Improvements connected with Apparatus for Aërating Malt and other Liquors and Liquids.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1893-Accepted. 29th Apr.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Apparatus for Aërating Malt and
other Liquors and Liquids.
I, DENNIS WICKHAM, of Star Brewery, Ware, Hertfordshire, Brewer and
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the aëration of malt liquors, and liquids generally
by combined apparatus consisting essentially of a pump, a thermometer test, a coil
of piping in a water vessel heated by gas flame to raise the temperature of carbonic
gas to the desired extent, a liquid gas holder with reducing valve and various pipes
between the foregoing, and a charged cask or other charged vessel, or to a bottling
machine.
To carry my invention into practice, I prefer to use a hand pump to draw liquid
from the charged vessel, and to force it into a globular, or other receiver, which is
provided with baffle plates (perforated or not) and to which receiver carbonic gas
is also supplied from a liquid gas container after passing a reducing valve and an
attemperating coil arranged within a water jacket heated by a coal gas flame.
An additional pipe from the globular vessel leads the liquid in an aërated
condition back to the charged cask or vessel, or direct to the bottling machine.
The pipes are provided with taps to regulate the quantity of liquid passing from
and into the globular vessel.
Dated this 27th day of Mo 1902
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Dennis Wickh.in.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Apparatus for Aërating Malt and
other Liquors and Liquids.'
I, DENNIS WICKHAM, of Star Brewery, Ware, Hertfordshire, Brewer and
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 has for object, the aëration of malt liquors, and liquids generally
by combined apparatus consisting essentially of a pump, a thermometer, a coil of
piping in a water vessel heated by gas flame to raise the temperature of carbonic
gas to the desired extent, a liquid gas holder with reducing valve and various pipes
between the foregoing, and a charged cask, or other vessel, or to a bottling
machine.
I carry my invention into practice in the manner fully illustrated in the
accompanying drawing, of which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a complete apparatus.
Figure 2 a sectional view of the heating coil.
Figure 3 an enlarged sectional view of the cask plug and gland, and
Figure 4 an enlarged sectional view of the T piece connected to the globular
aërating vessel.
I prefer to use a hand pump A to draw liquid from the charged vessel B, and to
force it into a globular, or other receiver C, which is provided with a baffle C¹
(perforated or not), Figures 3 and 4, and to which receiver, carbonic gas is also
supplied from a liquid gas container D after passing a reducing valve E, and an
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page_text: attemperating coil F arranged within a water jacket G heated by a coal gas, or
other flame H.
An additional pipe I from the globular vessel C leads the liquid in an aërated
condition back to the charged cask B, or vessel, or direct to a bottling machine.
The pipes I and J are provided with taps J, K, to regulate the quantity of liquid
passing from and into the globular vessel respectively.
L is a safety valve to regulate the pressure of gas flowing into the vessel C,
into which it enters by the passage M, Figure 4, to thoroughly intermix with the
liquid as it is sprayed over the baffle C', the temperature of the gas being ascer-
tained on reference to the thermometer N, which is in connection with the coil
pipe F as it leaves the water jacket G.
The plug S is surrounded by a rubber ring or tube T (Figure 3), and is firmly
fixed into the bung hole by clamps from the end of the cask, or any other suitable
manner to secure an air tight fit.
The aërated liquor, as it enters the cask, may be sprayed through a perforated
baffle C' instead of a straight fall as would be the case in Figure 1.
From the foregoing, it will be understood that upon the pump A. being worked,
the liquid is drawn from the cask B up the tube B¹ (which can be moved up or
down the gland P) through the pipe J to the pump barrel, thence by the pipe Q
to the interior of the vessel C, into which it is discharged from the pipe Q¹onto the
baffle C which is preferably of curved formation, and may if desired be perforated
or as an alternative, the pipe Q1 may be perforated similarly to that shown in
Figure 3 to act as baffle to spray the issuing liquid upon the sides of the vessel C,
for complete intermixture with the gas as it issues from the passage M, to which it
is conducted from the reservoir D through the reducing valve E, pipe E¹, to the
T piece R, to which the thermometer N and safety valve L are attached for the
purpose before mentioned.
The gas is conducted from the T piece R through the coil F to be heated to the
required degree before entering the vessel C.
The aërated liquid leaves the aërating vessel C by the pipes M¹ and 1 to the
cask B, or a bottling machine for storage purposes.
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 :-
1. The improvements connected with apparatus for aerating malt, and other
liquors and liquids set forth, and substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
2. In apparatus for aërating malt and other liquors and liquids, the combination
of a pump A, coil of piping in a heated water vessel G, carbonic gas chamber D,
and aërating vessel C, arranged and fitted with reducing valve E, safety valve L,
thermometer N, and connecting pipes, and valves for withdrawing liquor from and
returning it to a cask or vessel, as described and substantially as shown in the
annexed drawings.
3. In apparatus for aërating malt, and other liquors and liquids, the construction
of parts (shown in detail, Figures 3 and 4) for spraying the liquid in the aërating
vessel C, as set forth.
Ine 27th day of February 1000.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Dennis Wickham.