Recovery of elemental sulfur from its ores

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR RECOVERING ELEMENTAL SULFUR FROM ORE CONTAINING SAME WHICH COMPRISES FORMING A FLOWABLE MIXTURE OF GRANULAR PARTICLES OF SAID ORE IN A VAPORIZABLE LIQUID WHICH IS A NON-SOLVENT FOR SULFUR; PASSING SAID MIXTURE AS A FLOWING STREAM INTO A THROUGH A CONFINED HEATING ZONE; HEATING SAID MIXTURE IN SAID ZONE TO A TEMPERATURE SUFFICIENTLY ABOVE THE BOILING TEMPERATURES OF SAID LIQUID AND OF SULFUR TO VAPORIZE SAID LIQUID AND SAID SULFUR, FORMING THEREIN A FLOWING DISPERSION OF SAID PARTICLES IN VAPOR; DISINTERGRATING SAID GRANULAR PARTICLES OF ORE AND LIBERATING SULFUR THEREFROM BY PASSING SAID DISPERSION AS A FLOWING STREAM THROUGH A SUCCEEDING ZONE OF HIGH VELCOCITY FLOW AND SUBJECTING THE FLOWING STREAM THEREIN TO TURBULENCE AND A HIGH VELOCITY IN EXCESS OF 25 FEET PER SECOND; SEPARATING THE SULFUR VAPOR AND THE VAPOR OF SAID VAPORIZABLE LIQUID FROM THE DISTENGRATED ORE PARTICLES; AND CONDENSING AND RECOVERING THE SEPARTATED SULFUR.