IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ICED SIRUP, OR CREAM, AND SODA WATER BEVERAGES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Antoine Piccaluga, of No. 82, Boulevard
Sébastopol, Paris, in the Empire of France, Engineer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ICED
SIRUP, OR CREAM, AND SODA WATER BEVERAGES."
Sealed the 6th December 1870, and dated the 8th June 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Antoine riccaluga au
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 8th June 1870.
I, ANTOINE PIccaluga, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ICED SIRUP,
OR CREAM, AND SODA WATER BEVERAGES," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for manufacturing iced beverages
the 8th June 1870.
I, ANTOINE PICCALUGA, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ICED SIRUP,
OR CREAM, AND SODA WATER BEVERAGES," to be as follows:-

page_text: cylindrical recipient for the ice, constructed of copper lined internally
with tin, and whose lower end is fixed in a brass cap screwed to a plate
below the cylinder; this plate serves as a centre of rotation to a conical
ice cutter fixed in the centre of a brass star piece and communicating|
with the ice recipient at its lower extremity; round this latter is
another similarly constructed and arranged cylinder, forming a case
to the first named one, and constitutes the soda water recipient, and
is supplied with two pipe joints at its upper end, one for adjusting a
tap for drawing off the soda water by aid of a tin suction tube reaching
from the tap to the interior of the cylinder, and the other for the
reception of a tin tube for the introduction of or supplying the latter
cylinder with soda.
The star piece above referred to, and which surrounds the outer
cylinder, is a metal table having twelve branches, on each of which is
mounted a vertical silver-plated cylinder lined internally with tin, for
containing the sirups or creams, each one being supplied at the base
with a cock valve for the exit of the liquid, which is effected by raising
the knobs (at the head of each recipient) which are attached to silver-
plated shafts traversing the cylinders perpendicularly and forming
stoppers for retaining the liquid until operated on as described.
Each of these cylinders is provided with a glass gauge for measuring
the proportion of sirup, and each has a silver lable with the name of its
contents.
The excess of carbonic acid gas which may collect at the top of the
soda water cylinder is allowed to escape by means of a screw valve, so
that it may be opened or closed at will.
The ice cutter is conical in form, and of silver-plated brass, having
four beveled openings, in each of which a blade is fixed. The cutting
of the ice is regulated by a fly wheel mounted on a shaft actuating the
blades by means of bevel wheels, one of which bearing 30 teeth is fixed
to the end of the shaft, and gears with a second wheel having 74 teeth,
which latter is attached to the upper part of the cutter and causes it to
revolve.
...
This cutter is furnished with a copper silver-plated funnel covering
its end and serving as exit for the ice.

page_text: and nuts to ȧ white marble slab or table, in the centre of which is an
opening communicating with a tube for running off the waste liquor;
one of the supports referred to bears a muffle, acting as a cushion to the
shaft on which the fly wheel is mounted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Antoine Piccaluga in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th December 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTOINE
PICCALUGA, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Empire of
France, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Antoine Piccaluga, Her special licence that
I, the said Antoine Piccaluga, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Antoine Piccaluga, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might inake, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANU-
FACTURING ICED SIRUP, OR CREAM, AND SODA WATER BEVERAGES," upon the-
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Antoine Piccaluga, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain 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 said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Antoine Piccaluga, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the.
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained

page_text: in and by the following statement, and accompanying Drawings, that is
to say :-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of iced beverages consisting
of soda water flavoured with sirup or cream and the apparatus employed
consists of a vertical double cylinder recipient, the inner one for 5
receiving the ice, and the outer one for the reception of the soda water;
this latter cylinder is furnished with two tubes at the top, one for
receiving the soda, and the other for drawing off the liquid by means
of a tap.
Round the external cylinder are arranged twelve vertical
cylinders (the recipients of the creams or sirups), each of which is 1
supplied with a valve cock for the exit of the liquid contained in the
respective cylinders, these cocks are worked by aid of knobs (at the
head of each cylinder), to which are attached plated shafts forming
stoppers to retain the liquid until operated on.
The excess of carbonic acid gas escapes through a screw valve at the 1
head of the outer cylinder or soda water recipient.
The ice cutter is conical and is provided with four blades actuated by
a shaft and fly wheel by means of bevil wheels in connection therewith
causing the cutter to revolve.
Beneath the cutter is a plated funnel for covering its end as well as 2
for the exit of the ice.
The apparatus is mounted on a marble slab by means of supports
bolted thereto, and in the centre of this slab is an opening communicating
with a tube for running off the waste liquor.
The above description of the apparatus will be readily understood on 2
reference to the accompanying Drawings.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the apparatus; Fig. 2 is a vertical section
of the same following the longitudinal axis; Fig. 3 is an horizontal
section following the line A, B, of the Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an elevation
of the ice cutter; Fig. 5 is an horizontal section of the same following 3
the line C, D, of the Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same.
A, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is a white marble table with conical opening
and drain in the centre supporting the whole apparatus; B, B, B³,
are brass supports, one of which B' bears a muffle forming a cushion
to the brass shaft G. G is the brass shaft or axis bearing a bevil 8
wheel of thirty teeth gearing with the bevil wheel D. D is the

