Improvements relating to apparatus for sterilizing liquids / [Charles Frédéric Victor Morel].

  • Morel, Charles Frédéric Victor.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Improvements relating to apparatus for sterilizing liquids / [Charles Frédéric Victor Morel]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N( 11,378 (Under International Convention.) Date claimed for Patent under Patents Act, 1901, ) being date of first Foreign Application (in \l8th May, 1903 France), ) Date of Application (in the United Kingdom), 17th May, 1904 Accepted, 17th May, 1905 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. “ Improvements relating: to Apparatus for Sterilising- Liquids 99 I, Charles Frederic Victor Morel, of 4 Hue Monsieur, Paris in tlie Republic of France, Water Inspector, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—- ^ This sterilising apparatus is based : 1. Upon the instability of the equilibrium of a descending column of liquid to be sterilised and of an ascending column of liquid submitted to ebullition, this instability being obtained by interposing bubbles of vapour in a tube of the ascending column, termed the suction appliance. 2. Upon the resistance offered to the discharge of the ascending liquid by the pressure exerted by the descending liquid upon a part with flexible walls traversed by the ascending water and termed the pulsating device. The apparatus so constituted is automatic in its action and furnishes a con¬ tinuous supply. 1 & In the drawing, which is a vertical section through an apparatus established in accordance with the above principles, A is a cylindrical casing at the upper part of which is a tubular socket B for the admission of the liquid to be sterilised. In the lower part of this casing A is engaged a part C forming a boiler, ^0 this boiler being formed by a metal block c around which is formed a heli- coidal groove c1, the lower part of which opens into a chamber c2 formed by the base of the block c with the bottom of the casing A; beneath this chamber c2 is arranged a furnace D or other suitable source of heat. The chamber c2 is prolonged by a passage d3 which terminates in a suction 25 tube E, which is provided externally with washers or wings e; this tube ter¬ minates in a chamber F the diameter of which is slightly less than that of the casing A; in this chamber F is engaged the lower extremity of an assemblage of recuperator tubes Gr, the interior of the tubes being furnished with suitably arranged metal rods. The upper extremity of this tubular assemblage G is 30 engaged in a chamber H identical with the chamber F. The upper part of this chamber terminates in a tubular socket A; a tube i fixed to the upper part of the casing A in prolongation of the socket h conducts the sterilised liquid towards the outlet I. The tubular socket h and the pipe i are connected by the intermediary of a 35 pulsating device J constituted by two sheets of india rubber or of rubbered fabric connected at their edges.. A regulator K of any appropriate kind regulates the pressure in the apparatus [Price 8d.]