DE329822C - Container for highly flammable gases and liquids - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN EMPIRE

. ISSUED ON NOVEMBER 30, 1920

REICH PATENT OFFICE

PATENT LETTERING

- M 329822 CLASS 77h GROUP

Reischach & Co., G. m. B. H. in Berlin.

Containers for highly flammable gases and liquids. Patented in the German Empire on October 24, 1918.

It is well known that the aircraft or airship occupants are in air combat also endangered by the fact that the gasoline tanks are hit by machine gun projectiles will penetrate, and that the then leaking gasoline itself somehow- inflamed. This is because light or incendiary ammunition is used and penetrates If such a projectile has a benzine container, it is first extinguished in gasoline.

ίο When it emerges, it has a sucking effect and brings, since it re-ignites in the air, then the resulting air gasoline mixture to ignite.

The invention relates to an embodiment of the gasoline tank that the. danger such an occurrence should be reduced as much as possible by the fact that the petrol tank with the tightest possible wire mesh or wire mesh made of aluminum · or another appropriately equipped metal. The wire mesh can either be tight be arranged on the container walls or inside, or you can do both together connect ^

If the wire mesh is arranged close to the inside or outside of the container walls, it will tear or the bullet cuts through the wire mesh at the exit point, it does but, as experiments have shown, so many wires jump back into their previous position, • that there is still a kind of closure that causes the flame to flash back into the Fuel tank prevented. If wire mesh is placed inside the fuel tank, so the projectile will be able to roll over and then as a ricochet on the Hit the wall, so that under certain circumstances its living force can no longer be smashed the second wall is sufficient.

Some exemplary embodiments are shown in the drawings, namely:

Fig. Ι a gasoline tank in cross section, with wire mesh on the sides, top and is equipped below and also has an inner mesh made of wire mesh.

2, 3 and 4 also show a section, where the inner network is configured somewhat differently.

In the container α there is a wire mesh b which is fastened in a suitable manner at some distance from the side walls of the container. Incidentally, it can also be tight. Under certain circumstances, the fuel tank can also be covered with wire mesh from the outside. Inside there is a kind of wire spiral c, which is set so that its axis is perpendicular to the main weft direction. Since the airplanes ¹ receive the shots almost horizontally in combat, the wire mesh is set vertically. "For the sake of simplicity, a spiral mesh (Fig. 3) can be used with round containers. Sometimes it will also be sufficient to simply put some wire mesh c in - Attach container (Fig. 4).

A similar procedure can be used for airship ballonets by using a a close-meshed wire mesh, which at the same time acts as an abutment for the flexible envelope forms.

Claims (1)

, ",.", I or both places with a close-knit Patent claims: ■ Wire mesh are related. ι. Container for highly flammable gases 2. Petrol container according to claim i, da- and liquids on aircraft and characterized in that indoor Airships, characterized in that wire mesh is arranged in the container the walls of the container are outside or inside net. For this purpose ι sheet of drawings. BERUN .. CEDKCCKT IK DEP.