US1766020A - Brine tank for ice plants - Google Patents

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Patented June24, .1930 f I i I l i ITED jSTAT NoRMAnYH. Gator ,LosANGniiEs, CALIFORNIA. a

BRINE TAN'K'FOB, we ,IPLANT$ l Application filed September s, 26. SeriaINo. 135,134. I

.. This invention relates toimprove'ments in cans. In order to preventthis direct flow, brinetanks for the manufacture of artificial. a number of battle plates 19. are secured. to ice, and particularly concernselements for certain of the straps 11 to entirely block, controlling the flow of brine through-such the direct flow of brine through the. tank tanks. l .1 along itsxbottom,and to causethisfbrine to vAccording to the present invention, a pass through the course illustrated by the brine tank is provided for the. rece ation of arrows. In the particular illustration, these anumber of individual icefcans, w ich' are baffles have been illustrated as located at to be filled with water and immersed in every alternate partition; but it will be sufficiently to convert the" water to ice, intervals without departing'from the intent These cans are held in position by certain of the present invention, which is that'the walls Within the ice tank,-a-nd is custorndirect flow otthe brine should be impeded ary to provide coolingpipes withinthe'byforcing' ittopass ina tortuous passage.

brine tank to maintain its temperature, and In the particular illustration, the baflies 5 ,a circulation of the brine throughthe tank are brought upward to the level ofthe is effected to attain a uniform distribution bottom row of cooling pipes 16. It is of temperature at all parts of the tank. 1 usually preferred to form the straps 11' of p According to the present invention, battle iron, bars Which are re-bent at the upper" v plates are provided to prevent direct passage ends 11 and secured to. the joist IZQ These F0 of the circulating brine from the inlet to, straps have their sides ata sufiicient distance the outlet of thetank alongfits bottom. to closely inclose the cooling pipes 16 and The drawing represents a longitudinal to hold them-in position,

section through a brine tank ,otthis type It is apparent that the" invention is not the body of thebrine, so that they are chilled understood that they-may be located at other 5 l with a numberof ice-cans in position. restricted to the particular form ofexecu- 75 'Inthis drawing, the brine tank is illus-' tion shown, but may be vari dv ithi th trated as having a bottom 10 with'a number scope of the appended claims.

i of upstanding U-straps 11' therein through i Having thus described the invention, what which the brine may flow in its passage I claim as new and desire to secure'byLetthrough the tank, which in thepartic'ular ters-Patent, is :i so

illustration is from theleft towardthe right. In a brine tank for ice making plants At'the 1 1910 ends, thesfi Straps v McConhaving an inlet and an outlet for brine at nected with the joists 12'having the cross oppositeends thereoicooling pipes extendjoists 13 which maintain the covers 14 to ing through the tankand spaced from the v P the ice cam 15 against h w-t y of bottom thereof whereby to cool the cold 85 i i dirt. The ice cans 15 are: supported within brine at the upper portions thereof, means the compartments d' y the j i t 1 .to maintain the icecans in position in the and 13 so, thatthey are not swept away by brine flow from. said inlet to said outlet, said thefiow of brine through ethetank. cans being located above the bottom. of the Thecooling pipes 16 are'passed through J tank and extending below said coils, and so the' tank, usually at a heightabove the wall, baffles arranged at the bottom of the tank since the brine in the tank is warmest near across the line of flow of the brine and exits top. 4 e l tending upwardly to said cooling pipes to Itwill be noted that'a space 18 is left beprevent a direct flow of brine along the'bot tween the bottom of each of the'ice cans tom of the tank beneath the ice canswhile and the bottom 10 of the tank, through permitting a direct flow over the upperparts which the cold brine may pass directly from o t-the, cans and over said cooling pipes. I I the inlet to the outlet of the" tank without In testimony whereof, Iaflixmy signature;

absorbingthe calculated number oficalories a 50 from the water containedwithin the ice 1 a i NQRMAN H'. GAY J p f

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