IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ARRATED FLUIDS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Adolphus Ross, of Belfast, in the
County of Antrim, in Ireland, Aerated Water Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING
ARRATED FLUIDS.”
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Adolphus Ross
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st March 1878.
I, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS Ross, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, in
Ireland, Aerated Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING
AERATED FLUIDS," to be as follows :—
This Invention consists in apparatus for combining the carbonized or
gaseous fluid with the syrup or other solution previous to the operation
) of bottling same, and by means of which the carbonized or gaseous fluid
is diverted in its progress from the generating cylinders and passed
through a cup or chamber of syrup or other solution, which it carries

page_text: along with it into the bottle. This apparatus consists of a cup or chamber
of such capacity as may be necessary to contain the required quantity of
syrup or other solution which is introduced into it by means of a valve
acted upon by a spring through a tube connected with the reservoir
containing the syrup or other solution. The carbonized or gaseous fluid 6
is introduced by means of a valve acted upon by a spring or lever into
the cup or chamber through a tubo connected with the generating
cylinder and the pressure of the gaseous fluid when thus introduced acts
upon another valve attached to the cup or chamber, through which it
forces the syrup or other solution in combination with itself into a tube 1
passing to the bottle or to the bottling cock employed for corking the
bottle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Adolphus Ross in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ADOLPHUS Ross, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, in Ireland,
Acrated Water Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Adolphus Ross, Her special
licence that I, the said William Adolphus Ross, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Adolphus Ross,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thercafter during
the term therein expressod, 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 "In.
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING AERATED FLUIDS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Adolphus Ross, my exe-
cutors 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 8

page_text: to be performed, and cause the same to bo 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 William Adolphus Ross, 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, that is to say:-
F
This Invention relates to the mechanical combination of the carbonized
or gaseous fluid with the syrup or other solution used in the manufacture
of aerated fluids previous to the operation of bottling same by means of
apparatus constructed as herein-after described. I make use of a
transparent cup or chamber of such capacity as may be necessary to
contain the quantity of syrup or other solution required to syrup, flavour,
or medicate the carbonized or gaseous fluid. The cup or chamber has
three orifices or apertures, each furnished with a valve or stop, which is
acted upon by a lever or spring or the pressure of the gaseous fluid, or
by several of those means. Through one of the orifices or apertures the
syrup or other solution required to syrup, flavour, or medicate the car-
bonized or gaseous fluid is conducted into the cup or chamber by moans
of a pipe or tube connected with the reservoir containing such syrup or
other solution; through another the carbonized or gaseous fluid is
introduced by means of a pipe or tube communicating with tho
generating cylinder, and through the third the combined syrup or other
solution and carbonized or gaseous fluid are forced by the energy of the
fluid into a pipe or passage, which empties itself into the bottle for use.
I prefer to place the orifice or aperture through which the carbonized or
gaseous fluid is introduced at one extremity, and both the other orifices
or apertures at the opposite extremity of the cup or chamber, and I
employ a tube passing into and up or along the centre or axial line of
the cup or chamber, and receiving or containing a spindle or rod which
extends beyond each extremity of the tube to effect the operation of onė
or both of the last mentioned orifices or apertures. A groove out along
the spindle or rod for a part of its length serves as a passage for the
escape of any collected or contained air while the cup or chamber is
being charged with the syrup or other solution. The air and any fluid
which may pass into this groove are carried off by a waste pipe connected
with the tube and spindle or rod. I provide the tube with a shoulder or
bushing which serves as a valve or stop at the orifice or aperture through

page_text: which the cup or chamber is charged with the syrup or other solution,
and I may make this shoulder or bushing to serve also for stopping any
communication between the cup or chamber and the pipe or passage
by which the aerated fluid is emptied into the bottle. A spring
attached to the tube at or near the extremity within the cup or i
chamber, and pressing against the end or a shoulder or bushing on the
side thereof maintains the valve shoulder or bushing in position against
this orifice of the cup or chamber. I open the valve to admit the syrup
or other solution by means of a lever acting upon the tube and spindle
at the extremity opposite to the spring above mentioned. A valve is 1
also provided for the orifice or aperture, through which the aerated fluid
finally forces itself into the tube or passage, whereby it is conveyed into
the bottle and it is kept in position by means of a spring attached thereto,
and pressing against the end or a shoulder or bushing at the side of the
aforesaid tube or passage.
1
Instead of opening and closing these two orifices or apertures (through
which respectively the syrup or other solution is introduced into the cup
or chamber and the aerated fluid passes out to be bottled) in the manner
I have herein-before described, I may cut grooves in or upon the tube
receiving or containing the spindle or rod, so that by the aid of the lever 2
acting upon the tube one groove will become exposed to the first
mentioned of the two orifices or apertures, and provide a passage for
conveying the syrup or other solution into the cup or chamber, and so
that when the action of the lever is withdrawn the other groove will
become exposed to the other of the two orifices or apertures and provide
a passage for conveying the aerated fluid from the cup or chamber
towards the bottle, and each groove will in turn be covered while the
other is exposed..

