Degreasing apparatus

Claim 1

IN A DEGREASING APPARATUS FOR USE IN TREATING WITH SOLVENTS SUCH AS TRICHLORETHYLENE, A HORIZONTALLY ELONGATE QUADRANGULAR HOUSING HAVING CONTINUOUS, STRAIGHT, INTERIORLY-UNOBSTRUCTED SIDE WALLS, END WALLS AND BOTTOM; A TRANSVERSE VERTICAL PARTITION EXTENDING PART WAY UP WITHIN THE HOUSING FROM THE BOTTOM ADJACENT ONE END OF THE HOUSING; A TRAY-LIKE HORIZONTAL PARTITION EXTENDING BETWEEN THE TOP OF THE VERTICAL PARTITION TO SAID END WALL AND FROM SIDE WALL TO SIDE WALL AND A ROOF PORTION EXTENDING INWARD FROM SAID END WALL ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL PARTITION AND TERMINATING IN THE PLANE OF THE VERTICAL PARTITION, WITH RESULTANT SETTING APART WITHIN THE HOUSING, AN OPEN TOP SOLVENT EVAPORATION TANK INTO WHICH WORK TO BE CLEANED IS INTRODUCED FROM ABOVE, A SMALLER SOLVENT STORAGE RESERVIOR BENEATH THE HORIZONTAL PARTITON, AND AN OFFSET ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL PARTITION IN FULL COMMUNICATION WITH THE EVAPORATION CHAMBER AND POSITIONED SUBSTANTIALLY BELOW THE TOP OF THE EVAPORATION TANK; A SOLVENT OVERFLOW OUTLET FROM THE STORAGE RESERVOIR TO THE EVAPORATION TANK; HEATING MEANS FOR BOILING THE SOLVENT IN THE TANK; A PACKET THROUGH WHICH COOLANT IS PASSED EXTENDING PERIMETRICALLY ABOUT THE HOUSING MEDIALLY OF THE HEIGHT OF THE OFFSET AFORESAID FOR MAINTAINING A TOP LIMIT LEVEL FOR THE VAPOR RELEASED FROM THE HOT SOLVENT IN THE TANK; A HORIZONTALLY ARRANGED HELICAL CONDENSER COIL EXTENDING CROSSWISE TO THE HOUSING FROM SIDE TO SIDE IN THE OFFSET AFORESAID AT AN ELEVATION CORRESPONDING TO THAT OF THE JACKET THROUGH WHICH COOLANT IS CIRCULATED; AND MEANS FOR CONDUCTING THE CONDENSATE RELEASED FROM THE CONDENSER COIL AND COLLECTED BY THE TRAY-LIKE HORIZONTAL PARTITION FOR RETURN TO THE STORAGE RESERVOIR.