Container for liquid gas
OwnerJean-Pierre Peillon, Daniel Demilliere +2inventors
InventorsJean-Pierre Peillon, Daniel Demilliere, Bruno Moglia, Pierre Barrellon
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Abstract
Container (1,12) intended to contain at least one liquid gas in both liquid and gaseous phase, comprised at least of a body (2), an absorbing material plug (9) inserted in said body and having at least one bore (9a) extending along one dimension (for instance the height) of the container, and a gaseous phase bleeding area being provided adjacent to the bore. A feeding tube (6) is fitted inside the bore (9a), has a free end located inside said bore and free of any contact with the plug (9), and communicates by its other end, tightly with respect to the inside of the container with a bleeding device (5) working only in gaseous phase and located in said bleeding area.
Claims25
A container for at least one fluid in both liquid and gaseous phases, the container comprising, in combination:
- a hollow body extending along one dimension having an upper wall and a lower wall;
- a plug of fluid-absorbing material inserted in the body and substantially filling the body;
- the plug defining a central bore which extends substantially through the plug along said dimension, said bore having an open end adjacent to the upper wall of the body and another end adjacent to the lower wall of the body and said bore forming a bleeding area;
- a bleeding device having an inlet and an outlet, said bleeding device at least partly extending into the hollow body and cooperating with the upper wall of the body so as to enable said bleeding device to release fluid in its gaseous phase from the bleeding area to the exterior of the body;
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- a stationary hollow feeding tube centrally positioned inside the bore in spaced relationship with the plug, said tube comprising a central canal area and two open ends, one of said ends being a free end located in the bore and the other end being tightly connected to the inlet of the bleeding device wherein upon charging of the container with fluid the absorbing material plug is saturated with liquid phase throughout a distance between one of the walls of the container and the level of liquid phase in the bore, said distance being less than or equal to the combined length of the feeding tube and the portion of the bleeding device extending into the hollow body and thereby creating a concentration gradient in liquid phase above said level which decreases away from said level so that the gaseous phase of the fluid bleeds from the plug at the bleeding area and is then fed from the bleeding area into the free end of the feeding tube and through the central canal to the bleeding device, the gaseous phase being released to the exterior of the container by the bleeding device without bleeding of the liquid phase, regardless of the position of the container.
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