Abstract:
A storage container for cryogenic liquids has an outer container and at least one inner container, an insulation space being situated between the outer container and the inner container or containers. The outer container and/or the inner container have devices for strengthening the container walls. The devices for strengthening the container wall of the outer container and/or of the inner container are constructed as at least one web arranged on the container wall of the outer container and/or of the inner container and/or as at least one supporting plate adapted essentially to the cross-section of the inner container.
Abstract:
A litter for carrying a patient in a supine position, such as a stretcher or trauma board, includes a support panel and a pressure pack for providing a portable supply of medicinal gas, such as oxygen, that can be administered to a patient on the liter. The pressure pack includes a gas storage vessel formed from a plurality of polymeric hollow chamber having either en ellipsoidal or spherical shape and interconnected by a plurality of relatively narrow conduit sections disposed between consecutive ones of the chambers. The storage vessel includes a reinforcing filament wrapped around the interconnected chambers and interconnecting conduit sections to limit radial expansion of the chambers and conduit sections when filled with a fluid under pressure. The storage vessel further includes a fluid transfer control system attached to the storage vessel for controlling fluid flow into and out of the pressure vessel and a gas delivery mechanism for delivering gas from the storage vessel to a user in a breathable manner.
Abstract:
A vehicle includes a storage pack for storing gas under pressure for providing an onboard supply of the pressurized gas. The pressurized gas may be used as a medicinal gas, e.g. oxygen, on emergency medical vehicles, or the gas may be used as a fuel source for a motorized vehicle having a motor that runs on combustible gas. The gas storage pack includes a pressure vessel formed from a plurality of hollow chambers, which have either an ellipsoidal or spherical shape, interconnected by a plurality of relatively narrow conduit sections disposed between consecutive ones of the chambers. The pressure vessel includes a reinforcing filament wrapped around the interconnected chambers and interconnecting conduit sections to limit radial expansion of the chambers and conduit sections when filled with a fluid under pressure. The gas storage pack further includes a gas transfer control system attached to the pressure vessel for controlling gas flow into and out of the pressure vessel.
Abstract:
A storage tank for a medium has a first volume provided for containing the gaseous medium and a second volume provided for at least receiving the liquid medium. A heater for heating the medium and inlet and outlet means for the medium are provided. The first volume is inside a first tank and the second volume is inside a second tank. The second tank is in fluid connection with said first tank via at least one fluid conduit and said second vessel is surrounded by said first vessel. The storage tank can store hydrogen for a fuel cell operated vehicle.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel having a housing forming a chamber of a polygonal cross-section, the sides of the housing being formed by at least one panel, the panel forming one side being connected to the panels forming an adjacent side by a connector assembly that permits the connected panels at the juncture of the connector assembly to pivot or move relative to one another in the substantial absence of any bending stress at such juncture, and a seal being used to form fluid-tight seals between adjacent sides.
Abstract:
A plastic vessel for a pressurized fluid, having an upper end wall and a lower end wall and an intermediate part with an outer wall and internal partition walls. The internal partition walls are placed in such a way in respect of each other and the outer wall that at least two longitudinal compartments for pressurized fluid are formed, which compartments are communicating with each other and run between the end walls. The vessel is non-circular. The outer wall between each pair of partition walls has a curve, with a radius adapted in such a manner that the tensions arising in the outer wall when the vessel is filled with a pressurized fluid will mainly be transformed solely to tensile stress in the partition walls which are joined to the outer wall. The partition walls are joined to the outer wall in the border lines where two such curves meet.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel made of plastic consists of an intermediate tubular part closed at each end by an integral end wall. The vessel includes an internally centered tubular part interconnected to said intermediate part by radially extending partition walls. The walls form a plurality of interconnected fluid compartments. The internal walls receive and transmit axial forces operating on the end walls into all walls of the vessel.
Abstract:
A pressurized storage tank including a chamber in the base thereof for holding a cartridge containing gas producing combustible material which is discharged by causing a firing pin to strike a primer. A check valve in communication with the chamber and tank interior allows the gas from the discharged cartridge to flow in one direction only, from the chamber into the tank. A safety blowout plug prevents over-pressurization and appropriate gauges are provided to measure the internal tank pressure and the outlet line pressure.
Abstract:
Surface vessels and submarines for the transportation of large volumes of fluids are constructed of a plurality of cylindrical segments joined along their edges. The cylindrical segments serve both as the wall of the storage tanks in which the fluids transported are contained and the skin of the vessel. Webs joined to the junctures of the cylindrical segments extend across the interior of the vessel and are joined to junctures of cylindrical segments on the opposite side of the vessel.
Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for reducing the rate at which the heat content of a cryogenic liquid such as liquefied oxygen or nitrogen increases as a consequence of its being necessarily shipped in a partially filled container. The method includes dividing a predetermined volume of the liquid which ordinarily would be loaded into a shipping container therefor into major and minor fractions, the first of which is significantly larger than the second. The major fraction is confined within a container compartment having substantially the same volume as that of the major fraction, and the minor fraction is confined within a container compartment having a substantially larger volume than that of the minor fraction so as to accommodate any enlargement in the volume of the major fraction as a consequence of increases in the heat content thereof. Any such increases in the volume of the major fraction are withdrawn from the container compartment confining the same and are delivered to the container compartment confining the minor fraction. The apparatus includes a tank car having a large container provided with inner and outer wall structures separated from each other to define a heat-insulated space therebetween. The container is subdivided by a bulkhead into major and minor compartments, and means are provided for filling the container with a cryogenic liquid and for withdrawing such liquid therefrom. The minor and major compartments are flow interconnected by valve-equipped conduits that enable any overflow of liquid from the major compartment resulting from temperature-induced volumetric increases in the liquid confined therein to pass into the minor compartment.