Incinerator for liquid and solid scrap

Claim 1

AN INCINERATOR FOR SCRAP CONTAINING A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS, COMPRISING A FRAME, AN ELONGATE ROTARY BURNING DRUM LYING ON ITS SIDE AND HAVING COMBUSTION GASES INGRESS AND EGRESS ENDS, MEANS ON THE FRAME AND MOUNTING SAID DRUM FOR ROTARY MOVEMENT AND PRODUCING ROTATION OF SAID DRUM, VANE MEANS AFFIXED WITHIN THE DRUM AND PROTRUDING INWARDLY FROM THE INNER PERIPHERY OF THE DRUM, SAID VANE MEANS CONTROLLING AND PRODUCING MOVEMENT OF THE SCRAP ALONG THE DRUM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ROTATION OF THE DRUM, STACK MEANS IN GASEOUS COMMUNICATION WITH THE EGRESS END OF THE DRUM AND DISCHARGING COMBUSTION GASES, SCRAP SUPPLYING MEANS ADJACENT THE INGRESS END OF THE DRUM AND INCLUDING A HOPPER RECEIVING AND TEMPORARILY STORING A QUANTITY OF THE SCRAP, SAID HOPPER HAVING A BOTTOM, SAID SUPPLYING MEANS ALSO INCLUDING A CONDUIT HAVING A SCRAP RECEIVING END COMMUNICATING WITH THE BOTTOM OF THE HOPPER, SAID CONDUIT ALSO HAVING A DISCHARGING END ELEVATED ENTIRELY ABOVE THE SCRAP RECEIVING END AND SAID DISCHARGING END EXTENDING INTO LIQUID COMMUNICATING RELATION WITH THE DRUM INTERIOR ADJACENT SAID INGRESS END OF THE DRUM, THE HOPPER AND DISCHARGING END OF THE CONDUIT COOPERATING WHEN LIQUID IS INTRODUCED INTO THE RECEIVING END OF THE CONDUIT, TO CONFINE THE LIQUID IN AND ENTIRELY FILL SAID RECEIVING END TO PREVENT GASEOUS COMMUNICATION, THROUGH THE CONDUIT TO THE HOPPER AND THEREBY PREVENTING FLASHBACK INTO AND THROUGH THE HOPPER, AND SAID SUPPLYING MEANS ALSO INCLUDING A CONVEYOR IN THE CONDUIT AND CARRYING THE SCRAP ALONG THE CONDUIT AND OUTWARDLY OF THE DISCHARGE END THEREOF AND INTO THE DRUM, AND A BURNER ON THE FRAME AT THE INGRESS END OF THE DRUM AND DIRECTING A FLAME INTO THE DRUM, THEREBY PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING COMBUSTION IN THE DRUM OF THE SCRAP SUPPLIED THERETO.