Improvements in Apparatus for Transporting Living Fish.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1897-Accepted, 24th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Transporting Living Fish.
I, WOLDEMAR VON HANNEKEN, of Gross-Lichterfelde near Berlin, in the Empire
of Germany, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to means for transporting living fishes and con-
sists of a device for effecting the circulation of the water in the tank containing the
fishes.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference
i had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views: -
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatical representation of one form of carrying out the
invention,
Fig. 2 a section of the device seen from the end,
Fig. 3 a longitudinal section of a modified form of the device,
Fig. 4 a part representation of a further modification, showing the device in
connection with a railway van, and
Fig. 5 a plan of the tank for the fishes.
As employed for ordinary road traffic the device consists of a car having built
thereon a scaffolding in which are mounted by means of Cardanic rings a number
(three or more) of tanks, the Cardanic rings or compass-like suspension being
employed in order to prevent the jolting of the car on the road from being com-
municated to the tank containing the water and fishes. Within each tank is
mounted an ordinary pump g, the plunger rods h h¹ h² of which are each connected
to a rod i. The suction chamber of each pump communicates with the bottom
or approximately the bottom of each tank whilst the pressure chamber is provided
with a swan neck pipe g¹, so that when the plunger of the pump is worked, the
water will be circulated from near the bottom of the tank through the swan neck
pipe and will thus spray into the tank from the top. Thus a continual water
circulation will be effected in each tank. The pumps are worked from the axle o
of the car, which is connected by means of a cord n or the like with a crank disc e
mounted on a shaft c running in bearings d underneath the car frame.
crank disc e is provided with a crank-pin f to which is pivoted a connecting-rod ¿¹
which is again pivoted to a slide rod p guided at & in the car frame. The upper
end of the rod is connected by means of a cross rod 7 to the bar i, the connections
being such as to allow a slight play between the parts to compensate the jolting of
the car.
The
The operation of the device will be easily intelligible from the foregoing
description, as the car runs the pumps will be worked and will cause a continual
circulation of the water in the tanks.
In Fig. 3 a modified form of the invention is shown. In this case the various tanks
are provided with a common reservoir arranged above the same as at q, said reservoir
having spray head's communicating with each tank as at r and only one pump g
is employed, the tanks being connected together at their lower parts at ss by

page_text: means of pipes. The pump is driven in the same manner as described with
reference to Figures 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 shows the arrangement of the device in connection with a railway van
in which case the upper reservoir is employed but the pump is driven by a fan t
connected to the plunger rod by means of a connecting rod t said fan being driven
by the current of air caused by the movement of the train.
When the car is standing the pumps may be operated by means of an auxilliary
motor of any suitable construction, or stationary tanks of the kind described may
be provided and operated by means of a suitable motor.
In connection with Figure 1 the pumps may also be arranged outside the tanks,
instead of inside the same, in which case the suction chambers should be connected
to each tank by means of flexible pipes.
In Figure 3 the connecting pipes ss of the tanks may be provided with cocks
or valves so that one or other of the tanks may be cut out of the circulation if
desirable.
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 1
claim is:-
1: A car for transporting living fishes by road and rail in which a crank disc
is rotated from one of the car axles and serves to drive a number of pumps
arranged one each in a corresponding number of tanks, whilst the car is in motion
substantially as described.
2: A car of the class covered by Claim 1 in which the pumps are driven by a
wind propeller or other suitable motor substantially as described.
3:A car of the class covered by Claim 1 in which the pumps are driven by
suitable motor whilst the car is not running.
4: Causing the water to circulate in tanks of the kind specified by means of
pumps driven by suitable motors, in connection with stationary tanks substantially
as described.
Dated this 17th day of June 1897
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., .Agents for the Applicant.