US1005011A - Cleaning device for gas-collecting mains. - Google Patents

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v L. G. PLAGCUS. CLEANING DEVICE FOR GAS COLLECTING MAINS.

Patented 01:11.3, 1911 2 annmssnnm 1.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14. 1911.

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APPLIOAHOI TILED JAE. 1911.

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CLEANING DEVICE FOR GAS-COLLECTING MAIIil'S.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUDWIG CARL FLAG- oUs, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of the borou h of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning Devices for Gas-Collecting Mains and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

-My present invention relates to devices for removing from gas mains and the like, impurities, such as tar, pitch, coal dust which may adhere to the walls of such conduits.

The invention has been deviced for use more particularly in connection with thegas-collecting main of a coke-oven plant, but it will be evident that the new cleaning device may be used for other purposes also.

The invention involves the provision of a traveling mechanical cleaning device, such end view thereof, with parts in section; and

Fig. 3 is a detail plan view showing, in a diagrammatic fashion, the six juxtaposed runs of the three cleaning chains employed in the specific example of my invention illustrated by the drawings.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A designates the collecting main which receives gas in the usual manner, say from a coke oven pant, the gas P3551110 on from this ma n to any suitable plant for the recovery of by-products (not shown). It is well-known that in the course of time various impurities contained in the I gas will be deposited on the walls of the main, forming a gradually increasing sediment or crust which would clog up the main if allowed to row. Among such impurities I will mention sticky tar, pitch, and particles of coal dust. Hitherto such detrimental deposits have been knocked loose periodically by means of rods and then retransverse plane, see Fig. 3. hold the chain runs in this relation, they are Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct, 3, 1911, application filed January 14, 1911. Serial No; ($02,569. I I

I moved, and it has also been attempted to wash the deposits away by means of very fluid tar, flowing at the bottom of the main. However, this is but partially successful, and it was still found necessary to scrape'the main from time to time, although at longer intervals. In the drawing the inlet for the thin or fluid tar used as a cleaning liquid is supposed to be atthe right hand end of the main A, and at the lower portion of each end or head there is a trough-shaped extension B communicating with the ,body of the main, partitions B being provided at each junction to preserve a seal by, dipping into the cleaning liquid C. One of the troughs B is provided with an overflow Cf forming an outlet for the liquid tar or like cleaning fluid, and preferably the bottom of the maln is inclined toward this outlet. A

suitable motor D is mounted on brackets at one end of the main A, and by means of a worm and worm wheel gearing D the motor drives a shaft E carrying a sprocket wheel E. A chain F transmits motion from the sprocket wheel E to another sprocket wheel G upon the outwardly projected portion of a shaft G whose main portion is within one of the trough-shaped extensions B. In the example shown, three wheels G G G of different diameters are rigidly mounted on theshaft G in such a manner that the lower portion of each wheel dips into the liquid C, although this is not absolutely necessary. These wheels are adapted to impart a traveling motion at different linear speeds, to movable scraping elements which in the example shown consist of three chains H, H, H each of which has both of its runs arranged close to the bottom of the main A and lengthwise thereof, the six runs being therefore adjacent to each other and in the same In order to guided by two sets of guides or-idlers J (three idlers in each set) which are mounted independently on shafts J. At the (upper) end opposite to the shaft G is located a shaft K on which are mounted rigidlythree chain wheels K, K K corresponding in size and in arrangement to the driving chain wheels G G, G.

It will be seen from Fig. 3 that the six adjoining chain runs 'travel alternately-in opposite directions. Furthermore, owing to the difi'erence in the size of the wheels G 'G',,G those chain runs which travel in the same direction will move at different rates of speed. A very efiicient scraping action is thus obtained for the loosening of the sticky tar and other foreign matter tending to form incrustations on the wallsof themain A. The continuous stirring and scraping action will enable such foreign substances to be carried away readily by theliquid tar C or other cleaning fluid which overflows at the outlet C. The device is mechanical, and continuous in its action, and the manual labor required hitherto for cleaning the main is dispensed. with. The liquid seal at B enables the trough-shaped extensions B to be left open at the top, as shown, so that the chain wheels G, G, G and K, K*, K

and also the idle-11's J are readily accessible.

' Various modifications may be mith without departing'from the 'nature'of my'invention as set forth in the. appended claims.

I claim:

1. The combination of a main, an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely travelin runs arranged 'artly side by side within 1: e'rnain to travel lengthwise thereof and having loops exteriorly of the main, and supporting means, arranged exteriorly of the main, in engagement with said loops.

2. The combination of a main, an endless "movable cleaning device having oppositely traveling runs arranged side by side lengthwise within the main, and mean for driving said endless cleaning device.

3. The combination of a main, an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely traveling runs which extend-in the same transverse plane within the main and are adapted to travel lengthwise of the main, and means for operating said cleaning device.

