Centrifugal separator and analyzing means

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY PROCESSING A LIQUID HAVING TWO CONSTITUENTS OF DIFFERENT SPECIFIC GRAVITIES, COMPRISING: SOURCE MEANS FOR CONTINUOUSLY SUPPLYING THE LIQUID; A ROTARY VESSEL MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABUT ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS HAVING A WALL DEFINING A CONICAL CENTRAL CAVITY, THREE GROOVES IN SAID WALL LONGITUDINALLY SPACED APART, AND A PASSAGEWAY THROUGH SAID WALL INTERCONNECTING THE APEX PROXIMAL GROOVE WITH THE APEX REMOTE GROOVE; MOTIVE MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ROTARY VESSEL FOR ROTATING SAID VESSEL ABOUT SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS; FIRST CONDUIT MEANS HAVING AN INLET COUPLED TO SAID SOURCE MEANS AND AN OUTLET IN FLUID FLOW COMMUNICATION WITH SAID APEX PROXIMAL GROOVE, FOR CONVEYING THE LIQUID TO SAID APEX PROXIMAL GROOVE AS A STREAM; SAID VESSEL SERVING AS A CENTRIFUGE WHEREBY THE HEAVIER CONSTITUENT OF THE LIQUID PASSES THROUGH SAID PASSAGEWAY FROM SAID APEX PROXIMAL GROOVE TO SAID APEX REMOTE GROOVE, AND THE LIGHTER CONSTITUENT OF THE LIQUID PASSES ALONG SAID WALL FROM SAID APEX PROXIMAL GROOVE TO THE MEDIAL GROOVE; ANALYSIS MEANS; SECOND CONDIUT MEANS HAVING AN OUTLET COUPLED TO SAID ANALYSIS MEANS AND AN INLET IN FLUID FLOW COMMUNICATION WITH ONE GROOVE OF THE GROUP OF GROOVES CONSISTING OF SAID APEX REVOTE GROOVE AND SAID MEDIAL GROOVE, FOR CONVEYING THE CONSTITUENT THEREIN TO SAID ANALYSIS MEANS; AND THIRD CONDIUTMEANS HAVING AN INLET IN FLUID FLOW COMMUNICATING WITH THE GROOVE OF SAID GROUP OF GROOVES, FOR CONVEYING THE CONSTITUENT THEREIN FROM SAID OTHER GROOVE.