Apparatus for use in procedures requiring agitation in a closed system

Claim 1

THE APPARATUS WHICH PROVIDES CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING AGITATION IN A LIQUID MIXTURE THAT TENDS TO STRATIFY COMPRISING: A VERTICALLY ELONGATED VESSEL; AN ELONGATED VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING AGITATOR POSITIONED THEREIN HAVING UPPER AND LOWER ENDS AND AT LEAST ONE VERTICALLY MOVING HORIZONTAL BAFFLE PLATE WHICH IS POSITIONED INTERMEDIATE THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF THE AGITATOR AND WHICH HAS A CENTRAL OPENING THEREIN DEFINING AN ANNULUS AOBUT THE OPENING AND A PLURALITY OF VERTICAL SOFT IRON RODS PASSING THROUGH AND BEING SECURED IN SUBSTANTIALLY EQUI-SPACED APART RELATIONSHIP IN THE ANNULUS PROVIDED BY SAID OPENING IN THE BAFFLE PLATE, THE RODS THEREBY BEING SO SPACED AS TO DESCRIBE A CIRCULAR PATTERN IN THE PLATE AND A PLURALITY OF HOLES DISTRIBUTED IN THE ANNULUS OF THE PLATE THROUGH WHICH LIQUID PASSES WHEN THE PLATE IS MOVED THROUGH A BODY OF LIQUID CONTAINED IN SAID VESSEL; TWO SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL CONCENTRIC PIPES HAVING OPEN LOWER ENDS, CENTRALLY POSITIONED IN SAID VESSEL, THE INNERMOST OF SAID CONCENTRIC PIPES EXTENDING THROUGH THE CENTRAL HOLE IN SAID BAFFLE, THE LOWER END OF THE OUTERMOST OF SAID CONCENTRIC PIPES TERMINATING SHORTLY ABOVE SAID BAFFLE, AND THE LOWER END OF THE INTERMOST OF SAID CONCENTRIC PIPES EXTENDING TO A POINT INTERMEDIATE THE TERMINATION POINT OF THE LOWER END OF SAID OUTER PIPE AND THE BOTTOM OF SAID VESSEL, SAID PIPES EXTENDING UPWARDLY THROUGH AN OPENING IN THE TOIP OF SAID VESSEL AND IN MANUALLY-CONTROLLED INDEPENDENT COMMUNICATION WITH EXTERIOR CONDUITS, WHEREBY FLUIDS MAY BE DESIRABLY INTRODUCED AND DRAWN FROM SAID VESSEL; AND MAGNETIC MEANS POSITIONED EXTERIOR TO SAID VESSEL AND ADAPTED TO VERTICALLY RECIPROCATE THE AGITATOR ASSEMBLY BY MAGNETICALLY ATTRACTING THE SOFT IRON RODS.

Claim 2

THE APPARATUS WHICH PROVIDES CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING AGITATION IN A LIQUID MIXTURE THAT TENDS TO STRATIFY COMPRISING: A VERTICALLY ELONGATED VESSEL; AN ELONGATED VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING AGITATOR POSITIONED THEREIN HAVING UPPER AND LOWER ENDS AND AT LEAST ONE VERTICALLY MOVING HORIZONTAL BAFFLE PLATE WHICH IS POSITIONED INTERMEDIATE THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF THE AGITATOR AND WHICH HAS A CENTRAL OPENING THEREIN DEFINING AN ANNULUS AOBUT THE OPENING AND A PLURALITY OF VERTICAL SOFT IRON RODS PASSING THROUGH AND BEING SECURED IN SUBSTANTIALLY EQUI-SPACED APART RELATIONSHIP IN THE ANNULUS PROVIDED BY SAID OPENING IN THE BAFFLE PLATE, THE RODS THEREBY BEING SO SPACED AS TO DESCRIBE A CIRCULAR PATTERN IN THE PLATE AND A PLURALITY OF HOLES DISTRIBUTED IN THE ANNULUS OF THE PLATE THROUGH WHICH LIQUID PASSES WHEN THE PLATE IS MOVED THROUGH A BODY OF LIQUID CONTAINED IN SAID VESSEL; TWO SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL CONCENTRIC PIPES HAVING OPEN LOWER ENDS, CENTRALLY POSITIONED IN SAID VESSEL, THE INNERMOST OF SAID CONCENTRIC PIPES EXTENDING THROUGH THE CENTRAL HOLE IN SAID BAFFLE, THE LOWER END OF THE OUTERMOST OF SAID CONCENTRIC PIPES TERMINATING SHORTLY ABOVE SAID BAFFLE, AND THE LOWER END OF THE INTERMOST OF SAID CONCENTRIC PIPES EXTENDING TO A POINT INTERMEDIATE THE TERMINATION POINT OF THE LOWER END OF SAID OUTER PIPE AND THE BOTTOM OF SAID VESSEL, SAID PIPES EXTENDING UPWARDLY THROUGH AN OPENING IN THE TOIP OF SAID VESSEL AND IN MANUALLY-CONTROLLED INDEPENDENT COMMUNICATION WITH EXTERIOR CONDUITS, WHEREBY FLUIDS MAY BE DESIRABLY INTRODUCED AND DRAWN FROM SAID VESSEL; AND MAGNETIC MEANS POSITIONED EXTERIOR TO SAID VESSEL AND ADAPTED TO VERTICALLY RECIPROCATE THE AGITATOR ASSEMBLY BY MAGNETICALLY ATTRACTING THE SOFT IRON RODS.