Year: 1886

page_text: I, GEORGE HENRY MOORE of the City of Norwich, County of New London and
State of Connecticut (United States of America) Manufacturer, 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 object of my invention is to refine an elastic and a non-elastic fluid.
A further object is to form compounds for the refining of fluids.
A further object is to construct and arrange apparatus wherewith the object of
my invention may be accomplished.
Therefore, my invention consists in the method of and the apparatus for the refin-
ing of fluids, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings hereunto annexed;
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my newly invented apparatus for refining fluids.
Figure 2 is an interior perspective view of the filtering compartments of my
apparatus with the filtering material removed.
Figure 3 represents the upper portion of the compartment y when constructed to
be used as a high pressure filter.
Figure 4 is a view of a portion of one of the collecting tubes with a flanged
head L attached thereto.
Figure 5 is an outer face view of said flanged head.
Figure 6 is a central longitudinal sectional view of a valve (R) especially con-
structed to be operated by the direct action therein of an elastic fluid or a vapor.
Figure 7 is an end view of my compound valve provided for the reception.
distribution and exhaust of a motive power, to actuate mechanism to effect the
cleansing of the apparatus.
Figure 8 is a longitudinal, central sectional, view of that part of said compound
valve arranged for the reception and distribution of a motive power.
Figure 9 is a similar sectional view, of the rotating cylinder of that part of said.
compound valve arranged for the reception and exhaust of a motive power.
Figure 10 is a plan view of the rotating motive power receiving and distribution
cylinder, of said compound valve, a section whereof is shown in figure 8, the same
being cut apart on line x of figure 7.
Figure 11 is a similar plan view of the rotating motive power receiving and
exhaust cylinder of said compound valve, a section whereof is shown in figure 9
the same being cut apart on line x of figure 7:

page_text: Figure 12 is a plan view of the cylinder shown in ngure 10 cut apare on the
line figure 10.
Figure 13 is a plan view of the cylinder shown in figure 11 cut apart on the line z¹
figure 11.
Figure 14 is an enlarged view partly in section of a plug valve especially
constructed to permit the passage of a motive power to actuate mechanism and
subsequently the exhaust of said motive power therefrom into the atmosphere.
A represents a reservoir for the reception and distribution of compressed air
conveyed therein through the pipe a, which is connected with suitable air-
compressing apparatus. Said reservoir A, is provided with an outlet pipe a¹ which
is furnished with a valve a².
This reservoir is hereinafter designated as the high pressure reservoir A.
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B, represents a reservoir for the reception and distribution of compressed air
which is preferably supplied from the high pressure reservoir A, through the pipe b,
which connects reservoirs A and B, and which is provided with a pressurò
regulator "set" to preferably maintain a less air pressure in the reservoir B,
than that in the high pressure reservoir A. The reservoir B is provided with an
outlet pipe b' which is furnished with a valve 63 This reservoir is hereinafter
designated as the low pressure reservoir B. The air issuing from the low pressure
reservoir B, is principally employed to actuate the operating mechanism of the
apparatus, as hereinafter described.
C, represents a reservoir constructed and arranged for the purpose of effecting
therein the mingling or compounding of fluids and also of fluids and solid
substances by means of a syphon pump, c, preferably arranged within the
reservoir C, and operated by means of an elastic fluid under pressure supplied
thereto through the pipe c¹, which is suitably connected therewith and also
preferably with the low pressure reservoir B. The pipe c¹ is provided with a
valve c².
The pipe c³, (provided with a valve c¹) connects the steam main and the pipe c¹.
By closing valve c² and opening valve c₁ steam is supplied to the syphon pump c
to operate the same.
If desired both an elastic fluid and a vapor may be used at one and the same
time to operate the syphon pump c also to aid in the mingling or compounding
above stated.
Fluids or solid substances to be mingled or compounded may be introduced
within the reservoir C. through the tube c communicating therein, which is opened
or closed by means of the valve c. Water is supplied therein through pipe c'
which is provided with a valve c. The pipe c' also furnished with a valve co
connects the steam main and the reservoir C for the purpose, if desired, of supply-
ing steam to heat, or agitate, the contents of the reservoir C.
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The reservoir C is provided with a pressure valve c¹¹ which is "set" to allow
the escape of an elastic fluid or vapor from within the reservoir C before the samo
can accumulate in sufficient quantity to interfere with the operations of the
syphon pump c.
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To illustrate this operation of mingling or compounding within the reservoir C,
water and alum in desired proportions are introduced therein but in such quantity
as not to fill the same, compressed air, or steam being supplied to the syphon pump
as before described. The water and any small particles of alum are drawn into
and ejected from said pump continuously until the operating supply of air or
steam is shut off; any accumulation of the same within the reservoir C above a
certain pressure, escaping through the pressure valve as stated, if being understood
that the normal pressure of the compressed air, or steam operating the syphon
pump is greater than the "loading" of said pressure valve. The alum being
soluble in the water is quickly dissolved by it until none remains, or until a
saturated solution is formed. If too great a degree of cold is caused by the
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page_text: expansion or the admitted compressed air operating the syphon pump, steam, or
heated air, may be admitted to counteract the same.
The above described operation of the syphon pump thoroughly and constantly
agitates the forming compound' by taking it from the interior of the reservoir C
and returning it therein, thus circulating it, and intimately mingling the molecules
of matter therein contained, and thus forming a desired compound.
The compound of water and alum is formed for the purpose of being mingled
with a non-elastic fluid that it is desired to refine, to aid in the refining of the
same, therefore; assuming that all the valves in the pipes connected with the
reservoir Care closed, and the pressure valve is loaded to prevent the escape
thereby of air or steam from the reservoir C then, if the valve c¹³ in pipe c¹ which
connects the reservoir C with the low pressure reservoir B, is opened, compressed
air will be admitted into the reservoir C; if then, the valve c" in pipe c¹ is opened,
it is evident that the said compound will be forced from the reservoir C, by the
air pressure into and through the pipe c15 so long as said air pressure is maintained,
and the said compound is permitted to escape from the pipe c₁ to be mingled with
a non-elastic fluid as hereinafter described, or, until said reservoir is free from said
compound or nearly so.
The above operation may be otherwise accomplished, as follows; assuming as
above assumed, then, by opening the valves c² and c in pipes c¹ and c¹s thereby
operating the syphon pump as before described, the said compound will be
continuously agitated and at the same time the compressed air, or steam, by
which the syphon pump is operated, will quickly accumulate in the upper part of
the reservoir C thereby causing and maintaining pressure therein and upon the top
surface of said compound; thus forcing it out therefrom into and through the
pipe c¹ so long as the syphon pump is operated as described, and the said compound
is permitted to escape from the pipe c¹s to be mingled with a non-elastic fluid as
hereinafter described; or until the open end of the pipe c15 within the reservoir C
is exposed by reason of a lessening of the quantity of said compound. The waste
contents of the reservoir C may be drawn.off through the waste outlet.c¹º.
D represents a reservoir, for the reception and distribution of an elastic fluid,
provided with a steam coil d arranged therein for the purpose of heating when
desired an elastic fluid therein. The supply pipe d' thereof is provided with a
check valve d thereby preventing back pressure in said pipe from the expansion
of an elastic fluid within the reservoir D when the same is heated as above
described. The outlet pipe d³ thereof is provided with a valve d*.
E represents what I designate as a purifier, the object of which is to remove
objectionable matter from an elastic fluid passed through a purifying fluid or
compound contained therein.
The tube e arranged therein, is connected with the pipe d³ and terminates in,"
and is connected with the perforated tube e' which is located within and near the
bottom of said purifier, which is also provided with a water supply pipe e² which
in turn is furnished with a valve e³. The steam pipe et is provided with a valve c³
and supplies steam therein for the purpose of heating, or agitating the contents of
the purifier, when desired.
Fluids or solid substances may be introduced within the purifier E through the
tube e which communicates therein, the same being opened or closed by means
of the valve e. The contents of the purifier E may be drawn off through the
waste outlet e8.
F represents a filter for the filtration of elastic fluids which is connected with
the purifier E by the pipe f. Steam pipe fl provided with a valve f' supplies
steain to the filter F when desired. Pipe f³ furnished with a valve f* and pipe ƒ³
also provided with a valve f° are outlet pipes of the filter F which are hereinafter
further described:
G represents what I designate as a compounding tank, for the purpose of
impregnating an elastic fluid, or mixing with it matter capable of producing.

