US1849437A

US1849437A - Method of and apparatus for saturating sand in water

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Publication number: US1849437A
Application number: US488981A
Authority: US
Inventors: Samuel D Rucker
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-10-15
Filing date: 1930-10-15
Publication date: 1932-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 1949-03-15

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March 15, 1932 s. D. 'RUCKER 1,849,437.

ND APPARATUS ljOR SATURATING SAND IN WATER METHOD OF A Filed Oct. 15, 1930 Snoento:

M r 40 J p o 0 /6 o 0 a 6 .536 43 v J r 50 v omega lVith the foregoing and other purposes in ing, as is manifest, for vertical adjustment as Referring now to the drawings in detail, tures 42 through whichwater is adapted to be 85 Patented Mar. 15, 1932 a i UNITED STATES PATENT o HcE IVIETIHIOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SATURATING SAND IN WATER Substitute for application Serial No. 293,012, filed July. 16, 1928. This application filed October 15, 1930.

, Serial No. 488,981.

My invention relates to an improved said casing may be controlled in any desired method of and apparatus for saturating manner not entering into my invention. sandwith water preparatory to mixing the Casing 1O fits snugly within the stop porsand with cement to form concrete, and my tion of a receptacle 22 which is closed at its .5; object, generally speaking, is to provide a sides and ends as at 24,26, respectively, and method and apparatus for this purpose has its open bottom normally closed by a door which will insure thorough and uniform 28,said receptacle being supported by rods 30 saturation of the sand in aminimum amount which are mounted at their upper ends in of time, substantially without labor and at suitablebrackets 32 projecting from the sides negligible expense. i 12 of the casing and which pass loosely ct This application is a substitute for Serial through openings in flanges 34 at the top of -N0. 293,012, filed July 16, 1928, for Method the receptacle and have units 36 threaded of and apparatus for saturating sand in thereon and engaging against the bottom Water. faces of said flanges, this arrangement providview, my invention consists in the novel to the receptacle 22 relative to the casing 10 steps employed in carrying out my improved simply by manipulation of said units 36, method and in the novel features of conwhereby the effective capacity of the containstruction, combination and arrangement of er constituted by the casing 10 and receptacle parts of my apparatus as will be hereinafter 22 may readily be varied. 70

= more fully described, illustrated in the ac- Supported in anysuitable manner between companying drawings and defined in the

apthe side walls

12, 12 of casing 10, near the uppended claimsj a per ends of said side Walls, is a series of de- In the drawings, wherein like characters fiector bars 38, said ,bars consisting preferof reference denote corr sponding parts in ably of lengths of angle iron arranged in par- 7 the different views: p allel, spaced relation in a common horizontal Figure 1 is a side elevation of apparatus plane and with their apex portions disposed constructed in accordance with my invenupwardly, whereby sand gravitating from tion; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the appathe bunker 20 upon said bars will be split ratus illustrated in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a top plan by the latter into a number of relatively thin, so

View of the apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1 separated streams.

and 2; and Fig. 4, a fragmentary perspec- -Directly beneath each bar38 and extending tive view of the water spray pipes embodied parallel therewith is a water pipe provided in my apparatus. with longitudinally extending rows of aper- 10 designates a casing, preferably but not discharged into the streams of said flowing necessarily of rectangular shape as viewed downward between the bars 38, said pipes be in top plan, closed at its sides and ends at ing supported in any suitable manner and be- 12, 14, respectively, open 'at its top and boting connected to a common water supply pipe 40 tom and having its side walls 12 extended 44. r

upwardly above the top thereof and Below the pipes 40 is a second series ofdeequipped at their upper ends with angle iron flector bars 46 arranged in parallel, spaced members 16 or with other suitable means, relation directly beneath the spaces between serving to stiffen and to reinforce said walls the bars 38whereby each stream of sand pro- 15 and at the same time to provide means duced by said bars 38 is interrupted and diwhereby said casing ma be secured as by vided into two smaller streams, one flowing means of bolts 18 to the bottom of a bunker to either side of each bar 46, which bars may indicated generally at 20 in sand receiving may conveniently consist of lengths of angle relation to a discharge opening in said iron li'kethe bars 38 or of halfsections of 5 5 bunker through which the flow of sand into pipe as shown. y 1

