A New or Improved Apparatus for Aërating Liquids.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1900-Accepted, 2nd June, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus for Aërating Liquids.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM FULLER, of 26, Sutton Court Road, Plaistow, in the
County of Essex, Coffee Tavern Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to produce an apparatus for aërating liquids in
an economical and rapid manner and it comprises the improvements hereinafter
indicated.
According to my invention I pivotally mount within a suitable framework one
or a number of metallic cylinders or vessels, which may in some cases be glass-
lined. At each end of each cylinder is a valve or cock and beyond each valve or
cock is an outlet to a bottle, which latter is retained in position upon a stand of
usual or suitable construction. There is connection between the cylinder and
a store of carbonic acid gas or the like and a cock may be provided to cut off,
at will, the supply of such gas.
Whilst the cylinder is in a vertical or tilted position two bottles, one filled with
liquid and the other empty, are fixed in position, one at the lower extremity and
the other upside down, the valves between the cylinder and the bottles being
closed. The valves in the meantime are opened either automatically or by hand,
the liquid runs from the full bottle into the cylinder, is there aërated and passes
into the bottom bottle. If a "marble" stoppered bottle is used a reversal of the
apparatus will suffice to seal the contents; otherwise the bottle is removed and
After this, the framework is partially
stoppered or corked in the usual manner.
rotated a second filled bottle is fixed in position and the aërating process repeated,
the aërated liquid eventually finding its way into the previously emptied bottle.
It will be obvious that I might arrange a battery of bottles in the one frame-
work and so design the apparatus that either the liquid in all the bottles might
be aërated concurrently or the arrangement might be such that one cylinder is
operated after another.
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
My invention has for its object to produce an apparatus for aërating liquids in
an economical and rapid manner and it comprises the improvements hereinafter
indicated.
The accompanying drawings show, by way of example, one form of my improved
apparatus.
Figure 1 being a side elevation, and
Figure 2 a front view.
Figure 3 is a detail view hereinafter more fully referred to.
According to my invention I mount between two standards a, b, of a suitable
framework a cylindrical vessel c which may, as seen in Figure 3, be lined with
glass d. The vessel c is provided at its centre with trunnions e, f which take
their bearing in the standards a, b. At each end of the vessel c is a cock or
valve which may be operated by hand or automatically. The drawings show a
valve g which is opened when the spindle is pushed in. Beyond each valve g
is a bottle cap i. The bottle is shown at j and it is retained in position upon a
stand or rest of usual or suitable construction. The bottle j is kept up to its
cap by any suitable device; the drawings show the rest k located upon a
plunger which latter is thrust in its operative position by a spring m, with
drawable by a lever n. Connection is made between the interior of the vessel c
through the trunnion f and a gas-tight connection to a store of carbonic acid
gas or the like and a cock may be provided to cut off, at will, the supply of such
gas.
Suitably located upon the standard 6 or otherwise are two cam-surfaces p, .q.
r is a small hand-operated cock or valve for the purpose hereinafter appearing..
As will be understood, the vessel c with its attachments is adapted to be rotated
about the trunnions e, f. To start the machine, when the said vessel c is in a
vertical or such other position that the valve spindles h are free of the cam
surfaces p, q and therefore close two bottles either both filled with un-aërated
liquid or one empty and the other so filled are fixed in the position as shown,
and gas admitted to the vessel c. The valves g are then opened. This is effected
in the arrangement illustrated by partial rotation of the vessel c and its attach-
ments until the said valves are opened by reason of their spindles h being
operated by coming into contact with the cam surfaces p, q. Next the cock
is opened, the contents of one bottle being allowed to escape, and then it is
reclosed. Rotation is again effected (the valves 9 closing) so as to bring the
empty bottle lowermost and then to re-open the valves g. By this operation gas
is allowed to pass from the vessel into both bottles while the fluid contents
of the upper one flows by gravity into the lower one and during its passage
becomes impregnated with the gas, which process of aëration is assisted by the
insertion, if desired, of percolators s in the vessel c. This operation having been
accomplished, the apparatus is again turned in the same direction until the full
bottle is uppermost and the valves 9 again closed when if a marble" stoppered
bottle is used the contents will he sealed; otherwise the bottle is removed and
stoppered or corked in the usual manner. After withdrawal, another full bottle
is inserted and the operation repeated, the aërated liquid eventually finding its
way into the previously emptied bottle.
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It will be obvious that I might arrange a battery of bottles in the one frame-
work and so design the apparatus that either the liquid in all the bottles might
be aërated concurrently or the arrangement might be such that one cylinder is
operated after another."
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. An apparatus for aërating liquids so arranged that the un-aërated liquid

page_text: is passed from one bottle through an aërating vessel and thence into a previously
emptied bottle substantially as set forth.
2. In an apparatus for aërating liquids, the combination of a rotatably-mounted
aërating vessel, a valve at each end thereof, and means to retain a bottle beyond
each valve, substantially as set forth.
3. In an apparatus for aërating liquids, the combination of a rotatably-mounted
aërating vessel, a valve at each end thereof, means to retain a bottle beyond
each valve and means serving to operate such valves, substantially as set forth.
4. In an apparatus for aërating liquids, the combination of a rotatably-mounted
aërating vessel, a valve at each end thereof, means to retain a bottle beyond
each valve, and cam surfaces serving to operate such valves at the requisite periods
substantially as set forth.
5. Apparatus for aërating liquids constructed arranged and operating sub-
stantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of Vo.. 1000
A. F. SPOONER,
323, High Holborn, London,
Agent for the Applicant.