US PATENT SUBCLASS 137 / 256
.~ Sequentially filled and emptied (e.g., holding type)


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137 /   HD   FLUID HANDLING

255  DF  PLURAL TANKS OR COMPARTMENTS WITH PARALLEL FLOW {8}
256.~ Sequentially filled and emptied (e.g., holding type) {1}
257  DF  .~.~> With relative rotation of tank group and filling head {1}


DEFINITION

Classification: 137/256

(under subclass 255) Apparatus having means for successively filling the tanks and means for subsequently emptying the filled tanks in succession. Many of the patents in this group of subclasses are directed to milk pasteurization tank systems, wherein milk at pasteurization temperatures is retained in a tank for a period of time before the tank is emptied.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

119.01+, for alternately substituted outlets of a line, as to plural tanks, in a self controlled system.

127, for siphon discharge of plural tanks in sequence.

160+, and 169+, for plural traps sequentially filled and emptied by gas pressure into a pressure chamber such as a boiler.

266+, for plural tanks discharging, receiving or vented through a manifold or through grouped outlets and 263 for similar devices in which the manifold is a tank.

627, for sequential distributor or collector type valve actuation.