Contacting fluids with solids

Claim 1

THE PROCESS OF CONTACTING SMALL-SIZE SOLIDS WITH A FLOWING FLUID AND CAUSING CHEMICAL REACTION TO OCCUR IN SAID FLUID WHILE IN CONTACT WITH SAID SOLIDS, COMPRISING, PASSING A FLUID STREAM INITIALLY CONTAINING REACTANT MATERIAL UPWARDLY THROUGH AND IN CONTACT WITH A MASS OF SMALL-SIZE CONTACT SOLIDS WHILE SAID MASS IS CONFINED AS A DEEP, UPRIGHT, CONTINUOUS BED IN A REACTION CHAMBER FLUIDIZED THEREIN BY SAID STRIEM WITH A WELL DEFINED TOP LEVEL IN SAID CHAMBER, MEANWHILE MATERIALLY RETARDING TOP TO BOTTOM AND BOTTON TO TOP MIXING OF THE LATTER SOLIDS AND TOP TO BOTTOM MIXING OF REACTION PRODUCTS IN SAID BED BY WHIRLING (ROTATING) A PLURALITY OF SEPARATED DISKLIKE ELEMENTS OF A NON-PROPELLANT TYPE IN SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLANES IN SAID BED WHICH ELEMENTS ARE SPACED APART VERTICALLY IN STAGGERED ARRANGEMENT ON A VERTICAL SHAFT IN SAID BED, THEREBY PROMOTING SAID REACTION OF SAID MATERIAL IN SAID STREAM BY VIRTURE OF ITS CONTACT WITH SAID CONTACT SOLIDS AS SAID STREAM PASSES UP THROUGH SAID BED, AND REMOVING THE STREAM, OF ALTERED COMPOSITION, FROM ABOVE SAID BED.