Year: 1888

page_text: I, BENJAMIN TCDD, of Nicoll's Buildings, Playhouse Yard, Golden Lane, E.C.
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of my invention is to provide in small compass and with little weight.
means of aerating draughts of beverage, the appliances which I use for this purpose
being comparatively strong, simple and cheap, and of material that does not
injuriously affect the liquors treated. Each of these appliances consists of a strong
glass tube which may be from half an inch to an inch in diameter and from six to
eight inches long. One end of the tube is drawn down to conical form with a sinall
central aperture into which is ground from inside the tube a taper stopper valve also
of glass. This stopper is of such length that its smaller end projects a little beyond
the coned end of the tube, and it has a stem projecting from its larger end of such
length that when the stopper is loose in the tube it cannot turn upside down therein.
When the stopper valve is carefully ground to its seat so as to be quite air tight
when it is closed the other end of the tube is closed and hermetically sealed.
I apply the small end of the tube tightly to the outlet pipe from a receptacle
containing aerated water or liquid under considerable pressure. On opening a cock
or valve in the pipe a quantity of this liquid raises the stopper valve and charges the
tube being retained there by valve closing against its issue."
When it is desired to aërate a draught of beverage, a tube charged as above
described is introduced small end downwards into the tumbler or vessel containing
the beverage. By pressing the end of the stopper valve on the bottom of the vessel
the valve is raised from its seat and the aërated liquid issues from the tube into the
beverage, mixing with it and aërating it.
For safety in transport the tubes may be packed in any soft material, or each may
be held in a case of paper, cardboard, or other suitable comparatively soft but stiff
material.
A convenient case is a stiff paper or pasteboard tube made in two parts the one
part fixed to the glass tube at its closed end, the other part made to slide off the rest
of the tube when it is used for aërating as above described.

page_text: By making this case a little longer than the tube so as to extend a little beyond the
projecting end of the stopper valve the accidental opening of the valve during
transport or handling is prevented.
Dated th: 7th
J
A 1 1.000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant
I BENJAMIN TODD of Nicoll's Buildings, Playhouse Yard, Golden Lane E.C.
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide, in small compass and with little weight,
means of aërating draughts of beverage, the appliances which I use for this purpose
being comparatively strong, simple and cheap, and of material that does not injuriously
affect the liquors treated. Each of these appliances consists of a strong glass tube
which may be from half an inch to an inch in diameter and from six to eight inches
long. One end of the tube is drawn down to conical form with a small central
aperture into which is ground from inside the tube, a taper stopper valve, also of
glass. This stopper is of such length that its smaller end projects a little beyond the
coned end of the tube, and it has a stem projecting from its larger end of such length
that when the stopper is loose in the tube it cannot turn upside down therein. When
the stopper valve is carefully ground to its seat so as to be quite air tight when it is
closed, the other end of the tube is closed and hermetically sealed. I apply the small
end of the tube tightly to the outlet pipe from a receptacle containing aërated water
or liquid under considerable pressure. On opening a cock or valve in the pipe, a
quantity of this liquid raises the stopper valve and charges the tube, being retained
there by the valve closing against its issue. When it is desired to aërate a draught
of beverage, a tube charged as, above described is introduced small end downwards
into the tumbler or vessel containing the beverage. By pressing the end of the
stopper valve on the bottom of the vessel, the valve is raised from its seat and the
aërated liquid issues from the tube into the beverage, mixing with it. and aërating it.
For safety in transport the tubes may be packed in any soft material, or. each may
be held in a case of paper, cardboard or other suitable comparatively soft but stiff
material. A convenient case is a stiff paper or pasteboard tube made in two parts, the

page_text: one part fixed to the glass tube at its closed end, the other part made to slide off the
rest of the tube when it is used for aërating as above described. By making. this
caso a little longer than the tube so as to extend a little beyond the projecting end of
the stopper valve, the accidental opening of the valve during transport or handling is
prevented.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shews a charged tube according to this
invention applied for aeration of liquor in a tumbler. Fig. 2 shows the tube packed
in a cardboard case. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show modified arrangements of the stopper
valve.
The tube A is shaped with a conoidal end B having a central hole into which is
ground or fitted the stopper valve C, the other end D being hermetically closed after
the valve is fitted. Instead of grinding the valve to its seat, the seat may be recessed
to rocoive an olastic ring as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 or the valve C may be grooved to
receive an elastic ring as in Fig. 5. In any case the valve C is made of such length
and so fitted that, when it is seated, the end of its stem. extends a little beyond the
end of the tube, and its stem is also extended upwards making the stopper of such
total length that when loose in the tube it cannot turn over. The case of, card or
such like material for holding the tube during transport as shewn in Fig. 2 is made
in two parts dividing at E. The upper part F may be cemented to the tube the
lower part G being slid off when the tube is inserted in the liquor until the valve
stem meets the bottom of the tumbler, and then by pressing down the tube the
valve is opened and the aërated liquor with which the tube is charged is forced out
past the valve by the pressure within the tube, and mixes with the liquor in the
tumbler aërating it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
As means of aërating draughts of beverage, a glass tube closed at the one end and
provided at the other end with a stopper valve having its stem projecting a little
beyond the end of the tube, so that on the tube being immersed in liquor in a vessel
and pressed down so as to open the valve, aërated liquid, with which the tube is
charged under pressure, can escape into and mix with the liquor in the vessel,
aërating it.
Dated this 21st day of January 1889.