The door 28 is hinged as at 48 for swinging movement to and from closed and open positions and is urged constantly towards closed position by a weight or weights 50 or equivalent means, being maintained normally in closed position by a latch element 52 on a yieldable support 54 which is adapted to be engaged by a batch car traveling beneath the apparatus to disengage said latch and permit the door 28 to open and the influence of the weight of said contained within the receptacle 22, whereby the sand will be discharged into said car. A latch or latches 56 is or are. pro-- vided on the receptacle 22 for engagement by any suitable part of the door 28 to hold the latter in an open position and the support 54 is formed of two sections hinged together in such manner as indicated at 58 that the latch element 52 will be released only by a car traveling in a direction to receive a load from the apparatus and not by a car traveling in a return direction.

In. the side walls 24 of the receptacle 22 and, ifdesired, also in the end walls thereof, is formed a multiplicity of apertures 60 for the escape of any superabundanc-e of water supplied to the sand during its travel from the bunker 20 into the receptacle 22.

In the use of my apparatus the receptacle 22 first is adjusted with respect to the casing by means of the nets 36 to produce a container of a desired capacity. A valve controlling the flow of water to the pipes 40 then is opened and sand is permitted to gravitate from the bunker into the apparatus. As the sand is intercepted by the bars 38 it is split as aforesaid into relatively thin streams against which upwardly directed jets of water issuing from certain of the apertures 42 in pipes are directed, these ets of water penetrating the streams of sand and thoroughly saturating same. The streams of sand flowing downward then are intercepted by the bars 46 i streams which directly receive downwardly directed jets of water from certain other of the apertures 42, the entire volume of sand flowing into the container thus being thoroughly broken up and uniformly saturated with water, any superabundance of which latter escapes through the openings as the container becomes gradually filled with sand. When a desired quantity of sand accumulates within the container the supply of sand and water is cut oil and the contents of the container allow-ed to flow through the lower open end of the receptacle 22 into a car or cars for transportation to a point where it is to be used, whereupon the operation which.

is recounted is repeated, it having been found in practice that the relative amounts of sand and water contained in diiferent batches of these materials mixed by my improved rality of streams,

and are divided into thinner- What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. The method of mixing sand and water with one another which consists in flowing the sand in a stream, directing a jet of water against said stream, dividing the stream of sand into smaller streams, and directing other jets of water against said smaller streams.

2. Apparatus for use in mixing sand and water with one another comprising a container composed of telescoped elements adjustable to vary the eifective capacity of said container, means for so adjusting said elements, said'container being open at its top and being adapted, to have sand supplied thereto from a point thereabove, means in the upper element of the container to divide sand being supplied to said receptacle into a number of relatively thin streams, and

' means also in the upper element of the container for directing jets of water against said streams.

p 3. Apparatus for use in mixing sand and water with one another comprising a container open at its top and adapted to have sand supplied thereto from a point thereabove, a horizontal series of spaced bars arranged to intercept sand being supplied to said container to divide said sand into a plua second horizontal series of bars located below said first'mentioned series in vertical alignment with the spaces between the bars of said first series to inter- 1 'cept said streams of sand and divide them into smaller streams, and means between said series of bars for directing jets of water upwardly against said streams of sand produced by the first series of bars and for directing other streams of water downwardly against the streams of sand produced by the second series of bars.

4. Apparatus for use in mixing sand and water with oneanother comprising a casing, a receptacle below said casing slidably receiving in the upper end thereof the lower end portion of said casing, means for slidably adjusting said casing and said receptacle with respect to one another to vary the effective capacity of the container formed by said casing and said receptacle, means carried by said casing for dividing into streams sand being supplied to said container, means for saturating said streams of sand with water, and means whereby any superabundance of water contained in the sand deposited in said receptacle may flow therefrom.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

SAMUEL D. RUCKER.

method and apparatus are substantially unvarying.