US162986A - Improvement in apparatus for drawing effervescent liquids - Google Patents

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Pate-rited May 4 1875.

' NITED STATES PATEN FREDERICK W. WIESEBROOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY W. SHEPARD AND ROBERT SEAMAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING EFFERVESCENT LIQUIDS.

Spec'cation forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,986, dated May 4, 1875; application tiled March 19, 1875.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that-1, FREDERICK W. Wrnsn- BROCK, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Eifervescent Liquids, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawin g, and the l etters of referen ce marked thereon, making part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a vertical sectional view of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view ot' a regulator which may be used with the apparatus shown in Fig. 1.

My vpresent invention is an improvement in the apparatus used in drawing or dispensing effervescent liquids, and is designed to remedy difficulties hitherto experienced in the use. of said apparatus, and which have chiefly resulted from the presence of carbonio-acid gas in said liquids, and the difficulty of so regulating its pressure as to permit the liquid to be drawn comparatively unaffected by the pressure of said gas.

To accomplish this most advantageous result my invention consists, rst, in arranging between the supply-vessel and the vessel from which the liquid is to be drawn or dispensed, and connected therewith, a pressure-governor, and which shall so operate as to permit the dispensing apparatus to be operated entirely irrespective of the pressure of the supply. My invention also consists of a novel construction and arrangement of faucet and cock, and of a supplemental discharge or pressure escape tube, whereby the liquid is fed from the supply by turning the cock in one direction, and then drawn off by turning the same in an opposite direction; but, owing to the arrangement of the openings or slots in the cock, when caused to register with the discharge-channel of the faucet through an upper slotted opening, which is immediately above the regular discharge-orifice, any surplus pressure in the discharge-vessel is relieved from the liquid, and escapes through the supplemental tube the instant before the discharge-orifice is caused to fully register with the channel, through which the liquid to be drawn off or dispensed is fed.

This arrangement is most advantageous, as practical experience has fully demonstrated, as it surely guards against any too-forcible ejectment of the liquid, and as the relieving of the excess or surplus pressure is only an instant before the liquid fiows out, thegas contained in the liquid has not sufficient time to escape below a desired quantity, or to a degree or an extent to leave the liquid iiat, as is the case in other apparatuses of this character.

The construction and operation of my invention are as follows:

A is a stand, and is of any desired form, and may be constructed of any suitable material, and is secured to a counter 0r other suitable support, A. a is a tube, which extends np through a vertical opening in the stand A, and is connected, by suitable attachments a' a', with a supply-vessel, (not shown in the drawing,) and with the inlet-channel b ofthe openin g B1 of the pressure-regulator B, and the construction and operation ot' which regulator I Will describe hereafter, but not in this connection, as it forms no part of my present invention, but which I wish to make the distinctive subject-matter of an independent application 5 and, besides, in present invention I do not desire to belimited or restricted to the use of any particular or given kind of regulator, but to have the option left me of using any regulator whose construction and operation are such as to render it applicable for the purpose designed. C is a faucet, whose inlet-opening G1 is screwed around the discharge-opening B2 of the regulator B, and whose channel c communicates with the channel b1 of said discharge. In the faucet O,and immediately above the channel c, and ruiming parallel therewith, is a channel, c1, and which channels form a continuous passage for the ingress of liquid from the regulator B to the vessel F when the cock D is so turned as to cause the lateral slot d3, which is cut in its vertical face, to register with the openings of the channels c el. F is a glass globe or vessel, and from which the liquid to be dispensed is drawn, and at its lower section F is secured to the opening C2 of the faucet, the channel c1 of the latter leading into, and communicating with, its interior chamber. Gis an elbowshaped tube, extending up into the interior ot' the chamber of the vessel F, and having its inlet-opening Gl at the upper section of said chamber. At its lower section g it enters, and is secured in, a channel, c2,-ot' the faucet C, and which extends in a longitudinal direction, ruiming parallel with the channels c c1.

