Abstract: The invention provides an improved fuel filter for removing formation water, hydrogen sulfides, sulfur and other undesirable particulates from, for instance, a natural gas fuel supply. The improvement comprises a molecular sieve having a non-uniform diameter pelletized catalyst composed of an alkyl metal alumino silicate, combined with an inert binder. The catalyst accordingly resists powdering and supplies more free area between pellets, thus minimizing pressure drop through the molecular sieve portion of the filter. The improvement further comprises provision of tapered holes at the upper end of a tubular member contained within the lower portion of the filter. The tapered holes thus permit gaseous fuel flowing through the tubular member to undergo a rapid expansion, providing a more even distribution of fuel flow to the molecular sieve.

Abstract: A duct increasing in cross-sectional area is provided with a screen means on its upper wall. An adjustable baffle is hingedly fixed to the lower wall of the duct at the inlet. Air-borne material carried in an air stream introduced at the inlet is separated from the stream by projection against the screen. The adjustable baffle directs the air-borne material onto the screen.

Abstract: A separator is described which includes an elongate vessel defining a chamber having a wall therein dividing the vessel into a gravity chamber and a filter chamber with the gravity chamber communicating with an inlet for receiving a contaminated gas stream containing foreign suspended particles and the filter chamber communicating with an outlet for discharging gas substantially free of foreign particles. A strainer-diffuser member having a conical side wall is inside of the gravity chamber and connected to the inlet whereby the conical side wall forms a bore converging longitudinally of the direction of gas flow from the inlet, said side wall having a plurality of holes with inner edge portions protruding inwardly in the bore and forming barriers to the flow of liquid particles over the inner surface of the conical side wall so that liquid accumulates and is jetted through the holes in liquid drops that fall to the bottom of the gravity chamber, the gas flowing through said holes into the gravity chamber.

Abstract: A central vacuum or air cleaning system handling fibrous materials such as spilled cotton waste in a cotton gin or lint in a textile mill, chaff in grain handling and/or wood dust and dirt in lumber industries and other air contaminating industrial processes. Dirt and lint laden air is drawn into a bin structure with a drum filter or condenser at the top that rotates through an area in operational contact with doffer rolls that remove drum filter deposited lint and dirt to fall down a still chamber provided with an internal plate or baffle extending downwardly from the tower doffer roll a substantial distance approximating one-half the vertical length of the bin. This eliminates pressure differential across the critical area of the doffer rolls that is encountered with filter drum and doffer roll structure delivering deposited lint and dirt waste directly to the exterior.

Abstract: A water wall spray booth having ducts in which water can be entrained and carried to an upper reservoir characterized in that there is a transverse deflector member whereby the air and water from each of the ducts is deflected forwardly to the upper reservoir from which it passes over the water wall.

Abstract: A device for separating a high pressure polyphase mixture consisting of a gas charged with liquid particles, and particularly a mixture of ethylene and polyethylene, which comprises a cylindrical vertical enclosure into which extends an inlet means for supplying the mixture thereto and which is provided at its lower end with an outlet for discharging separated liquids; a vertical cyclone in communication with the enclosure for receiving separated gases therefrom and having an outlet at its upper end for discharging gases separated in the cyclone and a liquid outlet at its lower end for discharging separated liquids therefrom; and an ejector comprising a nozzle, through which the polyphase mixture is fed, a mixing zone connected to the liquid outlet of the cyclone and a diffuser section for reducing the speed of the resultant mixture and being connected to the inlet means for supplying the polyphase mixture to the enclosure.

