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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas W Mix, Wellesley, MA (US);
Assignee:
Merix Corporation, Wellesley, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
261 / ; 2915 / ; 55233 ; 202158 ; 261 94 ; 261D / ; 366337 ; 422211 ;
Abstract
A packing unit having a set of deflectors within a cage for deflecting each of two fluids moving through the unit, the deflectors being arranged so that in any image of the unit formed by parallel rays projected onto a plane, regardless of how the unit is oriented with respect to the plane, at least half of the area enclosed by the perimeter of the image will be a shaded area, no more than 35% of the shaded area being produced by surfaces of said deflectors oriented at more than 60.degree. to said rays.