Absorption oil purifying

Claim 1

IN AN ABSORPTION RECOVERY SYSTEM INCLUDING AN ABSORBER AND A STILL BETWEEN WHICH A STREAM OF AN ABSORPTION MENSTRUUM IS CIRCULATED IN THE OPERATION OF THE SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY PURIFYING THE CIRCULATING MENSTRUUM, COMPRISING, A VERTICALLY DISPOSED GENERALLY TABULAR VESSEL HAVING A CLOSED UPPER END, AN INLET PASSAGE INTO THE UPPER PORTION OF THE VESSEL ADJACENT SAID CLOSED UPPER END, CONDUIT MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH THE INLET PASSAGE, MEANS FOR INTRODUCING A HOT VAPOROUS STRIPPING MEDIUM INTO SAID CONDUIT MEANS, MEANS FOR CONTINUOUSLY INTRODUCING A MINOR PORTION OF SAID STREAM OF ABSORPTION MENSTRUUM INTO SAID CONDUIT MEANS INTO DIRECT ADMIXTURE WITH SAID STRIPPING MEDIUM, MEANS FOR REGULATING THE RELATIVE VOLUMES OF SAID MINOR PORTION OF THE MENSTRUUM AND SAID STRIPPING MEDIUM TO SUCH AS WILL EFFECT VAPORIZATION OF THE BULK OF SAID MINOR PORTION BY THE STRIPPING MEDIUM UPON ADMISSION OF THE ADMIXTURE INTO THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID VESSEL, AN OUTLET PASSAGE FROM THE UPPER PORTION OF THE VESSEL AT A POINT SUBSTANTIALLY OPPOSITE SAID INLET PASSAGE FOR DISCHARGING THEREFROM THE ADMIXED VAPORS OF SAID MINOR PORTION AND SAID STRIPPING MEDIUM, MIST-EXTRACTOR MEANS DISPOSED IN THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID VESSEL BETWEEN SAID INLET AND OUTLET PASSAGES, AND OUTLET MEANS FOR DISCHARGING THE UNVAPORIZED RESIDUE OF SAID MINOR PORTION FROM SAID VESSEL.