Electrodialytic demineralization of water

Claim 1

THE ELECTRODIALYTIC PROCESS FOR DEMINERALIZING WATER WHICH COMPRISES THE STEPS OF: (A) FLOWING A CURRENT OF WATER CONTAINING IONIZED MINERAL SALT THROUGH AN ELECTRODIALYSIS CELL BOUNDED BY (B) ESTABLISHING AN ELECTRIC POTENTIAL BETWEEN AN ANODE AND A CATHODE WHICH ARE SITUATED IN SEPARATE, RESPECTIVELY ANODIC AND CATHODIC FLOW ZONES HAVING ELECTROLYTIC CONTACT WITH SAID MEMBRANES AND THEREBY CAUSING ELECTRO-MIGRATION OF IONS OF SAID MINERAL SALT THROUGH THE MEMBRANES AND INTO SAID ZONES, (C) FLOWING THROUGH THE ANODIC FLOW ZONES IN CONTACT WITH SAID ANODE AN ANOLYTE CONTAINING A LIQUID IN WHICH IONIZATION OF INORGANIC SALTS OCCURS AND A SUBDIVIDED SUBSTANCE WHICH IS ELECTRO-CHEMICALLY OXIDIZABLE TO FORM AN INTERMEDIARY SALT WITH THE ANION OF SAID MINERAL SALT AND THEREIN FORMING SAID INTERMEDIARY SALT BY ELECTRO-CHEMICAL OXIDATION OF SAID SUBSTANCE, (D) TRANSFERRING THE SAID INTERMEDIARY SALT TO AND FLOWING IT THROUGH THE CATHODIC FLOW ZONE TOGETHER WITH A LIQUID IN WHICH IONIZATION OF INORGANIC SALTS OCCURS AND IN CONTACT WITH SAID CATHODE, THEREIN REFORMING THE SAID IONIZED MINERAL SALT AND THE SAID SUBSTANCE BY ELECTRO-CHEMICAL REDUCTION OF THE SAID SUBSTANCE, AND DISCHARGING THE REFORMED MATERIAL FROM THE CATHODIC FLOW ZONE, AND (E) DISCHARGING WATER OF REDUCED MINERAL CONTENT FROM SAID CELL.