page_text: chemical action when mingled with another fluid; thus chemically effecting a
change in the composition of a fluid.
The compounding tank G is divided into a desired number of compartments g
by partitions g¹. Each compartment g is provided with a pipe g² arranged in an
opening in and near the top of the partitions g¹. The pipes g² extend downward
from said opening in the partitions g¹ to near the bottom of the compartments g
in which they are arranged, and then turn at a right angle or nearly so, and
terminate at the opposite partition.
The lower part of pipes g² are finely perforated. This arrangement of the pipes g³
permits a fluid to pass into the compounding tank, from one compartment to
another and finely out therefrom. Each compartment g is supplied with steanr
for the purpose of supplying moisture to an elastic fluid, or its compounds, as the
same passes through the compounding tank, or for heating, or agitating the
contents of a compartment g, this steam being furnished through pipes g³, provided
with valves g, said pipes g³ being arranged to discharge within the compartments g
and are connected with a steam supply pipe as shown.
The compounding tank G is connected with the purifier E by pipe go which is
furnished with a valve gª. By closing valve gª and opening valve ƒ³ in pipe f³
which connects the filter F and pipe 'g a filtered elastic fluid may flow from the
filter F through pipe f³ into pipe 9 and thence into and through the compartments g
of the compounding tank G, whereby it may be impregnated, or compounded,
or further refined, as desired.
H represents a filter, it, being that part of my apparatus for refining fluids
especially constructed and arranged for the reception, refining and delivery of a
refined non-elastic fluid therefrom; and I will hereinafter. designate this part of
my apparatus as the filter H; said designation being intended to embrace this
filter as a whole, a detailed description of its construction, arrangement and
operations thereof being as follows; The filter H is by preference square or oblong
in shape, and is preferably divided by suitable partitions into two or more compart-
ments for containing filtering material, each of said compartments being in itself a
filter, having its own supply and delivery pipes, facilities for cleansing, and is
cleansed independently and without interfering with the operations of or flow of
a fluid to or from another compartment. Preferably the filter H contains one or
more compartments, other than those above mentioned for containing filtering
media, to be used as reservoirs for a refined non-elastic fluid for purposes hereinafter
described. Any of said compartments for containing filtering media may be
arranged and used either as high or low pressure filters as is hereinafter described.
Figure 2 shows a filter H divided by the partition into two compartments
for containing filtering media, which are herein designated as compartments x,
and y. The false bottom h³ of the filter H forms the floor of compartments
and y and also the top of the reservoir Z for the containing of a refined non-elastic
fluid. The compartment is provided with a waste outlet h covered with wire
cloth or wire perforated sheet metal to prevent the escape of filtering media
thereby, and this waste outlet his used when it is desired to permit the escape
from the compartment of a non-elastic fluid contained therein. It is also
provided with what I designate as an apron and a second waste outlet h²
arranged in front of the apron h¹ in such manner that a non-elastic fluid flowing
over the top of the apron h¹ will flow out from the compartment through the
waste outlet * which should have such discharge capacity as to cause a draft
over said apron, or in other words, it should have the capacity to discharge a
greater quantity of a non-elastic fluid than lows over the apron h
longitudinal opening or a series of openings, preferably in line, in the filter wall
the same effect may be obtained as with the apron h¹ but I prefer to use the
said apron.
With a
Compartment being open at the top as shown in Figure 2 is therefore a low
pressure filter.

page_text: Compartment y of the filter H is also provided with a waste outlet h³ similarly
arranged, covered and used for the same purpose as the waste outlet in com-
partment x. It is also provided with a second waste outlet and with openings h³
and preferably located in the sides and near the top of the compartiment y all
of said openings being covered with wire cloth or with perforated sheet metal.
Compartment is provided with a top cover J which also has wire cloth covered
openings j and j¹ connecting with the trough J¹ which is exteriorly arranged upon
two slides of the compartment y as shown in Figure 2, for the reception of a
non-elastic fluid what may flow therein from the compartiment y through the
openings h h j and j¹ said fluid being conducted away therefrom by the waste
pipe connected therewith.
Although the compartment y is provided with a cover as described, communi-
cation with the outside atmosphere is had by means of the wire cloth covered
openings in said cover, and by the openings connected with the open trough
before described. It is evident that for this reason compartment y is a low
pressure filter.
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Compartment of the filter H may be converted into a high pressure filter by.
simply covering the open top thereof with a tight coyer suitably secured thereon.
Compartment y of the filter H may be converted into a high pressure filter by
removing the cover J and putting it its place a tight cover J completely covering
the top of compartment y and extending beyond it to the vertical outside wall
of the open trough J', with which it is suitably connected as shown in figure 3,
thereby converting the open trough J¹ into a closed passage or tube, shut off
from outside influences by the valve j³ in the waste pipe J8 but, being connected
with the interior of the compartment y by means of the wire cloth covered
openings hand hº.
By closing, said openings in the cover J and the openings h³ and he before
described, the compartment y is converted into a high pressure filter, but I prefer
the manner of converting first above described, for reasons hereinafter stated.
Upon the floor of a compartment or compartments. for containing filtering
material are arranged one or more perforated tubes for the purpose of collecting
therein a filtered fluid as it passes out from a filtering material contained in said
compartment. One end of these tubes preferably extends to the outside of the
wall of its containing compartment to permit access thereto from the outside of the
filter and they are, herein designated as collecting tubes K.
As shown in Figure 2, compartments X and y are each provided with two
collecting tubes which as shown in the drawing; are formed of coarsely perforated
tubes which are spirally enveloped with finely perforated sheet metal k, this
method of spirally enveloping said tubes, as described, affording a stronger and
more durable covering than otherwise..
As before stated one end of the collecting tubes K preferably extends through
openings formed through the filter wall to the outside thereof, or nearly so, and
are therefore provided with a flanged head L (Fig. 5) attached thereto as shown
in Figure 4, said collecting tubes being placed in position within the filter as
before described, are secured thereto by bolting the flanged head L to the filter
wall as shown in Figure 1 and to the floor of the compartment if desired.
The upright tubes & Figure 2, arranged upon the floor of compartments X and y
are for the purpose of permitting a filtered fluid to pass from said compartments
into the compartment or reservoir Z, these tubes are also coarsely perforated and
covered with finely perforated sheet metal. If desired said tubes may extend
below the floor of the compartment in which they are arranged and be provided
with valves which are operated from outside the filter to permit or shut off the
passage of a fluid into the reservoir Z.
M represents the main supply pipe for the conveying of a non-elastic fluid to be
refined, which is connected with the filter H by branch pipes m extending from
the pipe M into a compartment containing filtering material. within the filter H.

