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951,923. Laminates. CONCH INTERNATIONAL METHANE Ltd. Jan. 28, 1963 [March 12, 1962], No. 3468/63. Heading B5N. [Also in Divisions B7 and F4] A container for liquefied gas comprises a rigid shell 13 lined with heat insulating panels 3, 4, the edges of adjacent panels being shaped so that there is a gap between adjacent panels widening in the direction of the inner surface of the panels, the gap being filled with a sealing material 28, e.g. polyvinyl chloride foam compressed to at least 90% of its free volume, and being closed by a thin scab 16, e.g. of plywood or maple glued in position. The panels 4 are formed of a honeycomb core 20 filled with foamed-in-place polyurethane and faced with plywood 21 and 22 which is bonded to the core 20, and the panels 3 are formed of a balsa wood core 23 faced with plywood 24 and 25 bonded to the core 23.
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921,853. Storing liquefied gases. CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON CO. Sept. 20, 1961 [Feb. 8, 1961], No. 33616/61. Class 8(2). A double walled storage tank comprises a vessel 10 of steel suitable for use at low temperatures and containing liquefied gas, and surrounding a vessel 11 of steel, from which an accumulator 19, which may have a filter screen 22, depends to receive leakage liquid from the vessel 10 and discharge it to atmosphere through a poppet relief valve 24. The accumulator 19 may be vertically depending tube closed by a spring-loaded poppet valve or by a synthetic rubber or plastic diaphragm, frangible by contact with low temperature liquid. Between the vessels is thermal insulation material e.g. perlite and an inert gas may be used to replace any air within the space. Specification 840,952 is referred to.
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892,041. Carrying liquefied gas cargo. CORY & SON Ltd., Wm. March 31, 1958 [April 5. 1957], No. 11124/57. Class 113. [Also in Group XXVIII] A tanker for the bulk transport in the liquid state at low temperature of methane (or like ordinarily-gaseous substance) has liquefaction plant and circulating connections between the cargo tank or tanks and the plant whereby the gaseous methane boiling off in the tanks can be withdrawn, reliquefied and returned to the tanks. The ship is of turret construction with heavily insulated main tanks 18-23 extending substantially the full width of the ship and smaller tanks 33 which can be used to top up the main tanks if the liquefaction plant is unable to do so the cargo in the main tanks is kept topped up to a level in the narrow neck 27 of each tank, which neck is surmounted by a pump motor housing 32. These tanks extend up through the main deck 24 and except for tank 20 their necks 27 reach up through the turret deck 25. Main and secondary liquefaction plants are disposed at locations 76 and 77 respectively. In an emergency methane gas may be vented to atmosphere through six pairs of mast vents each having an anti-flash gauge at its upper end. Excess methane gas may be burnt off at flares on top of the masts 64 and 65. Specifications 892,042, 892,043, 892,044, 892,045, 892,046 and 892,047 are referred to.
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854,708. Carrying liquefied gas. CONSTOCK LIQUID METHANE CORPORATION. April 26, 1957 [May 7, 1956], No. 41777/59. Divided out of 854,705. Class 113. A ship for the transportation of a liquid cargo which needs to be maintained at a low temperature comprises an outer hull 3, an inner hull 4 which defines a cargo space, cargo tanks 17 in said cargo space, and a thick layer 16 of a thermally insulating material between the cargo tanks and the inner hull, the tanks being anchored against lateral shifting by a rib or ribs 19 on the bottom of the tank received into a complementary recess in the layer of insulating material 16 beneath the tank. The bottom 6 of the inner hull may have a groove 20 coinciding with said recess to provide a uniform layer of insulation where the ribs extend therein. Specifications 781,354 and 854,706 also are referred to.
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851,568. Storing liquefied gases. NORTH THAMES GAS BOARD, and A.P.V. CO. Ltd. June 18, 1959 [July 1, 1958], No. 21057/58. Class 8(2). Prevention of compacting of powdered heat insulating material between inner and outer shells 2, 1, Fig. 1, of a liquefied gas e.g. methane container is effected by surrounding the inner shell 2 by a wall 7 so as to provide an air space 15 therebetween and a powdered heat insulation space 16 between the wall 7 and the outer shell 1, said wall 7 comprising a series of panels 9 e.g. horizontally corrugated aluminium sheets carried by vertical stanchions 10, Fig. 3, fixed by spaced, ties 11 to the outer shell 1 and capable of expansion and contraction relative to each other and to the stanchions 10 in a direction around the periphery of the wall 7 thereby maintaining the width of the insulation space 16 substantially constant. The corrugated sheets 9 are held between flanges 34 of the T-shaped stanchions 10 and angle strips 35 bolted to stanchion webs 29 and lined with resilient sealing material 37 ; the sheets having slots 32 at their ends which fit over pins 33 projecting from the flanges 34, thus allowing peripheral movement of the sheets. The shells 1, 2 have base plates 3, 5 relatively spaced by a layer of concrete 14 and dialomaceous bricks 13. The insulation space 16 is filled with perlite as in a space 17 between conical covers 4, 6 of shells 1, 2.