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Last Updated: December 15, 2025

Claims for Patent: 3,177,634

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Summary for Patent: 3,177,634

Title:	Apparatus for the recovery of solids from gases
Abstract:
Inventor(s):	Jr Burton F Latham, Theodore A Ruble
Assignee:	Continental Carbon Co
Application Number:	US196225A
Patent Claims:	1. IN AN APPARATUS FOR WASHING GASES, A TUBULAR OUTER CONDUIT: SAID TUBULAR OUTER CONDUIT SUCCESSIVELY COMPRISING, AND IN COMMUNICATING RELATIONSHIP, A CYLINDRICAL SECTION FOR RECEIVING THE GAS TO BE WASHED: A CONVERGENT FRUSTO-CONICAL SECTION: A RELATIVELY SHORT CYLINDRICAL VENTURI SECTION; AN ELONGATE DIVERGENT FRUSTO-CONICAL SEC TION: A THIRD CYLINDRICAL SECTION OF APPROXIMATELY THE SAME LENGTH AS SAID FIRST-NAMED CYLINDRICAL SECTION; A CONE DISPOSED IN SAID DIVERGENT FRUSTO-CONICAL SECTION; A CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE CONCENTRICALLY DISPOSED IN SAID THIRD CYLINDRICAL SECTION; A LOUVERED BODY DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE AND THE BASE OF SAID CORE; MEANS FOR CLOSING THE SPACE BETWEEN THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE AND THE INTERIOR OF SAID THIRD CYLINDRICAL SECTION; ALL OF SAID AFOREMENTIONED ELEMENTS BEING IN AXIAL ALIGNMENT; A TANGENTIALLY DISPOSED INLET FOR INTRODUCING THE GAS TO BE WASHED INTO SAID FIRST-NAMED CYLINDRICAL SECTION, SAID TANGENTIALLY DISPOSED GAS INLET BEING TAPERED; MEANS IN SAID CONVERGENT FRUSTO-CONICAL SECTION FOR SATURATING THE GAS THEREIN WITH LIQUID; MEANS FOR REMOVING LIQUID FROM BETWEEN THE INTERIOR OF SAID THIRD CYLINDRICAL SECTION AND THE EXTERIOR OF THE CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE DISPOSED THEREIN; AND A TANGENTIALLY DISPOSED OUTLET FOR REMOVING FROM SAID THIRD CYLINDRICAL SECTION GAS WHICH PASSES THROUGH SAID LOUVERED BODY AND SAID CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE.

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