Improvements in Means for Connecting Carbide Containers to a Water Vessel.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb., 1898-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Connecting Carbide Containers to a
Water Vessel.
I, JOHN VAUGHAN-SHERRIN, of 28, Victoria Street, London, S.W., Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The carbide in small pieces is placed in tins with ends soldered on, which mode
is cheap and convenient for transport. At the place where it is to be used for the
manufacture of acetylene gas I cut open one end of the tin by means of cutter
fixed in a flanged disc so that when the disc and the tin are rotated against each
other the cutter cuts a central circular piece out of the end cover of the tin leaving
a narrow inner flange on the end of the tin. This cutter disc may form part of
or be fixed to some part of the acetylene apparatus. The aforesaid narrow flange
is then made to enter an annular recess provided with rubber packing or the like
in the end flange of a tap or valve that is fixed to the vessel which is to supply
water to the carbide in the tin. The carbide tin is pressed against the rubber
packing ring by some ready means such as that of a screw in a bail piece connected
to the flange of the tap, the point of the screw being applied against a metal plate
between it and the bottom of the carbide tin so as not to indent the latter. This
mode of connecting the carbide vessel to the water container is simple cheap and
expeditious and is of especial value in connection with a system of acetylene
manufacture in which a number of carbide containers are attached all round a
water vessel and are brought into active use one by one by automatic means or
by hand.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
5 Improvements in Means for Connecting Carbide Containers to a
Water Vessel.
I, JOHN VAUGHAN-SHERRIN, of 28, Victoria Street, London, S.W., Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The carbide in small pieces is placed in tins with ends soldered on, which mode

page_text: Fig. 1 shows such an ordinary well known form of tin A supposed to be charged
with carbide.
At the place where the carbide container A is to be used for the manufacture of
acetylene gas, I cut open one end of the tin, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3: this may be
done by means of a cutter fixed in a flanged disc so that when the disc and the
tin A are rotated against each other the cutter cuts a central circular piece out of
the end cover of the tin leaving a narrow inner flange A¹ on the end of the tin.
This cutter disc may form part of or be fixed to some part of the acetylene
apparatus.
The aforesaid narrow flange A¹ is then made to enter an annular recess provided
with rubber packing or the like H Figs. 2 and 3 in the end flange B of a tap
(or valve) that is fixed to the vessel which is to supply water to the carbide in the
tin 'A.
ring H by some ready
connected to the flange
The carbide tin is pressed against the rubber packing
means such as that of a screw F in a tail piece ED Fig.
of the tap by means of the screwed ends D of the bail piece, the point of the
screw F being applied against a metal plate C between it and the bottom of the
carbide tin so as not to indent the latter. G is a wheel for turning the screw F.
Fig. 3 shows another form, where the bridge piece E carries an eccentric F which
by a handle G can be pressed against the plate C and thus cause a tight joint to
be made between the flange A¹ and the packing H. The screw bolts unite the
bridge piece E to the flange B.
This mode of connecting the carbide vessel to the water container is simple cheap
and expeditious and is of especial value in connection with a system of acetylene
manufacture described in my Patent Specification 26897 of 1896 in which a number
of carbide containers are attached all round a water vessel and are brought into
action one by one by automatic means or by hand.
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:-
1. The mode of connecting a carbide containing tin with a water vessel consist-
ing in cutting out a circular part of one end or cover of the tin leaving a narrow
inner flange all round, and placing said flange in a recess with packing provided
in a tap or valve which is fixed to the water vessel means being provided for readily
forcing it against such packing and for readily detaching it therefrom substan-
tially as set forth.
2. The combination of the carbide tin, the tap or valve with packing H the bail
piece ED the plate C and the screw F for the purpose set forth.
3. The combination of the carbide tin, the tap or valve with packing H the screw
bolts D, the cross piece E the plate C and the eccentric F for the purpose set
forth.