An Improved Apparatus for Charging Vessels in Succession with Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: l'ate of Application, 28th Jan., 1856-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Charging Vessels in Succession with
Liquids.
1, FRITZ ROSSBACH-ROUSSET of Tempelhof near Berlin, Germany, 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 object of this invention is the provision of means for supplying a number of
vessels one after another with liquids, in the manner that when one of the several
vessels has been fully supplied, overflow from the same is prevented, and the
charging of the next vessel accomplished automatically.
The apparatus of the invention is shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawing in vertical section and in two different stages of operation.
T is a frame on which are carried a number of troughs G' to G to turn on
rods W to W. S' to S are floats suspended from the troughs through
chains K to K. B to B are the vessels to be charged one after another with a
liquid F. Z the pipe or conduit for delivering said liquid on to one or more of the
troughs. A to A are stop bars for limiting the turning movement of the troughs
in one direction and R' to R' are similar stop bars for limiting the movement of the
troughs in the opposite direction.
The apparatus operates as follows:-Supposing the vessels B1 to B' to be empty,
the troughs G' to G will, by the weight of the floats S¹ to S hanging in said
vessels from the chains K¹ to K, have been brought into such an oblique
position that they bear by their bottom surface against the stop bars A' to A'.
The liquid F to be delivered to each vessel in succession falls upon the highest of
the troughs which are arranged in the line of an inclined plane. From the
highest trough G' the liquid falls into the vessel B1 and as the quantity in this
increases the float S' rises thereby causing the trough G' to turn gradually until,
when the vessel is fully supplied, it comes against the stop bar R' and then
delivers the liquid on to the trough G2 which operates in the same way as
trough G. The same operation is automatically repeated by the other troughs
and floats in succession, so as to supply the liquid to the several vessels. Any
suitable number of troughs with a like number of vessels and floats may
obviously be employed. The supply of liquid to the several vessels is thus in a
measured quantity and regulated as desired by increasing or diminishing the length
of the chain connections K' to 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. An apparatus for the measured supply to vessels of liquids in the manner that
with the increasing supply of the liquid to a vessel, a trough turning on a rod
and held in a position suitable for the supply of the liquid to said vessel by
means of a float held suspended within the same, has this position changed
whereby the supply of the liquid is diverted frem said vessel, substantially as
described and shewn.
2. For the measured charging of a set of vessels the combination of a set of
troughs, with floats in the manner that said troughs in their changed position

page_text: due to the charging of the vessels form one with another a single trough or
channel extending in length automatically as the charging of the several vessels
in succession is completed and along which trough the liquid is conducted to the
next uncharged vessel, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 28th day of January 1896.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.