IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SODA WATER AND OTHER AERATED LIQUIDS, AND LIKE- WISE IN THE PREPARATION OF THE SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jules Barse and Paul Gage, of Paris, in
the Republic of France, and of 16, Castle Street, Holborn,
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
MANUFACTURING SODA WATER AND OTHER AERATED LIQUIDS, AND LIKE-
WISE IN THE PREPARATION OF THE SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Sealed the 9th April 1853, and dated the 29th November 1852.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Jules Barse and Paul
Gage at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition and Declaration, on the 29th November 1852, pursu-
ant to the 9th section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
We, JULES BARSE and PAUL GAGE, of Paris, in the Republic
of France, and of 16, Castle Street, Holbord, London, do hereby
declare the nature of our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARA-
TUS FOR MANUFACTURING SODA WATER AND OTHER AENATED LIQUIDS, AND
LIKEWISE IN THE PREPARATION ON THE SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Our Invention consists of a system of apparatus for the prepara-
tion of aërated water, whether in great or small quantities. The
aërating apparatus is composed of a vessel A, A, of gritstone, glass,
crystal, or of any other suitable substance; at the upper part of the
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page_text: vessel is a collar with a screw thread which is comented or soldered
to the vessel. On its edge rests the basis of the cone B, B, joining
the basis of the lower cone C, C, and the vessel D, D; a collar E,
uniting it to the latter, which allows the neck of the bottle D, to be
brought close to the edge of the piece F (soldered to cone B, B),
without its being necessary to turn either of these parts; in order to
have a water-tight joint we interpose an india rubber or gutta
percha washer between these two surfaces. The cone B, B, is
covered with another cone H; the latter has a valve G, for the
emission of the liquid, and a tube I, passing through the tube J, J;
the latter is made fast at the bottom of the bottle D. The cone H, H,
may turn on the cone B, B; an india rubber or gutta percha
washer makes them fit tightly to each other, and by means also of
a collar K, K, which screws at one extremity on the collar fixed on
the neck of the vessel; at the other extremity it terminates in the
shape of a basin. The cone H, H, is furnished with two apertures,
L, and M, as represented in Figure 2; and the cone B, B, has five
openings IA, M, N, O, and S, the two first corresponding with
those of the cone H, H, and communicating with the interior of the
vessel A; the third opening N, is made at the centre of the cone,
and allows the tube I, to pass through the fourth opening seen in
the section. Figure 1, communicates with the interior of the bottle
D, there being no possible communication with the vessel A, A,
since the socket F, surrounds the openings N, and O, and the fifth
opening S, is the opening of the valve; the cone H, has on its in-
terior surface a groove P, P, represented in Figure 1, connecting
the opening N, with the M', when all the other openings of the
cone B, B, are stopped by the cone H, H. The apparatus is made
to work thus the opening L, of the cone H, H, is brought facing
the opening O, of the cone B, B; for that it is only necessary to
turn the first conc by means of the spout which it bears. The
substances requisite for aërating the waters are then introduced
into the bottle D; when this is accomplished, the cone H, H, is
turned, and the openings L, M, and L, M, are brought above one
another. The vessel A, A, is filled with water by opening L, and
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page_text: the air escapes from the bottle by the opening M. The apparatus
being in this position, the water from the vessel A, A, cannot pene-
trate into the bottle D, even by the lower extremity of the tube J.
for then no opening is left for the emission of the air contained in
this bottle. The veseel A, A, having been filled, the cone H, is
turned in such manner as to stop all the openings of the cone B, B,
and place the groove P, P, in contact with the opening M¹; the
two vessels A, A, and D, D, then communicate with one another,
but not with the exterior, and the water will flow into the vessel
D, D, until its level in the vessel A, A, be at the height of the ex-
tremity of the upper portion of the tube J, and this height is so
calculated as only to allow to be introduced into the bottle D, D,
only the quantity of water necessary for dissolving the salts pro-
ducing the gas. This water can never return into the vessel A, A:
even were the apparatus to be turned upside down, the extremity
of the tube J, being in all possible positions upper the level that
the water may have, it can only issue by the openings L, O, which
can be,superposed when it is necessary to clean the apparatus. The
water requisite for dissolving the salts having been poured in, the
cone H, H, is displaced in such manner that the opening M¹, may
no longer communicate with the groove P, P, but with a full part
of the upper cone; the gas produced is then obliged to enter the
vessel A, A, to follow the same course at the water had when it
entered; that is to say, it is obliged to descend by the tube J, J, to
about one third of an inch from the bottom of the vessel A, A, and
to pass through the whole of the water it contains, to go afterwards
to its upper part; the liquid will flow (in consequence of the pres-
sure of the
gas in the apparatus), by the tube I, when the valve G,
is opened, which is done by pressing with the finger the knob at the
upper part of the apparatus. To facilitate a proper communication
of the groove P, P; with the opening M', on the india rubber or
gutta percha, placed between the two cones, are marks indicating
the position to which the latter must be brought to make the two
openings communicate. The safety valve S, is fixed on the cone
H, H, and over the opening O, L' (while the { gas is being evolved),

page_text: so that if the pressure in the apparatus goes beyond a certain limit,
this valve will open and allow the gas to escape. The introduction
of the salts and of the water is thus made without its being neces.
sary to open the apparatus, and the communication between these
two vessels is established without there being need to incline or
turn upside down the apparatus, and without any loss of gas to bo
feared. The cylinders producing the gas, the use of which is indis-
pensable to the shape and principle of our apparatus, are composed
of acid and bicarbonate powders made into a paste by a mucilage
of gum such as for pastilles. The acid cylinders are distinguished
from those of bicarbonate by a different shape; their weight is in
proportion to the quantity of gas to be produced; that is to say,
there are some from the weight of one grain to that of twenty
grains. As just stated the acid (tartaric or citric), and tho alkaline
bicarbonate are converted into cylinders which have the shape of a
pencil, and of which the thickness is calculated on the diameter of
the holes made in the apparatus; these cylinders dissolve slowly and
with uniformity. The production of the gas being thus regulated,
each bubble has time to saturate the column of water it passes
through, the residue of the salts remains in a liquid state which:
allows it to be easily taken out through the introduction orifice,
while the salts in powder often produce a pasty sediment which be-
comes more or less solid, and therefore difficult to detach.
Our Invention offers the following advantages:
:-
1tly, Its working does not require any part to be dismounted.
2, Through one of its pieces the tube, through which passes
the water intended to be aërated, and that of the salts which are to
produce the gas, may be, through various movements, opened or
shut by turn without any confusion being feared.
3, This apparatus on being put into working is never placed
except in a vertical position. Its use does not allow the salts
which are to produce the gas to be mixed with liquid which
is intended to be drunk.
4, It is furnished with a safety valve, which lets the excess

page_text: of gas escape, and thus prevents the vessel from being broken; an
advantage which does not exist in any previous invention.
5, The solid appearance in the shape of a pencil given to the
salts which are to produce the gas, and which in other apparatus
are used in powder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
our said Invention we claim :-
1", The herein-before described apparatus, together with the im.
provements as herein-before enumerated.
2nd, The preparation and shape herein-before described of the
substances employed for producing the gas.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jules Barse and Paul Gage,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-seventh
day of November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
two.
(L.s.) JULES BARSE.
PAUL GAGE. (L.S.)
Taken and acknowledged by Jules Barse and Paul Gage (parties
hereto), at Paris, in the Republic of France, this Twenty.
seventh day of November 1852,
Before the British Consul,