An Improved Form of Apparatus for Distributing Oil upon the Surface of Water.
Year: 1885

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Form of Apparatus for Distributing Oil upon the
Surface of Water.
We, SAMUEL PALMER of Kilios in the Empire of Turkey Superintendant of the
European Section of the Black-Sea Life-Boat and Rocket-Service & HENRY
STRACEY BARRON of Constantinople Superintendant Engineer of the Imperial
Arsenal do hereby declare the nature of our invention for AN IMPROVED FORM
OF APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING OIL UPON THE SURFACE OF WATER to be as
follows:-
The object of our invention is to furnish mariners and others with a ready means
of effecting a certain degree of tranquility upon the sea surface, when in a disturbed
condition Experiments have shown that a relatively small quantity of oil is
susceptible of diffusion over a large area of water surface, and tends to tranquilize
it, when disturbed, and it is in pursuance of this fact that our apparatus has been
designed. We employ a hollow vessel of suitable material to contain the oil; such
vessel being so constructed, as to have, when filled, a specific gravity, less than that
of water-To this vessel is fitted a valve, operated by a line, leading to the ship or
boat from which the apparatus is manipulated-The valve is normally closed by a
spring, whose tension however inferior to the strain, resulting from the haulage
of the apparatus by the said line through the water-and hence the oil escapes-
The quantity so escaping may be regulated by the spring tension, or by the use of
another line (not controlling the valve) and adjusting the relative haulage strain
thereon and on the line connected with the valve.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Form of Apparatus for Distributing Oil upon the
Surface of Water.
We, SAMUEL PALMER of Kilios in the empire of Turkey Superintendant of the
European Section of the Black Sea Life-boat and rocket Service and HENRY
STRACEY BARRON recently Superintendant Engineer of the Imperial Arsenal at
Constantinople & now resident at 193 Hither-Green lane, Lewisham in the County
of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for DISTRIBUTING OIL UPON
THE SURFACE OF WATER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
We employ a hollow vessel of suitable material, to contain the oil, and so
constructed as to have (when filled) a specific gravity less than that of water. To
this vessel is fitted a valve, operated by a line leading to the ship or boat, from 1
which the apparatus is manipulated. This valve is normally closed by a spring,
whose tension is slightly inferior to the strain resulting from the haulage of the
apparatus through the water, and hence the oil is permitted to escape. By the use
of a supplementary line, not controlling the valve, the apparatus may be towed,
without permitting the escape of any oil-or by the joint use of the two lines, the 1
amount of valve-opening may be regulated at the discretion of the operator.
: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
An apparatus for distributing oil upon the surface of water constructed substan- 2
tially in accordance with the foregoing description.