Electrostatic filter for fluids

Claim 1

A FILTER COMPRISING A DIELECTRIC CONDUIT, SAID CONDUIT BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL IN SHAPE, SAID CONDUIT HAVING A FLUID INLET END PORTION AND A FLUID OUTLET END, SAID INLET END PORTION OF SAID CONDUIT BEING REMOVABLE, SAID INLET END PORTION COMPRISING A DIELECTRIC CIRCULAR PLATE DISPOSED ACROSS THE END OF SAID CONDUIT AND HAVING A CENTRAL NECKED INLET MOUTH, SAID NECKED MOUTH PROTRUDING OUTWARDLY, A RING SHAPED DIELECTRIC WASHER DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CONDUIT ADJACENT SAID INLET END PORTION AND ABOUT THE INLET MOUTH THEREOF, A FIRST SINTERED FILTER ELEMENT DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CONDUIT, SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL IN SHAPE WITH A CLOSED END, AN OPEN END, AND AN ANNULAR FLANGE ABOUT SAID OEPN END, SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT POSITIONED WITH ITS OPEN END ADJACENT SAID RING SHAPED DIELECTRIC WASHER AND INLET MOUTH, AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SCREW DISPOSED THROUGH THE CIRCULAR PLATE COMPRISING SAID INLET END PORTION, THROUGH SAID RING SHAPED DIELECTRIC WASHER, AND SCREWED INTO SAID ANNULAR FLANGE TO SECURE SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT IN PLACE AND PROVIDE AN ELECTRICAL TERMINAL, AN ANNULAR DIELECTRIC SPACING WASHER POSITIONED ABOUT THE FLANGE OF SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT, SAID SPACING WASHER HAVING AN L SHAPED CROSS SECTION WITH ONE LEG THEREOF POSITIONED BETWEEN THE PERIPHERY OF SAID FLANGE AND SAID CYLINDRICAL CONDUIT AND THE OTHER LEG POSITIONED TO OVERLAP AND COVER SAID FLANGE AND LIE BETWEEN SAID CONDUIT AND THE CYLINDRICAL PORTION OF SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT, A SECOND SINTERED FILTER ELEMENT DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CONDUIT, SAID SECOND FILTER ELEMENT HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME SHAPE AS SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT AND POSITIONED CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT AND APART FROM SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT SAID SECOND FILTER ELEMENT HAVING A CLOSED END SPACIALLY ADJACENT SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT AND AN OPEN END, AN ANNULAR FLANGE ABOUT SAID OPEN END, THE PERIPHERY OF SAID FLANGE CONTACTING SAID CYLINDRICAL CONDUIT, SAID FLANGE POSITIONED ADJACENT SAID SPACING WASHER AND SPACED APART FROM SAID FIRST FILTER ELEMENT BY SAID SPACING WASHER, AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SCREW DISPOSED THROUGH SAID CONDUIT INLET END PORTION, THROUGH SAID RING SHAPED DIELECTRIC WASHER, THROUGH SAID SPACING WASHER, AND SCREWED INTO THE ANNULAR FLANGE OF SAID SECOND FILTER ELEMENT TO SECURE SAID SECOND FILTER ELEMENT IN PLACE AND PROVIDE AN ELECTRICAL TERMINAL, SAID FILTER ELEMENTS BEING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE, AND AN ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE APPLIED TO AND BETWEEN SAID ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SCREWS WHEREBY SAID FIRST AND SECOND FILTERS BECOMES OPPOSITELY ELECTRICALLY CHARGED.