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US1424604A
US1424604A US326978A US32697819A US1424604A US 1424604 A US1424604 A US 1424604A US 326978 A US326978 A US 326978A US 32697819 A US32697819 A US 32697819A US 1424604 A US1424604 A US 1424604A
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    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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  • the receptacles presently in use for transporting or storing liquid air are mostly glass or china vessels with a double wall and an intermediate vacuum space.
  • Said receptacles are objectionable in that they are expensive to manufacture, are easily broken and often ensure a good insulation only for a short time. Moreover, such receptacles cannot be used to receive cartridges which are'to be impregnated with liquid air.
  • This invention has for its object an improved receptacle for liquefied air or other gases with or without a protecting space more or less completely free from ,air in which the above disadvantages are eliminated.
  • Said receptacle may be manufactured at a low cost price and in any dimensions. It is very strong and durable and may be also used for receiving cartridges to be impregnated with liquid air.
  • F ig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a receptacle for transporting and storing liquefied air or other gases, constructed in accordance with the invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a corresponding horizontal cross section.
  • the improved receptacle is composed of an inner reservoir w, and a few concentric vessels 1) withintervening spaces 0 filled'with atmospheric air or any other gas and in communication with each other by small openings (2.
  • Around the outer vessel 1) is a casing e which is preferably filled with an insulating material and is itself surrounded by one or more chambers 7'' which will receive the cool vapors issuing from the liquid air contained in the inner reservoir and passing through openings g formed in the upper part of the receptacle.
  • the receptacle comprises also a protecting outer casing 72., a valve z and a cap is having a conical passage Z.
  • the outer wall of the last of said chambers-f is formed of said casing h and the chambers f communicate with each other by small openings such as it ( Figure 1.)
  • the evaporated air does not pass, as a rule, through the vessel 0 filled with an insulating material so that the insulating power of the same is not decreased by the moisture in the vapours.
  • vapours are forced, upon closing the cap is which isonly removed for the purpose of introducing the cartridges, to enter the openings 9 and fill the chambers f.
  • the small passagel'provided in the cap is used for introducing the liquid air into the receptacle, said liquid air being either drawn from the liquefying apparatus by means of a pipe ortaken from a storage tank by means of a funnel.
  • the passage Z is closed by means of a conical stopwe per m.
  • said concentric ves-- sels bein filled with a dead volume of at; mospheric air, an intermediate casing surrounding the outer vessel and containing an insulating material, outer casings surround ing the intermediate casing and having their insides in communication with each other, a valve on ,the outermost casing adapted to open into the outer atmosphere, a passage affording a communication between the inside of the reservoir and the outer atmosphere, the innermost of the outer casings being in communication with said passage, a closure adapt ,d to close the outlet of said passage and carrying means on the outermost casing.
  • a receptacle for liquefied gases comprising an inner reservoir, insulating envelopes around the same, terminating at their upper part by a narrow portion surrounding a neck, said neck communicating with said inner reservoir and havingsucha dimension that it allows of introducing blast cartridges into the reservoir and removing the same therefrom, removable means for closing said neck by simple engagement on the top of said narrow portion, a small passage through said cap in communication with the reservoir for introducing or removing the liquefied gas and removable means for closing said passage.