Alu the cock D, besides the slot d3 and the ordinary outlet-orifice and channel dl, there is cut crosswise the cock, and above the orifice d1, an oblong slot, d2, and which, when the cock isV so turned as to cause its outlet-opening d1 to register with the channel el, so as to permit the liquid in the vessel F vto be drawn oft', the opening d2 will have an instant previouslyT registered with the channel c2, and which-has permitted any excess of pressure in the vessel F to pass down through the tube G, and out through the channel c2, slot d2, and supplemental discharge tube or nozzle D', and which avoids all danger of the liquid being discharged under an undue pressure. The regulator B is provided with an elastic diaphra gni, H, through the center of which passes a vertical valve-rod, Hl, and to which is attached a bell-erank-shaped lever, h, the arm h1 of which constitutes the valve. This lever It is pivoted in a suitable bearing-arm, h3, secured to the inner surface of the shell of the regulator. rIhe valve-arm h1 acts against a valve-seat,b2, and which is a cone-shaped nozzle, encircling the discharge-opening of the inlet-channel b. Around the valve-rod Hl is secured a spring, H2, and which has its upper bearing against the inner face of the screw-cap H3, and which works in suitable bearings in the upper section of the shell ot' the regulator.

By screwing up this cap the pressure on the spring is relieved, and by screwing down the cap the spring can be regulated and caused to exert any desired degree of pressure; but, instead of this form of regulator, either of the regulators embraced and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States issued to me January 12,1875,Nos. 158,767 and 158,768, and February 9,1875, Nos.159,731 and 159,732, or, indeed, any other regulator that is so constructed as to be purely automatic in operation, feeding a varying quantity from a supply whose pressure is constantly varying, and which will under all circumstances operate comparatively unaffected by the pressure of the supply, may be used.

If desired, the glass globe or vessel F may be incased in an ice-chamber, K, having a lining, K1, and which is relatively so arranged in connection with the interior surface of the wall 7c as to provide an annular chamber, K2, and which may be tlled with a suitable nonconducting material or composition. The icechamber is provided with a discharge-cock, K3, for drawing off the water, and a bullseye, K4, and through which the operator can view the contents of the globe F.

L is a detachable cross-bar, which serves to hold and retain the vessel in position by means `of the thumb-screw L?. This cross-piece can readily be detached, and which permits of the vessel F Abeing removed for the purpose of cleansing.

From the foregoing full and detailed description the operation of my improved apparatus will be readily understood. The apparatus being attached to a counter, or other suitable support, and the tube a being attached to the supply-vessel that contains the rootbeer, white-beer, sarsaparilla, or other like liquids that-contain or are` charged with carbonicacid gas, and the cock or plug D being turned so as to cause its slot d3 to register with the channels c c1, and the screw-cap H3 being screwed down to open the valve h1, and the spring H2 adjusted to resist a given pressure, the cock in the supply-vessel is now opened. The liquid will now pass through the tube a into the regulator, and out through thc tube c into the slot d3, and back through the slot c1 into the globe or vessel F. So soon as the globe is properly charged, and the liquid has accumulated in the reservoir until its density or pressure is greater than that the spring is adjusted to resist, then instantly the diaphragm H will be lifted, and the valve I t closed. After the desired quantity of liquid is in the vessel F, to draw oft' the same you simply have to turn the cock D so that its slot d* shall register with the channel c2, and the outlet-orilice shall register with the channel c1. But as the slot d2 is cut crosswise the cock and above the opening d1, and as the opening d? through the channel c2 and tube G with the upper section of the vessel F, any surplus pressure in the vessel passes ott' through the tube G, channel c2, slot d2, and tube or nozzle Dl an instant before the opening d1 communicates with the channel c1, and which prevents any forcible ejection of the liquid, and as the relieving of this surplus pressure is immediately before the liquid llows out the gas contained in the liquid has not sufficient time to escape to such an extent as to render the liquid dat, as is the case with other apparatuses of this character.

What I claim as new, and desire to secur.e"

by Letters Patent of the United States, is--'- 1. In an apparatus for drawing effervescent liquids, a pressure-regulator, B, arranged in connection with a dispensing-vessel, F, the whole being combined and arranged to operate substantially as described.

2. A dispensing-vessel, F, faucet G, having a nozzle, D', communicating through its open-

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