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<p>421,780. Raising viscous liquids. SALVAGE PROCESS CORPORATION, 63, Wall Street, New York, U.S.A. May 23, 1934, No. 15453. Convention date, April 4. [Class 102 (ii)] In apparatus for removing oil sludge or other viscous material mixed with air from a ship's bunker 2 by means of a vacuum hose 10, a detergent material is supplied to the oil in the neighbourhood of the nozzle of the hose 10 by means of a hose 17 supplied by a tank 16. The hose 10 is connected to a strainer box 3 and by a pipe 12 to a separating chamber 4. Liquid is withdrawn from the latter by a pump 5 driven by a motor 6 and air by a pump 7 driven by a motor 8. Suitable detergents are oleates, palmitates, stearates and linolates of potassium and sodium, silicate of soda, borax, carbonate of soda, hydrous aluminium silicates and sulphonated oils. Steam may also be supplied to the oil sludge. Specifications 192,580, 208,454, and 242,976, [all in Class 102 (ii)], are referred to.</p> |