Solid adsorber

Claim 1

APPARATUS OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, COMPRISING AN UPRIGHT CHAMBER HAVING VERTICALLY SPACED INLET AND OUTLET OPENINGS FOR FLOWING THROUGH THE CHAMBER FIRST FLUID TO BE SUBJECTED TO ADSORPTION THEREIN, A SOLID VERTICALLY DEEP BED OF PERMEABLE ADSOPBENT MATERIAL HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM VERTICAL EXTENT IN THE CHAMBER, THE CHAMBER ABOVE AND BELOW SAID BED BEING OPEN TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE RESPECTIVE OPENINGS SO THAT SAID FIRST FLUID FLOWS VERTICALLY THROUGH THE BED, A HEAT EXCHANGER ASSEMBLY IN THE FORM OF VERTICALLY OPEN SCROLL MEANS EMBEDDING SAID ADSORBENT AND INCLUDING METAL SHEET EXTENDING VERTICALLY AND LATERALLY IN SURFACE-TO-SURFACE CONTACT WITH THE ADSORBENT, SAID SHEET CONTAINING A LARGE NUMBER OF RELATIVELY SMALL INTERNAL INTERCOMMUNICATING PASSAGES FOR PASSING OTHER FLUID IN HEAT EXCHANGE RELATION WITH SAID SHEET AND ADSORBENT BED TO MAINTAIN THE BED TEMPERATURE SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM HORIZONTALLY CORSSWISE OF THE CHAMBER, THE MAJOR LENGTHWISE EXTENTS OF SAID INTERCOMMUNICATING PASSAGES EXTENDING IN THE VERTICAL DIRECTION OF FIRST FLUID FLOW THROUGH SAID ADSORBENT BED AND THROUGHOUT THE BED MAJOR DEPTHWISE EXTENT, SAID SHEET EXTENDING LATERALLY AND CONTINUOUSLY BETWEEN THE PASSAGES IN SAID BED, THE LENGTHWISE EXTENTS OF SAID PASSAGES BEING DISTRIBUTED SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY IN HORIZONTALLY RELATIVELY CLOSELY SPACED APART RELATION CROSSWISE OF THE CHAMBER, AND SUPPORT MEANS MOUNTING SAID ASSEMBLY AND ADSORBENT SUBSTANTIALLY TO FILL THE CROSS SECTION OF SAID CHAMBER THROUGHOUT THE VERTICAL EXTENT OF SAID ABSORBENT WHEREBY ALL FLUID FLOWING THROUGH SAID CHAMBER IS ADAPTED TO PERMEATE SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY SAID ADSORBENT, SAID PASSAGES HAVING HORIZONTAL EXTENTS COMMUNICATING WITH LENGTHWISE VERTICAL EXTENTS OF THE PASSAGES, SAID PASSAGE HORIZONTAL EXTENTS IN RADIALLY SEQUENTIALLY SPACED SCROLL CONVOLUTIONS BEING AT DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS.