US2018901A - Separator device - Google Patents

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Oct. 29, 1935. E, U H 2,018,901

SEPARATOR DEVICE Filed July 11, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I INVENTOR.

LEO 1 E. Aus

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Patented Oct. 29, 1935 UNITED STATES SEPARATOR DEVICE Leo E. Rush, Lafayette, Ind., assignor to M. L. Joyce, Lafayette, Ind.

Application July 11, 1932, Serial No. 621,885

3 Claims.

The chief object of the invention is to provide means for filtering from the liquid such as gasoline the water and sediment that might be included therein, and collect the same in a sump 5 which may be readily cleaned.

Another object of the invention is to eliminate the air that may be entrapped with the liquid being supplied under pressure before the liquid reaches the metering device and if the pump is 10 equipped with a telltale device commonly known as a visi-gauge before the liquid reaches the latter.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby the meter, visi-gauge (if eml5 ployed), and the hose, if the pump is of the so-called "wet hose type, is full of liquid from which the air has been removed and from which all of the adulterants, such as water, grit and sediment, have been removed, and to maintain no this liquid at substantially atmospheric pressure in the hose, visi-gauge, and the meter.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the employment of means suitable for accomplishing the aforesaid objects and'a further fea- 25 ture of the inventiton consists in the association of the respective parts with an automatically initiated power operable dispensing pump structure.

The full nature of the invention will be more clearly understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims:

Fig. 1 is a central sectional view of the upper portion of a dispensing pump equipped with the unit embodying the invention, a meter, the face 35 of the same being shown in elevation and the pressure applying pump proper and the power means therefor being omitted, since these may be of a conventional character. Fig. 2 is an enlarged central sectional view through the unit. 40 Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the unit base and connections and is taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a modified form of the invention. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sec- ;45 tional view similar to Fig. 2 but of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4, parts being broken out to condense the figure.

In the drawings l0 indicates a suitable standard or casing within which is included the operating 50 parts of a dispensing pump suitable for the dispensing of gasoline. In Fig. 1, the apparatus shown therein is not illustrated with the electric motor and pressure applying unit or pump connected thereto since these are conventional. The 55. pressure applying pump has its intake communieating with a pipe that extends to near the bottom of a storage tank, usually an underground one. The discharge from the pressure applying pump is connected to a pipe indicated at iii in Fig. 2. 5

The casing supports a metering chamber l6 (see Fig. 1) upon which is mounted a meter structure I! that operates the indicating fingers l8 and l 9 and the counting wheel mechanism 20. The discharge from chamber I6 is connected by 10 conduit 2| to the intake 22 of a telltale device commonly known as a visi-gauge of which there are several commercial forms now available. Said visi-gauge is indicated by the numeral 23. The discharge 24 therefrom connects to a flexible hose 25 that terminates in a nozzle 26 which preferably is controlled by a hand valve at the nozzle. This is the so-called wet hose type of p p.

In the present form of the invention the cas- 20 ing l0 supports a head casting 21 and. formed thereon is a socket 28 adapted to receive an end of the nozzle 26 as shown in Fig. 1. The head casting supports a light bulb socket 29 in bracket 30 and the head casting also supports a globe 25 or other advertising device 3| illuminated by the lamp or light bulb 32 mounted in the socket 29 and supplied with electric current through wires enclosed within the conduit 33.

The hose nozzle when mounted in the socket 0 28, engages a lever arm 33 which is tilted thereby and through the rod 35 normally retains the electric switch for controlling the electric motor in open circuit position. Upon removal of the filling nozzle 26 from the socket 28, the lever 33 is 35 released to its constraint and the rod 35 is moved thereby serving to close the electric circuit to the motor which immediately starts the pressure pump operating to supply liquid under pressure from the underground storage tank to the inlet 4 l5 of the separator unit A to which this invention is specifically directed.

The unit A includes a lower chamber and an upper chamber 4|, the latter terminating in a dome 42. The dome has an outlet 43 and a 5 conduit 44 leads therefrom and preferably extends to the underground storage tank. Interposed in the conduit and as shown in Fig. 2, at the junction of the conduit with the dome is a normally open but restricted passage 45, the purpose of which will appear more fully hereinafter.

' The chamber 4| is separated from the chamber 40 by a partition 46 having an opening 41 therein. Surrounding said opening and in spaced relation and extending upwardly from the par-

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