High temperature gas arc heater with liquid cooled electrodes and liquid cooled chamber walls

Claim 1

ARC HEATER APPARATUS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, MEANS FORMING AN ARC CHAMBER, THE CHAMBER FORMING MEANS INCLUDING A FIRST GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL WALL PORTION AND A SECOND GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL WALL PORTION, THE FIRST AND SECOND WALL PORTIONS BEING OF SIMILAR INNER DIAMETERS AND AXIALLY ALIGNED, MEANS BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND WALL PORTIONS AXIALLY SPACING AND ELECTRICALLY INSULATING THE WALL PORTIONS FROM EACH OTHER, THE FIRST AND SECOND WALL PORTIONS BEING SYMMETRICAL AT THE ADJACENT ENDS THEREOF, THE FIRST AND SECOND WALL PORTIONS BEING COMPOSED AT LEAST PARTIALLY OF CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, NOZZLE MEANS DISPOSED AT ONE END OF THE CHAMBER, MEANS CLOSING THE OTHER END OF THE CHAMBER, MEANS FOR ADMITTING GAS TO BE HEATED TO THE CHAMBER THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND WALL PORTION, MEANS FOR APPLYING AN ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL ACROSS THE TWO CYLINDRICAL WALL PORTIONS TO FORM AN ARC INSIDE THE CHAMBER BETWEEN THE TWO CYLINDRICAL WALL PORTIONS, AND MEANS FOR SETTING UP A MAGNETIC FIELD IN THE CHAMBER IN PREDETERMINED DIRECTION WITH RESPECT TO THE ARC.