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G. WEBER.
RECEPTACLE FOR LIQUID AIR.
APPLICATION FILED SEPT.27,1919.
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eurrnaunn WEBER, or HAYANGE, FRANCE, assrenon 'ro socrn'rn mas rnrrrs r DEFRANCOIS DE WENDEL ET CIE., OF PARIS, FRANCE.
RECEPTACLE FOR LIQUID AIR.
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Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Aug. 1, 11922.
T all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, GUILLAUME VVnsnR, subject of the Republic of France, reslding at Hayange, Lorraine, France, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Receptacles for Liquid Air (for which I have filed an application in Germany on the 23rd of Nov., 1917), of which the following is a specification.
The receptacles presently in use for transporting or storing liquid air are mostly glass or china vessels with a double wall and an intermediate vacuum space.
Said receptacles are objectionable in that they are expensive to manufacture, are easily broken and often ensure a good insulation only for a short time. Moreover, such receptacles cannot be used to receive cartridges which are'to be impregnated with liquid air.
This invention has for its object an improved receptacle for liquefied air or other gases with or without a protecting space more or less completely free from ,air in which the above disadvantages are eliminated. Said receptacle may be manufactured at a low cost price and in any dimensions. It is very strong and durable and may be also used for receiving cartridges to be impregnated with liquid air.
lin the annexed drawing:
F ig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a receptacle for transporting and storing liquefied air or other gases, constructed in accordance with the invention.
Fig. 2 is a corresponding horizontal cross section.
The improved receptacle is composed of an inner reservoir w, and a few concentric vessels 1) withintervening spaces 0 filled'with atmospheric air or any other gas and in communication with each other by small openings (2. Around the outer vessel 1) is a casing e which is preferably filled with an insulating material and is itself surrounded by one or more chambers 7'' which will receive the cool vapors issuing from the liquid air contained in the inner reservoir and passing through openings g formed in the upper part of the receptacle. The receptacle comprises also a protecting outer casing 72., a valve z and a cap is having a conical passage Z. The outer wall of the last of said chambers-f is formed of said casing h and the chambers f communicate with each other by small openings such as it (Figure 1.)
down to The small openings provided in the concentric vessels have'for their purpose to es tablish a communication between the different vessels for balancing the pressure produced in said vessels when air at a low temperature has been introduced intov the reser voir and so prevent said concentric vessels from collapsing. By this means it is no more necessary to strengthen the diflerent vessels by connecting or bracing them to each other, which would interferewith a good in: sulation of the receptacle.
Experiments have shown that the rate of evaporation of liquid air decreases as the number of the vessels provided with small openings increases but said decrease does not obtain in the same ratio as the increase in the number of concentric vessels.
In the present instance, for the purpose of obtaining a receptacle which is very handy, it is highly desirable to provide only a few vessels filled with atmospheric air for instance four and five and have the walls or envelopes extended as high as possible around the neck of the receptacle in order to obtain a better protection against outer heat.
The evaporated air does not pass, as a rule, through the vessel 0 filled with an insulating material so that the insulating power of the same is not decreased by the moisture in the vapours.
In order to utilize the cold vapours given out in a great quantity during the introduction of the liquid air and cartridges into the inner reservoir, said vapours are forced, upon closing the cap is which isonly removed for the purpose of introducing the cartridges, to enter the openings 9 and fill the chambers f. The small passagel'provided in the cap is used for introducing the liquid air into the receptacle, said liquid air being either drawn from the liquefying apparatus by means of a pipe ortaken from a storage tank by means of a funnel. The passage Z is closed by means of a conical stopwe per m.
It will be noted that the receptacles heretofore used for transporting and storing liquid air, as well as those used for impregnating liquid air cartridges for poses were so constructed that the cold vapours given off in a mat quantity during the introduction of t e liquid air into the receptacle and the cooling of the cartridges mining purthe temperature of the liquid air 11o were permitted to escape freely and wasted;
the were not utilized for cooling the recep other by small openings, said concentric ves-- sels bein filled with a dead volume of at; mospheric air, an intermediate casing surrounding the outer vessel and containing an insulating material, outer casings surround ing the intermediate casing and having their insides in communication with each other, a valve on ,the outermost casing adapted to open into the outer atmosphere, a passage affording a communication between the inside of the reservoir and the outer atmosphere, the innermost of the outer casings being in communication with said passage, a closure adapt ,d to close the outlet of said passage and carrying means on the outermost casing.
2. A receptacle for liquefied gases comprising an inner reservoir, insulating envelopes around the same, terminating at their upper part by a narrow portion surrounding a neck, said neck communicating with said inner reservoir and havingsucha dimension that it allows of introducing blast cartridges into the reservoir and removing the same therefrom, removable means for closing said neck by simple engagement on the top of said narrow portion, a small passage through said cap in communication with the reservoir for introducing or removing the liquefied gas and removable means for closing said passage.
In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.
GUILLAUME WEBER.
Witnesses JEAN Dumomr, EDOUARD FABER.
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US3007596A (en) * 1956-07-16 1961-11-07 Union Carbide Corp Thermal insulation
US3514006A (en) * 1966-05-19 1970-05-26 British Oxygen Co Ltd Vacuum insulated vessels
US3780900A (en) * 1970-11-10 1973-12-25 Bridgestone Liquefied Gas Co Low temperature liquefied gas tank of a membrane type
US20120261415A1 (en) * 2011-04-12 2012-10-18 Conocophillips Company Cold box design providing secondary containment

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US3007596A (en) * 1956-07-16 1961-11-07 Union Carbide Corp Thermal insulation
US3514006A (en) * 1966-05-19 1970-05-26 British Oxygen Co Ltd Vacuum insulated vessels
US3780900A (en) * 1970-11-10 1973-12-25 Bridgestone Liquefied Gas Co Low temperature liquefied gas tank of a membrane type
US20120261415A1 (en) * 2011-04-12 2012-10-18 Conocophillips Company Cold box design providing secondary containment
US8727159B2 (en) * 2011-04-12 2014-05-20 Conocophillips Company Cold box design providing secondary containment

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