Apparatus for contacting and subsequently separating immiscible liquids

Claim 1

A COMBINED FLIDS MIXING AND SEPARATION APPARATUS WHICH COMPRISES, IN COMBINATION: A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL VERTICALLY DISPOSED VESSEL, HEAT EXCHANGE MEANS COAXIALLY AND LONGITUDINALLY DISPOSED WITHIN SAID VESSEL, A CYLINDRICAL PARTITION OPEN AT ITS TOP AND EXTENDING FROM THE BOTTOM PORTION OF SAID VESSEL TO A POINT INTERMEDIATE SAID BOTTOM PORTION AND THE TOP PORTION OF SAID VESSEL, SAID PARTITION SURROUNDING THE LOWER PORTION ONLY OF SAID HEAT EXCHANGE MEANS AND DIVIDING THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID VESSEL INTO AN OUTER ANNULAR SECTION USRROUNDING A CENTRAL INNER SECTION, AT LEAST ONE INLET CONDUIT MEANS EXTENDING FROM WITHOUT SAID VESSEL, THROUGH SAID OUTER SECTION, AND TO SAID INNER SECTION, AND AN EDUCTOR-MIXER IN SAID INLET CONDUIT MEANS IN COMMUNICATION WITH FLUID IN SAID OUTER SECTION AND ADAPTED TO WITHDRAW SAID FLUID FROM OUTER SECTION AND MIX SAME WITH OTHER FLUID BEING INTRODUCED THROUGH SAID INLET CONDUIT MEANS