Gas washing device

Claim 1

A gas washing device comprising an open top gas impervious container having side walls and a conical bottom wall with a cleanout valve at the apex of said bottom wall, a removable top cover plate, a continuous rubber gasket positioned between said cover plate and the top of said side walls, said gasket providing a hermetic seal at the junction of said cover plate and said side walls, said cover plate having an inlet aperature for polluted gas and an outlet aperature for a cleaned gas, tubular means depending downwardly from and hermetically sealed to said cover plate around said inlet aperature, bell chamber means hermetically secured to the bottom edge of said tubular means, said bell chamber means having a horizontally disposed top slotted plated connected to said tubular means, imperforate side walls connected to and depending downwardly from said top slotted plate, wire mesh means disposed upon and over said top slotted plate and surrounding and connected to said tubular means, the aperatures of said wire mesh means being smaller than the slots of said top slotted plate, said wire mesh means extending radially outwardly from said tubular means the same distance as said top slotted plate, said bell chamber means and said wire mesh means being spaced from the side walls of said container, an aqueous detergent solution disposed in said container, the level of said solution being above the weir mesh means so that the wire mesh means and the bell chamber means are submerged in said solution, whereby when polluted gases are passed into said inlet aperature they pass downwardly through said tubular means and diffuse outwardly into said solution in said bell chamber means, they then pass upwardly through said top slotted plate, said wire mesh means and out said outlet aperature.