page_text: The number of said branch pipes mis governed by the number of compartments
for containing filtering material constructed within the filter H.
N represents the main delivery pipe for the reception and delivery of a refined
non-elastic fluid which is conducted thereto from the filter H by the pipes n which
are connected with the interior of the collecting tubes K by being suitably
arranged in the perforation n' in the flanged head L and also with the pipe N.
O represents a reservoir, for the containing of water of steam which is provided
with a water supply pipe o and a steam supply pipe o¹. The pipe o which is
preferably connected with and supplied from the reservoir is connected with the
filter. H by branch pipes os extending through the perforations of in the flanged
heads L into the collecting tubes K to near their opposite end; that portion of
the pipes os which is contained within the collecting tubes K being finely
perforated.
P represents a water supply pipe, for cleansing purposes, which is connected
with the filter H by branch pipes p extending from the pipe P through the
perforations pl in the flanged head L into the collecting tubes K, to near their
opposite end. That portion of the pipes, p which is contained within the collecting
tubes K is coarsely perforated.
As before stated the water supplied through the pipe P is for the purpose of
cleansing the filter H. It is evidently desirable that clean water should be used
for this purpose, therefore, the supply pipe P is connected with the reservoir Z
of the filter H, by means of the syphon pump Pl, its suction communicating with
the reservoir Z and its discharge and being suitably connected with the pipe P.
The syphon pump P¹ is preferably operated by compressed air conducted thereto
by the pipe p provided with a valve. pa suitably connected with syphon pump PJ
and also with the pipe b. If desired a pump other than a syphon pump may be
connected with the reservoir Z to take the refined water therefrom and force it
into the filter H for the purpose of cleansing.
Branch pipes m for conveying a fluid to be refined into the filter H are provided
with valves R..
Branch pipes n conducting a refined fluid from the filter H to the main delivery
pipe N are also provided with valves R.
Branch pipes o³ for supplying steam or hot water to the filter H for the purpose
of cleansing it, are also furnished with valves R.
Branch pipes p for conducting water to the filter H for the purpose of cleansing
it are also provided with valves R.
The valve R is especially constructed and arranged to be actuated by the force
of a fluid, or vapor, exerted directly upon a hollow piston arranged and moving
within the valve shell as shown in Fig. 6. The valve R is operated as follows;
to close it, compressed air, steam, or water, is admitted into the upper part of the
valve and above the piston as hereinafter described, thereby forcing the piston r
downward upon the valve inlet r¹ thus closing it until the compressed air, steam,
or water, admitted as above stated is allowed to escape from the valve R or to
expand, then the force of a fluid seeking entrance through the valve inlet will
impel the piston r upward thus opening the valve and allowing a fluid to enter
and pass out therefrom by the valve outlet 2. The valve R is provided with a
removable cap 3. The hollow piston is closed at both ends, and has a rubber
disk attached to the lower end thereof, and said piston may be impelled upward
by a spring if desired.
S represents what I herein designate as a compound valve especially constructed
to receive and distribute under pressure a fluid or a vapor which is conducted
therefrom for the purpose of actuating mechanism and re-conducted thereto for
the purpose of allowing said fluid or vapor to exhaust or escape therefrom, thereby
releasing said mechanism from its actuation. This method I term a circulation
of the motive power,

