IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND DRAWING OFF AERATED LIQUORS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING VESSELS WITH AERATED LIQUORS
Year: 1851

page_text: LANUAS SP.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCOIS
MARIE LANOA, of Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Her Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day
of November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, in the fifteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Francois Marie Lanoa, my exors, adññiors, and assigns,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Francois Marie Lanoa, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said Francois Marie Lanoa, my exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND
DRAWING OFF AERATED LIQUORS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR FILLING VESSELS WITH
AERATED LIQUORS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
I, the said Francois Marie Lanoa, shall cause a particular description of the

page_text: nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large 5
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francois Marie Lanoa, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say:-
My improvements consist,-
Firstly, in a new syphon, cock, or apparatus to be used for filling and
emptying the vessels that are to hold aerated liquors, together with apparatus
for allowing an escape to the air contained in the said vessels when filling of
them.
Secondly, in an apparatus to be applied to the said or other vessel for
filling them with aerated liquor otherwise than by the spout of the cock or
syphon apparatus by which the liquor is drawn off.
I shall now describe the aforesaid improvements. First, in respect to the
syphon, cock, or apparatus, which offers several advantages over those now in
use, namely, that of working more regularly, of being more convenient, and
having less chance of getting out of order; also of being removeable from the
vessel to which it is adapted, to allow its being washed and cleaned. The
apparatus for allowing the escape of air during the filling of the vessel is most
important for the accuracy and speed of this operation.
In order to make my Invention better understood, I shall explain the
different parts of said apparatus, such as exhibited by Figures 1, 2, and 3 of
annexed Drawing. The said Drawing shews the said parts at their natural
size, as now used, but this may be varied; and the same letters are applied to
the same parts.
Figure 1 represents the general outside appearance of the apparatus when
fitted to a common glass bottle; Figure 2 is a vertical section of the apparatus;
Figure 3 is a plan or horizontal section of the part of the apparatus which
admits of the escape of air. A is a cover that screws freely over the top of B,
so as to press when screwed on the top at F. The lower edge of A is
squeezed so as to be maintained by a circular collar placed for that purpose on

page_text: B. B is the part of the apparatus that holds the spout D and the valve F.
It is screwed tight into the inside of C, which is the stationary part that is
fastened to the vessel, and inside which works the air escape. D is the spout.
EI call the air escape. The top view of it is represented by Fignre 3, and its
outside appearance by Figure 1. F is the valve that allows the liquid, when
pressed down, to enter the upper part of the apparatus. It is made with a
small cylindrical stem, the lower end of which has a curved conic-shape valve.
The stem passes through an air-tight ring that is placed inside B, just above
the opening of the spout, and above the ring is surrounded by a spiral spring,
one end of which is fastened to the upper end of the stem. The object of the
spring is to force the valve into a position calculated to stop the outlet of the
vessel by means of its curved conically-shaped valve. G is the ring which
receives the pressure of the valve F, in consequence of which pressure the
véssel is hermetically closed. This ring is fastened against the inside of B,
as shown by the Drawing, so as to face the conic part of the valve; and I
prefer making it with a mixture of caoutchouc and gutta percha, in order to
procure the elasticity of the former and hardness of the latter. His the
upper end of the tube I. It is fixed by its screw inside the lower end of B.
I is the plunging tube through which the liquid that is contained in the vessel
is forced when the valve is opened. L is the small apparatus placed inside
E, as shown by Figure 3, in order to allow the air to escape from the vessel.
This apparatus is composed of a small valve, which is pressed by a spiral spring
against a small ring, which closes the opening made through C for communi-
cating with the outside. Another opening is made inside above L, behind the
pressure ring, as shewn
Figure 2 in the distance left between C and the
lower part of H. When the air escape is required to act, I introduce by the
small hole that is seen outside, as shewn by Figure 1, letter E, a small stem
entering loosely through the small passage; and I press by means of the said
stem against the valve, thus producing a free communication between the
inside and outside. In order to fill the vessel with aerated liquid, I screw ou
the cover A, so as to press on the top of the stem of the valve, and open the
communication with the inside; and while I keep it so screwed on with the
hand, I fill the vessel through the spout in like manner to what similar vessels
have heretofore been filled. At the same time I act upon the air escape valve,
so that the vessel may get filled to the top; and when filled the cap A is to
be unscrewed, so as to allow the valve F to rise, and close the opening in G ;
and in order to draw off the liquid, the cover A is to be screwed down
gradually, and kept down as long as I wish the outflow to last. By using a
screw cover as the means of pressing the valve open, I can, by the degree of

