Immiscible fluids separator

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR FILTERING AND SEPARATING A MIXTURE OF IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS OF DIFFERENT DENSITIES, FOREIGN MATTER AND GASES, COMPRISING A CONTAINER DIVIDED BY A HORIZONTAL PARTITION INTO UPPER AND LOWER COMPARTMENTS, AN INLET IN THE LOWER COMPARTMENT THROUGH WHICH THE MIXTURE MAY BE INTRODUCED UNDER PRESSURE, A PLURALITY OF FILTERS OF THE ANNULAR MICRO-GROOVE TYPE IN SAID LOWER COMPARTMENT TO REMOVE FOREIGN MATTER AND TO PRODUCE AN INITIAL SEPARATION OF THE LIQUIDS, A PLURALITY OF DIFFUSING ELEMENTS MOUNTED ON SAID PARTITION, EACH DIFFUSING ELEMENT COMPRISING AN INLET AND A RECEPTACLE HAVING DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED HOLES THROUGH WHICH SAID LIQUIDS MAY BE EXTRUDED TO PRODUCE FURTHER SEPARATION AND A NARROW HORIZONTAL SLOT AROUND ITS PERIMETER WHICH SAID LIQUIDS MAY BE EXPRESSED AND FURTHER SEPARATED BY LAMINATION AND STRATIFICATION, THE OUTLETS OF SAID MICRO-GROOVE FILTERS COMMUNICATING WITH THE INLETS OF SAID DIFFUSING ELEMENTS THROUGH SAID PARTITION, AN OUTLET FOR THE HEAVIER LIQUID ADJACENT THE BOTTOM OF SAID UPPER COMPARTMENT, A FILTER PAD ABOVE SAID PARTITION AND BELOW THE LEVEL OF SAID DIFFUSING ELEMENTS THROUGH WHICH SAID HEAVIER LIQUID MAY FLOW TO SAID HEAVIER LIQUID OUTLET, AN OUTLET FOR THE LIGHTER LIQUID NEAR THE TOP OF SAID UPPER COMPARTMENT,