US1230356A - Liquid-delivering device. - Google Patents

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A. W. WHEATON.

LIQUID'DELIVERING DEVICE.

" APPLICATION men JAN.19. 1917.

1,230,356. S Patented June 19, 1917.

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ATTORNEYS A ABRAM W. WHEATON, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

LIQUID-DELIVERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 19, 1917.

Application filed January 19, 1917. Serial No. 143,290.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM W. WHEA'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Delivering Devices; and I do hereby declare the follow-' ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had vices used for delivering oil, gasolene, and 7 other liquids to the tank wagons or motor trucks, tank railroad cars, or other contamers in which such liquids are shipped or carried from place to place.

I Usually oil, gasolene and similar liquids are delivered to tank wagons, etc., through a system of delivery pipes leading from the storage tanks, such delivery pipes terminating in a stand-pipe to which is connected a flexible pipe member, having at its free end a faucet-valve. When it is desired to fill a tank-wagon, the same is driven up to the stand-pipe, and the operator removes the filling port cover from the tank wagon, and then manipulates the flexible pipe member so as to position the faucet valve above said filling port, after which the faucet-valve is opened to permit the liquid to flow there-' through into the tank wagon. Should the operator become inattentive so as to allow the faucet-valve to move away from the filling port, or, where the tank-wagon is horse-drawn, should the horses suddenly start up with the same result, a considerable amount of liquidis spilled over the sides of the tank and is lost. Furthermore, it is well known, that, when delivering gasolene through the delivery pipes and faucet-valve, the rapid flow thereof under pressure, produces, by reason of the friction set up between the delivery pipes and the flowing liquid, a certain amount of static electricity, and it has happened that, by reasonof a lack of perfect contact of the delivery pipes and faucet-valve with the metallic material of the tank, a charge-of such static electricity has jumped, in the form of a spark,

position over the filling from the former to the latter, igniting the gasolene fumes, with the result that a serious explosion with consequent damage and loss as to both property and life has occurred.

It is, therefore, the object of the present invention to provide means in connection with the faucet-valve of the delivery pipes, which will not only permit the operator to firmly hold and maintain, against accidental displacement, the faucet valve in .proper port of the tankwagon, but which will also establish a positive electrical contact between the former and the latter, which will prevent the liability of electrical discharge between such parts and the consequent liability of explosions, fire, and resulting damage.

The invention consists, therefore, in the novelv supporting member for the faucet valves of liquid delivery devices; and the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well asin the de tails of the construction ofthe same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally em bodied in the claims appended thereto.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a side elevation of the standpipe and flexible pipe of a liquid delivering device, the latter having at its free end the faucet-valve equipped with the .novel supporting frame, made according to and embodying the principles of my present invention, the same being shown in operative relation to the filling port of a tank-wagon.

Fig. 2 is a bottom'view of said faucet valveand supporting frame; Fig. 8 is a side view of said faucet-valve showing said supporting frame in Vertical section; and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section, taken on line H in said Fig. 3, looking downward.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the herein described views,

ried into position over the filling port of a tank-wagon, or other container.

Connected with the outlet end 4: of the said faucet-valve 3 is screw-threaded nipple portion 5.

The novel supporting frame comprises an annular ring-like main body-portion 6, which is preferably internally threaded to screw on to said screw-threaded nipple-portion 5 of said faucet-valve 3. Extending outwardly and radially from said main body-portion 6, and preferably integrally formed therewith, are a plurality of supporting-arms or horns 7 These supporting arms or horns 7 are provided on their under sides with upwardly inclined, and preferably slightly curved contour 8. The base of each supporting arm or horn 7, where it joins said main body is widened laterally to provide laterally extending reinforcing webs 9. Any desired number of said supportingarms or horns 7 may be provided, but, preferably, they are four in number, radiating at an angle of ninety degrees, one from the other. While I have described the supporting-frame, thus constructed, as a separable part of the faucet-valve 3, it must be understood, that, if it is so desired, the same may be cast as an integral part of the body or casing of said faucet-valve 3.

