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LIQUID CARBONATING APPARATUS COMPRISING A CLOSED TANK FOR HOLDING CARBON DIOXIDE GAS AND LIQUID TO BE CARBONATED; BAFFLE MEANS IN THE TANK CHAMBER COMPRISING AN UPRIGHT TUBULAR PART WITH ITS LOWER END OPEN AND ITS UPPER END IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE SURROUNDING TANK CHAMBER AND A BOTTOM PART EXTENDING FROM THE LOWER END OF THE TUBULAR PART ACROSS THE TANK CHAMBER TOWARD THE SIDE WALL THEREOF AND ABOVE AND SUBSTANTIALLY SEPARATED FROM THE BOTTOM WALL THEREOF, THE BAFFLE MEANS SERVING TO DIVIDE THE TANK CHAMBER INTO A LIQUID AGITATION ZONE OVERLYING THE BOTTOM PART AND SURROUNDING THE TUBULAR PART OF THE BAFFLE MEANS AND A LIQUID QUIESCENT ZONE BELOW THE BOTTOM PART AND WITHIN THE TUBULAR PART OF THE BAFFLE MEANS AND THERE BEING BETWEEN THE BOTTOM PART OF THE AGITATION ZONE AND THE PART OF THE QUIESCENT ZONE BELOW THE BOTTOM PART OF THE BAFFLE MEANS A COMMUNICATION OPENING ADJACENT THE SIDE WALL OF THE TANK FORMED AND ARRANGED TO RESTRICT THE PASSAGE FROM THE AGITATION ZONE TO THE QUIESCENT ZONE OF BUBBLES OF UNDISSOLVED GAS WHILE PERMITTING LARGE VOLUME FLOW THERETHROUGH OF LIQUID; MEANS FOR CONDUCTING GAS UNDER PRESSURE INTO THE TANK CHAMBER; MEANS FOR CONDUCTING LIQUID UNDER PRESSURE INTO THE TANK CHAMBER COMPRISING A NOZZLE ARRANGED TO DELIVER A SOLID JET OF LIQUID DIRECTLY INTO THE AGITATION ZONE OF THE CHAMBER AND THE BODY OF LIQUID THEREIN TO STRONGLY AGITATE THE LIQUID AND INTIMATELY INTERMIX IT AND THE GAS PRESENT IN THE SAID ZONE BY FORMATION OF A GREAT MASS OF BUBBLES THEREIN, THE NOZZLE HAVING ITS AXIS DISPOSED TO DIRECT THE LIQUID JET DIRECTLY TOWARD THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE BOTTOM PART OF THE BAFFLE MEANS; MEANS DISPOSED IN THE QUIESCENT ZONE WITHIN THE