MEANS FOR SEPARATING HEAVIER FROM LIGHTER FLUID COMPONENTS INVOLVING CONICAL SCREENS

摘要

Means for separating heavier from lighter components comingled in fluid including an upright vessel and a plurality of spaced conical separator screens vertically stacked within the vessel arranged such that lighter fluid components flowing through the vessel flow through the screens, each screen being a conically shaped foraminous reticulum of integrally formed relatively small width and small thickness strands, all of which are longitudinally downwardly inclined providing a multiplicity of continuous uninterrupted downwardly inclined paths on which heavier components may travel.