Fractionating processes and apparatus for carrying out the same

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR THE DISTILLATION OF LIQUID COMPRISING A BODY HAVING A CHAMBER THAT IS FORMED WITH AN INTERNAL SURFACE OF REVOLUTION, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID TO SAID SURFACE TO FLOW THEREOVER IN A FILM, MEANS FOR HEATING THE LIQUID IN SAID FILM TO VAPORIZE AT LEAST A PART THEREOF, A CONDENSER MOUNTED FOR ROTARY RELATIVE MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO SAID SURFACE OF REVOLUTION ABOUT AN AXIS THAT IS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID SURFACE, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID CONDENSER, SAID CONDENSER BEING FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF AXIALLY-EXTENDING CONDENSING SURFACES THAT ARE ANGULARLY SPACED FROM EACH OTHER ABOUT THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF THE CONDENSER AND THAT ARE EACH SUBSTANTIALLY AXIALLY COEXTENSIVE WITH SAID CONDENSER AND THAT ARE EACH GENERATED BY THE MOVEMENT OF A STRAIGHT LINE, THAT LIES IN THE SAME PLANE AS THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID CONDENSER, THROUGH A CONTINUOUS PATH EXTENDING FROM A FIRST LOCATION ADJACENT SAID SURFACE OF REVOLUTION TO A SECOND LOCATION THAT IS ALSO ADJACENT SAID SURFACE OF REVOLUTION BUT THAT IS ANGULARLY SPACED FROM SAID FIRST LOCATION, AND WHICH PATH EXTENDS FROM SAID FIRST LOCATION GENERALLY INWARDLY TOWARD SAID AXIS OF ROTATION AND GENERALLY OUTWARDLY AWAY FROM SAID AXIS OF ROTATION TO SAID SECOND LOCATION, AND A PLURALITY OF ELONGATE TROUGH MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID CONDENSER AND DISPOSED TO EXTEND FROM SAID CONDENSING SURFACES TO RECEIVE AND COLLECT THE CONDENSATE FROM SAID CONDENSING SURFACES AND TO DIRECT THE COLLECTED CONDENSATE THEREIN AXIALLY RELATIVE TO SAID SURFACE OF REVOLUTION.