Electrical precipitator

• US 3,258,897 A
• Filed: 10/25/1961
• Issued: 07/05/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Friedrich Mayer, Gregori Messen-Jaschin
• Original Assignee: Friedrich Mayer, Gregori Messen-Jaschin
• Inventors: FRIEDRICH MAYER, GREGORI MESSEN-JASCHIN
• Application Number:
  US04/149,812
• Time in Patent Office: 1,714 Days
• US Class Current: 96/76
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 2201/10 Ionising electrode has multiple serrated ends or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/38 Particle charging or ionising stations, e.g. using electric discharge, radioactive radiation or flames
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/41 Ionising-electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/38 Tubular collector electrode

Claims

1. AN ELECTRICAL PRECIPITATOR COMPRISING A FIRST ELECTRODE IN THE FORM OF A DUCT WHICH, CONSIDERED IN ANY PLANE TO WHICH THE AXIS OF SAID DUCT IS NORMAL, IS OF CIRCULAR CROSSSECTION;

SECOND AND THIRD ELECTRODES OF CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION THROUGHOUT CONSTITUTING IONIZER ELECTRODES SITUATED WITHIN THE FIRST ELECTRODE COAXIAL THEREWITH, HAVING CONICAL TIP PORTIONS DIRECTED TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER AND OF A SMALL ANGLE OF CONICITY AND HAVING RADII OF CURVATURE AT THEIR TIPS SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THE RADIUS OF CURVATURE OF ANY OTHER PART OF THE IONIZER ELECTRODES, SAID TIPS OF SAID SECOND AND THIRD ELECTRODES BEING SPACED APARD BY A DISTANCE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE INTERNAL DIAMETER OF SAID FIRST ELETRODE MIDWAY BETWEEN THE TIPS OF SAID SECOND AND THIRD ELECTRODES;

AND MEANS APPLYING HIGH UNIDIRECTIONAL POENTIAL TO SAID SECOND AND THIRD ELECTRODES.