IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE SUPPLY OF AËRATED WATER."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Accountant, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR THE SUPPLY OF AËRATED WATER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th July 1880.
DANIEL JOSEPH FLEETWOOD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Accountant "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE SUPPLY OF AERATED
WATER."
These improvements consist in applying to any ordinary machine used in the
production of aerated water an apparatus for the purpose of regulating the pressure
in the act of drawing, so as to allow of the aerated water being drawn off for use
into open vessels without the necessity of bottling in the ordinary manner, and
consists in attaching to the end of a delivery pipe leading from the aerated water
chamber of the machine a strong glass or other receiving chamber, which may be
shut off from communication with the delivery pipe by means of a stop cock or
valve; in connection with this receiving chamber is another or extra chamber, which
can also be shut off from the receiving chamber by a stop cock or valve. A tap is
attached to the receiving chamber to draw off the aerated water.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-When the stop cock or valve from
the delivery pipe is opened, and that between the receiving and extra chambers
closed, the receiving chamber becomes filled with the aerated water, and when it is
required to draw off the water the communication with the aerated water chamber
of the machine is shut off, and that between the receiving and extra chambers is
opened; thus, in the act of drawing the gas in the water will be allowed to expand
into the extra chamber, and the pressure will diminished so as to allow of the
aerated water being drawn off into any open vessels.
These stop cocks or valves and taps may be so arranged that the opening or
closing of the one may actuate either or all of the others.
When the machine used in the production of the aerated water is actuated by
any motive power other than manual power, a suitable valve and apparatus may
be used, by means of which, when the pressure in the aerated water chamber

page_text: reaches a maximum limit, the motive power may be arrested, or may be disconnected
from the aerating machine.
Upon the pressure falling, the same valve and apparatus may re-start the motive
power, or re-connect it with the aerating machine.
Instead of the extra chamber I may use a plunger working into the receiving
chamber, so as to occupy a portion of the space within it, or a portion of the
receiving chamber may be made telescopic, so that the action of the gas when the
aerated water is introduced into the receiving chamber will be to force back the
plunger or drive out the telescopic portion (as the case may he), and give room for
expansion, the object in all these arrangements being to allow some of the pressure
to expend itself without the loss of any of the aerated water.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
January 1881.
DANIEL JOSEPH FLEETWOOD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Accountant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE SUPPLY OF AERATED
WATER."
These improvements consist in applying to any ordinary machine used in the
production of aerated water an apparatus for the purpose of regulating the pressure
in the act of drawing, so as to allow of the aerated water being drawn off for use
into the open vessels without the necessity of bottling in the ordinary manner, and
consists in attaching to the end of a delivery pipe leading from the aerated water
chamber of the machine a strong glass or other receiving chamber, which may be
shut off from communication with the delivery pipe by means of a stop cock or
valve; in connection with this receiving chamber is another or extra chamber,
which can also be shut off from the receiving chamber by a stop-cock or valve.
A
tap
is attached to the receiving chamber to draw off the aerated water.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-When the stop-cock or valve from
the delivery pipe is opened, and that between the receiving and extra chamber
closed, the receiving chamber becomes filled with the acrated water, and when it is
required to draw off the water the communication with the acrated water chamber
of the machine is shut off, and that between the receiving and extra chambers is
opened; thus, in the act of drawing the gas in the water will be allowed to expand
into the extra chamber and the pressure will be diminished so as to allow of the
aerated water being drawn off into any open vessel
These stop-cocks or valves and taps may be so arranged that the opening or
closing of the one may actuale either or all of the others.
Thus stop or check action upon the pressure of the gas is insured.
When the machine used in the production of the aerated water is actuated by

