William Hucks, Jun
William Hucks (1874-1935), of William Hucks and Co and Sodastream Ltd
c.1874 Born in St Pancras, London, son of William Hucks
1895 William Hucks and William Hucks, Jun patented "Improvements in Apparatus for Moulding or Forming Pats or Blocks of Butter or other like Plastic Material."
1898 William Hucks and William Hucks, Jun patented "Improvements in Apparatus for Charging Bottles or other Vessels with liquids."
1901 of James Street, Camden Town, NW. Presumably William Hucks and Co
1901 Mechanical engineer of Acacia Road, St Marylebone[1]
1901 William Hucks and William Hucks, Jun patented the first of several "Improvements in Apparatus for Use in Dispensing Aërated Liquids" and other developments concerned with aerated liquids
1901 William Hucks and William Hucks, Jun patented "Improvements in, or connected with, Bicycles, Tricycles and the like", specifically inflation of pneumatic tyres.
1903 William Hucks, Jun with Soda-stream Ltd, both of James Street, Camden Town, London, patented "Improvements in Apparatus for Aerating Liquids, or Charging them with Gas", followed by a number of other patents in the same area of the next few yeas.
1906 William Hucks and William Hucks, Jun patented "Improvements in Counting Devices"
1911 of St Pancras, engineer and distiller (wine business)[2]
1911 William Hucks 37, Engineer And Distiller, lived in Camden Town with Ethel Agnes Hucks 32, Charles William Hucks 10, Agres Kate Julia Hucks 9, Harry Philip Hucks 8, Hubert Crosbie Hucks 7, Adolf Antony Hucks 4, Helen Joan Hucks 3, Ethel Belty Hucks 1[3]
William Hucks and Sodastream Ltd continued to patent improvements in aerated drinks technology and other related technologies.
1924 They patented "Improvements in apparatus for aerating liquids"
1930 William Hucks, engineer, and Kathleen Louise Hucks arrived in Southampton from Quebec[4]
1932 The final patent by William Hucks and the Sodastream company was on " Improved method of, and apparatus for aerating liquids "
1936 William Hucks, of Regents Park, London, died in Harrogate[5]