A New or Improved Automatic Saturator for Condensing Cylinders Employed in the Manufacture of Aërated Waters.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 7th Sept., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th Oct., 1887.
A New or Improved Automatic Saturator for Condensing Cylinders
Employed in the Manufacture of Aërated Waters.
1, JAMES MCEWEN of 11 Rushton Street, Hulme, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Aërated Water Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved automatic saturator for condensing
cylinders employed in the manufacture of aërated waters, and consists in providing
horizontal, vertical, and other condensing cylinders with a metallic frame with upper
and lower plates connected by suitable metallic plates forming cavities, through which
gas and water are forced by the pumps. The plates or distance pieces forming the
cavities are perforated top and bottom alternately, to ensure gas and water being
thoroughly mixed and incorporated together in their passage from the centre to the
outer cavity, or vice-versa, and into the condensing cylinder. Gas and water are
supplied from the pumps to the inner or outer cavities by suitable pipes or other
equivalent means.
Dated the 24th January 1887
EDMUND CHADWICK, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
92, St. George's Road, Bolton,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: A New or Improved Automatic Saturator for Condensing Cylinders
Employed in the Manufacture of Aerated Waters.
I JAMES MCEWEN of 11 Rushton Street, Hulme, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Aerated Water Engineer, 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 in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a new or improved automatic saturator for condensing
cylinders employed in the manufacture of aerated waters, and consists in providing
horizontal, vertical, and other condensing cylinders with a metallic frame with upper
and lower plates connected by suitable metallic plates forming cavities, through which
gas and water are forced by the pumps. The plates or distance pieces forming the
Cavities are perforated top and bottom alternately to ensure gas and water being
thoroughly mixed and incorporated together in their passage from the centre to the
outer cavity, or vice-versa, and into the condensing cylinder. Gas and water arc
supplied from the pumps to the inner or outer cavities by suitable pipes or other
equivalent means.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a vertical condenser with my improved saturator
applied Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of same through line A. B-Fig. 3 is a sectional
elevation of a modification of my invention applied to a horizontal condenser, and
Fig. 4 is a plan through line C. D.
The saturator is composed of the pipes or tubes E, so disposed on the plate G as to
leave the cavities E between each other. The pipes or tubes E are provided top and
bottom alternately with the perforations K. The mixture of gas and water from the
pump is conveyed to the condenser M by the pipe O, from whence it passes down the
centre pipe or tube E, through the perforations K at its bottom end, up the cavity or
chamber round the same, through the perforations K at the top end of same, and so
on as indicated by the arrows-until discharged into the condenser M from whence
it flows through the pipe S to the filling machine or otherwise as desired.
The passing of the gas and water through this saturator causes the same to be
thoroughly mixed and incorporated together, thereby improving the quality and
strength of the aerated or mineral water being made.
The number of tubes and cavities can be increased or decreased in number according
to the diameter or size of the condensers they may be applied to.

page_text: 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:
For thoroughly saturating or mixing gas and water employed in the manufacture of
aerated or mineral waters, the construction and arrangement of apparatus consisting
of the pipes or tubes E of varying diameters or sizes and disposed so as to leave cavities
for the passage of gas and water from one to the other through the perforations K, in
combination with condensers, substantially as herein described and illustrated by the
drawings.