Burner for waste materials and method of burning waste materials

Claim 1

A BURNER FOR CONSUMING VARIOUS KINDS OF WASTE MATERIALS WHICH MAY COMPRISE SOLIDS AND/OR FLUIDS, SAID BURNER COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A LOWER VESSEL COMPARTMENT, MEANS FOR MAINTAINING AT A TEMPERATURE TO CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL VAPORIZATION OF SAID WASTE MATERIALS A MASS OF DENSE FLUIDIZED SOLIDS IN THE LOWER PART OF SAID LOWER VESSEL COMPARTMENT, MEANS FOR PASSING THE VAPORS SO GENERATED ON SAID FLUIDIZED SOLIDS UPWARDLY, MEANS FOR AUGMENTING THE HEAT IN SAID UPWARDLY PASSING VAPORS, SAID MEANS LOCATED UPWARDLY OF SAID MASS OF DENSE FLUIDIZED SOLIDS IN THE LOWER PART OF SAID LOWER VESSEL COMPARTMENT, AN UPPER VESSEL COMPARTMENT CONTAINING A FURTHER MASS OF FLUIDIZED SOLIDS MAINTAINED AT A HIGHER TEMPERATURE THAN SAID MASS OF DENSE FLUIDIZED SOLIDS IN THE LOWER PART OF SAID LOWER VESSEL COMPARTMENT AND THROUGH WHICH SAID AUGMENTED HEATED VAPORS PASS, MEANS FOR CIRCULATING SOLIDS CONTINUOUSLY FROM EACH VESSEL COMPARTMENT TO THE OTHER MEANS FOR WITHDRAWING CONSUMED WASTE SOLIDS, SAID MEANS LOCATED BETWEEN SAID UPPER AND LOWER VESSEL COMPARTMENTS, AND MEANS FOR EVENTUALLY PASSING ALL THE GASEOUS AND VAPOROUS PRODUCTS, INCLUDING FLUID COMBUSTION PRODUCTS, OVERHEAD.