Separating liquids
Patent 4995989 Issued on February 26, 1991. Estimated Expiration Date: 
December 15, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
December 15, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesArrangement for the removal of dust from gas standing under pressure Cyclone separator Patent #: 4764287 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 455402 filed on 12/15/1989US Classes:210/788, Introducing liquid tangentially55/345, Centrifugal210/512.2, Multiple cyclone269/211Pin-rackExaminersPrimary: Hart, Charles N.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassB01D 021/26Foreign Application Priority Data1988-02-19 AUAbstractApparatus (100) for separating components of a liquid mixture such as oil from water. The apparatus comprises a cyclonic device (110) and a separating device (150). The cyclonic device has a tangential inlet (112) for inlet of the mixture, an elongate chamber (114) in which, in use, the admitted mixture is subjected to contrifugal action and an outlet (116) from the components of the mixture are in use together taken. The separating device (150) may be a conventional cyclone separator having a separating chamber (154), with an inlet (152) coupled to in use receive the components from the outlet of the cyclonic device (110) for admission to the separating chamber (154), and separate outlets (156, 158) from the separating chamber (154) for respective outlet therefrom of th separated liquid components. | |