Referring now to Fig. 1 of the drawings, the reference character 10 indicates a frag ment of the tank body of a tank-wagon or similar container, which. is usually provided with the dome-like portion 11, in the upper wall of which is formed the filling port or opening 12, usually bounded by the vertical flange portion 13, over which the coverportion (not shown) is clamped down when the tank is full.

In practice the tank-wagon is driven up adjacent to the stand-pipe 1, and the filling port or opening 12 being opened, the flexible pipe 2 is flexed to position the faucet-valve over said filling port or opening 12, so that its outlet end is positioned over the same. When so positioned, the operator presses down on the faucet-valve to carry said supporting-frame into contact with the margin of said filling port or opening 12, thus causing the supporting-arms or horns 7 to engage the flange-portion 13, or other marginal structure of the filling port or opening 12. The under side of said supporting-arms or horns 7 being upwardly inclined or curved, as at 8, the same, when in engagement with the flange-portion 13 permits the outlet of said faucet-valve to enter the filling-port or opening 12 for a-slight distance, and at the same time such curved or in clined formation 8 of the supporting-arms or horns 7 tends to permit the supporting frame to readily adapt itself to various diameters of filling-ports or openings 12; t ds to t r th u l t of s id twe valve in said filling-ports or openings; and tends to hold the faucet-valve when so positioned, against lateral movement or displacement, in a manner clearly to be understood by an inspection of said 'Fig. 1 of the drawings.

It will thus be apparent that the faucetvalve may now be opened to permit the flow of the liquid therethrough and into the tank-wagon, and it will be further apparent that any movement of the tanlewagon, caused either by the restlessness or sudden movement of the horses drawing the same, or movement thereof from other causes, will be transmitted to the faucet-valve through said supporting frame, without danger of displacing the faucet-valve from the filling port or opening 12, and the spilling and waste of the liquid before the operator can shut off the faucet-valve. It will be clear that the operator merely applies to the faucet-valve a downward pressure sufficient to maintain the supporting-frame in con-- tact with the marginal structure of the filling port or opening, so that less careful at tention upon the part of the operator is required, and danger of his inattention resulting in the spilling and Waste of the liquid .is eliminated.

It will be also understood that, since the supporting-frame is metallic, like the faucetvalve, and since the same is maintained in contact with the metallic material of the tank-wagon, any static electricity tending to accumulate in or on the supply pipe and faucet valve is distributed through the supporting frame to or upon the body of the tank-wagon and to the ground, so that the same is constantly carried off, and is not allowed to accumulate in such quantity as is liable to cause a sparl, with danger of igniting liquids of explosive or combustible character, as above explained.

I am aware that some changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the devices and parts of my present invention as well as in the details of the construction of the same, without departing from the scope thereof as set forth in the foregoing specification, and as defined in the appended claims. Hence, I do not limit my invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the devices and parts as set forth in the foregoing specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of said parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I claim 1. The combination with a movable delivery pipe of a faucet-valve connected with the free end of said pipe, and means connected with the outlet endof said faucetvalve for engaging the marginal edges of a filling opening with which said faucet-valve may b r g st red, to s ppor sai f c valve in operative relation to said filling opening, comprising horizontally radiating supporting arms extending outwardly from the outlet end of said faucet-valve, the under side of said supporting-arms being inclined upwardly and outwardly from the point of juncture with said faucet-valve, and adapted to centralize the latter in said filling opening and accommodate the same to filling openings of various sizes.

2. The combination with a movable delivery pipe of a faucet-valve connected with the free end of said pipe, an exteriorly threaded extension connected with the out- 1 let end of said faucet-valve, a supporting frame capable of conducting electricity comprising an interiorly threaded annular main body adapted to screw on said threaded extension, and horizontally radiating supporting arms extending outwardly from said main body, the under side of said supporting arms being inclined upwardly and outwardly from the point of juncture thereof with the main body.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of January, 1917.

ABRAM W. WHEATON.

Witnesses:

FREDK C. FRAENTZEL, FREDK H. W. FRAENTZEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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