Electrolytic bridge assembly

• US 3,152,057 A
• Filed: 03/09/1961
• Issued: 10/06/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Merle Hutchison, Norman L. Conger, Olen L. Riggs Jr
• Original Assignee: Merle Hutchison, Norman L. Conger, Olen L. Riggs Jr
• Inventors: Conger, Norman L., Hutchison, Merle, Riggs, Olen L. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/094,490
• Time in Patent Office: 1,307 Days
• US Class Current: 204/435
• CPC Class Codes: C23F 13/04 Controlling or regulating desired parameters

Claims

1. AN ELECTROLYTIC BRIDGE ASSEMBLY FOR USE IN A VESSEL CONTAINING A CORROSIVE SOLUTION UNDER PRESSURE COMPRISING:

(A) A FIRST ELONGATED TUBULAR MEMBER OF AN ELECTRICALLY INSULATING AND CHEMICALLY INERT MATERIAL;

(B) A WEEPING GLASS BRIDGE MEANS HAVING A FIRST AND SECOND END SAID FIRST END ADAPTED TO ALLOW ELECTRO-CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION WITH SAID CORROSIVE SOLUTION, SAID SECOND END HAVING A REDUCED DIAMETER AND TELESCOPED WITHIN SAID FIRST TUBULAR MEMBER;

(C) CUP-SHAPED SEALING MEANS SURROUNDING THE WEEPING GLASS BRIDGE MEANS AND ATTACHED TO SAID FIRST TUBULAR MEMBER;

(D) A SECOND-TUBULAR MEMBER SELECTED OVER SAID FIRST TUBULAR MEMBER;

(E) A PERIPHERAL RIBBED MEANS FORMED AROUND THE EXTERNAL DIAMETER OF SAID GLASS BRIDGE INTERMIDIATE THE ENDS OF SAID BRIDGE;

(F) SEALING MEANS ON EACH SIDE OF SAID PERIPHERAL RIBBED MEANS;

(G) A SECOND CUP-SHAPED SEALING MEANS SURROUNDING SAID GLASS BRIDGE AND SECURED TO SAID SECOND TUBULAR MEMBER IN A MANNER TO BIAD SAID RIBBED PORTION SEALING MEANS AGAINST FIRST CUP-SHAPED MEANS;

WHEREBY SAID WEEPING GLASS BRIDGE IS SEALED AGAINST HIGH INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL PRESSURES THEREBY PREVENTING CORROSIVE SOLUTION FROM SEEPING INTO AND DAMAGING THE OPERATION OF SAID BRIDGE.