Improvements relating to Receptacles or Tanks for Aquatic Animals.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1897
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Receptacles or Tanks for Aquatic Animals.
I, GEORG VON STIEGLITZ, Colonel, of Gustav Adolfstrasse 15, Leipzig, in the
Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention has for its object, to provide a tank or receptacle suitable for
holding and transporting certain kinds of fish or other aquatic animals, so that
they remain alive and in good health, even after a long journey.
For this purpose I provide the tank with an automatic appliance for continually
agitating the water and for charging it with fresh air.
The said appliance may assume various shapes, and consists preferably of a
revolving wheel or scoop which is situated in the water, or partly in the water and
partly in the air, and is separated from the main body of the tank by a perforated
screen or partition, and a clockwork or other suitable motor which is situated in
a separate watertight compartment and adapted to drive the said stirring and
aerating mechanism.
A horizontal driving shaft may be provided with a revolving scoop wheel, or
several scoop wheels may be mounted on the same shaft or on independent shafts;
each scoop wheel having several arms carrying scoops adapted to force air into the
water as they revolve; or an aerating wheel may be mounted horizontally on the
bottom of the tank and have a hollow hub extending above the water, so that air
will be drawn in through the hub when the wheel revolves, and will be discharged
into the water through the curved arms or vanes of the wheel.
The water tank and the compartment containing the clockwork or other driving
mechanism are accessible through separate openings.
L Odd of March 1807
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Receptacles or Tanks for Aquatic Animals.
I, GEORG VON STIEGLITZ, Colonel, of Gustav Adolfstrasse 15, Leipzig, in the
Kingdom of Saxony, 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:-
This invention has for its object, to provide a tank or receptacle suitable for
holding and transporting certain kinds of fish or other aquatic animals, so that
they remain alive and in good health, even after a long journey.

page_text: For this purpose I provide the tank with an automatic appliance for continually
agitating the water and for charging it with fresh air.
The said appliance may assume various shapes, and consists preferably of a
revolving wheel or scoop, which is situated in the water, or partly in the water and
partly in the air, and is separated from the main body of the tank by a perforated
screen or partition; and a clockwork or other suitable motor which is situated in
a separate watertight compartment and adapted to drive the said stirring and
aerating mechanism.
A horizontal driving shaft may be provided with a revolving scoop wheel, or
several scoop wheels may be mounted on the same shaft or on independent shafts ;
each scoop wheel having several arms carrying scoops adapted to force air into the
water as they revolve; or an aerating wheel may be mounted horizontally on the
bottom of the tank and have a hollow hub extending above the water, so that air
will be drawn in through the hub when the wheel revolves, and will be discharged
into the water through the curved arms or vanes of the wheel.
The water tank and the compartment containing the clockwork or other driving
mechanism are accessible through separate openings.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a water receptacle embodying my invention,
and provided with a single scoop wheel; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same;
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a receptacle with double scoop wheel; Fig. 4
is a longitudinal section of a receptacle provided with a roller-shaped scoop or
stirrer; Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same; Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section
of a receptacle having a horizontal scoop wheel, that is one with a vertical axis
of rotation; Fig. 7 is a horizontal section of the same; Fig. 8 is a diagram of a
water tank having several agitating appliances.
A represents a clockwork or other motor situated in a separate compartment,
B the scoop wheel provided with vertical arms b and mounted on shaft a, C the
perforated partition separating the scoop wheel from the main body of the
tank, ca glass window, d and h in Figs. 6 and 7 represent the boss and arms of
the horizontal scoop wheel.
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:
1. A water receptacle or tank for aquatic animals, comprising in its construction
mechanical means for agitating and aerating the water, such as a scoop wheel B
mounted on the shaft a situated in the interior of the receptacle, and a driving gear
or going work A situated outside the water space, substantially as described.
2. A water receptacle or tank for aquatic animals provided with one of the
various forms of mechanical agitating and aerating appliances described and
illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1897.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents, 37 and 39, Essex Street, Strand, London.