Abstract: A tubular container mounted in series with a compressed air line. The container includes a hollow cylindrical body, a hollow cylindrical screen member mounted inside the body and means supporting the hollow cylindrical screen in communication with an entry end of the body. A plug of porous water absorbent material surrounds the screen member. The plug of porous material absorbs droplets of water in the stream of compressed air passing through the tubular container and provides a surface from which the water evaporates as the compressed air passes through the plug.

Abstract: A device for eliminating droplets of liquid from a gas stream. A spindle member is mounted in a tubular body. The spindle member includes upper and lower disc portions sealed at their edges to the tubular body and a plurality of tubular portions spanning the upper and lower disc portions. A base member closes a lower end of the tubular body. A mixing chamber is provided inside the body below the lower disc member. A head member closes an upper end of the tubular body. A pair of chambers is formed in the head member facing the interior of the tubular body. Openings in the disc members provide communication from one of the chambers in the head member through the interior of the tubular portions to the mixing chamber. Return openings in the upper and lower disc members provide communication between the mixing chamber and the other chamber in the head member. Liquid absorbent plug members are mounted in the tubular portions.

Abstract: A device for eliminating droplets of water from a stream of compressed air in which compressed air is passed through a plug of porous water absorbent material which absorbs the droplets. Continued passage of the stream of compressed air through the plug evaporates the water from the plug. The plug is held in a tubular container in series with a compressed air line. The container can be transparent. The plug can be formed of a strip of cotton gauze spirally wound with a strip of wire screening.