US105390A - Improvement in the manufacture of vinegar and acidifying liquids - Google Patents

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R. D. TURNER. MANUFACTURE OF VINEGAR AND AGIDIE'YING LIQUIDS.

N0. 105,,390. I Patented July 12,1870.

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REUBEN n. TURNER,

on NEW YORK,'N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 105,300, dated J u ly 12,1870.

I endy murmur m THE MANUFACTURE or VINEG-AR AND ACIDIIE'YING- mourns.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, REUBEN D. TURNER, of the city, county, and State of N cw York, haveinventedanew and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Making Vinegar and Acidulatiug other Liquids, of which the following is a full, .clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a mainly sectional elevation of an apparatus constructed in accordance with my improvement Figure 2, a plan of certain liquid and air-chambers,

or belts, with spray-pipes connected, forming a portion of said apparatus; and

' Figure 3 is a sectional plan through the tank por- -tion of the apparatus, taken as indicated by the line idizing influence of atmospheric air, by means of spraying devices operating in combination with a rcceivcr.

i The present invention, however, has for its object a diti'erent purpose, and embraces various peculiarities of construction and combination of devices with such an apparatus as hereinafter described, for making vinegar or acidnlating other liquids.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A represents the receiver, preferably of circular form, and. mounted with a goose-neck, or other suitablyshaped top. g

B and O are annular chambers, or hollow belts, arranged to surround the receiver near its top, and forming a portion of the spray apparatus, the chamber B holding the liquid from which the vinegar is to be made, and which may be forced u'p to it from a vessel,

1), by a pump, E, and be kept at a uniform level -therein by an overflow or return-pipe, I and the chamber 0 serving to receive and distribute ftlilIlQS'.

- pheric air, forced or blown into it by an air-pump, G;

Tlhespray-pipcs or tubes H, which may be of the same construct-ion as those described in my patent hereinbeforc referred to, are suitably connected with these chambers B and O, and arranged so as to project radially within the receiver A.

r \Vithin said receiver, below the spray-tubes H, is

a bowl-shaped conductor, I, for the liquor under treatmcnt after it has been brokeninto' a spray by the tubes H, and exposed to the oxidizing influence of the air entering by said tubes and otherwise contained within the receiver, and which of" itself partly accomplishes the process designed by this improvement. 4

This conductor I'is corrugated in a. radial manner, as it were, from abottom outlet, 2, which is serrated at its edge, by which construction of the conductor, the liquid, as it falls atom by atom, is gathered in thin streams, in a straight and divided manner, down on to a radially corrugated and serrated scatterer, J, of convex or sloping shape, to equalize the distribution, and spread or deliver it in thin straight streams on to a series in succession of reverse conical disks, K L, having a central passage-way up through them for the introduction of heated air issuing from a dis tributcr, M, to permeate and act upon the liquid under process of treatment. 7

These disks K L are alsb corrugated, and the upper ones, K, serrated at their edges, to direct the liquid in thin straight streams over their surfaces as it passes toward and over the peripheries of the upper disks on to the lower ones, and, from the latter, at the inner edges, onto the next succeeding upper disk, and so on in succession, reversing and extending the travel, and exposing the liquid in thin layers or streams in a protracted manner to the oxidizing influence of the air, the liquid finally being delivered at the bottom of the receiver, from which it may bedrawn oti' perfectly acidnlated.

The heated air, entering by the distribnter M, materially assists the process,-and, if desirable, the air entering by the spray-tubes may also be heated.

The same air-pump G that is used to supply the spray-tubes may also be used to supply the distributer M, and the air, as it passes to the latter, be caused to circulate through a tubular or other heater, N, of

any suitable description, heated by steam or otherwise.

The apparatus, as thus constructed and operating, will effect a most perfect and rapid acidulation of the liquid or mixture under treatment, by reason of the finely divided-and protracted exposure of it to air within the receiver.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination of the conductor I, scatterer J and reverse conical disks K L, constructed and arranged within the receiver A, for operation in con nection with the spray tubes H, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination of the heater N, and air-distlibuter M, with the reverse conical disks K L, scatterer J, conductor I, and spray-tubes H, within the receiver A, essentially as shown and described.

, REUBEN D. TURNER.

4 Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNES HENRY PALMER.

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