Improvements in Appliances for Saturating Air, Oxygen, or other Gases with the Vapours of Ether or other Volatile Fluids.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Saturating Air, Oxygen, or other
Gases with the Vapours of Ether or other Volatile Fluids.
I AARON TURNER DANKS of 391 Bourke Street, Melbourne in the Colony of
Victoria, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to construct an appliance for saturating air, oxygen
and other gases with the vapours of ether and other volatile fluids in such a manner
as to facilitate the impregnation of the air or other gases with ether or other fluids ;
the apparatus being also more compact, and therefore less liable to leakage and
injury than heretofore.
And in order that my invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1. is a longitudinal section of my improved appliance.
Fig. 2. is a vertical section on the line A-B of Fig. 1.
My invention consists of an outer tube or cylinder C, formed of brass or other
suitable metal, which is screwed or otherwise secured to the ends D D¹. The ends
may be formed with feet or flanges as shown. One of these ends, D, is fitted with
a cap or cover E of the form shown in Fig. 1 a small aperture E¹ being formed in
the centre of the cap or cover E for the entrance of the oxygen, air or other gases.
Inside the tube C, I fit a number of cylinders with and without perforations
alternately, the plain or unperforated cylinders F and G, being secured to the
end D and cap E respectively as shown. The perforated cylinders H, J and K
are supported or held in position by discs, (perforated or otherwise) 1, 1, as shown
in Fig. 1 of the drawings the number of cylinders being increased or diminished as
found necessary.
The spaces M, M surrounding the perforated cylinders H, J and K are filled in
with flannel or other suitable material, which is wrapped round the cylinders, the
spaces N, N, being left for the free passage of the air, oxygen or other gases.
The ether or other volatile fluid is poured into the apparatus, the fluid becoming
absorbed by the flannel or other material. The air or other gas is admitted
preferably, under pressure at E' and after passing through and between the cylinders
and flannel, the air, oxygen or other gas passes out at the outlet O in the cap or
end D in a thoroughly saturated state.
In some cases I use coiled springs or other similar devices in substitution for the
perforated cylinders H, J and K.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. In a saturating apparatus the application and use of flannel or other suitable
material wound round the perforated cylinders H J, and K substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The improvements in appliances for saturating air, oxygen or other gases with

page_text: the vapours of ether or other volatile liquids substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown by the drawings.
Dated 1+1.
T1000
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.