page_text: The compound valve S is formed of two separate cylindrical shells 8 and s
parallel to each other and longitudinally connected by a rib 82 as shown in Figs. 1
and 7, the cylindrical shells 8 and 81 are preferably lined with Babbitt metal 83.
Longitudinally arranged within the Babbitt metal lined shells 8 and 9 are
'exteriorly tapered hollow rotating metal cylinders s' and 8 which are fitted to and
bear upon the interior surface of the Babbitt metal linings, which are shaped, to
conform to the exterior shape of the rotating cylinders s* and 85.
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The shells lined and having arranged therein, as before stated, a hollow rotating
cylinder 8 is the one adapted as hereinafter described, to receive and distribute
under pressure a fluid or a vapor which is conducted therefrom to actuate
mechanism. Therefore; the hollow rotating cylinder 84 is closed at one end and
there provided with a shaft 8 which bears thereon a worm gears? (see fig. 1)
engaging with the worm wheel 88 arranged upon the shaft 89 of the ratchet
wheels. The opposite end of the rotating cylinder s' is closed and has arranged
therein a short hollow tube s" which extends into an opening through the bottom
of the shell 8 and is fitted to bear upon and rotate within said opening as shown
in Fig. 8.
The shells is also provided with a cap suitably attached thereto, a loose
collar 813 surrounding the shaft go and a packing collar s¹ screwing into the cap 8¹¹
and also surrounding the shaft 8 as shown for the purpose of adjusting the
rotating cylinder & longitudinally and maintaining it in position within the shell s.
It is also provided with a desired number of outlet openings 81 preferably
arranged in line, which are continued through the Babbitt metal lining &³ as shown
in Figure 8.
The shaft if desired, may be formed of a hollow tube extending centrally
through the rotating cylinders and terminating in the opening in the bottom of
the shell s being fitted to bear. upon and rotate therein in place of the short tubes":
In this event said tubular shaft is closed at the end bearing the worm gear 7 and
that portion of it contained within the rotating cylinder 8 is perforated to allow
of the escape therefrom of a fluid or vapor, into the interior of the rotating
cylinder 8'.
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The shell 8 also lined, and having arranged therein, as before stated, a hollow
rotating cylinder 85 is the one adapted as hereinafter described, for the purpose of
receiving and allowing a fluid or a vapor to exhaust or escape therefrom thereby
releasing previously actuated mechanism from said actuation. With the exception
that these openings 8 in the shell & parallel and similar to the outlet openings 815
in the shells are inlet openings, and that the rear ends of the shell s² and of the
rotating cylinder 85 of the compound valve S are open as shown in Fig. 7 to allow
a fluid or a vapor received therein to exhaust or escape therefrom, said shell and
cylinder are provided and arranged the same as the shells and its rotating
cylinder 8 of the compound valve S as shown in Fig. 1 and hereinbefore
described.
The rib is centrally enlarged and formed with a cylindrical longitudinal
opening Fig. 7 for the reception of a shaft whereby the compound valve S may
be supported thereon and arranged in a desired position.
As shown in Figs. 8 and 9 the rotating cylinders 8 and 8 of the compound
valve S have openings in a portion of their circumference arranged therein in line
with the outlet opening 815 and inlet openings 816 of the compound valve S.
The plan views, Fig. 10 of the rotating cylinder 8 and Fig. 11 of the rotating
cylinders, show the proportion of their circumferences occupied by said openings,
which in the rotating cylinder 8' are for the purpose of allowing a fluid or a vapor
to pass out therefrom and be conducted away to actuate mechanism for a desired
space of time, which it is evident is governed principally by the speed of the
rotating cylinder 8*.
These openings in the rotating cylinder 85 are for the purpose of receiving a
re-conducted fluid or a vapor, and allow the same to exhaust or escape from the
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page_text: open ends of the rotating cylinders and shell 8', thereby releasing previously
actuated mechanism from its actuation. The time of this particular operation of
the compound valve S is also principally governed by the speed of the rotating
cylinder 85
The pipe 88 provided with a valve s¹ and connected with the open end of the
shells and with the motive power supply pipe 62 conducts a fluid or a vapor to
the interior of the rotating cylinder 8' for the purpose before stated, as shown
in Fig. 8.
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The filter H herein described is shown in the drawing and especially in Fig. 2 as
having two compartments for containing filtering material each of which contains
two collecting tubes; therefore, each of said compartments will have two outlet
valves R for a refined fluid, two inlet valves R for the admission of steam or hot
water, and two valves R for admitting cold water, for cleansing, each pair being
intended to operate alike and at the same time are connected together. The two
outlet valves R being connected by the pipe having a single pipe leading
therefrom to an outlet opening s and the branch pipe v of the pipe v leading to
an inlet opening 810 of the compound valve S. The valves R of the branch pipes o
controlling the admission of steam or hot water into the filter are connected by the
pipe having a single pipe v leading therefrom to an outlet opening 915 and the
branch pipe of the pipe leading to an inlet opening s¹ of the compound
valve S. The valves R of the branch pipes p controlling the admission of cold
water for cleansing purposes into the filter are connected by the pipe ve having a
single pipe leading therefrom to an outlet opening 81s and the branch pipe
the pipe leading to an inlet opening 16 of the compound valve S. The pipe v
and the branch pipe thereof 10 connected respectively with an outlet opening 815
and an inlet opening, s¹ of the compound valve S are also connected with a valve R
controlling the waste outlet of the compartment X. The pipe and the branch
pipe thereof connect the valve R of the branch pipe m respectively with an
outlet opening 81 and an inlet opening 816 of the compound valve S. The
pipes and are provided with valves as shown in Fig. 1 for the purpose
of "shutting off" one or more of the valves R from the compound valve S.
of
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These pipes 27 v and vll may be, connected directly with the motive power
supply pipe band provided with plug valves the same as those used to permit
compressed air to pass into a cylinder for the purpose of operating a piston to
rotate the compound valve S, and which are hereinafter described, and said valves
may be operated by hand or mechanisin automatically actuated or otherwise, to
operate the valves R for the purpose stated.
The valves R may be arranged at other points than those herein before designated
and be connected with a compound valve S if desired.
The automatically actuated mechanism consisting of the compound valve $ the
cylinder T the float 16 all constructed provided and connected as herein described
pertain to the compartment ✗, of the filter H.
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The compartment y is also provided with the same, all being constructed,
provided and connected as for the compartment X, except in the device for the
opération of the plug valve admitting compressed air to actuate the automatic
mechanism. Said device consists of a cylinder W open at the top and provided
with a waste pipe w connecting with the bottom thereof as shown in Fig. 1.
A bucket w¹ arranged within the cylinder is attached to the chain w which
passes over the sprocket wheel w and is provided at its extremity with a weight w
as shown in Fig. 1. The pipe w is arranged to connect with the interior of the
compartment y and to discharge into the bucket w¹ which is provided with a
inwardly opening valve and a small perforation, in its bottom. The operation of
this device is as follows; as the water rises in the compartment Y by reason of
the herein before described clogging of the filtering material, when it reaches the
level of the pipe wit will flow therein and discharge into the bucket, flowing out
therefrom through the small hole in its bottom, and out of the cylinder into the
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page_text: waste pipe w but as the water flows into the bucket faster than it flows out the
small hole it is thus caused to descend, thereby turning the sprocket wheel w³
arranged upon the stem of the plug valve w, opening it and thus admitting
compressed air to actuato the said mechanism to effect the cleansing of the filtering
material in compartment y.
As the water flows out from the bucket through the inwardly opening valve and
the small hole before described it will ascend by reason of the weight w thereby
turning the sprocket wheel in a reverse direction and closing the plug valve
thus shutting off the passage of air through the same. The operating supply of
compressed air being then supplied from the compound valve S as hereinbefore
described.
The movement of the rotating cylinders 81 and 8 of the compound valve S is
effected by mechanism automatically actuated to operate, consisting of the worm
gears, worm wheel and the ratchet wheel pertaining to the compound valve Sand
herein before described, and the cylinder T having arranged therein the piston 't
attached to the piston rod t to which is pivotted at its top end the lever ta
furnished with a pawl 3 engaging with. the ratchet wheel 810, the fulcrum end of
the lever t being arranged upon the shaft 89 of the ratchet wheel 810.
A fluid or a vapor, is supplied to the Cylinder T for the purpose of actuating the
piston t thereof, through the pipes t¹ and to which are connected therewith and also
with the pipe to which is connected both. with the pipe 62 and the compound
valve S and is supplied with the motive power therefrom all being shown in Fig. 1
and hereinafter described.
The pipes and to are provided with what I herein designate as the plug
valves and ts which are constructed to permit at will the flow of a fluid, or a
vapor through the pipes and into the cylinder T also, to cut off said flow, and
further, to allow an elastic fluid, or a vapor to exhaust backward from the
cylinder T all as hereinafter described.
Pinions and 10 arranged upon the stems of the plugs of the plug valves t
and to engage with the rack t" which is arranged upon the piston rod t as shown
in Fig. 1.
The pipe te is provided with a plug valve t¹ upon the stem of which is arranged
the pinion which engaged with the rack t¹ arranged upon the rod t The
float to provided with a standard t¹ is connected with the rod t as shown in Fig. 1,
and hereinafter described.
The terms "fluid" or "fluids" as herein applied, are used to designate elastic or
non-elastic bodies of matter that possess the power of transmitting pressure equally
in every direction, Therefore; to illustrate my method of refining fluids mý
apparatus and manner of operating the same, atmospheric air, and water, will be
used as types of elastic and non-elastic bodies of matter that possess the power of
transmitting pressure equally in every direction, and also as refinably fluids which
it is considered desirable to refine. A body of matter in the aeriform or gaseous
state is herein considered as an elastic fluid; and that class of fluids called liquids,
as non-elastic fluids.
I do not limit myself to the refining of atmospheric air; and water, as gaseous
and alcoholic fluids may be refined and the present composition of the same changed
by the method and means herein described.
It is herein stated that by the method and means herein described, the
simultaneous and continuous refining and mingling of an elastic and a non-elastic
fluid is accomplished. I do not limit myself to this particular manner of operating,
for the reason, that the refining of said bodies of matter can be accomplished by
the said method and means otherwise than simultaneously and continuously.
It is especially desirable to simultaneously and continuously refine and mingle
an elastic and a non-elastic fluid when the final product desired is only a non-elastic
fluid. In this event the elastic fluid is used alone or compounded as hereinbefore
stated, for the mechanical and chemical properties pertaining thereto, in the refining
or compounding, or both of a non-elastic fluid.

