IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Flect, of East Street, Walworth, in
the County of Surrey, Mineral Water Manufacturer, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED
LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 24th July 1868, and dated the 31st January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Fleet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st January 1868.
I, EDWARD FLEET, of East Street, Walworth, in the County of
Surrey, Mineral Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF AERATED LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an improved apparatus chiefly applicable
for syruping aerated liquids to be used in connection with the machine
by which such liquids are produced and bottled. The apparatus
consists of a cylinder communicating by means of valves with a reservoir

page_text: of syrup and with the orifice at which the bottle is filled at a suitable
nozzle. This cylinder is provided with a piston, the rod of which is
surmounted by a crosshead. The reciprocating motion of the piston
is operated by the aid of a shaft mounted in standards at the bottom
part of the apparatus, on which are fixed lever arms communicating
motion to said crosshead and piston rod by suitable connecting rods.
By turning the shaft one quarter of a revolution by the aid of a lever
handle mounted at one end of same the piston is passed from one end
of the cylinder to the other, and upon raising the piston by turning
the lever handle and shaft as above mentioned, the cylinder is filled
with the quantity of syrup required for one bottle of aerated liquid,
say of lemonade, the cylinder being made of just sufficient capacity
for the purpose. The shaft is then turned in the opposite direction
by means of the lever handle, when the piston discharges the whole
of the syrup contained in the cylinder into the bottle. This being
donc a communication is established between the reservoir of aerated
liquid and the bottle containing the syrup by means of a suitable
channel at one side, which communication is effected on completing
the motion of the shaft (limited to a quarter revolution) by means of
a cam or tappet on said shaft operating a spring valve to permit of the
passage of the liquid to the bottle, which passage is cut off when
the bottle is sufficiently full by reversing the motion of the shaft and
closing the valve.
This apparatus is also applicable for mixing magnesia, lithia, lime,
quinine, and other aerated liquids.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Fleet in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 31st July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
FLEET, of East Street, Walworth, in the County of Surrey, Mineral 30
Water Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Ier
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the

page_text: thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Fleet, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Fleet, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Fleet, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED LIQUIDS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Fleet, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Fleet, do hereby declaro
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, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon
(that is to say):
My Invention consists in an improved apparatus chiefly applicable
for syruping acrated liquids to be used in connection with the machine
by which such liquids are produced and bottled. The apparatus consists
of a cylinder communicating by means of valves with a reservoir of
syrup, and with the orifice at which the bottle is filled at a suitable
nozzle. This cylinder is provided with a piston, the rod of which is
surmounted by a crosshead. The reciprocating motion of the piston is
operated by the aid of a shaft mounted in standards at the bottom part
of the apparatus, on which are fixed lever arms communicating motion
to said crosshead and piston rod by a suitable connecting rod. By
turning the shaft one quarter of a revolution by the aid of a lever handle
mounted at one end of same the piston is passed from one end of the
cylinder to the other, and upon raising the piston by turning the lever
handle and shaft as above mentioned the cylinder is filled with the

page_text: quantity of syrup required for one bottle of aerated liquid (say of
lemonade), the cylinder being made of just sufficient capacity for the
purpose. The shaft is then turned in the opposite direction by means of
the lever handle, when the piston discharges the whole of the syrup
contained in the cylinder into the bottle. This being done a communi-
cation is established between the reservoir of acrated liquid and the
bottle containing the syrup by means of a suitable channel at one side,
which communication is effected on completing the motion of the shaft
(limited to a quarter revolution) by means of a cam or tappet on said
shaft operating a spring valve to permít of the passage of the liquid to
the bottle, which passage is cut off when the bottle is sufficiently full by
reversing the motion of the shaft and closing the valve. This apparatus
is also applicable for mixing magnesia, lithia, lime, quinine, and other
aerated liquids.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
My Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the apparatus; Figure 2 is a plan
of the same, the connection a being removed; Figure 3 is a vertical
section taken on the line 1, 2, Figure I; and Figure 4 a similar section
on line 3, 4, Figure 2.
A is a cylinder communicating freely with a reservoir of syrup at a
and with the nozzle B at which the bottle is filled; this cylinder A is
provided with a piston C, the rod D of which is surrounded by a
crosshead E. The reciprocating motion of piston C is operated by the
aid of a shaft F mounted in a bearing at the lower part of the
apparatus, on which shaft F are fixed lever arms G, G, communicating
motion to said crosshead E and piston rod D by suitable connecting
rods H. By turning the shaft F one quarter of a revolution by the aid
of a lever handle I mounted on one end of said shaft F the piston C is
passed from one end of the cylinder A to the other, and upon raising
the piston C by turning the handle I and shaft F, as above mentioned,
the quantity of syrup required for one bottle of aerated liquid, say of
lemonade, is passed from the top to the bottom side of said piston C
by means of a suitable valve K, through the stem c of which passes
a pin d working in a slot e in the piston rod D and supported by a
spiral spring serving to keep the valve K up against piston C. On
raising said piston the spiral spring is overcome allowing the syrup to

page_text: pass through the orifices in the piston. The shaft F is then turned
in the opposite direction by means of the handle I, when the piston O
descends and discharges the syrup into the bottle at nozzle B. The
amount of syrup passed through into each bottle may be varied at will
by adjusting the double nut g to allow more or less motion of the cross-
head E on the piston rod D for increasing or diminishing the length
of stroke of the piston C, or I may make the cylinder of exactly the
capacity for containing the syrup required for one bottle, causing it to
be filled at the lower part through a valve connection by the upstroke
of the piston, which in this case is made solid, the whole of the syrup
contained in the cylinder being discharged on the descent of said piston.
h is a valve supported in its seat by means of a spiral spring, the pressure
of which is overcome on the descent of the piston C allowing the
syrup to pass through the channel i, Figure 1, to the nozzle B. The
motion of the handle I is limited to a quarter of a revolution, and on
completing its motion by bringing it to the position seen in Figure 1
of the Drawing, the valve h returns to position, and communication is
established by means of a suitable channel at k between the reservoir of
acrated liquid and the bottle at the nozzle B in which the required
amount of syrup has been introduced. When the bottle is sufficiently
filled the communication is cut off by reversing the position of the shaft
by means of a disc or valve L having an annular passage through
which the acrated liquid must pass from the reservoir to the bottle.
The periphery of this disc L is provided with one or more spur teeth
gearing with similar teeth formed on one of the lever arms G, by which
means the disc L is partially rotated for opening or closing the com-
munication according as the orifices in the annular passage / correspond
or not with those of passages and A'. Instead of employing the disc L
I may open and close the communication by means of a cam or tappet
fixed on the shaft F operating a spring valve to permit of the passage
of the liquid to the bottle, which passage is cut off as before by reversing
handle I and closing the valve. The bottle after being filled as described
is then corked by means of a plunger M operated in the usual manner.
เ
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
arrangement of apparatus herein shown and described for combining the
operations of measuring the syrup, syruping and bottling acrated liquids,
or any mere modification thercof.

page_text: I also claim the application of said apparatus for mixing magnesia,
lithia, lime, quinine, and other aerated liquids.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Fleet, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.