Continuous conduit-type vulcanizing apparatus with non-surging watersteam meeting level

Claim 1

VULCANIZING APPRATUS FOR CONTINUOUS RUBBER-COATED COARE STOCK, COMPRISING A LONGITUDINAL CONDUIT OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA THROUGHOUT AND CLOSED AT ITS OPPOSITE ENDS EXCEPT FOR THE PASSAGE OF STOCK THERETHROUGH WITH A SEALING FIT, DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF SAID CONDUIT CONSTITUTING STEAM AND WATER LEGS, RESPECTIVELY, CONTINUOUS WITH EACH OTHER AND HAVING PORTS FOR ADMITTING STEAM INTO, AND CIRCULATING WATER SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGH, THE RESPECT STEAM AND WATER LEGS, WITH THE WATER LEG BEING BELOW THE STEAM LEG, A CHAMBER IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID STEAM AND WATER LEGS ABOVE AND BELOW THE JUNCTION OF SAILD LEGS, RESPECTIVELY, SAID CHAMBER BEING OF GREATER CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA THAN SAID CONDUIT AND OF SUCH CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA AND DEPTH THAT A REFERENCE MEETING LEVEL OF WATER AND STEAM THEREIN IS SUBSTANTIALLY SURGELESS UNDER SURGE-INDUCING CONDITIONS IN SAID CONDUIT, AND CONTROL MEANS ACTING IN RESPONSE TO SMALL VARIATION OF SAID REFERENCE LEVEL IN SAID CHAMBER TO REGULATE WATER CIRCULATION THROUGH SAID WATER LEG.