Gas cleaner

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A GAS CLEANER APPARATUS COMPRISING: A HOUSING HAVING DIRTY GAS INLET MEANS INTERMEDIATE THE EXTREMITIES THEREOF AND CLEAN GAS OUTLET MEANS SPACED FROM SAID GAS INLET MEANS, A FIRST SET OF SPACED PARALLEL HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING TUBULAR CENTRIFUGAL DUST SEPARATORS DISPOSED IN SAID HOUSING IN INCLINED ROWS ADJACENT ONE SIDE OF SAID DIRTY GAS INLET MEANS, A SECOND SET OF SPACED PARALLEL HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING TUBULAR CENTRIFUGAL DUST SEPARATORS DISPOSED IN SAID HOUSING IN INCLINED ROWS IN SPACED RELATION FROM SAID FIRST SET OF SEPARATORS ADJACENT THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID DIRTY GAS INLET MEANS, EACH OF SAID SEPARATORS OF EACH SET OF SEPARATORS HAVING A DIRTY GAS INLET OPENING, A CLEAN GAS OUTLET OPENING AND A DUST DISCHARGE OPENING, DIRTY GAS CHAMBER MEANS IN SAID HOUSING COMMUNICABLY CONNECTING SAID DIRTY GAS INLET OPENINGS OF SAID SEPARATORS OF EACH SET WITH THE DIRTY GAS INLET MEANS OF SAID HOUSING, LIQUID SEPARATOR MEANS DISPOSED IN SAID DIRTY GAS CHAMBER MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF SEPARATORS, SAID LIQUID SEPARATOR MEANS INCLUDING DIVERGING BAFFLE MEANS AGAINST WHICH AN INCOMING GAS STREAM TO BE TREATED IN PINGES TO BE DIVIDED AND REVERSED IN COUNTERFLOW TO THE INCOMING PORTION OF SAID STREAM INTO SEPARATE STREAMS FOR EACH OF THE SEPARATOR SETS AND ENCLOSED DRAIN TROUGH MEANS COOPERATIVELY POSITIONED RELATIVE SAID BAFFLE MEANS TO DRAIN OFF LIQUIDS AND SLUDGE, SAID ENCLOSED DRAIN TROUGH MEANS EXTENDING TO THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID HOUSING, DUST CHAMBER MEANS IN SAID HOUSING HAVING SPACED INCLINED ROWS OF CHUTES DISPOSED THEREIN, EACH CHUTE BEING COMMUNICABLY CONNECTED TO THE DUST DISCHARGE OPENINGS OF AN INCLINED ROW OF SAID SEPARATORS OF SAID SETS OF DUST SEPARATORS TO DIRECT DUST DISCHARGE FROM SAID SEPARATORS ALONG THE SIDE OF SAID DUST CHAMBER MEANS, AND CLEAN GAS CHAMBER MEANS IN SAID HOUSING TO COMMUNICABLY CONNECT SAID CLEAN GAS OUTLET OPENINGS OF SAID SEPARATORS OF SAID SETS OF SEPARATORS WITH THE CLEAN GAS OUTLET MEANS OF SAID HOUSING.