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US 4,066,401 AGranted
Long term storage apparatus
OwnerArie Solomoninventor
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Abstract
A long term storage system comprising: Conduit means for supplying an inert gas; A plurality of long term storage containers adapted to be filled with an atmosphere of said inert gas and a fluid flow pathway serially interconnecting said conduit means with said long term storage containers for providing a continuous or intermittent supply of said inert gas thereto.
Claims7
A long-term storage system for connection to a continuous or intermittent supply of inert gas comprising:
- a plurality of long-term, hermetically sealable individually transportable storage containers each storage container having first and second gas communication terminals communicating with the interior thereof;
- selectably decouplable serial interconnection conduit means for serial coupling of respective first and second communication terminals of adjacent ones of said plurality of storage containers and for coupling said serially connected storage containers to a continuous or intermittent gas supply;
- and
- means for preventing egress of inert gas from individual ones of said containers when said individual ones of said containers are not coupled to a gas supply or to adjacent ones of said containers.
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A long-term storage system comprising:
- supply means for continuously or intermittently providing a flow of inert gas;
- a plurality of long-term, hermetically sealed, individually transportable, storage containers;
- each storage container having first and second gas communication terminals communicating with the interior thereof;
- selectably decouplable serial interconnection conduit means for serial coupling of respective first and second communication terminals of adjacent ones of said plurality of storage containers and for coupling said serially connected storage containers to said supply means;
- one way valve means preventing egress of said inert gas from said storage containers through said respective first communication terminals;
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- means for selectably sealing said second communication terminal when said second terminals are not coupled to said conduit means;
- and wherein
- said conduit means comprise a plurality of retractable access hose means each associated with a storage container and selectably locatable within a recess thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.