DE1611969A1 - Stabilized containers for liquids - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to stabilized containers intended to hold liquids or liquid cargoes.

When building tanks and cisterns, there is the installation of supporting partition walls that stabilize the container and the displacement of the liquid volume to weaken or prevent, extremely difficult, namely because it is difficult to the partition walls to be firmly connected to the walls of the container.

The inventor has developed a simple and effective method in order to avoid the common moving Containers occurring disadvantages and difficulties to be resolved.

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According to the invention tubular elements, which are preferably short and in the interior of the container are thin-walled, loosely piled up.

According to a preferred embodiment, the tubular elements are glued or welded to one another at individual points so that they alternate with one another adhere and form an aggregate.

According to another particular embodiment standard the tubular elements are poured into the interior of the container and by impulse, vibration or shock shaken together.

When carrying out the method, preferably short tubular elements with a small wall thickness of 0.1 to 1.0 mm and a diameter in the range of a few cm, e.g. 1 to 10, preferably 1 to 5 cm, the length of which is a few cm, e.g. 1 to 10 cm, preferably 1 to 5 cm. Length and diameter of the tubular Elements are selected depending on the shape and volume of the container and the filling opening. The tubular elements can a round, a square odex have a polygonal cross-section. It can be practically the same length of time or elements of different lengths can be used.

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The tanks or cisterns are (completely or partially filled or one or more departments are filled.

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The pipe sections can consist of any material that can be given this shape and are inert to the liquids to be filled, e.g. made of metals, alloys or made of plastics. As metals or alloys, e.g. aluminum, copper, stainless steels and other more. As plastics are the thermosetting

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or / thermoplastics suitable, eg. Polyamides, Polyolefins such as polypropylene, high and low density polyethylenes, polyvinyl resins such as rigid ones PVC, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene polymers, fluorinated synthetic resins such as polyvinyl fluoride, polytrifluorochloroethylene and polytetrafluoroethylene.

. It has been said that the materials against the Flüssigkeitenj with which they come into contact must be _(inert As an example of liquids that can be transported in this White may be mentioned: water, hydrocarbons such as gasoline, heating oil and mineral oils, vegetable oils , Wines and, more generally, commercial or edible liquids, the materials of construction will be chosen according to the intended application.

The following embodiment is described as an example. It was assumed that a tanker had its tank

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E.g. lead sheet existed and with filling pipes and drainage pipes was provided. In this tank, tubular elements were made through the filling opening Aluminum, length 1 cm, diameter 2 cm and wall thickness 0.3 mm, poured in.

The tubular elements were shaken together by hitting the walls and then filling was continued.

The tank filled according to the invention was stiffer and more durable compared to the deformation as without filling} in addition, the displacement of the liquid volume or the sloshing of the liquid in the tank is greatly reduced.

If an even stronger cohesion of the cluster of tubular elements is desired, the tubular parts can be glued to one another at their points of contact. The adhesive is applied to the tubular elements before they are introduced into the container, if necessary after they have been stripped and before or after being cut into pieces. The application of the adhesive or the adhesive components in a customary manner, for example, _e by dipping or by spraying. After the pipe parts have been filled into the container, the adhesive is then allowed to harden or, if necessary, hardened. Suitable adhesives are, for example

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Epoxy adhesives, phenol-formaldehyde resins, or semi-mixtures of phenolic resin and vinyl resin, phenolic resin and polyvinyl butyral resin or phenolic resin and butadiene-acrylonitrile katttsehuk.

Instead of a container made of lead, for example, a container made of plastic such as polypropylene, PTC polyethylene, or an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene polymer can be assumed. Instead of the small tubular elements made of aluminum, as mentioned above specified, elements made of plastic can also be used. In this case, the welding can also be done take place that the elements are wetted with a solvent that makes them sticky, but of course does not attack the construction material of the tank or container itself, after a short period of contact then chased away the solvent.

When tubular elements of different lengths are used should come, these can be filled in different successive layers.

The method according to the invention can therefore be used in a variety of ways vary thinly.

Of course, the containers equipped according to the invention can contain all the usual devices such as sieves, filters, liquid level indicators, perforated double bottoms _a and more.

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"Movable containers ¹ *" are to be understood as meaning all containers that are transported from one place to another either by themselves or on some kind of chassis or other support. This includes tanks and cisterns mounted on mobile! Wheels or rails and other transport vehicles including the containers mounted on flexible beams, the fuel tanks mounted on vehicles for feeding the engines, amphibious tanks, rocket containers and more.

The method according to the invention, which can be used in the most varied of ways, has the following advantages and progress

it consolidates and supports the containers against the binding back or sagging,

it reduces the displacement of the liquid volume so counteracts the rocking movement » it has a noise-reducing or noise-canceling effect because the tubular elements are welded or glued to one another and therefore cannot shift against each other.

These advantages are achieved without the simple Filling or emptying is made more difficultf the usable volume * of the container is only slightly reduced.

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Of course, the wall thickness and the ratio of length to diameter, i.e. the strength of the tubular elements depending on the size of the container and the forces to which the tubes are subjected during transport of the container can be varied.

For this purpose, the tubular elements can also be connected to one another over their entire contact surface. Of course, the tank containers of tankers ^{may contain so-called "active 11} stabilizing devices, in which case the invention helps to reduce the weight and bulk of the latter.

Claims

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Claims (3)

Claims 1. Stabilized container for liquids, marked thereby rejects. That they are inside heaped up, preferably shaken together and optionally interconnected tubular elements contain. 2. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the tubular elements from Metal or a metal alloy or made of plastic. 3. Container according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the tubular elements are fused to one another or glued to one another. k. Container according to Claims 1 to 3i, characterized in that the tubular elements are 1 to 10 cm, preferably 1 to 5 cm long, a wall thickness of 0.1 to 1.0 mm and a diameter of. 1 to 10 cm, preferably 1 to 5 cm. 7223 0098 8 6/047