USRE547E - Improved sirup-caster - Google Patents

Description

PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND BIGELOW, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification forming part ol Letters Patent No. 19,824, dated April 6, 1858 Reissue No. 547, dated May 4, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, EDMUND BIGELOW, of Springfield, in the county of yHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and improved apparatus for containing sirups and like articles, to be used for discharging said liquids in measured quantities, to be used in vending soda-water and other analogous articles of' retail tradeyand I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of' reference marked thereon.

'lhe nature of' my invention consistsin providingtwo or more vessels, apartments, or reservoirs (to be filled with different kinds of sirups or liquids) with measuring-faucets, which, by one turn ofthe handle-or valve, or by one reciprocating movement of the same,

va certain definite quantity of the sirup or liquor of either reservoir may be discharged into a glass or other receptacle, these reservoirs resting ou a common base, these reservoirs being either in a line or circularly arranged, and being either permanently attached to or rotating ou said base.

'lo enable others skilled iu the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to de scribe its construction and operation.

Figure 1 is aperspective View of the caster with its reservoirs circularly placed; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same. The spaces A A A" represent reservoirs for sirup.

The space B represents an ice-receptacle, the reservoirs fitting around the ice-receptacle..

F is a valve, made in two parts. The part K K is screwed to a bearingou rod D. A leather packing is put on and the part L L is screwed up, giving the valve a soft bearing.

B B is me M is a valve-seat. 0 is an oval port to pipe G. P is aground seat for valve C.

H is a guide-bar to rod D.

R is a packing-box to pack rod D as itI passes through cap A A.

J isa spiral spring resting on guide'bar H and valve G.

N is a veut-tube running from cap-register to Sirup-apartment A A to the height of the reservoir.

I do not confine myself to this special form of faucet, reserving the right to modify it while the faucet used retains substantially the described mode of operation. v

The mode of using the caster is as follows: The several sirup apartments or reservoirs A A having been filled each with its appropriate sirup, the sirup flows through the pipe G and fills the register B, Fig. 3. The rodD being then pressed down by the hand, valve C is brought firmly into its seat P, closing the port O, and stopping the iiow of sirup in the register. By the same movement ofthe rod D the valve F is opened and the sirup already in the register flows into the glass. 0n re movin g the `hand from rod D the spiral spring J forces rod D back to original position, bringing valve F to a bearing and open-y ing port 0, and the register again instantly fills with sirup, and may again be emptied by renewing the pressure on rod D, as before.

This combination ofself-measu rin gregisters or Afaucets with the reservoirs of the caster iilled with iced sirups dispenses with a set of fragile bottles, keeps all the sirups cold, and so preserves them from injury by the heat of the atmosphere, and enables the dealer to furnish soda-water about 150 colder than in the ordinary way, prevents the waste of sirups'

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