page_text: spindle or rod is pressed against the shoulder of the tube above described,
so that the grooves in the spindle or rod are exposed beyond the
extremity of the tube within the cup or chamber, and the air contained
in the cup or chamber when under pressure from the syrup or other
5 solution, passes into and along the grooves and escapes through a waste.
pipe provided for the purpose. A further pressure of the lever removes
the shoulder or bushing upon the tube from the orifice through which
the syrup or other solution is introduced, and the cup or chamber there-
upon becomes filled with the syrup or other solution. By the same
O pressure the end of the spindle is driven against the orifice or aperture
through which the carbonized or gaseous fluid is admitted to the cup or
chamber so that none of the syrup or other solution may enter that
orifice. The pressure of the lever is then withdrawn and the spring on
the tube within the cup or chamber drives the tube and spindle or rod
5 back to their original position, and closes the orifice or aperture through
which the syrup or other solution has been introduced into the cup or
chamber. The hand lever of the bottling cock is next used to admit
the carbonized or gaseous fluid which by its energy carries the syrup or
other solution in combination with it through the cup or chamber, and
0 acting upon the valve at the remaining orifice or aperture passes by a
groove, perforation, or boring through the bottling cock into the bottle
for use.
L And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood
I shall now proceed to refer to the Drawings on the Sheet hereunto
5 annexed, the same letters of reference being used throughout all the
Figures to indicate the same or corresponding parts of said apparatus.
·
Fig. I. is a front elevation of said apparatus used as an attachment to
a bottling cock, and shewing a treadle and hand lever by means of either
of which the grooved spindle or rod, and the tube with the shoulder
0 or bushing which serves as a valve upon the orifice or aperture through
which the syrup or other solution is admitted into the cup or chamber,
may be acted upon; Fig. II. is a section of the same with a section of
the valve or plug acted upon by the pressure of the gaseous fluid; and
Fig. III. is a plan of the apparatus also used as an attachment to a
5 bottling cock.
L
a is the cup or chamber made of glass and enclosed in a framework of
brass or other hard metal; b is the framework constructed in separate

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pieces and screwed together as shewn on the Drawing; c is the orifice or
aperture through which the carbonized or gaseous fluid is conducted into
the cup or chamber by the branch pipe or tube & which is attached to
the bottling cock f by means of a tubular arm or snug & and coupling h,
and with the cup or chamber by means of a coupling i. The valve of
the bottling cock (which is acted upon by the hand lever ) serves in
this arrangement to admit or shut off the carbonized or gaseous fluid to
or from the cup or chamber; is the orifice or aperture through which
the syrup or other solution is introduced into the cup or chamber from
the reservoir, by means of the pipe or tube m which is attached to the
frame of the cup or chamber by the coupling screwed upon the
tubular arm or snug o; p is the grooved spindle or rod passing through
the tube g and extending beyond each extremity thereof. The tube is
furnished with a shoulder or bushing q¹ to cover the orifice or aperture 1,
and at the end within the cup or chamber is furnished with a spring to
maintain the shoulder or bushing in position against that orifice. A cap
or ring r at the extern end of the tubo regulates the distance over which
it is required to move, and carries the waste pipe s opposite to which the
tube is perforated or bored; is the orifice or aperture through which
the syrup or other solution in combination with the carbonized or
gascous fluid is driven out of the cup or chamber and acting upon the
plug u, and the spring attached thereto opens the valve and passes
through the bottling cock by the perforation w, which has for this
purpose been made at the side of instead of behind the plunger into the
bottle. The frame of the cup or chamber is attached to the bottling
cock by means of the arm or snug screwed upon the arm or snug y.
The joints are furnished with washers lettered £, z, z.
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 use of cups or chambers for measuring or
containing the syrup or other solution nor the tubes, pipes, spindle,
grooves, springs, and valves except when the same are constructed
specially and employed as herein described; nor of a bottling cock; nor
do I claim any of the separate mechanical parts which form the
compound combining apparatus used by me, but I claim,— .
First. The use in conjunction with bottling cocks of the combining
apparatus constructed and attached as herein-before describod, and as
shewn in the Drawings hereunto annexed. .

page_text: Secondly. The construction and application of combining apparatus
such as is shown in the Drawings hereunto annexed, in the manner and
for the purposes above described.
And, thirdly. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting
the self-acting combining apparatus constructed in the manner and
applied for the purposes above described and illustrated by the Drawings
hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Adolphus Ross, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.