Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Carbonating Beers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1899-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1899
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Carbonating Beers
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I, HENRI VUYLSTEKE, of 16, Rue du Boulet, Brussels, Belgium, Brewers
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object certain improvements in or connected with
apparatus for carbonating beers.
For the purpose of my invention, I provide a vessel or tank with a supply pipé
nearly touching the bottom to prevent or to reduce agitation of the inflowing
beer and obviate the formation of foam, said vessel having a sight glass by which
the height of the liquid can be readily seen.
This vessel has above it another vessel preferably of glass of cylindrical shape
and containing spheres also preferably of glass retained by suitable flanges and
into which carbonic acid or equivalent gas has an uprising action from a supply
pipe entering from the side or neck.
Above the glass cylinder is another of metal in which is a finely perforated tray,
on to and through which the beer supplied from a spreader is allowed to fall and
be again broken up into fine streams or spray for perfect carbonating action of
the liquid so falling.
The liquid supply pipe is provided with a non-return valve, and the accumulated
gas is put in balance with the first named vessel by a branch or trunk connect-
ing them.
The upper vessel has a pressure gauge from or by which the regulation of gas
pressure can be determined at will.
This system of spraying the beer in a gas chamber, aided by the sinuous trick-
ling between the spheres of the next low vessel, so completely charges the almost
globules before re-association in the down flow pipe that the beer remains so
charged up to the point of bottling or casking for storage.
I prefer that the draw off branch at the lower part of the main vessel be provided
with a perforated plate or shield which further filters the beer before the bottling
or casking can take place without depriving it of the contained gas which
establishes its sparkling brilliancy and nutritious properties.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1898
5 Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Carbonating Beers.
I, HENRI VUYLSTEKE, of 16, Rue du Boulet, Brussels, Belgium, Brewers
Engineer, 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: -
This invention has for object certain improvements in or connected with
annaratus for carbonating beare

page_text: For the purpose of my invention, which I show on the annexed drawings. I
provide a vessel or tank A with a supply pipe B nearly touching the bottom to
prevent or to reduce agitation of the inflowing beer and obviate the formation of
foam, said vessel having a sight glass C by which the height of the liquid can be
readily seen. This vessel A has above it another vessel D preferably of glass
of cylindrical shape and containing spheres also preferably of glass.
The vessel D is fixed by suitable flanged rings E, F, at top and bottom into the
supporting neck G of which carbonic acid or equivalent gas has an uprising action
from a supply pipe H entering from said neck.
Above the glass cylinder D is another I of metal in which is a finely perforated
tray J on to and through which the beer from a pipe K is supplied from a
spreader L from which it is allowed to fall in jets or streams to be again broken
up into finer globules or spray while passing downwardly between the spheres
for perfect carbonating action of the liquid so falling.
The liquid supply pipe K is provided with a non-return valve and the
accumulated gas, in the upper vessels D, I, are put in balance with the first
named vessel A by a branch or trunk M connecting them.
The upper vessel has a pressure gauge N from or by which the regulation of
gas pressure can be determined at will.
This system of spraying the beer in a gas chamber aided by the sinuous trick-
ling between the spheres of the next low vessel, so completely charges the almost
globules before re-association in the down flow pipe that the beer remains so
charged up to the point of bottling or casking for storage.
I prefer that the draw off branch P at the lower part of the main vessel A be
provided with a perforated plate or shield Q which further filters the beer before
bottling or casking can take place without depriving it of the contained gas which
establishes its sparkling brilliancy and nutritious properties.
R. R, are the draw off taps.
The apparatus shown is vertically set upon uprights or legs S, S, to rest upon
the floor of a building, for location, but it may be upon wheels for facility of
shifting it from one place to another as occasion may demand.
T, is a safety valve set to pressure for perfect carbonation of the beer and for
escape of excess gas should any accumulate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The improved means or appliances for spreading or spraying beers into a
cylinder, breaking up such beers by sinuous travel around spheres in a lower
vessel into which carbonic or an equivalent gas is distributed and has an up-
rising motion for charging the beers with gas while travelling downwardly in
a finely divided or broken condition and the re-collection in pipe for stowage in
vessel A previous to the bottling operation substantially in the manner and by
the apparatus represented.
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2. The combination of three vessels superposed in the manner shown in two
of which beers can be spread and broken up and simultaneously charged with
carbonic or an equivalent gas and re-assembled in the lower vessel without losing
its aerated properties as described and substantially as represented.
Dated this 1st day of Sentember 1800
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street London,
Agent for the said H. Vuylsteke.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street London,
Agent for the said H. Vuylsteke.