Improved Apparatus for Delivering Oil in Front of or about a Ship at Sea.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar.. 1891
TRUVIDIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Delivering Oil in Front of or about a
Ship at Sea.
I, CHARLES CRAFTER COUVES, of Croft House, Penarth, in the County of
Glamorgan, Master Mariner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for delivering oil in front of
or about a ship at sea.
It is matter of common knowledge that a rough sea can be readily calmed by
pouring oil into it; and the object of my invention is to provide an improved
apparatus to be fixed on board ship and used for the purpose of delivering the oil.
In carrying the invention into effect, I provide a vertical cylinder which is
fitted with a piston. A delivery pipe or pipes are led from this to, preferably,
as near the bows as possible. Each one may be fitted with suitable regulating, or
other necessary valves.
The cylinder is fixed in any convenient position. The piston is raised by
suitable screw or other devices, e.g., a fixed nut engaging a thread on the piston
rod, and descends by gravity; its rise filling the cylinder, and its descent ejecting
the oil.
The cylinder is supplied either from a suitable reservoir through a pipe provided
with a non-return valve, or the reservoir may be an upward extension of the
cylinder, the piston being provided with a port controlled by a suitable valve past
which the oil flows, and through the said port, when the piston is raised.
Dated this 9th day of January 1891.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Delivering Oil in Front of or about a
Ship at Sea.
1, CHARLES CRAFTER COUVES, of Croft House, Penarth, in the County of
Glamorgan, Master Mariner, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for delivering oil in front of,
or about, a ship at sea.
It is matter of common knowledge that a rough sea can be readily calmed by
pouring oil into it; and the object of my invention is to provide an improved
apparatus to be fixed on board ship and used for the purpose of delivering the oil.
In carrying the invention into effect, I provide a vertical cylinder which is fitted
with a piston. A delivery pipe or pipes are led from this to, preferably, as near
the bows as possible. Each one may be fitted with suitable regulating, or other
necessary valves.
The cylinder is fixed in any convenient position. The piston is raised by
suitable screws or other devices, e.g., a fixed nut engaging a thread in the piston
od; and descends by gravity, its rise filling the cylinder, and its descent ejecting
he oil.
The cylinder is supplied either from a suitable reservoir, through a pipe
rovided with a non-return valve; or the reservoir may be an upward extension of
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page_text: the cylinder, the piston being provided with a port controlled by a suitable valve,
past which the oil flows, and through the said port when the piston is raised.
In order that my invention and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of
this Specification and read therewith."
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a ship's bows, part of the timbers being broken
away.
Fig. 2 is a plan.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a modified form of the apparatus.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation illustrating the internal contour of the delivery
nozzle.
Like parts are marked throughout with the same reference letter.
A is the oil reservoir; B, the cylinder of the oil-delivery apparatus; and C, the
supply pipe from the former to the latter. D is the piston; d, its screw; and e, a
hand wheel adapted to screw thereupon and to raise the piston when it-the wheel
bears upon the saddle-piece 7. The screw simply passes through the saddle-
piece, the hole therein being of a larger diameter accordingly than the external
diameter of the screw.
Instead of the oil reservoir being placed as in Figs. 1 and 2, it may be an
upward continuation, H, of the cylinder. It is shown as preferably of a larger
diameter. I is a pipe from the said continuation to the cylinder. It is provided
with a cock i, and when the piston is raised to a sufficient height, the oil will flow
through the pipe into the cylinder. The pipe I and cock i may be replaced by a
port and non-return valve in the piston.
are the delivery pipes; and j, a cock upon each K are the delivery nozzles
of the longitudinal contour illustrated in Fig. 4.
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. The combination of a cylinder, piston, raising screw, and delivery pipe, as set
forth.
2. The combination of falling piston, charged cylinder, delivery pipe, and nozzle,
as set forth.
3. The combination of delivery pipe and nozzle of special internal contour, as set
forth.
4. The combination of saddle-piece, piston, and screwed rod and hand wheel, by
which the piston can be raised and let fall by its own weighs set forth.
Dated this 13th day of February 1891.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.