Improvements in Liquid Aërating and Bottling Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 2nd May. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Liquid Aërating and Bottling Apparatus.
I FREDERICK FOSTER of Niagara Works Eagle Wharf Road Hoxton in the
County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus employed for manufacturing aërated liquids
adapted to provide the necessary carbonic acid gas from bottles or vessels in which
it is stored in highly compressed form.
The object of my present invention is to combine in a compact form the entire
apparatus for aërating and bottling purposes and to provide for readily removing
the empty gas bottles and of replacing them by fully charged ones.
I provide framework to carry the pump, commonly called a soda water pump,
the condenser or saturator, the necessary bottling apparatus, and a turntable by
means of which they may be brought round successively into the required position
as the turntable is rotated for removing the empty bottles and replacing them by
full ones.
In cases where it is not desired to make use of a gasometer I provide a reducing
valve which may be of the kind now generally adopted for feeding compressed gases
at a more or less uniformly reduced pressure from the bottles or vessels containing
the compressed gas and I so distribute the bottles or vessels of compressed gas at
each side of the framework of the entire apparatus that they may be equidistant or
thereabout from the connection at which they are to be successively joined with the
reducing valve thus making a single connecting pipe serve for all the bottles or
vessels of compressed carbonic acid gas which are employed one at a time, the
empty ones being replaced by full ones at leisure.
In that case I admit the carbonic acid gas, reduced by means of the reducing
valve to the required bottling pressure, direct into the condenser or saturator and
employ, instead of the soda water pump herein before referred to, a pump through
which the liquid only passes. This pump is a single acting pump open at the upper
end of the barrel, the bucket rod being formed with a crosshead to which the
connecting rod is pivoted and an extending rod therefrom passing through guides
formed on the outer side of the pump barrel.
Dated this 7th day of May 1890.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Liquid Aërating and Bottling Apparatus.
1 FREDERICK FOSTER of Niagara Works Eagle Wharf Road Hoxton in the
County of Middlesex 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 relates to apparatus employed for manufacturing aërated liquids
adapted to provide the necessary carbonic acid gas from bottles or vessels in which
it is stored in highly compressed form.
The object of my present invention is to combine in a compact form the entire
apparatus for aërating and bottling purposes and to provide for readily removing
the empty gas bottles and of replacing them by fully charged ones.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings in all the figures of which the same part is
indicated by like letters of reference
Figure 1 is an elevation of gasometer fed from cylinders of compressed carbonic
acid gas mounted upon a turn-table stand.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the apparatus combining the gas store, the aërating
apparatus and the bottling machine.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the complete apparatus employing a water pump
instead of the usual aërated water pump.
Figure is a detail view of the water pump employed instead on the usual
aerated water pump.
In Figure 2 the framework carries the pump A, the condenser or saturator B,
the bottling apparatus C and a vessel of compressed carbonic acid gas D one only
being shown, though several may be employed mounted as shown in Figure 1 upon
a turn-table E having a central rotating shaft or column F around which the
vessels of compressed carbonic acid gas D are secured by latch handle (with
their lower ends rotating upon the turn table E by means of which they may be
brought round successively to he attached to the automatic valve H for feeding the
gasometer in the manner described in the Specification of former Letters Patent
granted to me being numbered 12071 of the year 1886 one and the same connecting
pipe Kserving for all the bottles or vessels of compressed carbonic acid ga
inasmuch as they come successively into the required position as the turn-table E
is rotated for removing the empty vessels D and replacing them by full ones.
In cases where it is not desired to make use of a gasometer I provide a reducing
valve L which may be of the kind now generally adopted for feeding compressed
gases at a more or less uniformly reduced pressure from the bottles or vessels
containing the compressed gas and in some cases instead of mounting the bottles or
vessels containing the compressed gas upon a turn-table as shown in Figure 1 I
arrange them as shown in Figure 3 so that they are all equi-listant or thereabout
from the connecting pipe K with which they are to be successively joined with the
reducing valve L thus making a single connecting pipe serve for all the bottles or
vessels of compressed carbonic acid gas which are employed one at a time, the
empty ones being replaced by full ones at leisure.
In that case admit the carbonic acid gas, reduced by means of the reducing
valve to the required bottling pressure direct into the condenser or saturator and
employ instead of the soda water pump hereinbefore referred to, a pump through
which the liquid only, passes. This pump shown at Figure 4 is a single acting
open at the u
end of the barrel. N is the inlet valve in the pipe leading
From the feed tank and P is the stop valve. Q is a by-pass tube controlled by
a tap R to reduce the working effect of the pump to the amount required. The
bucket rod S is formed with a crosshend T to which the connecting rod U is pivoted
and an extending rod W passing through guides X formed upon the outside of the
pump barrel M.
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 1
claim is :-
1. In apparatus for making and bottling aërated liquids the combination of a
rotary or stationary stand for vessels of carbonic acid gas with the pumping,
condensing and bottling apparatus substantially as described.
2. A rotary stand E for connecting and removing vessels of carbonic acid gas
adapted for supplying apparatus for aërating liquids substantially as described.
Dated this 7th dev of Kolmiary 1891
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Patent Agents.