Vibrating treatment for fiber recovery from waste effluents

Claim 1

METHOD FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE CELLULOSIC FIBER CONTENT FROM A FREE-FLOWING AQUEOUS SUSPENSION CONTAINING AS SUSPENDED MATERIAL A MINOR WEIGHT PROPORTION, NOT EXCEEDING 1% BY WEIGHT OF THE SUSPENSION, OF DISCRETE CELLULOSIC FIBERS AND A MAJOR WEIGHT PROPORTION, UP TO 10% BY WEIGHT OF THE SUSPENSION, OF NON-FIBROUS PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUCH AS MINERAL FILLER AND THE LIKE, THE RELATIVE PARTCLE SIZE OF SAID FIBERS SUBSTANTIALLY EXCEEDING THE RELATIVE PARTICLE SIZE OF SAID NON-FIBROUS MATERIAL, WHICH METHOD COMPRISES: SUBJECTING SAID SUSPENSION TO THE ACTION OF A SEPARATORY ZONE TO SELECTEIVELY RETAIN THE FIBERS THEREON AND PASS THE AQUEOUS VEHICLE AND NON-FIBROUS MATEIRAL THERETHROUGH WHILE MOVING SAID ZONE WITH A MULTI-ZXIAL SIMULTANEOUS GYRATORY AND TILTING MOTION RELATIVE TO A VERTICAL AXIS TO CAUSE ANENTANGLEMENT OF THE FIBERS ONE IWTH ANOTHER WITHOUT WHICH SAID ZONE WOULD BE INCAPABLE OF RETAINING THE FIBERS THEREON AND TO CAUSE THE SAID RETAINED AND ENTANGLED FIBERS TO HORIZONTALLY TRAVERSE SAID ZONE WHILE REDUCING THE WATER CONTENT THEREOF, AND THEREAFTER COLLECTING SAID FIBERS.