4. The combination of a main having open extensions and means for forming a liquid seal at the junction of each extension with the body of the main, an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely traveling runs arranged side by side lei'igthwise of the main and partly within said extensions, supporting wheels arranged within said. extensions and engaging the loops of the cleaning dc vice, and means for imparting a traveling motion to said cleaning device.

5. The comblnation of a man] having open extensions and means for forming a liquid seal at the junction of each extension with the body of the main, an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely travelin r'uns arranged side by side lengthwise ..of t e main and partly within said'extensions, supp rting wheels arranged within the extenslons and engaging the loops of the cleaning device, idlcrs arranged within theextensions and engaging the cleaning de-.

vice between the mains body and the supporting wheels, and meansfor operating said device.

6. The combination of a receptacle, an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely traveling runs arranged side by side within said receptacle, sup orting wheels engaging the loops of said c caning device, and means for operating the said device.

7. The combination of a receptacle, an

endless movable cleaning device having oppositely traveling runs arranged side by side within' said receptacle, supporting wheels engaging the loops of said cleaning device, idlers engaging said cleaning device between the supporting Wheels, and means for operating said device.

8. The combination of a receptacle, a

cleaning device comprising a plurality of endless movable element-s havingoPpositely traveling runs arranged within said receptacle, supporting wheels engaging the loops of said cleaning device, independent co-axial idlers engaging different-runs o'f the cleaning device between said supporting wheels and holding said runs adjacent to each other in thesame plane, and means for operating said oleaning'device.

9. The combination of a receptacle, an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely travelin runs arranged side by side within sai receptacle, supporting wheels engaging the loops of said cleaning device, and means engaging the cleaning device between the supporting wheels and holding the runs ofsaid device in a transverse plane.

10. The combination of a chaining device comprising a plurality of juxtaposed elements, and means for causing the individual elements to travel at different rates of speed.

11. The combination of a cleaning device comprising a plurality of endless flexible elements and means for causing the individual elements to travel at different rates of speed.

1:2. The combination of a cleaning device comprising a plurality of endless flexible said wheels being of ditl'crent diameters to cause the respective elements to travel at dillerent rates of linear speed, and means for driving one set of said wheels.

14. The combination of an endless movable cleaning device having oppositely traveling runs, supporting wheels engagin the loops of said device, and means, located Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,005,01 1.

between said Wheels, for guiding the oppositely traveling runs of said device and bringing thenrside by side into the same transverse plane.

15. The combination of a cleaning device comprising a plurality of endless flexible elements, two sets of connected supporting wheels engaging the loops of said elements, said wheels being of different diameters to cause the respective elements to travel at difi crcnt rates of linear speed, means for driving one set of said wheels, and two sets of guides engaging the runs of the said endless elements between the supporting wheels [SEAL] Signed and sealed this 21th day of October, A. D., 1911.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,005,011, granted October 3, 1911, upon the application of Ludwig Carl Flaccus, of New York, N. Y., for an improvement in Cleaning Devices for Gas-Collecting Mains, errors appear in the a printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 14, for the word devieed read devised; and same page, line 41, for the word pant read plant; page 2, line 21, for the word mith read made, and line 35, for the word mean read means; and same page, lines 89 and 91, for the word "device read elements;

and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

E. B. Moons,

Commissimzer of Patents.

Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,005,01 1.

between said Wheels, for guiding the oppositely traveling runs of said device and bringing thenrside by side into the same transverse plane.

15. The combination of a cleaning device comprising a plurality of endless flexible elements, two sets of connected supporting wheels engaging the loops of said elements, said wheels being of different diameters to cause the respective elements to travel at difi crcnt rates of linear speed, means for driving one set of said wheels, and two sets of guides engaging the runs of the said endless elements between the supporting wheels [SEAL] Signed and sealed this 21th day of October, A. D., 1911.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,005,011, granted October 3, 1911, upon the application of Ludwig Carl Flaccus, of New York, N. Y., for an improvement in Cleaning Devices for Gas-Collecting Mains, errors appear in the a printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 14, for the word devieed read devised; and same page, line 41, for the word pant read plant; page 2, line 21, for the word mith read made, and line 35, for the word mean read means; and same page, lines 89 and 91, for the word "device read elements;

and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

E. B. Moons,

Commissimzer of Patents.

Letters Patent No. 1,005,01 1.

Corrections in It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,005,011, gmnted October 3, 1911, upon the application of Ludwig Carl Flaccus, of New York, N. Y., for an improvement in Cleaning Devices for Gas-Collecting Mains, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 14, for the word deviced read devised; and same page, line 41, for the word pant read plant; page 2, line 21, for the word mith read made; and line 35, for the word mean read means; and same page, lines 89 and 91, for the word "deVic-e read elements, and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conforln to the record 0f the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 24th day of October, A. D., 1911.

E. B. MOORE,

Commissioner of Patents.

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