A New or Improved Apparatus for Injecting and Mixing Fluid Carbonic Acid in Small Regulated Quantities with Beer and Sparkling Liquors.
Year: 1884

page_text: A New or Improved Apparatus for Injecting and Mixing Fluid
Carbonic Acid in Small Regulated Quantities with Beer
and Sparkling Liquors.
I, LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH K.G.V. Civil Engineer and Managing Director of
the Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial Company Limited 30 Finsbury.
Pavement London E.C. do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR INJECTING AND MIXING FLUID
CARBONIC ACID IN SMALL REGULATED QUANTITIES WITH BEER AND SPARKLING
LIQUORS" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described in and by the following statement:-
The object of this Invention is to inject and mix fluid carbonic acid in small
regulated quantities into beer, sparkling liquors or mineral waters in a safe and
simple manner and consists of a receptacle A for the fluid carbonic acid a
regulator B to regulate its flow and a mixing chamber c Fig. 1.
The receptacle A which is placed above the regulator is provided with an outlet
at the bottom to which is connected the pipe leading to the regulator B which is
placed just above the mixing chamber c.
The regulator B consists of a strong bulb P with narrow neck x screwed and
soldered to it forming the spigot of the tap o and by the opening v can allow the
carbonic acid to flow in any required quantity or stop it entirely by turning the
bulb P like an ordinary tap.
The mixing chamber c is an ordinary airtight one strengthened if need be by
iron bands and provided with a mixer e and monometer m.
The action is as follows:-The carbonic acid flows by means of the outlet in the
receptacle through the pipe into the entering tube r, u. of the tap or regulator B
and through the opening into the bulb P from whence it is allowed to flow by
turning the said bulb into the lower pipe q leading into the mixing chamber c
while by turning the mixer e the carbonic acid is mixed with the liquid contained
therein.
When it is required to inject fluid carbonic acid into beer casks either for cooling
or in order to press the beer up to the bar the apparatus is simply connected to the
oach as chown in o

page_text: When it is required to regulate the apparatus from the bar the arrangement
shown in Fig. 4 is used in which the spigot receptacle P is turned by means of
a cord
P. 7. fixed on a pulley wheel S which is connected to the spigot P, by the
square head w.
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"
This cord runs over rollers to the bar as shown in Fig. 3 and is pulled to inject
the acid into the cask while a spiral spring F brings, back the spigot to its proper
position when the cord is released.
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xx¹ are pins to limit the revolution of the pulley wheel S when actuated either
by the cord or the spiral spring F.
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
1st The method of injecting and mixing fluid carbonic acid in small regulated
quantities in a safe and easy manner into beer and other sparkling liquors or
mineral waters.
2nd The apparatus required to carry out the said method especially the
regulator B Fig. 2.
3rd The combination of the receptacle A for carbonic acid with the regulator B
and mixing chamber c for injecting and mixing fluid carbonic acid.
4th The construction and method of working the apparatus from the bar in
order to cool or raise the beer as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1884.
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