A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 10

A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

mttI'ONSTRATION AT GRAND j HOTEL. A.large number of interested people, including many members of the Wellington Licensed Victuallers' Association, visited the basement of tho Grand Hotel yesterday to witness a demonstration of the Austral Aerated Water JMachine, manufactured by.lSckcrsley and Sons, of Sydney and Melbourne. To thoso who had j.hn privilege to be present, the exhibition of tho machine and what it achieves was rather an oye-opener. - The plant, which can bo easily and cheaply fitted up, consists simply, of a ten-gallon aerating cylinder and a bottler, so clcvorley and simply arranged that they could be manipulated by a child. Tho appurtenances to the plant consist of a patent lillei,. thiough which the water passes on biiiiij;, led to the cylinder,-a steel tube of carbonic gas, (imported especially from Germany, where it is captured direct lrom ttio natural springs), and the jars containing tho different syrups used in tho manufacturing of lemonade;, giugei ale. raspberryade, etc. ' ' To describo the process is as easy as the process itself. Tho cylinder ib filled with filtered water by nieaiis of u rubber tube leading from the lilteiyaiul when filled the gas is admitted by merely turning a tap for the few seconds. Tho cylinder, which swings on a swivel, is agitated by the bawl, and without further ado the soda water is ready for bottling. An empty bottle is placed in tho filler upside down, and by mamxmlating. a lever, the machine is reversed, so as to leave 'the bottle standing right end'up, .behind a shield of strong wire-work. This reverse action or turnover allows tho aerated' water to ilow of its own force into the bottle in just the required quantity. In tho malting of other aerated waters all that la needed is a tube attacnihent to. convey the syrup from jars (placed above the level of the machine) through the machine automatically to the outlet of tho bottler. The quantity of syrup to be admitted to each bottle can bo easily adjusted to a nicety by manipulating a screw attachment. The pressnre of gas in the cylinder is indicated on a, clock' face, for the guidance of: the operator. For sodawater a pressure of 1101b. is needed, but for ginger ale and lemonade the pressure is reduced to 601b. The astonishing feature in collection with tho machine is the great. reduction in the cost it effects. By using the "Austral," 26 dozen of.soda can bb bottled at a cost of Is., and lemonade and Ringer ale only costs 2Jd- per dozen. Ono pound of gas aerates. a gross of soda-water, and one holder or cylinder is ■ Sufficient to aerate 52 gross. Tho capacity of tho'"Austral" is 100 dozen per hour. ."•.-'• Mr. S. C. Billows, of Eclcersloy and Co.'s representative in New Zealand, who has for the present established himself in the New Zealand Express Co.'s bflice, informed a' Dominion representative that there ivero 3000 "Australs" in use in Victoria, 1600 in New South .Wales, 1500 in Queensland, and no fewer than 142 ;iii little Tasmania. In tho case of hotelkcepers, they pay, for themselves in from eight , to ten weeks, in the money saved as between- the cost of factory and. "Austral" made waters. "Australs" are established on H.M.S. Powerful, in'all the leading hotels'and clubs in Australia, and in tho Wel r Jjrigton, Hospital, Grand Hotel, Wellington WorkingrMen's - Clubj : and atjMr.'Edwa'rds'Sj.Kilbiriiie. Mr. Billows will supply any further information Inquirers may need, together with the prices :of the machines (which range fr0m,,£3.0 ito £8.0), their capacity,'and all accessories concerned with tho manufacture- of aerated waters of all kinds.