page_text: It is well known that atmospheric or ordinary air contains. a. number of
impurities; and that when it is brought into contact with nutrient matter is
capable of producing fermentation and putrifaction; thus, it differs in composition,
and evidently in the compound formed should it be mingled with a non-elastic
fluid, or compounded as hereinbefore stated and subsequently mingled, from the
composition of, and the compound formed when refined air or what I herein
designate as air proper i.e. the mechanical mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, is
mingled, or compounded and mingled as herein before stated, with another body of
the same non-elastic fluid first above mentioned.
A refined air is incapable of producing fermentation or putrifaction, or to vitiate
the result, or the product desired when it is used as and for the purpose herein
stated.
Various impurities are contained in water, and the desirability of refining it for
domestic and other purposes are too well known and understood to be herein set
forth in detail.
As the character of the air or water operated upon determines the special treat-
ment requisite to refine the same, I will assume for purposes of illustration that
the air which it is now desired to refine is a compound of air proper, moisture,
carbonic acid, ammonia, hydrogen sulphide, yeast germs, other organisms and fiue
particles of dirt.
It is also assumed that the water it is now desired to refine contains mechanically
suspended therein such impurities as fine clay, vegetable. matter, and is also
discolored by reason of vegetable coloring matter held in solution therein.
To prepare the apparatus for the refining of air and water of the assumed com-
position herein before stated, the reservoir C is prepared as before described with
the compound of water and alum. The purifier E is partly filled with milk of
lime, and the filter F provided with filtering material, which may be fragments of
pumice stone, animal charcoal, or cotton wool, as desired, arranged therein to permit
the air to filter through the same. In the compartments g of the compounding
tank G are placed; in the first, sulphuric acid, in the next solution potassium
permanganate, in the next potassium hydrate, and to illustrate the method of
impregnating an elastic fluid, in the next peroxide of barium and mono-hydrated
sulphuric acid, thus evolving active oxygen which diffuses into the elastic fluid
admitted into and passing through this compartment, impregnating said air, having
been prepared as above stated. The part particularly adapted for the refining of a
non-elastic fluid is now prepared as follows, in a filter H in the compartment or
compartments for containing filtering material is placed therein finely crushed
quartz which I prefer to use as a filtering material for the mechanical filtration of
a non-elastic fluid, as water &c,-the apparatus being now prepared for the simul-
taneous and continuous refining and mingling of an elastic and a non-elastic fluid,
the said air under pressure is supplied to the reservoir A and said water is supplied
to the main supply pipe M. of the filter H passing therein through the branch'
pipes m into the compartments X and y and at the same time the compound of
water and alum, forced into and through the pipe c¹³ as hereinbefore described, is
conducted by branch pipes c connected therewith and with the branch pipes m to
mingle with the unrefined water flowing into the filter H, where by reason of its
chemical affinity therefor it combines with the vegetable coloring matter and the
free organic matter contained in the water, thereby coagulating and precipitating
the same, said precipitate being arrested by the filtering material through which
the fluid percolates, passing therefrom into the collecting tubes K and out therefrom
through the branch pipes n into the main delivery pipe N to any desired point.
It is desirable that the alum solution and the inflowing water in the supply.
pipe M, shall be mingled in definite proportions, and this is accomplished in such
manner that the variation in the flow of a fluid in the supply pipe M varies the
flow of a fluid or fluid compound supplied in the pipe c' for the purpose herein-
before stated. A regulator, consisting of the cylinder c¹s provided with a piston or
float c¹ therein with a rod c20 connected there with and at its upper end adjustablý

page_text: so, with the lever c" of the valve o of the pipe c¹³ is connected by the pipe c.
with the supply pipe M.
In the beginning the valve c" in pipe o is adjusted to allow the desired portion
of the alum solution to mingle with the water supplied from the pipe M, then the
rod is connected with the lever in its adjusted position, the piston or float
being held in its position by the pressure of the water rising up from the pipe M
into the cylinder.
All being arranged as above stated, it is evident that an increased supply of
water to the pipe M will increase the pressure therein and in the cylinder, thereby
moving the piston or float thereof upwards and also the piston rod and the lever c²
and thus operating the valve c* in the pipe c¹³ to permit a proportionate flow of
the alum solution to the increase of flow in the pipe M. Should the supply of
water to the pipe M be diminished, it is also evident, that the pressure therein and
in the cylinder c18 will be lessened, thereby causing the piston or float to descend
and also the piston rod and the lever c" thus operating the valve c in pipe c¹³ to
shut off a proportionate quantity of the flow of said alum solution.
The supplied air passes from the reservoir, A through the pipe a¹ into the
purifier E containing milk of lime where it is freed from carbonic dioxide, ammonia,
hydrogen sulphide, and more or less of the organic matter, and flows from thence
into the filter F issuing therefrom free from organic matter. From this point it
may be allowed to flow through pipe f³ into pipe G₁ and from thence into pipes g"
and g issuing therefrom and mingling with a non-elastic fluid within the filter H
or; it may be allowed to flow from the filter F through the pipe ƒ³ into the pipe g³
and thence into the compounding tank G where it passes first through the sulphuric
acid, thereby being freed from contained moisture, thence through the solution of
potassium permanganate, next through the potassium hydrate, both being employed
for their well known chemical affinity for organic matter, water, carbonic dioxide
&c, and then through the compartment g containing said compound, evolving active
oxygen which impregnates by diffusion the refined air which then flows from the
compounding tank into the pipe G₁ connected therewith and with the filter H
through said pipe G¹ into the pipes g' and g³ issuing therefrom and mingling with
the non-elastic fluid within the filter H.
The compounding tank G may be constructed with any desired number of
compartments arranged and provides as bereinbefore described, and these compart-
ments may be suitably lined, or may contain a suitable receptacle for the contents
thereof provided that the pipes g³ are arranged therein to allow the air passing
through them to rise up through said "contents," the chemical properties whereof
determining the character of said linings and receptacles. It is also evident that
various fluids, solids, and compounds, may be placed in the compartments of the
compounding tank to effect the purpose hereinbefore described.
After the filter has been in operation for a time, the filtering material will
become clogged by the foreign matter or sediment that has been separated from
the water in its passage through the same, and has been deposited upon the
filtering material or become lodged in the interstices between its particles, and
hence the filtering material must be cleansed or freed from such foreign matter to
insure the continued operation of the filter.
Therefore as the filter H herein described is provided with mechanism which is
automatically actuated to operate to effect the cleansing of the filter, the automatic
actuation and operation of said mechanism, with the effect thereof will be now
described. This filter H herein described being provided with two compart-
ments (X and y) for containing filtering material, each acting independently of the
other and differing in arrangement as herein before stated, the automatic cleansing
of the compartment X will be first described.
It is assumed that the quantity of water supplied through the branch pipes m to
the filter is regulated by its capacity to filter the same, it is also evident that the
clogging of the filtering material will be gradual causing a gradual filling of the

