Improved Mode of and Means for Aerating or Carbonating Liquids such as Beer, Wine and Mineral Waters.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mode of and Means for Aerating or Carbonating Liquids
such as Beer, Wine and Mineral Waters.
I, ELIOT HOWARD, of 90 and 92, Whitecross Street, St. Luke's, London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Heretofore liquids such as beer, wine and mineral waters have generally been
aërated or carbonated by either introducing carbonic acid gas under pressure
into a vessel containing the liquid or by introducing the gas and the liquid simul-
taneously into the vessel. Now in order to expedite the process and to cause a
more intimate incorporation of the gas with the liquid I employ an appliance
such as the so-called Rainbows steam water and liquid raiser, or the so-called
Hancock's inspirator or the so-called injector or other equivalent appliance as
the means for introducing the gas and the liquid into the so-called cylinder or
Condenser and combining them therein. This means forming by preference an
attachment to the cylinder I employ either alone or in combination with the
ordinary pumping appliances.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents.
Improved Mode of and Means for Aerating or Carbonating Liquids
such as Beer, Wine and Mineral Waters.
I, ELIOT HOWARD, of 90 and 92, Whitecross Street, St. Luke's, London,
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:-
Heretofore liquids such as beer, wine and mineral waters have generally been
aërated or carbonated by either introducing carbonic acid gas under pressure
into a vessel containing the liquid or by introducing the gas and the liquid simul-
taneously into the vessel. Now in order to expedite the process and to cause a
more intimate incorporation of the gas with the liquid I employ an appliance
such as the so-called Rainbow steam water and liquid raiser, or the so-called
Hancock's inspirator or the so-called injector or other equivalent appliance as
the means for introducing the gas and the liquid into the so-called "cylinder"
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condenser" and combining them therein. This appliance forms by prefer-
ence an attachment to the cylinder and either in combination with an ordinary
cylinder containing compressed gas or in combination with any suitable pumping
appliances for compressing the gas or the water or both.
The accompanying drawing is a vertical section through a Greshams patent
injector adapted as an example to the purpose of my invention and applied to
the cylinder or receiver E of a mineral water machine. A is the inlet for gas
under pressure, B the water inlet, and C the nozzle for delivery of the aërated
or carbonated water or other liquid into the receiver E. The injector is made
without an overflow. The gas admission is regulated by the screwed spindle
valve F while the nozzle C is adjusted in position by the pinion G that gears with
the tooth-rack on the nozzle C. When the spindle valve F is in the proper raised
position and the gas under pressure is admitted at A by a cock or valve, and when
at the same time the water is allowed to enter at B by a cock or valve, the two
currents meet in the nozzle C the gas being in the form of an annular column,
the two thus intimately commingling there, and a still further or more intimate
commingling is facilitated during the passage through the contracted parts
from C to C2 and the lower part of the nozzle, and the liquid therefore enters
the receiver E in a thoroughly aërated condition. The aërated liquid is drawn off
from the bottom of the receiver by the pipe H leading to the bottling machine.
The arrangement may be varied by making A into the water inlet and B into
the compressed gas inlet.
Or I may introduce water at A or at B compressed to a high pressure by pump
or otherwise and introduce the gas at ordinary pressure at B or at A respectively.
Or I may introduce both the gas and the water under pressure, the gas either
at A or B and the water either at B or at A respectively.
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 :-
1. The improved mode of aërating or carbonating water and other liquids i
by the employment of an appliance such as the so-called injector or other equiva-
lent appliance substantially as described.
2. The improved mode of aërating or carbonating water and other liquids riz
by admitting the compressed gas at A and the water at B, the two joining and
commingling in the nozzle and further and more intimately commingling
during the passage to the exit end of the nozzle, as described.
3. The improved mode of aërating or carbonating water and other liquids viz
by admitting the gas at B and the water under pressure at A, as described.
4. The improved mode of aërating or carbonating water and other liquids viz
by admitting the gas under pressure at A or at B and the water under pressure
at B or at A respectively as described.
Dated this Twentieth day of April 1899.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents.