US1335200A

US1335200A - Porous mass

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Publication number: US1335200A
Application number: US287378A
Authority: US
Inventors: Sarnmark Axel Uno
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-04-03
Filing date: 1919-04-03
Publication date: 1920-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 1937-03-30

Description

A. u. S'ARNMARK.

POROUS MASS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3, I919.

Patented Mar. 30

Iii/216211730? 01x62 Una Sdrnmark, ,9 W W AXEL UN'O MARK, OF GOTTENBORG, SWEDEN.

ron'ous MASS.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, AxEL U'No SARNMARK, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Gottenborg, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Porous Masses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to containers for storing explosive gases and more particularly to the filling or porous mass for such containers and in the accompanying drawing I have shown merely for illustrative purposes two embodiments of this invention wherem:

' either with great difiiculty or not at all pene trates through tubes or orifices of small diameter. A porous body may be considered a collection of fine tubes or channels. Therefore in order to store condensed acetylene in steel tubes or tanks without risk these tubes are filled with briquets of porous material, e. g. asbestos, cork, &c. These briquets have been carefully packed in the open tanks and the lids have subsequently been firmly screwed or soldered on. More recently, however, a more suitable and far sim ler method has been employed in which who e-rolled tanks are used that are filled with a plastic or pulverized mass, which is afterward allowed to dry in the tank. It has, however proved that when drying such composition may easily fall asunder, when, in the cracks resulting, acetylene accumulates in quantities that-endanger explosions.

Or perhaps the mass has held during the process of drying, but has not sufiiciently withstood blows or 'jolts afterward.

The present invention avoids all these Specification of Letters Patent.

Application'flled April 3, 1919. Serial No. 287,378.

Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

drawbacks by employing a plastic mass 1 that can be filled into the tank 2 through a small hole 3, and afterward, without cracking during the drying process, it will prove Very durable in every respect. The invention consists in the reinforcmg of this mass lwhich may be of any known or suitable compositionby mixing into it loose strands of metal Wire, for instance, iron wire. This wire could be cut in various or similar lengths, e. g. 15 to 20 mm., and entire slabs 5, such as are shown in Fig. 2 to fit into the tank 6, could be made of this reinforced mass which in every respect is extremely durable. These slabs could also be placed in the open tanks, the lids 7 being subsequently screwed or soldered on, but herein shown attached by screws 8.

Experiments have proved that such a reinforced mass, produced and treated in this manner possesses extreme durability both during the process of drying and, later, as regards jolts during transport, &c.

lVhen employing tanks made in one piece with but a single aperture, the mass is inserted through the small hole, after which it is packed and dried. The acetylene intended to be stored in this mass may in the well known manner either be dissolved in acetone or other suitable fluid, or be gaseous. Instead of acetylene any other gas may be stored in the mass made and reinforced according to this invention.

Claims:

1. A porous mass reinforced by short, separated strands of wire distributed therethrough.

2. A filler for explosive fluid containers including a plurality of separately formed bodies each consisting of a porous mass. reinforced by the admixture of separated strands of wire distributed throughout said AXEL UNO SARNMARK.

Witnesses:

GUs'r HYLANDER, Gos'r AD. WZHLSTRtSM.