Fluid separator

Claim 1

A FLUID SEPARATOR COMPRISING CASING MEANS DEFINING A CHAMBER AND PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF FACES OPPOSED RELATIVELY TO AN AXIS IN SAID CHAMBER, AN ACTUATOR MOVABLE ALONG SAID AXIS AND A PLURALITY OF RESILIENT STRIP MEMBERS, SAID STRIP MEMBERS HAVING FIRST PORTIONS SECURED TO SAID CASING MEANS ADJACENT SAID FACES, RESPECTIVELY, AND SECOND PORTIONS SECURED TO SAID ACTUATOR, SAID FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS OF EACH STRIP MEMBER BEING SPACED APART BY A THIRD AND INTERMEDIATE PORTION WHICH IS FREE AND MAINTAINED IN BOWED SHAPE, EACH OF SAID STRIP MEMBERS BEING BENT BACK UPON ITSELF AND BEING OF SUFFICIENT LENGTH SO IT FORMS TWO GENERALLY OPPOSED PORTIONS, ONE LYING AGAINST THE CORRESPONDING FACES WHEREBY EACH OF THE STRIP MEMBERS EXERTS A FORCE ON THE FACE WITH WHICH IT COOPERATES AND SAID STRIP MEMBERS POSITION THE ACTUATOR ON THE AXIS FOR MOVEMENT THEREALONG BETWEEN A FIRST POSITION WHEREIN SAID STRIP MEMBERS LIE AGAINST THE CORRESPONDING FACES TO A PREDETERMINED EXTENT AND A SECOND POSITION WHEREIN SAID STRIP MEMBERS LIE AGAINST SAID FACES TO A LESSER EXTENT, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID FACES HAVING AN ORIFICE OPENING INTO SAID CHAMBER AND POSITIONED TO BE CLOSED BY THE CORRESPONDING STRIP MEMBER WHEN SAID ACTUATOR IS IN SAID FIRST POSITION AND TO BE EXPOSED WHEN SAID ACTUATOR IS IN SAID SECOND POSITION, SAID STRIP MEMBERS BEING DISPOSED WHEREBY THE PLANES THROUGH THEIR MAJOR AXES INTERSECT AT SAID AXIS TO WHICH SAID FACES ARE OPPOSED, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID STRIP MEMBERS HAVING A STRENGTH RESISTING BENDING SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE STRENGTH OF THE OTHER STRIP MEMBERS, AND SAID FACES AND SAID STRIP MEMBERS BEING ORIENTED RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO SAID AXIS AND SAID FACES BEING SPACED FROM SAID AXIS IN SUCH MANNER AS TO COUNTERBALANCE THE DISSIMILARITIES IN THE STRENGTH OF SAID STRIP MEMBERS AT SAID AXIS SUCH THAT SAID STRIP MEMBERS EXERT A SUBSTANTIALLY ZERO TRANSVERSE FORCE ON SAID ACTUATOR MEMBERS.