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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Geoffrey A Lieberman, Sheffield Lake, OH (US);
Assignee:
Mayfran International Incorporated, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210708 ; 210800 ; 210802 ; 210256 ; 210522 ; 210D / ;
Abstract
Process equipment is provided enabling a plurality of non-soluble lower specific gravity oils to be more effectively separated and collected from an aqueous liquid medium. The equipment utilizes gravity flow to separately remove surface oil constituents according to relative specific gravity in combination with a coalescing medium permitting oil constituents dispersed in the liquid medium to also be removed and with oil collection taking place at multiple locations in said equipment. A method operating the equipment in such manner is also disclosed.