US1032657A - Acid-distributer. - Google Patents

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'1. L. BRIGGS. ACID DISTRIBUTER APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1910.

1,032,657. Patented July16,1912.

2 SHEETSBHEET 1. 9 "l -I'm //V l/EN TOR ATTORNEYS THOMAS L. BRIGGS T. L. BRIGGS.

ACID DISTRIBUTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1910.

Patented July 16, 1912.

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INVENTOH THOMAS L. Bfi/GGS 67am W WITNESSES A TTOR/VEVS UNITED STATES rA ENI oFF CE.

THOMAS LYuroN names, or FLUSHING, REWYOltk, essreuon 'ro Gunman. CHEMI- GAL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y d :1 COB-PORTION OF NEW YORK..

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Specification of Letters Patent. p t t d July 1 1912, Application filed August a, 1910. Serial No. 575,286.

Britain, and resident of Flushing, countyof Queens, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in i Acid-Distributors, of which the following is i a specification.

This invention vide a distributer capable of providing even,

uniform and continuous distribution over; a selected area, of acids or other fluids employed in certain industrial processes.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of one form ofapparatus, employing vmy improved distributer; Fig. 2is an elevation on a larger scale of the form of the upper distributer;

- tributer; Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line 5-5 of Fig.4; and Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the caps used to cover the ducts in the lower part of the distributer.

In the drawings, A is a tower or tube carrying my distributer at the top. This distributer consists of'anupper part B and of a lower part C. The lower part C is a plate, surrounded by an upwardly projecting flange a. The plate C is piercedwith concentric sets of holes 1), b Each of these holes is (see Fig. 5) extended through a tube (2 which projects upwardly into a well like cavity 6 formed in the upper face of the plate C. The lower face of the plate C has .a boss f around each of said holes b, b.

Adapted to drop loosely into each'tubular well 6 so as to cover butnot to close each hole 6, b is a cap g, Fig. 6, having notches h in its lower edge. The wells 6 pertaining to the outer circle of holes I) connect with. grooves or conduits 2' which extend toward the circle in which is located the other series of holes 6 so that the inner ends of the concircle.

whose supply channels or grooves reach to the circle of holes b so that all may receive the like supply of acid or other fluid from I the umbrella shaped upper part of the dis- -tributer which is centrally supported above them. It should be noted that the diametral dimensions of the wells e are such as to leave a substantial free space both within and without the tubular wall of the cap 9; also that a corresponding free space exists btween the top of said cap and the top of the tube (1 below.

Supported centrally above the plate C is the spreader B, or upper part of the diso I tributer. It is made of glass, porcelain or has for its ob ect to proothersuitable material inert-to the action of acld if used for distributing acid. A

tripod or equivalent support j, placed on plate '0 constitutes the means for holding the spreader B. As the configuration of the spreader B is of practical importance I shall describe it at length. At the top is a smooth knob-shaped convex or concave portionk, the surface of which is, as accurately as possible, a surface of revolutionabout .a vertical .axis; preferably I make this surface spherical. From this knob is, the body of the spreader B slopes downwardly and outwardly as shown. In this sloping skirt of the spreader are as many grooves m as there are holes '1), 6 in this illustration therefore 13. These grooves are separated 'from one anotherby ridges n.

The channels or grooves m, therefore, have a greater'downward inclination than the intervening ridges n and they extend outwardly farther than the said ridges, as shown. The zig-zag edge of this spreader is preferably vertical or nearly so. Generally spealn'ng the spreader, as above described, is seen to be of a mushroom or umbrella shape, its top being a .convex smooth lmob, said knob merging into a downwardly inclined series of V-shaped troughs with the trough bottoms extending outwardly beyond their sides and tops.

D is the acid supply tank, having an outlet pipe 0 bent at its free end downwardly so "as to terminate just above the knob-like center of the spreader B. A pipe p provided with a spigot supplies the tank from a main receptacle (not shown). I

The operation of the distributer is as follows: The acid being turned on, fills the tank D to a suitable level and thence flows through the pipe 0 and drops squarely upon the center knob 10 of the spreader B. The acid spreads out from the said knob and enters the troughs or sloping channels m in equal streams, and then drops also in equal streams upon the caps g of the inner holes 6 and into the channels 11 of the outer holes .b. Each streamlet will then enter its well e, pass through the notches it into the cap g and when a sutficient height within the cap has been attained, over the tops of the tubes (1, through the holes b, b? in asmany uni form streams as there are holes b, b into the tower.-

7 t My'distributer insures a practically uni:

- 7 form distribution of the incomin fluid and 10' of fluid shall, be dropped I neat-ha discharge groove or channel m of the spreader B.

I claim: 1.7 A distributer for acid and the like, consisting of an upper spreader having external inclined channels and of a lower perforated distributing plate, the acid receiving cavities in which lie Vertically below the discharge ends of the spreader, substantially as described. I

2. A distributer 'for acids and the like,

having an upper spreader and a lower perfor-ated plate, said plate being provided ing through wells 6 in combination with the notched caps g, as described. v 3. In a distributer for acids andthe like, the plate C having outer discharge holes I; and inner discharge holes 6 and provided with vconduits i which extend to the line on which the inner holes 'are arranged, as specified. l

4. In a distributer for acids and the like, an upper spreader B and a lower distributing plate, said plate being provided with depressions or wells e that surround the discharge tubes (1, and with conduits-extending from said wells to the point of discharge from said upper spreader, as described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my'hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 4

THOMAS LYNTON BRIGGS. Witnesses: I M, H. Locxwoon,

FRANK F. KIRKPATRICK.

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