Abstract: A combined sound damper and oil trap for compressed air apparatus comprising an oil trap having a hose or tube (5) which is directly connected to the compressed air apparatus and which at the outer end thereof encloses a scraper sleeve (7), whereby a radial space is formed between the scraper sleeve (7) and the hose or tube. The hose or tube is connected to an oil collector housing (1) whereas the scraper sleeve (7) is connected to a pressure chamber (2) which in turn directly communicates with a filter housing (3) containing a sound damper. The said sound damper comprises both a diffusor plate (11) provided between the pressure chamber and the filter housing (3) and a filter (12) which is mounted at the outlet end of the filter housing. The diffusor plate (11) provides a damping of low frequency noise and a substantially even distribution of the outlet air over the entire diffusor plate, and the filter (12) provides both a separation of oil mist from the outlet air and a damping of high frequency noise.

Abstract: A particle sizing sampling device to separate particles from a gaseous medium according to particle diameter so as to classify the particles which include one or more stages with a housing defining an impaction chamber therein, an impaction plate in the impaction chamber, at least one impaction nozzle which forces a jet of the gaseous medium against the impaction plate to separate those particles above the effective particle cut diameter of the stage of the sampler by jet impaction and at least one exit passage which extends through the impaction plate with an inlet spaced from the impaction plate a distance greater than the distance between the gas jet stream outlet from the impaction nozzle and the impaction plate.

Abstract: An air-oil separator operating on an updraft principle for use with gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines. The separator includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet located at the upper end of the housing. Air-oil mixtures are introduced into the upper portion of the housing, flow downward with a vortex action, are deflected by a baffle at the bottom of the housing and reverse their flow to enter a conduit extending from the outlet and opening into the interior of the housing at a point near the baffle. The inlet has a smaller cross-sectional area than the outlet producing a reduction in pressure of the air-oil mixture. The reduction of pressure, vortex action, deflection and flow path reversal cause oil and contaminants in the stream to be deposited at the bottom of the housing where they are removed by means of a drain.

Abstract: A preseparator for connection to the sampling inlet of a particle sizing sampler to preseparate those particles from the gaseous medium with particle diameters above the particle diameter acceptance range of the sampler which is characterized by a housing defining a preseparating chamber therein, an impaction plate dividing the preseparating chamber into two subchambers, a preimpaction nozzle which forces a jet of the gaseous medium against the impaction plate to separate those particles above the particle diameter acceptance range of the sampler by jet impaction and at least one exit passage which extends through the impaction plate with an inlet spaced from the impaction plate a distance greater than the distance between the outlet on the preimpaction nozzle and the impaction plate.

Abstract: A vortical-type separator for removing from the gas stream suspended particulates present in the gas stream has an internally generated scavenging gas flow and a pulse jet system for cleaning scavenging gas filter elements. The separator has two or more conduits that are coaxially positioned with an annular clearance at their ends. A gas swirl device creates a swirling motion, causing heavier particulates to be discharged out the annular clearance or ejection port into a scavenging gas plenum. A flow path is created between the scavenging gas plenum and the outlet of the separator, with the pressure differential between the outlet and the ejection port causing scavenging gas to flow to the outlet. A frame is mounted in the flow path over which a bag filter is secured. The dust-laden scavenging gas flows through the bag filter and out the outlet. A nozzle is positioned at the mouth of the bag filter for periodically discharging a pulse of clean gas into the bag filter reverse to the flow of the scavenging gas.

Abstract: Compact pollution control and/or dust removal apparatus is provided for removing entrained dust particles and/or other dry pollutants from an air or gas flow. The apparatus provides for a single pollutant particle discharge in a first or initial removal housing with a plurality of secondary removal housings mounted in spaced fashion circumferentially around the initial removal housing. The construction is such that the gas flow being treated is subjected to two reverse flow patterns for particle removal. Collected pollutants may be flushed from the secondary removal housings by a counter-current flushing action and the use of a simplified valving arrangement wherein the collected pollutants are accumulated into a single area for discharge. The compact arrangement eliminates long horizontal flow pipes which have a tendency to clog with accumulated particles.

