Electrolytic water treatment unit

Claim 1

AN ELECTROLYTIC CELL COMPRISING AN ELONGATED SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW CATHODE, AN ENLOGATED SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW PERMEABLE DIAPHRAGM ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY CONCENTRICALLY WITHIN SAID CATHODE IN SPACED RELATION THEREWITH, AN ELONGATED ANODE ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY CONCENTRICALLY WITHIN SAID DIAPHRAGM IN SPACED RELATION THEREWITH, A PAIR OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED-APART SUBSTANTIALLY DISK-LIKE INSULATING HEADS RESPECTIVELY COOPERATING WITH THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID DIAPHRAGM AND SAID CATHODE AND SAID ANODE TO DEFINE A LIQUID-TIGHT SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR CATHOLYTE CHAMBER BETWEEN SAID DIAPHRAGM AND SAID CATHODE AND A LIQUIDTIGHT SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR ANOLYTE CHAMBER BETWEEN SAID DIAPHRAGM AND SAID ANODE, INLET AND OUTLET CONDUITS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CATHOLYTE CHAMBER ADJACENT TO THE OPPOSITE ENDS THEREOF AND ACCOMMODATING THE CONDUCTION THERETHROUGH AND INTO CONTACT WITH BOTH SAID CATHODE AND SAID DIAPHRAGM OF A FIRST STREAM OF RAW WATER, EACH OF SAID HEADS HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY CENTRALLY DISPOSED OPENING THERETHROUGH SURROUNDING THE ADJACENT END OF SAID ANODE AND COMMUNICATING WITH THE ADJACENT END OR SAID ANOLYTE CHAMBER, AN INLET FIXTURE SECURED IN LIQUID-TIGHT RELATION TO ONE OF SAID HEADS IN THE OPENING THEREIN, AN OUTLET FIXTURE SECURED IN LIQUID-TIGHT RELATION TO THE OTHER OF SAID HEADS IN THE OPENING THEREIN, ONE END OF SAID ANODE PROJECTING TO THE EXTERIOR OF SAID ANOLYTE CHAMBER THROUGH A HOLE PROVIDED IN ONE OF SAID FIXTURES, A PACKING GLAND CARRIED BY SAID ONE FIXTURE IN SURROUNDING RELATION WITH SAID ANODE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN SAID ANOLYTE CHAMBER LIQUID-TIGHT, A POROUS ION EXCHANGE BED ARRANGED IN SAID ANOLYTE CHAMBER AND CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A LOOSELY PACED MASS OF ION EX-