page_text: pressure of the cover, regulate the jet more conveniently than by the means
heretofore used. The tube I, with its headpiece H, may be considerably
changed, according to the shape of the vessel that the apparatus has to be
applied to; and the tube may be dispensed with when the apparatus for
drawing off is placed at the bottom of the vessel instead of the top.
The second part of my Invention I will now describe.
In the Figures the same letters are used for the same parts, and also I
have indicated by the same letters the parts already exhibited in Figures 1, 2,
and 3.
Figures 4, 5, and 6 are of natural size as now used. Figures 7 and 8 are
of one fifth of the natural size.
Figure 7 is a reservoir to contain a large quantity of the aerated liquor. It
is made of any suitable substance.
Figure 6 shews the syphon apparatus for drawing off the liquid. In the
said Figure the parts A, B, D, are exactly similar to the like parts above
described. With this reservoir I prefer filling the vessel in the following
manner I place in the bottom of the said vessel, as shewn by Figure 8, an
apparatus, Figure 4. This Figure represents the said apparatus in an inverted
position. M is a pipe having the mouthpiece at one end, through which the
liquor is introduced. The said pipe is fastened into a stopper N, and works
inside another pipe P, that holds it air-tight near the mouthpiece, and pro-
duces also an air-tight pressure against a ring that is placed over the
surface of the stopper N; space is left between the two pipes for placing
between them a spiral spring that forces P against N. The above-said parts
are alltogether screwed into the part O, which is previously fastened to the
vessel. It will be understood that a sufficient pressure against the mouth-
piece will force back the pipe M and the stopper N, which, by retiring, will
allow a free communication by means of the holes made round the inside
extremity of M. When the pressure ceases, the spring
the stopper ring, by pressing against P, closes the vessel.
forces M back, and
During the filling
which is kept open
of the vessel the air is allowed to escape through the coil,
as much as is necessary for that purpose, and therefore the air-escape apparatus
previously described may be dispensed with.
Figure 5 is a top view of the outside part of Figure 4.
My Invention being thus fully described, I wish it to be understood that
what I claim as my Invention is,―
Firstly, the above-described mode of pressing the valve by means of a top
or cover as herein-before described, and also the apparatus for allowing the air
to escape from the vessel when filling.

page_text: Secondly, I claim the apparatus above described for filling vessels with
aerated fluids.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francois Marie Lanoa, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
FRANCOIS MARIE (L.S.) LANOA.
Taken and acknowledged by Francois
Marie Lanoa (party hereto), at
Paris, this Twenty-seventh day of
April 1852, before me,
This is the Specification referred to in the Affidavit of Samuel Carpmael,
sworn before me, this 1st day of May 1852,
J. JEFFERSON.
Samuel Carpmael, of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, maketh oath and saith, That he is acquainted with the manner and
character of the handwriting of of Thomas Pickford, Esquire, Her Britannic
Majesty's Consul at Paris, in the Republic of France. And this Deponent
further saith, that the name or signature "Thomas Pickford," set, subscribed,
or written in the margin of the Specification marked A hereunto annexed,
and dated the Twenty-seventh day of April now last past, and purporting to
be executed by Francois Marie Lanoa, of Paris aforesaid, whereby it is
stated that the said Specification was acknowledged by him, the said Francois
Marie Lanoa, before the said Thomas Pickford, on the said Twenty-seventh
day of April, is of the proper handwriting of the said Thomas Pickford.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Samuel Carpmael, the
Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.