Improvements in Apparatus for Discharging Oil Upon the Sea or Waters when Agitated for the purpose of Calming or FOR THE " PURPOSE OF CALMING OR ALLAYING THE FORCE
Year: 1884

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Discharging Oil Upon the Sea
or Waters when Agitated for the purpose of Calming or
I JOHN GORDON Junior of Dundee in the County of Forfar North Britain do
hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR DISCHARGING OIL UPON THE SEA OR WATERS WHEN AGITATED FOR THE
"
PURPOSE OF CALMING OR ALLAYING THE FORCE THEREOF to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to distributing oil upon the sea or waters when agitated
to calm or allay the force thereof and has for its object to provide an arrangement
which is capable of temporary use at any required spot. According to the said
Invention the apparatus consists of a flexible tube or tubes in connection, at one
end, with a pump or other means for forcing oil through the said tube or tubes-
The other end of the said tube or tubes (and also any other part thereof as
required) has an outlet or outlets for the oil and also a weight or equivalent means
for acting as an anchor-The said weight is projected from a Gun or other suitable
discharging apparatus or may be carried by a rocket (which itself might from the
weight or anchorage) and on the end of the tube or tubes to which the weight is
attached descending into or upon the water at the place where the oil is to be used
the weight acts as an anchor and retains the end or ends of the tube or tubes in
position to discharge the oil pumped therethrough from the other end onto or into
the water at the requisite place or places-The weight or anchor may be attached
to the tube or tubes either directly or through the intervention of a rope chain or
other suitable connection.
Dated this al
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said John Gordon, Jun³.

page_text: I JOHN GORDON Junior of Dundee in the County of Forfar North Britain do
hereby declare the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
CE
FOR DISCHARGING OIL UPON THE SEA OR WATERS WHEN AGITATED FOR THE
"
PURPOSE OF CALMING OR ALLAYING THE FORCE THEREOF and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This Invention relates to distributing Oil upon the Sea or waters when agitated
to a calm or allay the force thereof and has for its object to provide an arrangement
which is capable of temporary use at any required spot.
According to the said Invention the apparatus consists of a flexible tube or
tubes in connection at one end with a pump or other means for forcing Oil through
the said tube or tubes. The other end of the said tube or tubes (and also any
other part thereof as required) has an outlet or outlets for the Oil and also a weight
or equivalent means for acting as an anchor.
The said weight is projected from a Gun or other suitable discharging apparatus
or may be carried by rocket (which itself might form the weight or anchorage) and
on the end or ends of the tube or tubes to which the weight is attached descending
into or upon the water at the place where the oil is to be used, the weight acts as
an anchor and retains the end or ends of the tube or tubes in position to discharge
the oil pumped there-through from the other end on to or into the water at the
requisite place or places The weight or anchor may be attached to the tube or
tubes either directly or through the intervention of a rope chain or other suitable
connection.
The accompanying Drawing represents an example of an apparatus arranged
in accordance with my Invention. The tube A is in connection at one end with a
pump or forcing device B. The said tube being provided at the other end with
outlets a a for the escape of the oil forced through the said tube by the pump or
forcing device B. The said outlet or outlets may if desired be provided with
valves opening outwards. To the end of the tube opposite that which is attached
to the pump or forcing device, a weight here represented as a shot C is attached
In using the apparatus the shot C is placed in a gun or projecting appliance and is
thereby thrown to the place at which the oil is to be discharged the shot C acting
as an anchorage. The pump or forcing device B. is then worked and the oil is
thereby forced through the outlets a and passes to the surface of the water.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details
shewn in the Drawing as they may be varied as hereinbefore indicated without
departing from the nature of my Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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An apparatus for discharging Oil upon the Sea or waters when agitated
consisting of a flexible tube or flexible tubes in connection at one end with a pump
or forcing device and provided at or towards the other end with an outlet or
outlets for the Oil and with a weight or projectile or weights or projectiles which

page_text: can be projected from a gun or other projecting apparatus to the place where the
Oil is to be discharged carrying with it or them the outer end or ends of the tube
or tubes through which tube or tubes and the outlet or outlets thereof the Oil is
subsequently forced substantially as herein before described.
Dated the 30th day of September One thousand eight hundred and eighty four.