page_text: filter with water which as it rises therein will carry up the float 16 and the rod t
connected therewith, thereby causing the pinion t¹³ to turn sufficiently to open the
plug valve in the pipe to thereby admitting compressed air therein which, (as is
evident from the position of the piston in the cylinder T pertaining to the com-.
partment X, see Fig. 1) will flow into the said cylinder through the pipe 15 forcing
the piston upward and by this movement operating the pinions to and 10 pertaining
to plug valves and 8 thereby operating said valves and cutting off the flow of
compressed air through the pipe and permitting it to flow through the pipe t*
into the cylinder T entering the same at its top and thereby forcing the piston
downwards, the operations of the plug valves t' and to regulating the movement of
the piston of the cylinder T being as follows. When the piston t is at rest near.
the bottom of the cylinder T the rotating plugs of the valves t' and ts are in such
position that the compressed air can pass through the valve t and not through
valve but the exhaust groove thereof is in such position that the compressed air
previously admitted into the cylinder T through this plug valve ts expands
backward from the said cylinder, through its feed pipe tand out therefrom
through the exhaust groove t¹s of the plug valve 18 leading therefrom into the
atmosphere.
When said piston is near the top of the cylinder T the position of the rotating.
plugs of the valves t' and t8 is the reverse of that first above described, therefore, the
compressed air previously admitted into the cylinder T through the plug valve t
expands backward therefrom through its feed pipe t and thence through the
exhaust groove t¹8 leading therefrom of the plug valve t out into the atmosphere.
This described movement of the piston tand consequently of the piston rod t¹
operates the lever and by means of the pawl t engaged therewith, rotates the
ratchet wheel 810 and the worm wheel, both being borne on the shaft & the
rotation of the worm wheel rotating the engaging worm gears and thereby.
rotating the cylinders 8 and 8 of the compound valve S.
When a fluid is being refined within the filter the cylinders 84 and 83 of the
compound, valve S are at rest, and their position therein is as follows;-the
cylinder presents a solid portion of its circumference to the outlet openings 815
connected as before described with the valves R of the branch pipes m and n, the
position of the cylinder. 8 being such that it presents an open portion of its
circumference to the inlet openings 810 connected as before described with the
valve R of the branch pipes m and n, thus preventing any pressure of air from
the interior of the cylinder 8 upon the pistons of the valves R of the branch
pipes m and n, thereby permitting a non-elastic fluid to flow into the filter to be
refined and out therefrom as described. During the operation of cleansing the
cylinders presents open. portions of its circumference to the outlet openings 815
connected as described with the valves R of the branch pipes o³, the branch pipe 2,
and the waste pipes, thereby permitting the compressed air to issue from the
interior of the cylinder 8' and to be conducted as before described into the valves R
forcing down the pistons thereof upon the inlet openings of said valves and closing
them; at the same time the cylinder 8 presents solid portions of its circumference
to the inlet openings 810 connected as herein described with said designated
valves R thereby preventing the escape of the compressed air therefrom con-
sequently maintaining said valves R closed.
During said operation of cleansing, the cylinders 8 and 85 are in motion being
actuated as herein before described. Therefore, the hereinbefore described position
of said cylinders while at rest is now designated as the starting point from which
said operation of cleansing commences and terminates. In Fig. 12 this starting
point of the cylinder 8 is illustrated, being shown therein between the lines 820
and 80. The dotted circles therein indicating the relative positions of the outlets 815
to said starting point when the said cylinders are at rest. Each of said outlets is
also provided, as shown in Fig. 12, with the letter pertaining to the conducting,
pipe connected therewith as hereinbefore described.

page_text: In Fig. 13 this starting point of the cylinder 8 is illustrated, being shown therein
between the lines 81 and 8, the dotter circles therein indicate the relative positions
of the inlets 816 to said starting point when the cylinder & is at rest. Each of said
inlets is also provided as shown in Fig. 13 with the letter pertaining to the con::
ducting pipe connected there with, as hereinbefore described.
Referring to Figs. 12 and 13 it will be seen, as herein before designated and
described, that the valves R controlling the supply of an unrefined fluid to the
compartment X and the flow of a refined fluid therefrom are open; and that the
valves R of the steam or hot water, cleansing water, and waste pipes are closed,
thereby indicating that a fluid is being refined.
Assuming that the compartment X is now to be cleansed, and that the
automatically actuated mechanism now operates; (still referring to Figs. 12
and 13) as the cylinders 84 and 8" commence to rotate from said starting point,
each in the direction of the arrow printed thereon, that the valves R first above
stated as being open will be closed by the air pressure from the interior of the:
cylinder s and that at the same time the valve R controlling the admission of
steam or hot water into the compartment X, and also the valve R controlling the
waste outlet will be opened.
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Before steam is admitted to cleanse the filter the fluid contained in the
compartment X is drawn off through the waste outlet hereinbefore described
leaving the filtering material free therefrom, then the steam is permitted to enter
the collecting tubes and issues therefrom permeating the body of the filtering.
material heating it, and also the organic matter and sediment separated as before
described from a fluid, and so altering the character of the same that it will be
easily washed off. the filtering material and carried away therefrom by a current of:
water. This described action of the steam continues for the space of time occupied
by one half the full rotation, less one half the starting point as shown in Figs. 12
and 13 of the cylinders 8 and 85.
If hot water is used instead of the steam, it is admitted into the collecting tubes.
flowing up therefrom through the filtering material heating and cleansing it and
finally flowing out from the compartment X over the apron h¹ and through the
waste outlet, this action of the hot water continuing for the same space of time
as for the steam.
After said one half a full rotation of the cylinders 8 and 8 the valve R:
controlling the admission of steam or hot water is automatically closed, and the
valve R controlling the admission of cold water for the purpose of cleansing, and..
carrying away impurities, is opened; thereby admitting cold water into the
collecting tubes of the compartment X which, issuing therefrom flows up through
the filtering material carrying with it said organic matter and sediment over the:
apron hand out through the waste outlet h². This action of said cold water
continues for the space of time occupied by one half the full rotation, less one half.
the starting point as shown in Figs. 12 & 13 of the cylinders 8 and 85 which have
now made a full rotation and have arrived at the point of beginning, ie, the
starting point, and there stop; for the reason that the operating supply of com-.
pressed air from the interior of the cylinder 8* to the cylinder T is shut off by the
resting position of said cylinder and the operation of refining again commences.
The result effected by the apron his as follows the water forced into the filter.
for cleansing the same rises rapidly therein, and upon reaching the brow of the
apron flows over the same. By reason of the herein before stated capacity of the:
waste outlet pertaining to said apron the water level of the outlet side of said apron
is maintained below that of the inlet side, thereby creating a strong current of this
outflowing water uniformly affecting the entire surface of the same by reason of
the said apron crossing said current which, for the above stated reasons has a
greater capacity to carry with it out from the filter the said organic matter and
sediment than otherwise.
The construction and arrangement of the compartment y is hereinbefore described..
This compartment of the filter H, is particularly adapted to be cleansed with cold

