Improvements in or connected with the Refrigeration and Supplying of Aerated and other liquids, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Refrigeration and Supplying
of Aerated and other liquids, and Apparatus therefor.
I, ROSE ISAAC, of 114, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
General Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to refrigerating aerated liquids, such as soda-water,
and other aerated beverages, and it also provides for refrigerating other liquids,
such as malt beverages.
Under my invention, the aerated liquid is contained in a suitable tinned steel,
or copper vessel, provided with a syphon pipe and discharge tap, and this vessel is
inserted in a wooden vessel of larger size, the
space between the
metal vessel and the wooden vessel being filled with ice and
salt,
rammed hard. The outer vessel is provided with a tap to withdraw the water as
the ice melts. This apparatus is particularly suitable for serving refrigerated
aerated liquids at shops, restaurants, and like places.
Under another form of my invention, and in its application to the refrigerating
of beer and other malt liquors, I provide a coiled metal pipe, which I insert in a
wooden vessel containing ice and salt pressed hard, one end of this pipe I attach
to the barrel containing the beer or other malt liquor, and the outer end of the pipe I
attach to the piping in connection with the beer pump: the beer is refrigerated as
it passes through the coiled piping.
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CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent. Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.
Improvements in or connected with the Refrigeration and Supplying
of Aerated and other liquids, and Apparatus therefor.
'
I, ROSE ISAAC, of 114, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
General Draper, 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 reference to, and is connected with, the refrigeration, and
supplying, of refrigerated aerated liquids, such as soda-water, and other aerated
beverages, or gaseous beverages and it relates also, in part, to the refrigeration;
and supplying, of other beverages, in a cold or a refrigerated condition.
The invention will be described with the aid of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: In these drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation; Figure 2 is a sectional plan;
and Figure 3 a detail, in section.
These drawings illustrate my improvements, connected with the refrigeration
and supplying of soda-water, and the like, and also malt liquors, referred to in my
Provisional Specification, and the invention and' specification are now restricted
to the features and characteristics connected with this object and end; the other
parts of the invention, mentioned in the Provisional Specification, being now, for
the present, laid aside.
Referring to the drawings, the aerated liquid-say soda-water-is contained
within a large thin copper (or steel) vessel a, provided, laterally, with a syphon-
tube b, and, at the upper part, with a syphon discharge tap c, of the usual kind
employed in aerated water syphons; this tap being connected, as hereinafter
described, to the neck a', of the vessel a. This apparatus is particularly suitable.
for serving i.e. supplying-refrigerated, aerated liquids in shops, restaurants,
bars, and other "places," and in the drawing given, it is represented as being
fitted under the counter, or bar, of a restaurant; or, it may be a special counter, h,
for the purpose. The vessel or bottle a, as stated, is of large size, and, preferably,
of copper, tinned internally; and its neck a¹ is sufficiently long to extend up
through the counter, and to enable a glass to be placed under the spout of its
syphon tap.
This metal vessel a, in one size, will be about from 7 to 10 inches in diameter,
and about eighteen inches long; and this size, when charged with liquid, is one
that can fairly easily be carried, and conveniently handled, both in fitting, and
afterwards in loading and unloading, carrying, and placing in position.
Outside the vessel a, when in place, there is a wooden vessel d, that is, the metal
vessel a is placed in the wooden vessel d, and the annular space , between the
vessel a and d, is filled with ice and salt, and rammed; which makes a suitable
freezing mixture. This vessel d is provided with a tape at its bottom, by which
water may be drained out of it occasionally (or constantly if desired), as it forms,
by the melting of the ice; and, by this withdrawal of water, the temperature of
the whole arrangement is kept low, which is important; otherwise the bottom of
the vessel a would stand in liquid below freezing point; and it is from this part
of the vessel, that the aerated liquid is drawn by the pipe b, when the tap c is
opened.
There is also contained within this wooden vessel d, a pipe f, which is coiled
round, as shewn, and supported by blocks g in the vessel. This pipe f is adapted
to be connected, by a branch f, to a beer barrel, or other malt liquor containing
vessel, and, by another branch, f2, is attached to the beer-pump of a counter. By
this means, beer supplied from the barrel will be refrigerated in passing through
the coil f.
The whole vessel d is covered by a lid, through which the upper part of the
syphon vessel a projects, as shewn."
This whole apparatus is placed under a counter h, as shewn, the neck a¹ being
passed through an aperture h', which is sufficiently large to pass the tap c, and the
top of the counter may be removeable, above the vessel a, to enable it to be easily
placed in position in the case d, and taken out.
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With regard to the construction of the neck a¹, and tap c, by which this tap is
connected to the neck, the tube 6 (which is of metal, tinned), is provided with a
flange 6, and a roller washer 62; while the neck a¹ is provided with a flange a².
The rubber washer 62 rests on this neck a³, when in place; and the body of the
tap is secured to the neck a¹ by means of an externally threaded divided collar c¹,
which fits over the neck, and under the flange a²; and when c is screwed over c¹, it
presses the flange b¹ down, and so squeezes the rubber washer b² onto a³, and makes
a gas tight joint.
The vessel a is filled in the same manner as a syphon bottle; and, by preference,
it is charged under a pressure superior to those used in charging "syphons."
The effect and advantage of the use of this invention are, that aerated liquid,

page_text: under pressure, can be stored, handled, and carried or transported in bulk, more
or less; and thus its manufacture and supply i.e. its method of packing and supply,
will be more after the manner of malt liquors, i.e. in bulk, in contra-distinction to
the present method of storing and supplying it in small glass bottles, and small
syphons. It, moreover, obviates the enormous loss and waste, and money, which at
present takes place through the breakage of glass bottles. Furthermore, the
liquid, say soda-water, or the like, supplied from bulk, out of these vessels, after
they have been charged, and have rested a day or two in the cooled or refrigerated
condition, is greatly superior to the ordinary condition in which soda-water is
supplied. And a further point is, it saves a great deal of handling and cost in
filling, carting, etcetera..
In winter, when artificial cooling of the liquid is not required, the freezing
mixture, round the vessel a, may be dispensed with; and, as regards the vessels a,
themselves, as described and shewn; these, as part of the apparatus, according to.
the invention, may be used in connection with other apparatus than that described;
and also, in some cases, they may be used independently of other apparatus, and
under such conditions form, in themselves, improved apparatus under the invention.
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:-
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1. The herein described improvement, connected with the refrigeration, and sup-
plying of aerated liquid, consisting of the employment of a thin metal vessel, such
as described, having a syphon discharge (the discharge being effected by the
pressure of the gas within the vessel), and an outer vessel, within which the said
metal vessel is placed, and wherein it is adapted to be refrigerated, and the contents
kept in a cold condition; for the purposes set forth.
2. Apparatus for supplying refrigerated aerated beverages, comprising the metal
vessel a, with syphon discharge pipe b, tap c, and refrigerating vessel d, with water
discharge tap e; substantially as set forth with reference to and shewn in the
drawings.
3. The apparatus, consisting of the metal containing vessel, with "syphon"
discharge pipe and tap, and neck; as and for the purposes set forth.
4. An apparatus for the supply of refrigerated aerated, and malt, liquors, con-
sisting of the combination of a metal aerated water container a, a refrigerator
vessel, within which the body of a is disposed, and the pipe coil f, with inlet
and outlet, disposed in the vessel d, by which malt liquor is refrigerated; as and for
the purposes set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1807
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent. Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.