page_text: brass bevil wheel of seventy-four teeth screwed to the conical ice cutter
and causing it to revolve. E is the conical ice cutter of silver plated
brass, having four beviled openings for fixing the blades (see Fig. 5).
F is a brass piece screwed to the supports B}] by means of steel screws
with cylindro-conical heads, this piece bears a support in the centre
forming a fulcrum for the rotation of the conical ice cutter E. G is a
brass cap screwed on the piece F by six conical headed screws, and
forms the centre of rotation to the conical cutter E which serves as
centre to the star piece H with twelve branches revolving in the centre
of the piece G¹; on each of these branches a vertical cylinder is mounted
containing the cream or sirup. I is the ice cylinder of copper lined
internally with tin, and fitting at the lower end in the cap G¹. K is
a copper cylinder tinned inside forming a case to the cylinder I and
serving as recipient to the soda water. L is a brass silver plated tap
mounted at the head of the cylinder K for the exit of the soda water.
M is a tin tube serving to introduce the soda in the cylinder K. N are
twelve cylindrical recipients tinned inside and silver plated outside, con-
taining sirups or cream, and fixed by screws to the twelve extremities
of the star H. ○ are twelve conical cock valves, silver plated all over
and provided with india-rubber rundles. P are twelve copper shafts
silver plated, traversing perpendicularly the centre of the recipients N
and forming stoppers, these shafts are surmounted by heads or knobs.
Q are twelve covers or lids with raised parts in the centre serving as
guides to the shafts, at the top two holes are pierced, one for introducing
the sirup, and the other for the escape of air. R are twelve nut screws
serving to lock the ends of the recipients N on the branches of the star
piece H. S are twelve glass tubes or gauges with silver plated mounts
screwed to the cylinders N, serving to measure the sirup or cream that
is drawn off. T is a silver plated cover to the ice receiver I. U is a
copper funnel silver plated, covering the end of the conical cutter E,
and fixed to the piece F. V is a tin suction tube in the interior of the
soda water recipient K and screwed to the tap L within the joint o.
a is a copper screw serving to introduce the suction tube V and forming
an hermetical joint by aid of a leather washer. 6 is a screw valve
allowing by means of an opening therein of the escape of the excess of
carbonic acid gas which collects at the top of the cylinder K. X is a
fly wheel for regulating the cutting of the ice, and is mounted on the
brass axis G, and held by a screw. 1, 2, 3, 4, (see Fig. 5) are steel blades

page_text: mounted with screws in the open grooves of the conical cutter E. Y
is a longitudinal partition in zinc in the centre of the ice cylinder I,
for dividing the ice. Z is a silver plated plate of V shape with pivot
at the base of the cutter E, serving as check to the ice against the
blades. J is a silver plated table fixed to the piece F by means of
screws on which to place the tumbler below the soda water tap L.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, are copper bolts with nuts uniting the supports B, B, B¹,
to the marble table. 8 is the tube for running off the waste liquor
and is made with a joint and copper mount, and is capable of being
lengthened at will. In preparing the apparatus for use the tin tube M
is connected to a recipient containing soda water and having a tap,
which being opened the liquid is precipitated into the cylinder K, the
valve 6 is then opened and the accumulated gas is allowed to escape,
and the valve is then closed. The cylinders N are then supplied with
sirup or cream, which is introduced through openings in the lids by
aid of a glass funnel. The lid of the ice cylinder is then raised, and it
is filled with small pieces of ice in the two compartments, the lid is
then replaced, and the apparatus is in working order.
In making use of the apparatus a tumbler is placed beneath the
funnel u, the fly wheel X is turned and the ice falls in a snow shower
into the tumbler, which is then placed beneath one of the cream or sirup
recipients N; on raising one of the knobs a quantity of sirup or cream
equivalent to the measure marked on the glass gauge S is allowed to
pass out, the valve is then closed and the tumbler placed on the table J
beneath the soda water tap L, on turning which the soda water is
precipitated forcibly into the tumbler and the beverage is prepared, the
tap is then closed.
Having thus described my Invention, what I claim and desire to secure
by Letters Patent is,-
-
First. The combination of two cylinders, the inner one I for receiving
the ice, and the other K for the reception of the soda water, the latter
cylinder being provided with a tube M for introducing the soda water,
and a tube and tap L for draining off the liquid, and a valve 6 for the
exit of the excess of carbonic acid gass.
Secondly. The combination with the two cylinders of the revolving

page_text: star piece H bearing the cylinders N for the reception of the cream
or sirup.
Thirdly. The combination with the ice receiver I of the conical
revolving ice cutter E actuated by a thirty toothed wheel C¹ and a
seventy-four toothed wheel D by aid of the fly wheel X.
In witness whereof, I, the said Antoine Piccaluga, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.