page_text: water as follows. The cleansing water is introduced as before described into the
collecting tubes arranged in said compartment with such force that after issuing
from said tubes its velocity is such as to carry up with it the particles of filtering
material and to keep them in motion and suspendion therein. This inflowing water
escapes freely through the hereinbefore described wire cloth covered openings in
the sides and top cover of said compartment, into the trough J¹ and therefrom by
the-waste pipe connected therewith, thus preventing an increase of pressure of the
inflowing water within the compartment y, and ensuring the maintainance of the
above described operation of cleansing so long as the force, and thereby the velocity,
of the water is maintained. When the filtering material has been thus operated
upon for a sufficient space of time to free the same from said organic matter and
sediment, the force and velocity of the cleansing water is lessened, preferably by
diminishing the supply in such degree that the filtering material by reason of its
specific gravity will sink therein to its filtering position upon the floor of said
compartment, and that the organic matter and sediment by reason of its less
specific gravity will remain mechanically suspended in the lessened current. Then,
the waste outlet h is opened, and the lessened current of water will flow out
through the same carrying with it said suspended organic matter and sediment,
this operation continuing until the desired cleansing is effected, the compartment y
being then ready for the refining of a non-elastic fluid as before stated.
This compartment y is provided with the automatically actuated mechanism
herein before described; the compound valve S thereof being connected with the
valves R of said compartment, and the rotating cylinders thereof being provided
with the herein before described openings suitably arranged in their circumferences
to effect the proper operation of the valves R connected therewith.
As hereinbefore described, the filter Hor the filtering compartments thereof may
be converted into high pressure filters if desired. Assuming that the compartment y
has been so converted and that the filtering material therein requires cleansing,
I will now describe the application of my method to the cleansing of a high
pressure filter; also stating that the automatic actuation, causing the operation of
the said automatically actuated mechanism, is the increase of the pressure of the
water within the filter caused by the described clogging of the filtering material,
said increase of pressure operating suitably arranged and connected mechanism to.
open a plug valve arranged as before described and thus admit compressed air to
operate said mechanism to effect the cleansing of the filtering material; Therefore,
at a certain desired pressure said mechanism is operated as before described to close
the open valves R, to open a valve R in the waste pipe J, and at the same time the
valve R of the cleansing water pipe before described, thus introducing within said
collecting tubes cleansing water having the same force and velocity as before
described for the cleansing of this compartment y when operated as a low pressure
filter.
It is evident that the opening of the valve R of the waste pipe J, effects an
immediate reduction of the water pressure within the filter, and the cleansing of
the filtering material is now effected in the same manner as herein before described
for the compartment y when operated as a low pressure filter. The wire cloth
covered openings of the filter H permit the escape of water therefrom but not of the
filtering material.
I will further illustrate my invention by describing what I term the refining of
an alcoholic fluid, taking whiskey as the alcholic fluid it is now desired to refine by
the method and means herein before described.
The chief impurity it is desired to remove from whiskey is fusel oil, so called,
which is less volatile than either water or spirits and therefore can be separated
from an alcoholic fluid by cold, and also by digesting with charcoal. It is well
known that compressed air expands rapidly and its temperature falls below zero,
and that the cold and relaxed air returns to zero and to the ordinary pressure by
taking heat from the fluid in which it expands, Therefore, whiskey and a desired
portion of charcoal is introduced into the reservoir C, and the syphon pump c

page_text: caused to operate as hereinbefore described, thus effecting a lowering of the
temperature of the whiskey within the reservoir C and causing the fusel oil to
separate therefrom, which is at the same time absorbed by the charcoal the fine
particles thereof being brought into intimate and varied connection with the
molecules of the whiskey in the manner hereinbefore described; the temperature of
the contents of the reservoir may be regulated, as desired, by the admission of hot
air therein as before stated.
After continuing the above described operation until the fusel oil is absorbed,
the whiskey is conducted through the pipe c in the manner hereinbefore described,
into the compartment X of the filter EL which has previously been prepared for its
reception by closing the tubes therein to prevent any portion of the whiskey
passing into the compartment Z, and the operation of refining is completed in the
compartment X as before described for the refining of a non-elastic fluid.
The plug valve Fig. 14, is the same as that provided herein to permit an elastic
fluid or a vapor, to actuate a piston in the cylinder T and subsequently to exhaust
backward therefrom through the feed pipe connected therewith, and out therefrom.
by means of the exhaust groove t¹s of said valve into the atmosphere as herein-
before described. The passage through the plug of said valve to permit an elastic
fluid to pass to the cylinder T is made in said plug at a right angle to the exhaust
groove tis
It is evident that the reservoir D may be connected with the reservoir A and
supplied therefrom with a compressed elastic fluid, and that the syphon pump c
may be connected with the pipe G₁ and. supplied therefrom with the operating
supply of a refined, impregnated, or compounded, elastic fluid, and also that the
reservoir B may be connected, with the reservoir D and supplied therefrom with
an operating supply of a heated elastic fluid, and all without departing from the
spirit of my invention.
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,
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1. Simultaneously refining and mingling an elastic and a non-elastic fluid, and
2. Simultaneously refining, and impregnating, or compounding, and mingling,
elastic and non-elastic fluids, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
3. The herein described process of forming compounds for the refining of a
non-elastic fluid, consisting in compounding solid and fluid matter, by means of a
syphon pump operated by an elastic fluid, or a vapor, or by a mingled elastic fluid
and a vapor, all being arranged and operating substantially as herein described
and for the purpose herein specified.
4. The herein described process of refining an alcoholic fluid consisting in
mingling and agitating the same with an elastic fluid and an absorbent; the
temperature of the compound being regulated when desired by means of a heated
elastic fluid, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
5. The herein described process of impregnating or compounding an elastic fluid
with chemically acting matter, thereby forming a compound to act chemically,
consisting in passing an elastic fluid through one or more compartments containing
solid or fluid matter, or a compound of the same, and thereby. impregnating, or
compounding, an elastic fluid therewith, by diffusion, or by chemical affinity, or
by the physical agency or heat or a vapor, substantially as and for the purpose
herein described.
6. The process herein described of cleansing filtering material, consisting in
first freeing it from a non-elastic fluid and then admitting steain and subsequently
a current of cold water, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
7. The method herein described of agitating and cleaning filtering material, by
means of the force and velocity of a current of water sufficient to overcome the
specific gravity of the filtering material, and subsequently lessening the force and

