Waste liquid renovator

Claim 1

In a waste liquid renovator, a tank having an input side and an output side, means for introducing waste liquid containing floating refuse at said input side into a waste liquid portion of said tank, a movable filtering conveyor of wire mesh having cross-wise roller supports guiding said conveyor in an upward inclined run moving from a zone nearer the bottom of said tank on the input side to a zone nearer the top of said tank on the output side, said conveyor having a generally horizontal run downstream from said upper zone, said conveyor then having a return run inclined downwardly to said lower zone and there transversing a bottom support roller, means for driving said conveyor, an impervious baffle extending entirely across said tank and extending between said waste liquid portion and a renovated liquid portion of said tank, said baffle extending from the bottom of said tank to a zone above said bottom support roller and on the waste liquid side of said last named roller, said baffle being bent over closely on top of said upward inclined run for a short distance, means for pumping renovated liquid from said renovated liquid portion of said tank beneath said return run of said conveyor and out of said tank, a refuse collector beneath said conveyor horizontal run on the output side of said tank communicating with said tank only from just beneath said conveyor and outward therefrom, a cleaning spray above said collector above said return run of said conveyor and below said horizontal run, whereby renovated liquid is pumped out of said renovated liquid portion of said tank beneath said two conveyor runs while waste liquid enters said waste liquid portion of said tank at said input side, refuse is collected on both of said conveyor runs and washed off into said collector.