Carbon black apparatus

Claim 1

AN CARBON BLACK PRODUCTION APPARATUS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION: AN ELONGATED SUBSTANTIALLY CYCLINDRICAL, UNOBSTRUCTED REACTION CHAMBER DISPOSED WITH ITS AXIS SUBTIANTIALLY HORIZONTAL AND HAVING A REFRACTORY SAID WALL AND A REFRACTORY END WALL, HYDROCARBON INLET MEANS POSITIONED AXIALLY IN SAID END WALL, UNRESTRICTED OUTLET MEANS AT THE END OF SAID CHAMBER OPPOSITE SAID END WALL, A HEAT INSULTED HEATING CHAMBER PARTIALLY ENCOMPASSING SAID SIDE WALL ONLY THROUGHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY THE UPPER HALF THEREOF AND IN OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID REACTION CHAMBER THROUGH A PLURALITY OF OPENINGS IN SAID SIDE WALL, SAID OPENINGS BEING POSITIONED ADJACENT SAID END WALL AND SUBTANTIALLY TANGENTIAL TO THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID SIDE WALL, INLET MEANS IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID HEATING CHAMBER AT THE END THEREOF OPPOSITE SAID OPENINGS CONNECTED TO FUEL AND AIR SUPPLY MEANS LOCATED EXTERNALLY OF THE CARBON BLACK FURNACE, AND A HEAT INSULATING BED SUPPORTING THE MAJAOR AREA OF THE LOWER HALF OF SAID REFRACTORY SIDE WALL, WHEREBY SAGGING OF SAID SIDE WALL DURING HEATING IS OBVIATED, SAID INLET MEANS BEING SPACED FROM SAID OPENINGS A SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE AND DISPOSED SO THAT THE ENTIRE MOVEMENT OF FLUIDS IN SAID HEATING CHAMBER IS COUNTERCURRENT TO THE MOVEMENT OF FLUIDS IN SAID REACTION CHAMBER.