page_text: verocity of said current in such degree that the filtering material will sink therein by
reason of its specific gravity, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
8. The herein described method of keeping a supply of a refined non-elastic
fluid for the cleansing of the filtering material therewith, all as herein described.
9. The method herein described of automatically effecting the cleansing of
filtering material within its containing compartment, consisting of the herein
described mechanism for this purpose automatically actuated, and operating by
means of compressed air or steam supplied thereto and exhausted therefrom, in the
manner herein described and for the purpose herein specified.
10. By automatic actuation, admitting motive power, either an elastic fluid or
a vapor, to move a piston and thereby operate mechanism to effect the cleansing of
a filter.
11. The method herein described of counteracting the effect of the expansion of
compressed air, consisting in mingling therewith a hot air or a hot vapor.
12. In an apparatus for refining fluids a reservoir, for the primary reception
and distribution of an elastic fluid under pressure, arranged connected and provided
as herein shown and described.
13. In an apparatus for refining fluids a reservoir for the secondary reception and
distribution of all elastic fluid under pressure, provided with a pressure regulator,
and connected as and for the purpose herein shown and described.
14. In an apparatus for refining fluids a reservoir, for the forming of compounds
therein from solid and fluid matter, mechanically, by operating a syphon pump by.
means of an elastic fluid or a vapor, and chemically, by the chemical action of an
elastic fluid, by which the syphon pump is operated, upon the contents of said
reservoir, all as and for the purpose herein described.
15. In an apparatus for refining fluids, a reservoir for the forming therein of
compounds from solid and fluid matter, provided with a syphon pump connected to
be operated by means of an elastic fluid, a pressure valve to regulate the pressure
within the reservoir, an inlet for the introduction of solid and fluid matter, and an
outlet therefrom, all arranged operating substantially as described.
16. In an apparatus for refining fluids a reservoir, for the reception and
distribution of an elastic fluid, provided with a steam coil arranged therein,
substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
17. In an apparatus for refining fluids a purifier, consisting of a reservoir for
containing matter for the purification of an elastic fluid, provided with an inlet for
the introduction of purifying matter, an inlet for the introduction of an elastic fluid
connected with an interior tube discharging at or near the bottom of the purifier,
an outlet, a waste outlet, and with steam and water supply pipes connected
therewith; all being arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and
described:
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18. In an apparatus for refining fluids a filter for the filtration of an elastic fluid,
arranged connected and provided substantially as herein shown and described.
19. In an apparatus for refining fluids, a compounding tank provided with a
reinovable cover, an elastic fluid inlet, and outlet for an impregnated or compounded
elastic fluid, and with steam supply pipes; said compounding tank being divided
into a series of compartments connected by pipes discharging at or near the bottom
of said compartiments; all being constructed, arranged and operating substantially
as herein shown and described.
20. A filter adapted to the simultaneous, separate, and complete filtration of a
body of a non-elastic fluid divided and introduced therein.
21. A filter for the. refining of a non-clastic fluid, divided into a series of
compartments for containing filtering material, each adapted to operate as a whole,
and independently of each other.
22. In an apparatus for the refining of fluids, a filter for the filtration of a
non-elastic fluid connected with the delivery pipe of the apparatus supplying
a refined, impregnated, or compounded elastic fluid, substantially as herein shown,
and for the purpose herein described.

page_text: 23. In an apparatus for refining fluids a perforated tube spirally wrapped with
perforated sheet metal as and for the purpose herein described.
24. In an apparatus for refining fluids, a collecting tube provided with a flanged
head connected therewith substantially as herein shown and for the purpose herein
described.
25: In an apparatus for refining flaids, a compartment for containing filtering
material provided with an "overflow apron" arranged therein operating as and for
the purpose described.
26. In an apparatus for refining fluids, an enclosed compartment for containing
filtering material provided with perforated covered openings to permit the passage
of a fluid therefrom into an exteriorly arranged open trough, provided with a waste
outlet, substantially as herein shown and for the purpose described.
27. In an apparatus for refining fluids, an enclosed compartment for containing.
filtering material provided with perforated covered openings connecting with an
exteriorly arranged passage or tube provided with an outlet, all arranged and
operating substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.
28. In an apparatus for refining fluids a compartment for containing filtering
material, provided with perforated tubes arranged therein to permit the flow of a
refined fluid therefrom into a reservoir or compartment of the apparatus where said
fluid is stored to be used for cleansing the apparatus.
29. In an apparatus for refining fluids, a compartment for containing filtering
material provided with perforations in the wall thereof for the arrangement of
collecting" tubes therein, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and
described.
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30. For the actuation of mechanism and connected therewith, a valve for the
reception, distribution and exhaust therefrom of a motive power supplied thereto.
31. For the actuation of mechanism, a valve provided with a motive power
supply inlet, with two or more motive power distributing outlets, and with two or
more motive power exhaust inlets, all connected with pipes for the conducting of
said motive power and with cylinders provided with openings in their circumference
and adapted to rotate within exterior shells, and to receive and distribute a motive
power thereby actuating mechanism, and also to receive and exhaust a motive
power thereby releasing previously actuated mechanism from said actuation.
32. In an apparatus for refining fluids, a valve for the reception distribution and
exhaust of a motive power; a cylinder provided with a piston connected with said
valve and adapted to control the motive power as herein described, and a float
within the said apparatus connected with and adapted to actuate said piston; all
being combined and operated substantially as herein described.
33. For the actuation of mechanism a device, consisting of a cylinder provided
with a waste outlet, and with a bucket arranged therein provided with an inwardly
opening valve and a small perforation in its bottom, said bucket being connected
with a chain belt, provided with a weight thereon, passing over a sprocket wheel
attached to the stem of a plug valve arranged in a pipe for the conducting of a
motive power, all being automatically actuated to operate by the weight of a body
of water conducted into said bucket by a pipe connected with a compartment
containing filtering material and arranged to discharge a fluid within said bucket
thereby actuating mechanism, all substantially as herein shown and described and
for the purpose herein set forth.
34. A pipe for conducting fluids provided with a valve consisting of an exterior
shell having a piston fitted to move therein and actuated by the force of a fluid or
a vapor exerted directly upon said piston, all substantially as herein shown' and
described.
35. A pipe for conducting fluids provided with a valve having a piston fitted to
move therein and actuated by the force of a fluid or a vapor as herein described,
connected with a valve adapted to receive distribute and exhaust a supplied
motive power substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
herein stated.

page_text: 36. Mechanism for maintaining a proportionate flow and discharge of a non-
elastic fluid in two or more auxilliary pipes, consisting of a cylinder connected with
A superior pipe and having a piston whose rod is connected with and adapted to
operate a valve or valves within the auxilliary pipe or pipes; said piston being
automatically actuated by the increased or reduced pressure within said, superior
pipe; all-being combined substantially as herein described.
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