Abstract: An oil separator device for use in an automotive crankcase ventilating system. The separator comprises a cannister shell which is made of two shell members and contains upper and lower partitions that define top, bottom and intermediate chambers. When oil laden gaseous fluid is introduced to the intermediate chamber it is directed by a vane member to flow in an orbital path around the intermediate chamber and create a vortex region in the central portion of the chamber. Gaseous liquid with oil removed flows out of the intermediate chamber into the upper chamber via a perforated chimney located in the vortex region. Oil drains from the intermediate chamber into the bottom of the lower chamber through an elongated aperture in the lower partition outside the vortex region.

Abstract: The silencer-separator described hereinafter includes a tank that has an inlet arranged to receive the discharge from a vacuum blower or the like, a discharge located at the opposite end of the tank, a partition located therebetween with hole extending therethrough to permit the gas to flow from the discharge of the blower to the discharge of the tank. At the lowermost end of the tank, there is provided a drain for the liquid that is separated as the air enters the tank from the blower. An overflow conduit extends from adjacent the lowermost portion of the tank, through the partition and is connected with the liquid drain. With the conduit arranged in this manner, water, which is used to seal the blower, is located in the conduit preventing sound, generated as the gas is discharged from the blower, from passing through the conduit to the atmosphere via the drain.

Abstract: An industrial loader vehicle, handling both wet and dry materials, has a single engine driving the vehicle to a pick-up site, powering all of the components to load the vehicle at the site, driving the vehicle to an unloading site and dumping the materials as desired at the unloading site. A powerful blower develops a high velocity air stream through a pick-up inlet conduit and a collector chamber tiltable on the vehicle for easy dumping of the collected material. A swingable and tiltable boom mounted on top of the collector presents the conduit for easy access to material located around and above the vehicle. The high velocity air stream sweeps the material through the conduit into the top of the collector chamber where it drops to the bottom of the chamber. The blower and surrounding environment are protected from materials entrained in the air stream by bag filters and cyclone separators mounted on the front end of the collector to tilt therewith.

Abstract: A compact, portable multi-stage vacuum particle separator with a first stage centrifugal separator, second stage linear separator concentrically mounted in the first stage, and a third stage air filter. All three separator stages deliver their separated particulate material into a common dump hopper. The second and third stages have flexible flap valves at their bottoms to automatically transfer accumulated, separated particles into the dump hopper when the unit is shut down.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device for removing harmful solid particles, sparks and flames contained in exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine comprises a cylindrical body member connected to a muffler in an exhaust gas system of the engine. The cylindrical body member is separated into front and rear chambers by an intermediate partition plate. The front chamber includes an exhaust gas introducing hole in a front wall thereof and displaced with respect to a communicating hole formed in the central portion of the partition plate to thereby effectively remove the harmful particles at low flow rate of the exhaust gas. The rear chamber includes a swirl-generating means on the upstream side thereof and a solid particle collecting chamber on the outer periphery thereof to thereby remove the harmful particles at high flow rates of the exhaust gas.

Abstract: Pollutant particles, particularly lead particles, are removed from engine exhaust gases by passing the gases successively through three aligned chambers, of which the first and third contain wire mesh or expanded metal packings, while the second chamber is divided by a deflecting baffle which deflects the partially cleaned exhaust gases downwards to deposit particles in the bottom of the second chamber.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine air cleaner assembly has a lower supporting tray wall, a top cover or enclosure wall, and a side wall, together defining a hollow air expansion chamber containing a filter element; the chamber has an air inlet and an outlet opening to the engine that lies in the plane of the lower wall, the outlet being part of an angled outlet orifice cowl asymmetrically positioned with respect to the centerline of the surrounding side and top walls and surrounding the outlet and having an inlet that is in a plane inclined to the planes of the top and side walls to reduce noise.

