Filtering and processing apparatus

Claim 1

A FILERING AND PROCESSING APPARATUS COMPRISING OF A CYLINDRICAL CASING, A BASE RIGIDLY SECURED ON THE LOWER END AND A COVER MOUNTED ON THE UPPER END THEREOF, MEANS TO ADMIT A MIXTURE AT THE LOWER END OF SAID CASING, AN OUTLET PORT FOR SEGREGATED MATERIAL TOWARD THE UPPER END OF SAID CASING, A HOLLOW SHAFT ROTATIVELY SUPPORTED AT THE UPPER AND LOWER END OF SAID CASING, MEANS TO ADMIT FLUID TO SAID HALLOW SHAFT, SAID SHAFT HAVING PERFORATIONS A FAN ON SAID HOLLOW SHAFT TO ADMIT FLUID INTO SAID CASING, A FIRST ANNULAR DEFLECTOR EXTENDING OUTWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY AND ATTACHED TO SAID SHAFT AT A POINT BELOW SAID PERFORATIONS, SECOND DEFLECTOR MEANS INCLUDING AN ANNULAR SECTION SLOPING DOWNWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY FROM BELOW AND WITHIN THE LATERAL CONFINES OF SAID FIRST DEFLECTOR AND TERMINATING NEAR THE CASING WALL, PERFORATE MEANS RIGIDLY CONNECTING SAID SECOND DEFLECTOR TO SAID SHAFT, AN ANNULAR CHANNEL ATTACHED TO AND EXTENDING INWARDLY FROM THE CASING WALL TO A POINT WITHIN THE LATERAL CONFINES OF SAID CHANOND DEFLECTOR MEANS, A DRAIN PORT CONNECTED TO SAID CHANNEL, MEANS TO ROTATE SAID SHAFT, SAID FAN RIGIDLY MOUNTED ON SAID HOLLOW SHAFT ABOVE THE LOWER ROTATIVE SUPPORT AND IN THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID CASING BELOW SAID CHANNEL, SAID FAN HAVING FINS POSITIONED SO AS TO UPWARDLY DIRECT THE FLOW OF FLUIDS.