Pressure vessel

• US 3,168,907 A
• Filed: 05/17/1962
• Issued: 02/09/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mercier Accumulator Corporation, Normand Trust The A Trust of NY
• Original Assignee: Jacques H. Mercier, Jean Mercier
• Inventors: Mercier, Jean, Mercier, Jacques H.
• Application Number:
  US04/195,456
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• US Class Current: 138/30
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 1/125 characterised by the attachment means F15B1/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2201/205 using gas
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2201/3151 the flexible separating means being diaphragms or membranes
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2201/3156 characterised by their attachment
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2201/41 Liquid ports
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2201/415 Gas ports
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2201/4155 having valve means

Claims

1. A PRESSURE VESSEL COMPRISING A RIGID HOLLOW CONTAINER HAVING AN ENLARGED DIAMETER MOUTH AND HAVING A PORT AT THE OTHER END, A COVER MEMBER ADAPTED TO BE POSITIONED IN THE MOUTH OF SAID CONTAINER, SAID COVER MEMBER HAVING A PORT THEREIN, MEANS SECURELY TO RETAIN SAID COVER MEMBER IN PLACE, A FLEXIBLE SEPARATOR OF RESILIENT DEFORMABLE MATERIAL POSITIONED IN SAID CONTAINER AND IN TERVENING BETWEEN SAID PORTS, SAID SEPARATOR HAVING TWO SPACED ANNULAR BEADS NEAR ITS PERIPHERY POSITIONED ON THE SIDE OF THE SEPARATOR ADJACENT THE PORT IN THE COVER MEMBER, SAID COVER MEANS HAVING A CYLINDRICAL PORTION EXTENDING INTO SAID CONTAINER, SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION HAVING AN ANNULAR GROOVE ON ITS OUTER SURFACE ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE ANNULAR BEAD ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF THE SEPARATOR, THE SPACING BETWEEN THE DEPENDING PORTION AND THE ADJACENT WALL SURFACE OF THE CONTAINER BEING SUCH AS TO PLACE SAID ANNULAR BEAD UNDER LATERAL COMPRESSION FORMING A SEAL BETWEEN SAID DEPENDING PORTION AND THE ADJACENT WALL OF THE CONTAINER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID ANNULAR BEADS BEING SUCH THAT WHEN SAID FIRST BEAD IS UNDER COMPRESSION, THE FEED END OF THE DEPENDING PORTION OF SAID COVER MEMBER WILL REACT AGAINST THE SECOND BEAD ALSO MAINTAINING THE LATTER UNDER COMPRESSION AND MAINTAINING THE INTERMEDIATE ZONE BETWEEN SAID ANNULAR BEADS UNDER TENSION.