Apparatus for the Production of Sparkling Drinks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 17th June, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for the Production of Sparkling Drinks.
I, CARL MALMENDIER Manufacturer of Fittings, of St. Apernstrasse No. 65
Cologne on the Rhine in the Province of Rhineland, Germany, 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:-
In the drawing the apparatus is represented in simple arrangement in Fig. 1 in
front-view, in Fig. 2 in side-view; Fig. 3 shews a section of the bottle head-piece
with attachment and mixing-vessel. Fig. 4 is a double apparatus in front-view.
Figs. 7 and 8 represent a number of batteries for the production on a larger scale
in front and side-view. In Figs. 5 and 6 an agitator for the apparatus is drawn in
front and side-view.
The arrangement of the apparatus is principally as follows:
An iron-plate E, with the shorter end upwards and the longer downwards hangs,
so that it can revolve, on a peg Z, which is firmly attached to some object. In case
upright carbonic-acid bottles are used, it is best to fit the peg to the support of
the carbonic-acid bottle. A foot piece F for one bottle is attached to the lower
end of the flat-iron, which can be easily put in position by means of a spring and
the pressure of a lever; at the upper end a corresponding head-piece K is fixed.
The latter consists of a stop-cock A and a T-piece T, which is to be attached
to the flat-iron, and which supports on the arm that points upwards a mixing-
vessel M.
The lower end of the flat-iron E terminates in a handle G.
In order to manufacture mineral-water with the apparatus, a bottle filled with
water the cock A being closed-is fixed between the foot-piece F and head-
piece K; then the gas-pressure from the carbonic-acid bottle is allowed to act on
the mixing-vessel M through the T-piece T, and then the cock A is opened.
Thereupon one seizes the handle G. and tilts over the flat iron E with everything
that is attached to it in such a manner that the mixing-vessel M is now below and
the bottle stands on its head above. Meanwhile the water flows out of the bottle
into the mixing vessel. By lowering the handle, the apparatus is brought into a
nearly horizontal position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, and then by
a repeated slight raising and lowering of the handle the mixing-vessel is put into
a swinging motion to and fro round the peg Z, whereby the fluid and the gas are
thorougly mixed with each other in the mixing-vessel. Then the apparatus is again
brought back into its initial position with the mixing-vessel at the top, the fluid is
allowed to flow back into the bottle and after that the cock A is closed.
bottle now contains highly sparkling water, is corked and then taken away.
The
The whole process last about half a minute. In order to effect a better and
more rapid mixing and shaking of the fluid with the gas, ribs or bands may be
attached in the inside to the walls of the mixing-vessel M, or medal-rods may be
placed in the mixing-vessel, so as to cross each other parallel to the three chief
axes as shewn in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3 also shews the peculiar T-piece T, which is placed horizontally thus,
and serves at the same time to fasten the headpiece K, and is also hollowed out-and
formed as a gas conduit-pipe, at the top of which is attached the usual lip-valve
with the usual supply-hose.
The horizontal arm has at about the middle of its length the attachment-flange f,
by which the entire head-piece is screwed on to the flat-iron E, while the projecting
pointed end e passes through a corresponding hole in the flat-iron.
If as drawn in Fig. 4 two of the single apparatus are arranged on one common

page_text: flat-iron frame, which is formed out of the two vertical rods E, E 2 and the lower,
middle and upper cross-bars Q, Q2.Q3, when the whole frame with all that is
attached to it turns about the peg Z in the middle of the cross-bar Q2, two bottles
with water sparkling may be simultaneously produced with this double apparatus.
But at the same time if desired, two different sparkling drinks may be manufactured.
Now the same amount of carbonic-acid pressure is neither good nor necessary for
the latter, but the pressure used for, the manufacture of different drinks varies
e.g. for mineral water 5 to 6 atmos. for mni.k about 2 atmos. In order to be able to
produce drinks under different pressures at the same time one along side of the
other, I arrange on the carbonic-acid bottle a combination of a high-pressure
reducing-valve H and a low-pressure reducing-valve N, of which the latter
branches off from the former and bring these valves by corresponding supply-
hose into connexion with the corresponding T-pieces.
As shewn in Figs. 7 and 8, one can also combine a larger number of single
apparatus on a common frame R, turning on an axis in one battery as might be
desirable for production on a large scale. In this apparatus with a view to shake
the gas and fluid together in the mixing-vessel M, the lower part of the frame is
formed into a handle, and the swinging motion to and fro of the frame and every-
thing attached to it is performed in the same manner as in a hand fire-engine.
The shaking motion of the apparatus, instead of being effected by the pump-
handle-like raising and lowering of the flat-iron E, may be done at the lower
end by turning a crank, if an excentric disc S Figs. 5 & 6 be attached to the
crank-axle which by means of the rods, revolving on the excentric peg sets the
fiat-iron E in a swinging motion, as well as in a backwards and forwards sliding
motion in a slit, at the peg Z.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1.) An apparatus for the rapid production of sparkling drinks, distinguished by
the arrangement of a mixing-vessel M corresponding to the capacity of the different
bottles for gas and liquid, vertically above the neck of the bottle, as well as by the
attachment of the bottle-holders together with the mixing-vessel on a flat-iron E,
which can swing at the point Z about an axis lying between the bottle and mixing-
vessel, thereby allowing the bottle and mixing-vessel to occupy a position
alternately one above the other, as also of a thorough shaking together of gas
and fluid in the mixing-vessel.
2.) In the interior of the mixing-vessel M the attachment of ribs or bands as
well as the arrangement of ribs or rods crossing each other in the direction of the
3 chief axes, in order thereby to produce a dividing and better mixing of gas and
fluid during the shaking.
3.) The combination of two or more similar apparatus in a double or battery-
apparatus, in which the flat-iron E is replaced by a frame, revolving about an axis.
4.) In connexion with double or battery-apparatus in order also to produce in
different bottles different sparkling drinks under different pressures of gas, the
combination of one or more low-pressure-reducing-valves N, branching off from the
chief pressure-reducing-valve H.
5.) The working of the shaking-arrangement of the apparatus by an excentric
disc with crank motion.
Dated this Twentieth day of Anril 1902
BERNHARD BROCKHUES,
Applicant's Agent.