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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1978
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1977
Donald L Glaspie, Dallas, TX (US);
Glitsch, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
There has been provided an improved saddle for use as a packing or contacting element formed into a shape resembling an inner peripheral half section of a hollow torus having respective edges in generally parallel planes relative to a transverse axis of the torus and in generally the same plane as the cross-sectional axis of the torus, each edge having a plurality of integral protrusions forming points extending a selected distance from the surface adjacent the respective edge for providing drip points for liquids and spacing of the element one from the other such that there can be substantially no pooling of liquids regardless of how the saddles are disposed adjacent one another in the tower.