Abstract: A discharge valve assembly for use in dust collection systems is disclosed. The valve assembly includes a conduit (160) and a rotatable valve member (162). A rod (192) is connected to the valve member (162). The conduit (160) is formed of an elastic material and has a generally circular cross section. The conduit (160) also has an inner diameter (164) in an unstretched condition. The valve member (162) has a generally circular cross section and an outer diameter (178) which is greater than the inner diameter (164). The rod (192) has an axis spaced from a line bisecting the valve member (162) and is connected to the valve member (162) for rotation of the valve member (162) between a closed and an open position. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of discharge valve assemblies are disposed below a number of dust separator mechanisms (60,92). A discharge valve assembly can also serve as a suction or vacuum breaking means (158) in a multiple-stage dust collector system.

Abstract: An implement is provided for applying ammonia to the ground including a nurse tank feeding individual converters on each ground-working plow with each converter having an expansion cannister into which the gas is fed at the top and from which liquid is removed by gravity from the bottom and fed to the ground. A pair of downwardly facing flat baffles include a pair of concentric sleeves therebetween which receive the discharge end of an inlet feeding tube. Below the pair of baffles is a conical baffle having an axial opening and an outlet baffle with the pair of baffles and outlet baffle having downwardly extending peripheral flanges. Spaced apart inverted V-shaped notches are provided in the flange of the outlet baffle to prevent a vacuum at the outlet end of the cannister.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing oil mist includes a cylindrical main body having an air inlet at one end and an air outlet at the other side thereof. A cylindrical rotatable filter having one end open to the air inlet and a centrifugal fan disposed concentrically within the filter and rotatable therewith are positioned within the main body. An oil adsorbent layer is provided on the inner surface of the main body surrounding the filter. The air taken in through the air inlet is passed through the filter into the air outlet causing air-borne oil mist to adhere to the filter. That oil mist which coalesces on the filter is centrifugally forced outward, is adsorbed by the oil adsorbent layer, and thereafter travels through the oil absorbent layer for discharge through an oil drain channel.

Abstract: An apparatus for utilizing the heat and humidity from an electric clothes dryer to heat and humidify an enclosure consists of a container having two openings, one entrance opening communicating with one end of a flexible conduit, the other end of the flexible conduit being capable of attaching to the exhaust outlet of an electric clothes dryer, the second exit opening, having a filter attached thereto, communicating with the enclosure atmosphere.

Abstract: A separator is disclosed for removing from a gas stream suspended particulates such as liquid droplets and finely divided solids. A housing chamber encloses a tube that contains a gas swirl device for imparting a swirling motion to the gas stream entering the inlet of the tube. A separator conduit is axially aligned with the tube and has its upstream end coaxially located in the downstream end of the tube, defining an annular ejection port. Suspended particulates and scavenging gas are discharged into the chamber through the annular ejection port. The downstream end of the separation conduit is in communication with the outlet of the housing. A passage is provided for returning the scavenging gas to the main gas stream at the outlet of the housing. A separation device is located in the passage to cleanse the scavenging gas of suspended particulates prior to recombination with the main gas stream.

Abstract: A portable electronic precipitator includes a two-stage type electrostatic percipitator mechanism mounted in a portable cabinet such as a wheel-mounted cabinet. The two stage type electrostatic percipitator is mounted in a vertical position with the inlet for the precipitator, containing the ionizer unit at the lower end of the precipitator with the collecting cell being mounted above the ionizer unit. A suitable fan is contained within the cabinet to pull air through the ionizer unit and then through the collector cell. The electrostatic precipitator mechanism is mounted above a particle fallout chamber. A freestanding arm, which is moveable in any desired direction is also mounted on the cabinet with a flexible hose surrounding and supported by the adjustable freestanding arm.

Abstract: A silencer-separator having a cylindrical casing of circular cross section which is divided into an upper separator chamber and a lower expansion chamber. An inlet pipe directs a gas stream into the expansion chamber, and a pair of angularly disposed tubes direct the gas upward through a divider into the separator chamber with a swirling motion along the interior wall surface. A tubular central outlet extends through the upper end closure and has an entrance a substantial vertical distance therebelow. A peripheral baffle adjacent the interior wall collects entrained particles in the separator section and the collected particles are drained through a tube that may lead to the bottom of the expansion chamber. A perforated cylindrical body filled with a noise-attenuating fibrous substance is coaxially supported within the central outlet.

