Vapor liquid separator

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A VAPOR-LIQUID SEPARATOR COMPRISING FIRST WALL MEANS INCLUDING A SIDE WALL FORMING AN UPWRIGHT HOLLOW WHIRL CHAMBER HAVING A NUMBER OF VAPOR-LIQUID INLET OPENINGS IN SAID SIDE WALL, A SEPARATED VAPOR OUTLET FROM THE UPPER END OF SAID CHAMBER AND A PLATE CLOSING THE BOTTOM OF SAID CHAMBER, A PORTITION EXTENDING ACROSS THE LOWER END OF SAID WHIRL CHAMBER ABOVE SAID BOTTOM CLOSING PLATE AND DIVIDING THE WHIRL CHAMBER INTO AN UPPER SEPARATING SPACE AND A LOWER LIQUID OUTLET SPACE CONNECTED THERETO, PLATE MEANS SPACED OUTWARDLY FROM AND LATERALLY ENCLOSING SAID SIDE WALL OF SAID CHAMBER AND FORMING IN COMBINATION THEREWITH AN ANNULAR SHAPED INLET PASSAGEWAY EXTENDING BELOW SAID LOWER LIQUID OUTLET SPACE AND OPEN AT ITS LOWER END, A VERTICALLY ARRANGED VAPOR-LIQUID CONDUIT OPENING TO SAID INLET PASSAGEWAY OPEN END, ANNULAR PLATE MEANS EXTENDING FROM SAID WALL MEANS TO SAID PLATE MEANS FORMING A CLOSURE FOR THE UPPER END OF SAID PASSAGEWAY, A VERTICALLY EXTENDING VANE POSITIONED IN SAID INLET PASSAGEWAY AT EACH OF SAID INLET OPENINGS IN SAID SIDE WALLS, EACH OF SAID VANES ATTACHED ALONG ONE EDGE TO SAID SIDE WALL AT AN INLET OPENING THERETHROUGH AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY IN A UNIFORMLY CURVED FORMATION THROUGHOUT ITS HEIGHT ACROSS THE INLET PASSAGEWAY TO THE INSIDE FACE OF SAID PLATE MEANS FOR DIRECTING A VAPOR-LIQUID MIXTURE INTO SAID WHIRL CHAMBER, THE SURFACE OF SAID VANES FACING SAID INLET OPENINGS HAVING A CONCAVE CONFIGURATION IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE AND FORMING WITH SAID SIDE WALL VERTICALLY UNOBSTRUCTED PASSAGES THERE-BETWEEN, AND DUCT MEANS CONNECTED TO THE LIQUOR OUTLET SPACE IN SAID WHIRL CHAMBER AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY ACROSS SAID ANNULARLY SHAPED INLET PASSAGEWAY TO CONDUCT SEPARATED LIQUID EXTERIORLY OF SAID PLATE MEANS.