Water demineralizing units

Claim 1

A WATER DEMINERALIZING UNIT COMPRISING AN UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL CATHODE, A FIRST UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL BARRIER ARRANGED WITHIN SAID CATHODE AND SPACED INWARDLY WITH RESPECT THERETO AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO DEFINE AN UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR CATHOLYTE CHAMBER THEREBETWEEN, A SECOND UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL BARRIER ARRANGED WITHIN SAID FIRST BARRIER AND SPACED INWARDLY WITH RESPECT THERETO AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO DEFINE AN UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR TREATMENT CHAMBER THEREBETWEEN, AND UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY ROD-LIKE ANODE ARRANGED WITHIN SAID SECOND BARRIER AND SPACED INWARDLY WITH RESPECT THERETO AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO DEFINE AN UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR ANOLYTE CHAMBER THEREBETWEEN, AN UPPER INSULATING HEADER SEALED TO THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID CATHODE AND SAID FIRST AND SECOND BARRIERS AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CENTRALLY DISPOSED OPENING THERETHROUGH RECEIVING THE UPPER END OF SAID ANODE, A LOWER HEADER SEALED TO THE LOWER ENDS OF SAID CATHODE AND SAID FIRST BNARRIER AND HAVING AN ENLARGED SUBSTANTIALLY CENTRALLY DISPOSED OPENING THERETHROUGH, AN UPSTANDING INSULATING BUSHING ARRANGED IN THE OPENING IN SAID LOWER HEADER AND SEALED THERETO AND ALSO SEALED TO THE LOWER END OF SAID SECOND BARRIER, A SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR INSULATING PLATE ARRANGED IN THE LOWER END OF SAID TREATMENT CHAMBER BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND BARRIERS AND ABOVE SAID LOWER HEADER AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO DEFINE A COMPARTMENT THEREBETWEEN, SAID PLATE HAVING HOLES THERETHROUGH COMMUNICATING BETWEEN SAID TREATING CHAMBER AND SAID COMPARTMENT, AN UPSTANDING SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR POROUS ION EXCHANGE BED ARRANGED IN SAID TREATMENT CHAMBER BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND BARRIERS AND ABOVE SAID PLATE, MEANS FOR INTRODUCING RAW WATER INTO THE UPPER END OF SAID TREATMENT CHAMBER, MEANS FOR WITHDRAWING TREATED WATER FROM SAID COMPARTMENT, SO THAT THE WATER UNDERGOING TREATMENT PASSES DOWNWARDLY THROUGH SAID TREATMENT CHAMBER INTO CONTACT WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND BARRIERS AND THROUGH SAID ION EXCHANGE BED AND INTO CONTACT THEREWITH AND THENCE THROUGH THE HOLES IN SAID PLATE INTO SAID COMPARTMENT, WHEREBY THE WATER IN SAID TREATMENT CHAMBER IS SUBJECTED TO ION EXCHANGE, MEANS FOR CONDUCTING A FIRST SMALL PORTION OF THE TREATED WATER FROM SAIS COMPARTMENT AS A CATHOLYTE UPWARDLY THROUGH SAID CATHOLYTE CHAMBER AND INTO CONTACT WITH SAID CATHODE AND SAID FIRST BARRIER AND THENCE TO DRAIN, MEANS FOR CONDUCTING A SECOND SMALL PORTION OF THE TREATED WATER FROM SAID COMPARTMENT AS AN ANOLYTE UPWARDLY THROUGH SAID ANOLYTE CHAMBER AND INTO CONTACT WITH SAID SECOND BARRIER AND SAID ANODE AND THENCE TO DRAIN, AND A POWER SUPPLY SOURCE FOR CONDUCTING AN ELECTRIC CURRENT FROM SAID ANODE TO SAID CATHODE THROUGH THE WATER IN SAID THREE CHAMBERS NAMED AND THROUGH SAID SECOND AND FIRST BARRIERS AND THROUGH SAID ION EXCHANGE BED, WHEREBY THE WATER IN SAIDD TREATMENT CHAMBER IS ALSO SUBJECTED TO ELECTRODIALYSIS AND SAID ION EXCHANGE BED IS SUBJECTED TO ION REGENARATION.