Tank for storing cryogenic fluids and the like

• US 3,341,215 A
• Filed: 11/25/1966
• Issued: 09/12/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sam Spector
• Original Assignee: Sam Spector
• Inventors: Spector, Sam
• Application Number:
  US04/604,103
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• US Class Current: 280/837
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/2295 Means for heating, cooling, or insulating tanks or equipments for tank containers B65D88/748
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 13/083 for medium-sized mobile storage vessels, e.g. tank vehicles or railway tank vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 13/086 for Dewar vessels or cryostats
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2203/01 Reinforcing or suspension means
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/0171 Trucks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/901 Liquified gas content, cryogenic

Claims

3. AN INSULATED TANK FOR STORING CRYOGENIC FLUIDS COMPRISING, AN ELONGATED CYLINDRICAL TANK HAVING END WALLS AT OPPOSITE ENDS THEREOF, AN INNER TANK MOUNTED WITHIN SAID OUTER TANK AND HAVING A CONFIGURATION SIMILAR TO BUT SMALLER THAN SAID OUTER TANK FOR DEFINING A SPACE BETWEEN SAID TANKS, MEANS DEFINING TUBULAR RECESSES IN THE ENDS OF SAID INNER TANK EXTENDING A SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE INTO SAID INNER TANK, EACH OF SAID RECESS HAVING A SUPPORT PLATE AT THE INNERMOST END THEREOF, A TUBULAR SUPPORT SECURED TO SAID OUTER TANK OPPOSITE EACH OF SAID RECESSES AND EXTENDING INTO SAID RECESSES TO A CONNECTION WITH ONE OF SAID SUPPORT PLATES TO CREATE RELATIVELY LONG HEAT FLOW PATHS BETWEEN SAID TANKS, SAID TUBULAR SUPPORTS EACH HAVING AN OUTER DIAMETER LESS THAN THE INNER DIAMETER OF SAID TUBULAR RECESSES TO FORM A HEAT FLOW INTERCONNECTING SAID SUPPORT AND A CENTRAL SUPPORT TUBE INTERCONNECTING SAID SUPPORT PLATES AND SAID TUBULAR SUPPORTS WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF SAID INNER TANK FOR COOPERATING WITH SAID TUBULAR SUPPORTS TO FORM A RIGID BACKBONE DISPOSED CENTRALLY OF SAID TANKS TO SUPPORT SAID INNER TANK WITHIN SAID OUTER TANK AGAINST STRUCTURAL FAILURE CAUSED BY DYNAMIC LOADING.