Abstract: An enclosed portable container for gravel and dust in a vacuum cleaning system, provided with at least two cyclone air cleaners, having a clean out door, and each cyclone is provided with its own clean out door, is skid mounted for pick up and carry to dumping areas, reducing the handling of collected dirt, gravel and dust. The separate air pump assembly provides motivating power for the vacuum cleaning system.

Abstract: An air cleaner for an engine of a snow mobile provided with an endless vehicle track driven by the engine, includes an air cleaner main body comprising a duct extending longitudinally of the snow mobile and disposed on a floor covering of the endless vehicle track. The air cleaner main body is connected at its forward end to a carburetor for the engine and includes a rearward portion formed with a plurality of air inlet apertures. A riders' seat is mounted on the rear portion of the air cleaner main body and includes a shock-absorbing member for enclosing the air inlet apertures and an outer cover member for covering the shock-absorbing member. The shock-absorbing member serves concurrently as a cleaning element of the air cleaner, and at least one air intake port is formed in the outer cover of the seat at its rear end or one or both of its sides. The air cleaner main body is formed with an increased volume section which serves as a muffler for silencing engine intake noises.

Abstract: A three-stage dust collector incorporating a side outlet cyclone separator as the second dust collection stage. The side outlet separator includes an inlet end, an outlet end and a continuous side wall therebetween. A plurality of side outlet apertures are provided in the side wall and the separator has a plurality of axial passageways between its inlet and outlet ends. A vortex generating device is affixed within each axial passageway proximate the inlet end thereof and a device is provided for channeling clean air from within each axial passageway through a side outlet aperture. The vortex generated in the flow of dust-laden air entering the axial passageway discharges dust through the outlet end of the separator while cleaned air is channeled through the channeling device to a third stage separator.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for collecting overspray materials from an article coating station wherein a velocity differential in the air stream of the duct system employed selectively transports and effects removal of solids from the overspray materials. A secondary filter removes fine mist and powdered coatings from the overspray. One section of the duct system is preferably made from disposable materials and a removable liner is preferably used in a collecting receptacle to facilitate clean up operations after the coating is completed.

Abstract: A roof drill dust collector is disclosed which comprises a closed housing in which dust-laden air is carried through a first stage dust separator, a second stage dust separator, and a third stage dust filter, before being expelled to open air. The first and second stage separators deposit dust in first and second collection chambers having a common floor, being a hinged door. The housing has means therein for automatically, in sequence, spraying streams of water on the collection chamber walls, opening the hinged door to dump the collected dust, sending a reverse pulse of air through the third stage filter, and closing the hinged door.

Abstract: A household refrigerator having a condenser and a fan for passing air over the condenser. The fan is positioned in a fan orifice of an air channel which is of a construction to reduce the foreign substance in the air-stream and thereby reduce the labor of cleaning the condenser and maintain the efficiency of the condenser at a high value.

Abstract: An improved multistage particle separator apparatus including a cyclone separator, a linear separator, a pair of vertical channels carrying exit airstreams from said linear separator, and a pair of air filter chambers on each side of said linear separator. A portable multistage separator including integral means for collecting the separated particulate material and for supporting the separator during movement.

Abstract: A dust collector of the gravity separation type is combined with a heat exchanger to provide a dust collector/air preheater, or a dust collector/economizer, depending upon the heat exchange fluid used, suited for usage in a system or process for discharging and exchanging heat with exhaust gases from a boiler.

