US667099A - Method of treating and utilizing chlorin gas. - Google Patents

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E..c. PARAMORE.

Patented Ian. 29, l90l.

METHOD OF TREATING AND UTILIZING GHLOBIN GAS.

(Application filed Feb. 21, 1900. Renewed Sept. 26, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFIGATIOH forming part oi its-liters :lPllfiGEtfi No. 867,099, detedl'smus'ry 29, 1901. Application filed February 21, 1900. Bauer/oil September 28, 1900. Serial Flo. 31.1.33, No lspccimcnn.)

To all whom. .it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD {1. Per sh-toss, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Phil: sdelphie, (Germantowm) in the county of Philsdelphiscnd State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful improvements in theArt of Treating and Utilizing Chloris Gas, of which the following is a. specification.

The bleaching quslities of chlorin see are well known; but owing to its intensely (lies green ble odor, the objection s sttentiing its use,

owing to its peculiar action open the human system, and the retaining qualities of the odor its use is necessarily restricted, in scope to bleaching fabrics and the like.

It is the object of the present invention to treatchlorin gas in such man or that its clenching qualities will be enhanced and the disagreeable odor eliminated. The invention consists, broadly, in treating chlorin ge s in such manner that the ocjectioneble odor thereof shall be eliminated, its color changed, and its bleaching action. enhanced without resultant injury to the new terials subjected to its influence.

lu the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate correspond. ing parts, I have illustrated two of the many forms of apparatus that may be employed in carrying my invention intoeffect, it being understood that I do not limit myself specifically to these particuler forms of'opperetus,

and in the drawings-Q Figure 1 illustrates one form of apparatus which I may use. Fig. 2 is a. detail View of one form of chamber in which the gas is treated in the above-mentioned form of apparatus. Fig. 3 is a. cross-section on line a; :0, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a. cross-section on line y y, Fig; 2.

- Referring to the drawings and to Fig. 1

thereof, A designates the electrolytic oppere-' tus,the same comprising a four-armed structure, whereof two tubes or arms a a constitute a passage-way for the.gss fig genersted and the other two arms a a the housing for the electrodes B. The memcers c as shown,

each consist of an inner andouter gloss tube, the inner tube a a of each member being extended nearly to the center oi the struc't: whereby the electrodes will brought soil or otherwise suiteblysrrnnged and connected to wire a", common to all the electrodes,

this wire being extended outwzird beyond each member to permit of attachment with the conducting-wires from. the source of elec tricity. The numeral 1 designates s. geuer ntcr for the chlorin gas, and .2 a. tube which.

extends from the generator to the electric sppsrstus. The gene'rstor is supported by it stand 3. A spirit-lennpc may be placed onnected to one of the tubes 0, end the oppositetube a is connected at 8 to it receiver 9 for ccntsining, pulp or other material to be treat ed, ell the -joints in the apparatus being air and gets tight. A, pump 10 of oily suitable construction may be applied to pipell, leading from the receiver.

The electricity may be from any preferred source-in this instance from a. Ruhmlsorfi coil E, to which the terminals are suitably connected.

The generator 1 for the gas may be an ordinary retort, such as commonly used, into which msnganese dioxid andun aqueous so.- lution of hydrochloric acid ore introduced, as usual. I

In the form of apparatus shown the space between the inner and outer: 'arms' a a constitutes a trap into which any condensed acid may accumulate-in the operation of the.(levice, thus preventing contamination of the purified gas. A 1

The operation of the apparatus described is as follows: llisngsnese dioxid and an nqueone solution of hydrochloric acid are placed in the generator, and the stop-cock 7 is then turned to exclude thenir. The stir is then expelled from all ports of the apparatusviz, the receiver 9, the tubes a a and the generator 1. The lemp l may then be lighted and the gas will be generated. The pump is then put into operation, and the gas is drawn t rough the electric chamber end through .c materiel in the receiver 9. When the .der snid generator, and a. funnel 5 is con-.-

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5 and forth at each alternate operation of the pump-plunger. It will be understood that just a sufficient quantity of the manganese dioxid and hydrochloric acid is placed in the generator to produce the required amount'of gas to nearly fill theapparatus. As a stream of chlorin gas without mixture with air passes from the generator back and forth through the tubes a at every reciprocation of the pump-plunger, every molecule ofthe gas electric currents or sparks from the electrodes B, and it is to this treatment I attribute the I peculiar change in color and odor of the gas produced by my apparatusi It is to he noted that the space between the inner and outer tubes in-the apparatus A is comparatively small, and t as a result every molecule of gas'receives treatment in a'confined or restricted space,-the electrodes, however, never coming in direct contact with the vgas, the sparks passing through the dielectric material of which the inner tubes are form ed. In Figs. 2, 3, and 4 I have shown amodified form of electrolytic apparatus in which the electrodes instead of being hunched, as in Fig. 1, are separately inclosed inglass tubes and hermetically sealed. Anysuitahlenumher ofelectrodes may be used, and they may be arranged in various ways to perform their.

As shown at the bottom of Fig. 2 \and in Fig. 4-, the electrodes are inthe form' of spiral coils. The single wire of may pass is intimately subjected to the action of the through a. cork m, fitted in the top and bot tom of the innertube a", and it is to he nnderstood that this closure need not be air,

from a chlorimgenerafor, second, generating gas in said generator, third, d rawiug said gas into an electric chamber, fourth, electrifying said gas in saidehambemand fifth, forcing the treated gas back and forth through the material to be treated,substantially as described.

2. The art of treating, and utilizing chlorin gas which consists in first expelling the air from a chlorin-gencrator, from an electric chan1her,-and from a receiver containing, the material to he treated, second,generating sufficient-gas in the generator to partially fill the apparatus; third, drawing the gasthrough the electric chamhor and sulunitting it to the action of-thc electric discharges-and fourth, forcing said treated gas hack and For! h through the material and through the elecliric chamber, substantially as described.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto sot hand in presence of two suhscri l in; witnesses.

EDWARD PARAMORIC. "Witnesses:

[Myron BALI Wm. H. F. Knuawrnnmn.

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