Spherical Filling Body

Abstract

The invention relates to the production of a spherical, hollow filling body for filling containers for flammable and inflammable liquids or gases, as well as to methods for its particularly advantageous uses, e.g. for preventing explosion-type burning processes and explosions, for extinguishing fires, as a corrosion protection in tank containers, for separation of fuels and water, as a protection against bacteria and fungi in fuel tanks, as an anti-theft protection, for reducing carbon-hydrogen emissions, for increasing stability and crash safety of tank containers, for reducing the boil-off effect of hydrogen, for applications in chemical industry, for dissipating static electricity from fuel containers, for protecting against electromagnetic disturbances, for reducing and delaying the BLEVE effect, for increasing the filling capacity of gas containers, for heating and cooling liquids and gases, as well as for reducing the vaporization loss. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of producing the filling bodies. FIG. 1 shows an inventive spherical filling body which consists of several disk-shaped, circular vertical surfaces 1, 2 and 3, and of disk-shaped, circular, parallel horizontal surfaces 7, 8 and 10. In the center of the horizontal surface 10, there is a circular opening 6 which, together with the inwardly-open circular upper sleeve-shaped body 4 and the inwardly-open circular bottom sleeve-shaped body 5, forms an axially-continuous, tubing 30 from top 4 to bottom 5, wherein the inside diameter of the sleeve-shaped and inwardly-open, circular bodies 4, 5 and of the circular opening 6 are identical. The vertical surfaces 1 extend from the outer edge of the spherical body to the edge of the respective circular through holes 4, 5 and 6 of the parallel horizontal surfaces 7, and 8 surrounding the through-holes. The vertical surfaces 2 extend from the outer edge of the spherical body as far as to half the distance between the outer edge of the spherical body on the horizontal surfaces 8 and 10, and between the edge of the circular through-holes 5 and 6 of the horizontal surfaces. The vertical surfaces 3, on the top 4 and on the bottom 5, form the connection between the horizontal surfaces 7 and 8 and the sleeve-shaped bodies 4 and 5. Openings 9 are provided in the horizontal surfaces 8 and 7. These are arranged such that one opening 9 is provided in the horizontal surface 8 between the vertical surfaces 1 and 2, and one opening 9 is provided in the horizontal surface 7 between the vertical surfaces 3.

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