Gas separating device

Claim 2

The combination comprising a gas separator to be disposed across a path of circulating air or other gas to remove one or more gases therefrom, and a plurality of J-fasteners carried by said separator and detachably connectible to the grill of a fan to secure the separator thereto, said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air or other gas flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof, granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein.

Claim 3

The combination comprising a gas separator to be disposed across a path of circulating air to remove one or more gases therefrom, an air circulating fan, and means securing said separator to said fan at a location across its air flow path, said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof, granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein.

Claim 4

The combination comprising a gas separator to be disposed across a path of circulating air to remove one or more gases therefrom, an air circulating fan, and means securing said separator to said fan at a location across its air flow path, said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof, granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein.

Claim 5

A gas separator to be disposed across a path of circular air or other gas to remove one or more gases therefrom, said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air or other gas flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof, granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein, said body structure including two honeycomb sections each containing a large number of cells and each forming a portion of the thickness of said body structure and positioned in confronting relation so that cells of one honeycomb section communicate with cells of the other to form together said compartments for passing air or other gas through both sections.

Claim 6

A gas separator to be disposed across a path of circular air or other gas to remove one or more gases therefrom, said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air or other gas flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof, granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein, said body structure including two honeycomb sections each containing a large number of cells and each forming a portion of the thickness of said body structure and positioned in confronting relation so that cells of one honeycomb section communicate with cells of the other to form together said compartments for passing air or other gas through both sections.

Claim 7

A gas separator as recited in claim 3, in which the patterns of cells of the two honeycomb sections are essentially identical so that each cell of one honeycomb section has boundaries coinciding substantially with boundaries of a corresponding cell of the other honeycomb section to form a continuation thereof.

Claim 8

A gas separator as recited in claim 3, in which the individual cells of one honeycomb section are not all directly opposite and patterned precisely the same as the cells of the other honeycomb section so that some cells of one section are opposite more than one cell of the other section.

Claim 9

A gas separator as recited in claim 3, in which said two honeycomb sections have edges which define the cells and some of which project into opposed edges of the other honeycomb section in a relation frictionally retaining said sections together.

Claim 10

A gas separator as recited iN claim 6, including a channel frame extending about said honeycomb sections and retaining them together and detachable to enable separation of the sections.

Claim 11

A gas separator as recited in claim 3, including a channel frame extending about said honeycomb sections and retaining them together and detachable to enable separation of the sections.

Claim 12

A gas separator as recited in claim 8, in which said screening is formed of a net material cemented to said body structure about the ends of said compartments, there being a plurality of J-fasteners carried by said body structure near its periphery for detachably securing it to the grill of a fan, said sections having two opposed cells containing a solid material, and a threaded fastener extending through said solid material for detachably securing said sections together.

Claim 13

A gas separator as recited in claim 3, in which said sections have two opposed cells containing a solid material and a threaded fastener extending through said solid material for detachably securing said sections together.

Claim 14

A gas separator to be disposed across a path of circulating air or other gas to remove one or more gases therefrom; said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air or other gas flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof; granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, in a relation leaving gas flow spaces within said compartments which are unoccupied by said granular material; said granular material being composed of movable masses of separate and discrete particles, which particles, by virtue of said only partial filling of the compartments, are free for bodily shifting movement within said compartments relative to one another by the movement of gas through said compartments; and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein.

Claim 15

A gas separator to be disposed across a path of circulating air or other gas to remove one or more gases therefrom; said separator including a body structure forming a large number of compartments through which the air or other gas flows along a large number of paths from an intake side of the separator to an exhaust side thereof; granular gas removing material contained in said compartments but only partially filling at least some of said compartments, in a relation leaving gas flow spaces within said compartments which are unoccupied by said granular material; said granular material being composed of movable masses of separate and discrete particles, which particles, by virtue of said only partial filling of the compartments, are free for bodily shifting movement within said compartments relative to one another by the movement of gas through said compartments; and screening at opposite sides of said compartments retaining said granular material therein.

Claim 16

A gas separator as recited in claim 11, in which said granular material fills a major portion of the individual compartments to between about 25 and 60 percent of their individual capacities.

Claim 17

A gas separator as recited in claim 11, in which said body structure is a honeycomb material.

Claim 18

A gas separator as recited in claim 11, in which said body structure is a cardboard honeycomb material.

Claim 19

A gas separator as recited in claim 11, in which said screening is formed of a net material.

Claim 20

A gas separator as recited in claim 11, in which said screening is formed of a net material cemented to said body structure about the ends of said compartments.

Claim 21

The combination comprising a gas separator as recited in claim 11, and fasteners for securing said gas separator to an air fan in its air flow path.