IMPROVEMENTS IN PROCEDURE AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING IODINE AND BROME
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Max Sombart, of the Firm of Buss, Sombart, and
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Company, Engineers and Patent Agents, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of
Germany, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PROCEDURE AND APPARATUS
FOR PRODUCING IODINE AND BROME." A communication from Hermann
Boeckel and Robert Müller, junior, of Schoenebeck, near Magdeburg, in the
Empire of Germany.
Sealed the 21st March 1879, and dated the 30th September 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Max Sombart at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th September 1878.
CHARLES MAX SOMBART, of the Firm of Buss, Sombart, and Company, Engineers.
and Patent Agents, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN.
PROCEDURE AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING IODINE AND BROME." A communi-
cation from Hermann Boeckel and Robert Müller, junior, of Schoenebeck, near
Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany.
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The apparatus consists of a tower built of stone, clay, timber, or other material,
the dimensions of which correspond with the quantity of fluid to be treated. An
inner hollow space (similar to the "Glover tower used for the manufacture of:
sulphuric acid) is filled with pieces of coke, stone, or other suitable material, but
both at the upper and lower part of the tower a free space is left. The lower
part is provided with three or more tubes, one for admission of chlorine, another
for admission of steam, and another for discharge of fluid. Fluids containing
iodine and brome are introduced at the upper part of the tower through a tube
or tubes, and iodous and bromus vapours (subsequently condensed in any con-
venient apparatus) escape through an aperture near this tube. The fluid which
should be boiling flows through a tube into the tower, and dispersing over the
filling therein passes through it to the bottom of the tower. From chlorine
producing vessels which are alternately put in operation, chlorine is passed through
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page_text: the main tube into the tower and enters into connexion with the dropping fluid
disengaging iodine or brome. The iodous and bromus vapours produced come into
contact with new quantities of fluid, and in the condensing apparatus they are
obtained free from chlorine. The accumlated spent fluid in the lower part of the
tower is freed by steam passing through a suitable tube, and it then runs off.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Max Sombart in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
March 1879.
CHARLES MAX SOMBART, of the Firm of Buss, Sombart, and Company, Engineers
and Patent Agents, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROCEDURE AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING IODINE AND BROME." A communi-
cation from Hermann Boeckel and Robert Müller, junior, of Schoenebeck, near
Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany.
The apparatus of which the accompanying Drawing shows an example, consists
of a tower built of stone, clay, timber, or other material, its dimensions corre-
sponding to the quantity of fluid to be treated. An inner hollow space similar to
the Glover tower used for the manufacture of sulphuric acid is filled with pieces of
coke, stone, or any other suitable material, but both at the upper and at the lower
part of the tower a free space is left. The lower part is provided with three tubes,
one of which serves for the admission of chlorine, the second, for the introduction
of steam, and the third for the discharge of liquid. Liquids containing iodine and
brome are introduced at the upper part of the tower through a tube, and the iodous
and bromous vapours (subsequently condensed in any convenient apparatus) escape
through an aperture near this tube. The liquid which should be boiling flows
through a tube A into the tower, and dispersing over the filling therein passes
through it to the bottom of the tower. From chlorine producing vessels B which
are alternately put in operation, chlorine, passes through the main tube into the
tower, and enters into connexion with the dropping liquid, disengaging iodine or
brome. The iodous and bromous vapours produced come into contact with new
quantities of liquid, and escape through a tube C into the condensing apparatus
where they are obtained free from chlorine. The accumulated spent liquid in the
lower part of the tower is freed from chlorine by steam passing through a suitable
tube D and it then runs off. Claim.-The process for producing iodine and brome
and the apparatus for the distribution of the liquid, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Max Sombart, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, A.D. 1879.