Abstract: An air purification unit for use in a compressed air system, said unit including a chamber having a plurality of serially connected sections located therein, said sections comprising a heat transfer section, a filter and expansion section, a supply reservoir section and a drying section, each section having an inlet and an outlet, the outlet of said heat transfer section connected with the inlet of said filter and expansion section, the outlet of said filter and expansion section connected to the inlet of said supply reservoir section, and the outlet of said supply reservoir section connected with the inlet of said drying section.

Abstract: A smog control device for use particularly on automobiles and comprising an enclosure connectable to the automotive exhaust system and having a passageway therein defined principally by baffles, and a pair of different sized vaned rotors coaxially mounted on a single shaft are disposed in the passageway such that the first smaller rotor is upstream from the second, larger rotor, whereby the first rotor is driven by the automotive exhaust flow and the second rotor is driven by the first rotor to create a partial vacuum in the passageway between the rotors, the partial vacuum being instrumental in causing the precipitation and caking of exhaust pollutants on downstream baffles which are removable for cleaning. A small motor could also be used to drive the rotors.

Abstract: A gas-liquid separator for use in flare systems comprising a vessel which incorporates four stages of gas-liquid separation. The first stage employs centrifugal (tangential) separation means by injecting the incoming mixture of liquid and gas tangential to the internal cylindrical surface of the vessel. A second stage is provided by immediately following baffling. A third stage of separation involves the drop out of liquid droplets by reduction of flow velocity due to the large cross-sectional diameter of the vessel. A fourth stage of separation involves passing the gas through a demister which involves design of a special shape of contact members which insure contact of the demister elements by the flowing gas, to further reduce the liquid content.

Abstract: Internal combustion engine exhaust gas muffler and purifier with segmented hollow shell and removable middle segment, said shell having an upstream exhaust gas expansion chamber, a downstream sound-absorbing and sound-collecting chamber, and a middle, removable cartridge receiving housing, the cartridge being filled with small particles of exhaust gas purifying material.

Abstract: The dust collecting efficiency of a gravel bed filter system in which a plurality of filter modules receive dirty gas from and dischage backflush gas and collected dust into a plenum chamber is enhanced by continuously drawing gas from a downstream end of the plenum chamber, passing the withdrawn gas through a cyclone separator, and returning the gas to the upstream end of the plenum chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus for purifying exhaust gas having an exhaust gas purifier and a recovering pipe extending from the exhaust gas purifier to a suction device of an internal-combustion engine. The exhaust gas purifier collects soot, etc., in the exhaust gas to purify the exhaust gas under an action of adiabatic expansion, which exhaust gas is discharged from the engine. The recovering pipe feeds the soot, etc., with the gas purified by the exhaust gas purifier into the suction device in which the soot, etc., and the purified gas are mixed into fresh air for combustion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing entrained matter from the intake air of a chain saw internal combustion engine of the type including at least one piston and cylinder, a crank shaft, and a carburetor.The apparatus includes a shroud surrounding at least one end of the crank shaft with an air inlet fashioned into the shroud at a position adjacent to said one end of the crank shaft and an air outlet fashioned into the shroud at a position remote from the air inlet. An air passage opens into the shroud adjacent the crank shaft for providing fluid communication between the interior of the shroud and the carburetor. The crank shaft is provided with a hub having on opposite faces thereof a first and second cascade of radial flow compressor blades to centrifugally impel air and entrained particulate matter away from the crankshaft. The compressor blades serve to remove at least a portion of the entrained matter from the combustion inlet air prior to the air entering the air passage for delivery to the carburetor.

Abstract: A vertically oriented, sheet metal enclosure includes a frusto-pyramidal lower section forming a hopper for separated particulate matter from an air stream which enters a middle section from a downwardly and inwardly inclined inlet duct fixed to one side of that section at the upper end, causing impingement of the airborne particles against the side of the hopper to effect a swirling action to the air stream. An array of laterally spaced, inclined baffle plates at the upper end of the middle section separates the middle section from an upper section which carries tensioned tubular filter bags. An enclosure cover defines an outlet opening feeding to a cover mounted blower.

