Water purifier

Claim 1

A water purifier comprising: a cylinder having a partition thereacross defining an air chamber at the lower end thereof and having water suction openings therein just above said partition and opening into said cylinder, the bottom of said air chamber having bottom openings therein; a sleeve on the bottom of said air chamber and extending up into said chamber to a point spaced from said partition, said bottom openings being around the outside of said sleeve; a ventilation tube extending through said partition into said cylinder from within said sleeve; means for introducing compressed air into said air chamber for producing successive flows of air upwardly through said ventilation tube into said cylinder to form a plurality of successive masses of air filling said cylinder and moving upwardly in said cylinder for pumping successive masses of water to be purified up said cylinder; a plurality of unfilled tubes packed in a side-by-side relation in at least one honeycomb tube structure around and laterally supported by said cylinder with the tops open to receive water from the successive masses of water from the top of said cylinder and extending straight through the honeycomb structure to cause the water to flow down through the tubes for purification, the bottoms of the tubes ending at a position above the level of said water suction openings and being open for discharging the water into the space around said cylinder adjacent said suction openings; and a protecting sleeve around and protecting said honeycomb structure.