaded head or
end can be caused to fit gas tight. The case is so made as to fit the
neck of the bottle in which the liquid is, and should the capsule be
charged with an aërating agency, such as as carbonic acid gas, the bottom
end of the capsule can be punctured by a pin or spike projecting down
the inside from the head of the capsule, so that on a blow being struck
upon the head the pin or spike is forced through the bottom to release
the contents which fall into the liquid which becomes aërated.
According to another method I fit a valve in one end of the capsule
and I charge the capsule with say liquid carbonic acid, the pressure of
which will keep the valve closed against escape except when the valve
is operated upon, when the acid will fall in drops into the liquid drink
and aérate it.
In the case of charging syphons I first fill one portion with liquid
drink, and then fit one of my acid charged capsules upon the mouth.
I then screw on the cap and when the liquid drink is required to be
emptied I cause the lever to act upon the capsule to release the contents
of it into and among the liquid drink, which becomes aërated and then
drawn off or forced out under the pressure of gas in the usual manner.