US215600A - Improvement in protecting wooden piles - Google Patents
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- 239000003755 preservative agent Substances 0.000 description 8
- 239000002023 wood Substances 0.000 description 8
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 description 6
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- 210000001736 Capillaries Anatomy 0.000 description 4
- 241000065695 Teredo Species 0.000 description 4
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- XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N iron Chemical compound [Fe] XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000007769 metal material Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000011148 porous material Substances 0.000 description 4
- 230000002335 preservative Effects 0.000 description 4
- 238000009738 saturating Methods 0.000 description 4
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 description 4
- 229910052802 copper Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- RYGMFSIKBFXOCR-UHFFFAOYSA-N copper Chemical compound [Cu] RYGMFSIKBFXOCR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 239000010949 copper Substances 0.000 description 2
- 238000001704 evaporation Methods 0.000 description 2
- 229910052742 iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 238000004321 preservation Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000003643 water by type Substances 0.000 description 2
- HCHKCACWOHOZIP-UHFFFAOYSA-N zinc Chemical compound [Zn] HCHKCACWOHOZIP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229910052725 zinc Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27K—PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FOR IMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITH PERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- B27K3/00—Impregnating wood, e.g. impregnation pretreatment, for example puncturing; Wood impregnation aids not directly involved in the impregnation process
- B27K3/02—Processes; Apparatus
- B27K3/08—Impregnating by pressure, e.g. vacuum impregnation
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- Our invention consists, first, in applying the remedy at the lower end of the pile, or rather at the point where the pile projects from the mud or other bottom into which it is driven; and, secondly, in a peculiar method of applying the preservative compound, substance, or material, by which it is uniformlyand thoroughly distributed and infused into and through the pores of the wood around the entire pile.
- Figure 1 is a cross-section.
- Fig. 2 is a cross section, and
- Fig. 3 is an elevation.
- A represents a wooden pile. If we employ 5 a metallic substance for supplying the preservative agent, we prefer to make the metal into the form of nails, and drive the nails into the pile close together, so as to form a wide belt I of nails entirely encircling the pile at the point where the pile projects from the mud or bottom.
- These nails may be two, three, or four inches long, and they are driven directly torow alternately with those in the row above and below them.
- This belt of nails should be wide enough to insure the lower end of the belt being below the surface of the mud or bottom when the pile is driven, while a portion projects above it.
- Iron, copper, zinc, or any other oxidizable metal can be used for this purpose, either separately or combined, and they can be applied in a variety of ways at the lower end of the pile; but the above-described method is simple, cheap, and effective.
- the gist of our invention is in the manner of applying the preservative agent-that is, by bringing it in contact with the capillary cells or tubes of the wood at the lower end of the driven pile, so that the solution will be carried or forced upward in the outer part of the pile.
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W. T. GARRATT & s. J. LYNCH. Protecting WoodenPiles.
No. 215.600. Patented May 20,1879.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM T. GARRATT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, AND SEDGVVIOK J. LYNCH, OF
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA.
IMPROVIEMENT lN PROTECTING WOODEN PILES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,600, dated May 20, 1879; application filed August 22, 1878.
To all whom it may concern.-
ravages of the teredo or boring-worm, which infests the salt-waters of harbors and destroys the wooden piling of wharves by honeycombing them with holes until they are ready to fall to pieces.
Our invention consists, first, in applying the remedy at the lower end of the pile, or rather at the point where the pile projects from the mud or other bottom into which it is driven; and, secondly, in a peculiar method of applying the preservative compound, substance, or material, by which it is uniformlyand thoroughly distributed and infused into and through the pores of the wood around the entire pile.
In carrying out our invention we can either use oxidizable metallic substances or chemical compounds as the saturating or preserving agent, but in either case the manner of applying them is the same.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section. Fig. 2 is a cross section, and Fig. 3 is an elevation.
A represents a wooden pile. If we employ 5 a metallic substance for supplying the preservative agent, we prefer to make the metal into the form of nails, and drive the nails into the pile close together, so as to form a wide belt I of nails entirely encircling the pile at the point where the pile projects from the mud or bottom.
These nails may be two, three, or four inches long, and they are driven directly torow alternately with those in the row above and below them. This belt of nails should be wide enough to insure the lower end of the belt being below the surface of the mud or bottom when the pile is driven, while a portion projects above it.
The water which is absorbed by the pile will soon oxidize the metal or nails, and the capillary attraction will raise, the metallic solution which is thus formed directly upward along the pores of the wood toward the top of the pile.
The pressure of the water at the lower end of the pile, as Well as the evaporation of the water from the upper end of the pile, will assist in forcing this metallic solution. upward, so that a permanent saturation of the outer portion of the pile is obtained, into which the teredo will not bore.
Iron, copper, zinc, or any other oxidizable metal can be used for this purpose, either separately or combined, and they can be applied in a variety of ways at the lower end of the pile; but the above-described method is simple, cheap, and effective.
If we use a chemical solution for saturating the outer portion of the pile, we bore a number of inclined holes, a, toward the center of the pile and fill them with the solution, and then plug up the outer ends of the holes to prevent the solution from escaping. The solution will then be raised bycapillary attraction, as above described for the metallic solution, and the outer part of the pile will become impregnated with it.
It will be seen that the gist of our invention is in the manner of applying the preservative agent-that is, by bringing it in contact with the capillary cells or tubes of the wood at the lower end of the driven pile, so that the solution will be carried or forced upward in the outer part of the pile.
We are aware that the preservation of wood used for piles and other-purposes by saturation with various materials is well known,
and that it is not new to introduce the mate- In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals.
W. T. GABRATT. 1,. s. SEDGWIOK J. LYNCH. L. S'.|
Witnesses for Garratt: A. F. ALLEN, S. DINSMORE.
Witnesses for-Lynch:
H. J. HOLMES, W. T. LITTLE.
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