Gas scrubber device

Claim 1

A SEPARATOR FOR SEPARATING FOREIGN SOLIDS AND ENTRAINED LIQUID PARTICLES FROM A GAS STREAM, COMPRISING, AN ELONGATED HORIZONTAL TUBULAR VESSEL HAVING A SIDEWALL AND CLOSED ENDS, FIRST AND SECOND SPACED PARTITIONS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY AN INTERIORLY OF THE VESSEL AND DIVIDING THE VESSEL INTO INLET, SEPARATION AND TERMINAL CHAMBERS, INLET MEANS EXTENDING THROUGH THE SIDEWALL, COMMUNICATING WITH SAID INLET CHAMBER FOR INTRODUCING THE GAS STREAM INTO SAID INLET CHAMBER THROUGH THE SIDEWALL OF THE VESSEL FOR IMPARTING A GENERALLY CIRCUITOUS FLOW TO SAID GAS, FILTER COMPARTMENT CONDUIT MEANS AXIALLY SPACED WITHIN THE VESSEL AND EXTENDING FROM THE INLET CHAMBER TO THE TERMINAL CHAMBER THROUGH THE FIRST AND SECOND PARTITIONS, A THIRD PARTITION EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY SECURED WITHIN SAID FILTER COMPARTMENT MEANS ADJACENT THE TERMINAL CHAMBER AND HAVING APERTURES THEREIN PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE FILTER COMPARTMENT MEANS AND THE TERMINAL CHAMBER, A PLURALITY OF SPACED FILTER TUBE MEANS MOUNTED WITHIN AND AXIALLY EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY THE LENGTH OF THE FILTER COMPARTMENT MEANS AND SEALABLY PROJECTING THROUGH THE APERTURES IN THE THIRD PARTITION FOR CONDUCTING THE GAS STREAM THROUGH THE FILTER TUBE MEANS AND INTO THE TERMINAL CHAMBER WHEREBY FOREIGN SOLIDS ARE TRAPPED ON SAID FILTER TUBE MEANS AND RESTRICTED FROM ENTERING SAID TERMINAL CHAMBER, A CONDUIT MOUNTED IN THE SEPARATION CHAMBER PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE BOTTOM OF THE TERMINAL CHAMBER AND THE BOTTOM OF THE SEPARATION CHAMBER, SAID CONDUIT EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY THE LENGTH OF THE BOTTOM OF THE SEPARATION CHAMBER AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF FLOW SLOTS SPACED THEREIN WHEREBY THE GAS STREAM IS DISTRIBUTED IN A GENERALLY EVEN FLOW PATTERN OVER SUBSTANTIALLY THE LENGHT OF THE SEPARATION CHAMBER, LIQUID COALESCING MEANS SECURED WITHIN AND EXTENDING ACROSS THE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THE SEPARATION CHAMBER FOR CONDENSING LIQUID PARTICLES FROM THE GAS AS SAID STREAM PASSES FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP OF THE SEPARATION CHAMBER, A DRAINAGE PIPE WITHIN THE BOTTOM OF THE INLET CHAMBER FOR DRAWING OFF LIQUID AND FOREIGN SOLIDS FROM SAID CHAMBER, A DRAINAGE PIPE WITHIN THE BOTTOM OF THE TERMINAL CHAMBER FOR DRAWING OFF CONDENSED LIQUID FROM THE TERMINAL AND SEPARATION CHAMBERS, AND OUTLET MEANS FOR REMOVING THE GAS STREAM FROM THE TOP OF THE SEPARATION CHAMBER.