IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF OZONIZED OXYGEN
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hagen, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE PRODUCTION
AND APPLICATION OF OZONIZED OXYGEN." A communication from abroad
by Leon Quentin Brin and Arthur Brin, both of Paris, France.
(Void by reason of the Patentee having neglected to file a Specification in
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hagen at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October 1881.
EDWARD HAGEN, of Ealing, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR THE PRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF OZONIZED OXYGEN."
(A communication from abroad by Leon Quentin Brin and Arthur Brin, both of
Paris, France.)
In a previous Patent application, dated 26th August 1881, I have described &
mode of producing ozone or ozonized oxygen on a commercial scale. Now one
part of the present Invention consists in apparatus for producing such ozonized
oxygen, another part refers to the application of the same to various useful
purposes, such as the disinfection or purification and decolourization of saccharine
juices, and to the treatment of organic fusible matters, such, for instance, as bees'-wax
vegetable and mineral wax, such as stearine and stearic acid, also of oils and fatty
bodies of all kinds, by passing a current of ozonized oxygen through these
materials in connection with special apparatus therefor. The apparatus for pro-
ducing and applying the ozonized oxygen may be arranged as follows:-The
oxygen produced according to Brin's Patent, No. 1416 of 1880, is collected into
gas holders and passes thence through a coil or coils arranged in a refrigerator
having a lower water inlet cock and upper outlet cock. It then passes into an
ozonizing apparatus containing a system of pipes wherein it is electrified by means
of induction bobbins excited, for instance, by bichromate elements. The ozonizing
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page_text: apparatus consists mainly of a large glass or other receiver adapted to be kept full
of acidulated water wherein are immersed a number of pairs of tubes analogous to
the apparatus of Wilde and Berthelot. Each pair is formed of two tubes dipping
one into the other, the oxygen passing between the two closing the circuit. The
joints of the glass tubes are made by means of lead foil covered with india-rubber
ligatures. The exit tubes are made of lead.
The oxygen thus transformed to a certain extent into ozone or into ozonized
oxygen, is passed into a barrel churn into which the material to be treated is
placed. This material is contained in a receiver, which by means of a heating
appliance or water jacket bath is maintained at a certain temperature. The churn
is also heated or cooled as desired by means of a flow of water. The material con-
tained in the churn is beaten up into an emulsion by means of suitable gearing or
shafting; it is then that the ozonized oxygen penetrating the material parts with
its electricity while performing the desired change and escapes in the form of
oxygen by an outlet. It may be collected in an adjoining gasholder, and when
again ozonized serve to pass through the apparatus again.
For treating nonfusible materials, I place them in suitable apparatus wherein
they are exposed to a current of ozonized oxygen. Bodies that are insoluble in
water are treated while dissolved in spirits of wine or vegetable or mineral essences
or other solvents.
Alcoholic and other spirits are purified and decolorized by similar means.