Abstract: A dental office system including apparatus particularly adapted to high speed dental equipment. An aspirator operating valve having a coil spring trap catches inlays and crowns and other large pieces while permitting amalgum and other small pieces to pass without clogging the trap. A vacuum/venturi line avoids sludge buildup by constantly moving air through the lines. A water separator using a baffle arrangement avoids water creeping up the separator walls to reach and damage the vacuum pump. A slidable instrument console panel for ease of use by a dentist or his assistant includes automatic switches that operate when a dental handpiece is lifted.

Abstract: A pneumatic dust collecting system for a fiber processing machine which includes a tank having a chamber therein within which separate streams of dust and reusable fibrous material are received and collected. The tank contains an air expansion compartment adjacent the receiving and collecting chamber and shares a common wall which functions as a filter. A blower assembly is positioned within the tank and is adapted to apply suction to the air expansion compartment so as to draw air from the chamber via the compartment and to force a stream of pressurized air from the tank to an air pressure stabilizing chamber located adjacent one end of the fiber processing machine. An air manifold having a plurality of spaced discharge nozzles is connected to the air pressure stabilizing chamber and is adapted to discharge a blanket of air beneath the machine.

Abstract: A dual air-oil separator which separates two air-oil mixtures of differing proportions in a single unit having first and second chambers for the separate mixtures. The two chambers are separated by a perforated partition wall. The air-oil mixture, high in air is separated as it passes from the first chamber through the perforated wall and into the second chamber. The second chamber directly receives the air-oil mixture, low in air, for separation and combination in its sump with the oil from the first chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for controlling emissions caused by pushing of coke from a coke oven. The apparatus includes an entrapment chamber extending alongside a plurality of ovens for containing the emission. Exhaust means for the entrapment chamber comprises a flow path restriction for accelerating gases leaving the entrapment chamber so that particulates are entrained in the gases and inhibited from settling in the entrapment chamber. Gas velocity is reduced in an expansion chamber downstream from and extending below the level of the flow restriction. The expansion chamber provides a settling region laterally offset from said flow restriction in which particulates fall out of the gases along a settling path whose gravity component is in a direction downstream from the entrapment chamber.

Abstract: An oil separator in the output of an air compressor comprises a housing to which a mixture of compressed air and entrained oil is supplied through an inlet port which opens toward a separation unit removably inserted into the housing. The separation unit, comprising one or more filters adjoining an outlet port for the purified air, has a drain provided with an extractor for the forced exhaustion of oil retained in that unit; the extractor carried by the filter unit may be a nozzle, with an orifice that opens into the fluid flow issuing from the inlet port, or a pump whose impeller is driven by that fluid flow either upstream or downstream of the separation unit.

Abstract: An airtight container, having two separated compartments, including an inlet to the first compartment and a flexible, gravel pick-up tube attached to the inlet. A cyclone separator is mounted on the second compartment with its separated particle outlet discharging into the second compartment. A connecting conduit connects the outlet of the first compartment with the inlet of the cyclone, so that the first compartment is a separator for gravel and dust and the second compartment is a dust container for the cyclone. A separate, high capacity air pump has its inlet connected to the cyclone's clean air outlet causing a flow of air through the unit for picking up gravel and dust through the flexible tube. For convenience the containers may be mounted on a truck, and both containers are unloaded through a common, sealable gate at the lower portion of the containers.

Abstract: Particulate solids are separated from their admixture with gases by passage through a cyclone separator, wherein the solids are guided down the lower conical section thereof by helical channels which minimize recirculation of the particles and thereby minimize agglomeration thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of gases containing polluting or noxious constituents which comprises a washing and centrifuging chamber, means to spray a washing liquid, specific to the chemical reaction it is desired to obtain with the gas, means to augment the length of the path travelled by the gas-liquid droplet mixture and promote the chemical reaction between the gas and liquid, means to separate the gas and liquid and recover both the gas and liquid.