Improvements in and in Apparatus for the Loading into, Trans- porting in, and Unloading from Ships and Navigable Vessels of Palm Oil and Cocanut Oil.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 26th Oct., 1888
Improvements in and in Apparatus for the Loading into, Trans-
porting in, and Unloading from Ships and Navigable Vessels of
Palm Oil and Cocanut Oil.
I GEORGE ARBUTHNOT MOORE of 46 Tower Buildings Water Street Liverpool
in the county of Lancaster Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Generally a large percentage of palm and cocoanut oils are, in the countries where
they are obtained, in a liquid or semi liquid condition, but some of such oils are
normally of about the consistency of butter and practically all these oils assume that
condition in cold weather and climates, especially after storage.
The object is to facilitate the operations of loading, transporting and unloading
palm and cocoanut oils when they have assumed the buttery or semi solid condition
above mentioned.
My invention consists First. For loading and unloading ships or navigable vessels,
in applying artificial heat to the semi-solid oil and in conveying the said oil liquified
by the heat into and from suitable tanks or containers in the ship or vessel: motion
being given to the said liquified oil by means of pumps or the action of gravity.
Second. For liquifying the oil I construct tanks or vessels with jackets tubes or
other spaces through or into which steam products of combustion or other heating
agents are passed or I combine suitable tanks or vessels with a heating chamber or
floor.
Third. For transporting the said oils I construct a ship or vessel with tanks or
receptacles into which liquified oil is conveyed and with appliances for heating the
said tanks or vessels when it is required to liquify the oil to enable it to be readily
removed therefrom.

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Apparatus
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porting in, and Unloading from Ships and Navigable Vessels of
Palm Oil and Cocoanut Oil.
I, GEORGE ARBUTHNOT MOORE, of 46, Tower Buildings, Liverpool, in the county
of Lancaster, Merchant, 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:—
Generally a large percentage of palm and cocoanut oils are, in the countries where
they are obtained, in a liquid or semi liquid condition; but some of such oils are
normally of about the consistency of butter and practically all these oils assume
that condition in cold weather and climates, especially after storage.
The object is to facilitate the operations of loading, transporting, and unloading
palm and cocoanut oils when they have assumed the buttery or semi solid condition
above mentioned.
'
My invention consists, First. For loading and unloading ships or navigable vessels,
in applying artificial heat to the semi solid oil; and in conveying the said oil liquified
by the heat into and from suitable tanks or containers in the ship or vessel; motion
being given to the said liquified oil by means of pumps, or the action of gravity.
Second. For liquifying the oil I construct tanks or vessels with jackets, tubes, or
other spaces through or into which steam, products of combustion, or other heating
agents are passed, or I combine suitable tanks or vessels with a beating chamber or
floor.
Third. For transporting the said oils I construct a ship or vessel with tanks or
receptacles into which liquified oil is conveyed, and with appliances for heating the said
tanks or vessels when it is required to liquify the oil to enable it to be readily removed
therefrom.
That my invention may be readily understood I have appended a diagram illus-
trating a method of carrying my improvements into effect. a represents the ship or
vessel made with tanks b, provided at the bottom with coils c, through which steam
may be passed to heat the oil contained therein. The said tanks have hatchways
closed by tight covers which may be removed when the oil is discharged and it is
desired to use the tanks for containing cargo. d represents pumps for drawing the
oil from the tanks. e represents ways closed by caps through which oil is supplied to
the tanks. represents a pipe from a storage tank or pump on land from which-the-
tanks bare filled. The tanks on land are placed over flues, or are fitted with jackets
or tubes through which heated gases and products of combustion pass.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
First. Liquifying and conveying oil into ships or vessels substantially as set forth.
Second. Constructing tanks or vessels substantially in the manner and for the
purpose set forth.
Third. Constructing ships or vessels with tanks and fittings substantially in the
manner and for the purpose set forth.