Claims
- 1. A mechanical cleaner for cleaning particulate laden gaseous effluent from the thermolytic decomposition of organic solid materials comprising upper and lower sections, a substantially cylindrical sidewall having a vertical central axis and forming said upper section, and a high-speed rotating brush element located along said axis in said upper section, said high speed rotating brush element being substantially cylindrical in shape and having a high speed rotary shaft disposed along said axis and bristles extending radially from and attached to said high speed rotary shaft, said bristles being so disposed as to form a helix having an axis along said high-speed rotating shaft and operable to assist in moving said particle laden gaseous effluent from said lower section to said upper section, said mechanical cleaner further comprising scraping means located in said upper section of said mechanical cleaner so disposed as to sweep the inner surface of said cylindrical sidewall, said scraping means further comprising scraper blades to sweep said cylindrical sidewall, support members to support said scraper blades, and a low speed rotating shaft connected to low speed drive means for rotating said scraping means resulting in said cylindrical sidewall sweeping, said support members being radially attached to said low speed rotary shaft, said scraping means further comprising brushes disposed on and extending along partial lengths of said scraper blades, said brushes being so arranged as to collectively sweep the entire inner surface of said cylindrical sidewall along the length of said scraper blades, said mechanical cleaner further comprising a cooling jacket integral with said cylindrical, sidewall of said upper section of said mechanical cleaner and a cooling cage located in said upper section coaxially between said high speed rotating brush element and said scraper blades.
- 2. The mechanical cleaner of claim 1 wherein said high-speed rotating brush element further comprises a harmonic balancer located at a lower end of said high speed rotating shaft and drive means located at an upper end of said high speed rotary shaft.
- 3. The mechanical cleaner of claim 1 wherein said lower section of said mechanical cleaner comprises an inverted truncated conical sidewall portion located below said upper section and a cylindrical sidewall portion located below and in communication with said conical sidewall section.
- 4. The mechanical cleaner of claim 3 wherein said scraping means further comprises lower scraper blades and lower support member mounted on said low speed rotating shaft, said lower scraper blades being so positioned as to sweep the inner surface of said inverted truncated conical sidewall portion of said lower section of said mechanical cleaner.
- 5. The mechanical cleaner of claim 3 and further comprising a tangential inlet for introducing particle laden gaseous effluent located in said cylindrical sidewall portion of said lower section of said mechanical cleaner for inducing swirl in the gaseous effluent as it travels upward within said mechanical cleaner.
- 6. The mechanical cleaner of claim 1 further comprising a mechanical cleaner conduit in fluid communication with said upper section of said mechanical cleaner for removing cleaned gaseous effluent from said mechanical cleaner.
Parent Case Info
This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/424,189 filed Apr. 19, 1995 and now U.S. Pat. No. 5,607,487, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/292,922 filed Aug. 18, 1994 and now abandoned, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/032,642 filed Mar. 17, 1993 and now abandoned.
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