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any motive power other than manual power, a suitable valve and apparatus may
be used, by means of which, when the pressure in the aerated water chamber
reaches a maximum limit, the motive power may be arrested, or may be disconnected
from the aerating machine. Upon the pressure falling, the same valve and
apparatus may restart the motive power, or re-connect it with the aerating machine.
Instead of the extra chamber I may use a plunger working into the receiving
chamber, so as to occupy a portion of the space within it, or a portion of the
receiving chamber may be made telescopic, so that the action of the gas when the
aerated water is introduced into the receiving chamber will be to force back the
plunger or drive out the telescopic portion (as the case may be), and give room for
expansion, the object in all these arrangements being to allow some of the pressure
to expend itself without the loss of any of the aerated water.
Referring to the Drawings in Figure I. (A) is a pipe through which aerated water
is forced by means of the pressure in the receiver of an ordinary aerating machine
not shown in the Drawings; (B) is a stop cock or valve upon the pipe (A); (C) is
the glass or other receiving chamber, having a pipe (D) and a stop cock or valve (E)
between it and the supplementary or extra chamber (F). (H) is the delivery pipe
or nozzle. The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The valve (E) having been
closed, and the valve (B) having been opened, acrated water will pass into the
receiving chamber (C), until an equilibrium of pressure has been established.
The valve (B) being then closed, and the valve (E) being opened, the aerated
water will rush into the supplementary or extra chamber (F), and from thence
through the nozzle (H) into any vessel held to receive it. The gas which is
disengaged at the moment of escape from the valve (E) will expand and be collected.
in the extra chamber (F), and the energy of the aerated water passing out of the
nozzle (H) will be so far reduced as to admit of the water being received into any
open vessel with less disturbance and danger of spilling than would otherwise bo
The apparatus which I have described is suitable for being fixed upon a
counter or table, so that whilst the aerating machine may be employed in a cellar
or elsewhere to charge ordinary bottles, according to the usual process of bottling,
the same aerating machine may supply direct through the medium of my Invention
the ordinary demand for aerated water in a refreshment bar or other appartment,
thus dispensing altogether with glass bottles of the usual kind.
the case.
I will now proceed to describe a portable form of apparatus constructed according
to my Invention.
In all the following Figures similar letters of referenco indicate the same parts.
Figure II, is a vertical section.
Figure III. is a horizontal section through the valves.
Figure IV. is a front elevation.
The valves hereinafter described are those which I prefer to use, though other
kinds inay be used if required.
(A) is the receiving chamber, shewn in two loose parts before the joint has been
made secure, having a boss (A¹) screwed internally to receive a valve seat (A2)
provided with a valve (A³) opening upwards, and closed by a spring (A').
The receiving chamber (A) having been screwed upon a suitable screwed nozzle
attached to the aerating machine, the acrated water presses upwards the valve (A³)
and charges the receiving chamber; or the valve (A³) may be raised while the
receiving chamber is being screwed on by means of a suitable pin or peg attached
to the nozzle of the aerating machine. When properly charged the receiving
chamber (A) may be unscrewed, the valve (A³) closing automatically so as to
prevent the escape of the contents of the receiving chamber, which latter inay then
be screwed upon the nozzle (B) of the portable apparatus. A peg (B') will raise
the valve (A) as the receiving chamber is screwed down, and the aerated water
will gain access to the pipe (B) as far as the chamber (C') of the valve (C).
The valve (C) is kept closed by the action of the spring (C³), supplemented by
the pressure of the aerated water upon the head of the valve. When the valve (C)
is opened by pulling forward the lever or handle (C³) in the direction shewn by the

page_text: arrow, the aerated water will pass into the chamber (D') of the second valve (D),
and at the same time by means of the pipe (E!) will charge the supplementary or
extra chamber (E), which for convenience is made in the form of a coiled tube, so
as to occupy the annular space between the primary receiving chamber (A) and the
vase (F) which contains it.
(D) is the spring of (D).
The handles (C³) having been released so as to close the valve (C), and the
valve (D) having been opened by means of its handle (D³), the supplementary or
extra chamber (E) will discharge its contents through the nozzle (D6) into any open
vessel held thereunder, and as the closed valve (C) cuts off all further supply from
the primary receiving chamber (A), the said discharge will have much less force
than if the pressure from the primary receiving chamber had been maintained
during the discharge.
The supplementary or extra receiving chamber is by preference made to hold
about threefourths of a tumblerful of water; a-small-volume-being added-for tho-
disengaged gas. (C') and (D') are packing strips of leather or other suitable material
coiled round the pistons (C), (D³), of the valves (C), (D), in order to prevent
leakage at the front when the valves are open.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I claim, without limiting myself to the precise details
herein before described, the improvements in apparatus for the supply of aerated
water, substantially as herein moro fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
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TASED LETOOD
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