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Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Frederick Charles Steuart Corry, of
Belfast, in the County of Antrim, in Ireland, Aerated Water Manu-
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facturer, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN the Manufacture OF
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Frederick
Charles Steuart Corry at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th April 1875.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK CHARLES STEUART CORRY, of Belfast, in the
County of Antrim, in Ireland, Aerated Water Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF AERATED WATERS, AND IN APPARATUS AND VESSELS THEREFOR,'
to be as follows:-
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My object being to manufacture and preserve aerated waters free from
any noxious ingredient or objectionable metallic or other impregnation,
and to construct apparatus and vessels that will not contaminate such
waters, for the gun metal, brass, copper, tin, iron, and white ΟΙ other

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metal now commonly employed in the construction of the cylinders,
globes, or condensers, pumps, valves, couplings, taps, and other con-
nections or mountings used for the manufacture and bottling of such
waters, and of the springs, valves, tubes, syphons, or other mountings of
vessels used for containing same, I substitute in whole or in part some of
the following substances or combinations of the same, that is to say:-
Glass, china, delft, porcelain, clay, earthenware, pottery, agate, flint,
marble, or other stone, cement, alabaster, enamel, glaze, platinum, gold,
silver, ivory, bone, horn, ebonite, vulcanite, india-rubber, gutta percha,
asbestos, leather, prepared hide, wax, shellac, resin, catgut, teak, cork,
ebony, lignum vitæ, oak, hornbeam, or other wood, paper, or other
plastic material, all or any of which substances may be embedded or
enclosed within or contain or be supported by a frame, shell, pan, or core
or frames, shells, pans, or cores of metal or a combination of metals, or
be used for coating or plating apparatus or vessels of metal or a com-
bination of metals, as heretoforo employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Frederick Charles Steuart Corry in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
FREDERICK CHARLES STEUART CORRY, of Belfast, in the County of
Antrim, in Ireland, Aerated Water Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Wilham Frederick Charles Steuart
Corry, Her special licence that I, the said William Frederick Charles
Steuart Corry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Frederick Charles Steuart Corry, my {
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for 8

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED WATERS, AND IN APPARATUS
AND VESSELS THEREFOR," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Frederick Charles Steuart Corry, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Frederick Charles Steuart
Corry, do hereby declare the nature of the 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 the manufacture and preservation of acrated
or artificial mineral or flavoured waters, and to the construction of appa-
ratus and vessels to be employed in the manufacture and preservation
thereof, and has for its object the production and supply of such waters
freo from any noxious ingredient or objectionable metallic or other
impregnation or contamination.
Having ascertained and satisfied myself upon careful observation and
examination that the carbonic acid gas obtained from substantially purc
materials by means of the improved generators, purifiers, and gasometers
or gas holders now generally used by acrated water manufacturers does
not contain or carry any noxious ingredient or objectionable metallic or
other impregnation, and that whatever contamination affects aerated or
artificial mineral or flavoured waters when decanted for use has not
been caused or acquired by any impurity in the gas, but arises from or
occurs through the action of the gas, or of the gas and water, either
separately or in combination upon the metallic cylinders, globes, or con-
densers, pumps, valves, couplings, taps, and other connections or
mountings used in the manufacture and bottling of such waters, and
the metallic cylinders, valves, tubes, syphons, or other mountings of the
vessels used for removing, storing, or containing them, I do not, there-
fore, propose to make and I do not mean to claim any improvement in
the method or process of preparing or purifying the carbonic acid gas,
nor do I propose to make and I do not mean to claim any improvement
in the form or arrangement of any of the parts of the apparatus or
vessels by which the manufacture, bottling, storage, and preservation or

page_text: other plastic material, and closed with a ball of metallic or other heavy
substance covered with india-rubber or gutta percha. Or I may use a
bushing and socket or bed of wood, india-rubber, or gutta porcha, and a
ball plated or coated with platinum, gold, or silver, or covered with
enamel, glaze or vulcanite, or made of glass, china, earthenware, agate,
granite, or other stone
I prefer the ball valve which I have described, but I do not confine
myself to its use, and may substitute for it a puppet, clack, or other
valve made of one or more of the substances I have enumerated. Nor
do I confine myself to the use of such bushing and socket or bed and
such valve conjunctively as descubed, but may employ cither of such
parts in conjunction with another of ordinary construction. I place onc
of these valves upon each of the pipes or tubes conveying the gas from
the gasometer or gas holder and the water from the cistern, and one upon
the pipe or tube conveying the gas and water when combined into the
cylinder, globe, or condenser, and at any other place or position where
such a valve may be desired The enamel or glaze which I select for
covering the apparatus and vessels used by me is free from lead and
arsenic.
I also employ a pump constructed of gun metal coated or plated with
silver and having a plunger of granite. But I may coat or plate the
pump with platinum, gold, enamel, or glaze, or I may bush or line it
with glass, china, or carthenware, and pack the same as herein-before
mentioned, and I may employ therein a plunger made of or covered
with hardened lignum vitæ or other wood, or with agate or other stone,
enamel, or glaze.
It will be understood that I may protect the aerated or artificial
mineral or flavoured waters from metallic contamination during the
process of manufacture by coating or plating the inside of a metal
cylinder, globe, or condenser with another or others of the substances
which I have enumerated as well as with enamel, or I may bush or line
it with glass, china, delft, porcelain, earthenware, pottery, ebonite, or
vulcanite, or I construct it of oak or other wood, or of paper, and
strengthen or encase it with a frame, shell, or straps or bands of metal.
may
I also make use of the same substances or materials, or some of them,
in the construction of cylinders and other vessels used and employed for
the storage and preservation of aerated or artificial mineral or flavoured
waters.

page_text: In like manner I may make several combinations of substances herein-
before enumerated in the construction of pumps and valves, and the
pipes or tubes, syphons, couplings, taps, and other connections and
mountings of the apparatus and vessels used and employed in the manu-
facture, bottling, storage, and preservation or decantation and removal
of acrated or artificial mineral or flavoured waters may be constructed in
like manner of the same substances.
As I do not adopt or propose to claim any feature of novelty in the
form or arrangement of any of the parts of the apparatus or vessels by
which the manufacture, bottling, storage, and preservation or decantation
and removal of aerated or artificial mineral or flavoured waters are
effected, it is unnecessary to illustrate my said improvements with
Drawings, and having now described the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it to be
understood that I do not claim the production of an improved quality of
acrated or artificial mineral or flavoured waters, nor the use of cylinders,
globes, or condensers, pumps, valves, pipes, or tubes, syphons, couplings,
taps, and other connections and mountings of the apparatus and vessels
employed in the manufacture, bottling, storage, and preservation or
decantation and removal of such waters, nor of the several substances
and materials herein-before enumerated, except when the same are
specially manufactured and prepared, or constructed and employed as
licicin-before described, nor do I claim the use of any of the separato
mechanical parts which form the apparatus and vessels used by mo; but
Talaim

page_text: Fourthly. The use in the manufacture, storage, and preservation of
acrated waters of cylinders constructed substantially as herein-bcforc
described.
Fifthly. The use in apparatus employed for manufacturing aerated
waters of a pump constructed substantially as herein-before described.
Sixthly. The combination and arrangement of substances or materials
constituting the apparatus and vessels horcin-before mentioned, con-
structed and applied substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, tho said William Frederick Charles Steuart
Corry, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day
of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.