Patent ID: 9676636
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: C02F

Claim:
1. A method of recycling water contaminated with ink, comprising the steps of: providing a first chamber and a second chamber, said second chamber is located above said first chamber, said first chamber communicates with said second chamber; retaining a plurality of glass chunks in said first and second chambers; flowing water contaminated with ink through said first chamber to said second chamber, the ink in the flowing water adhering to said plurality of glass chunks in said second chamber; forcing air through said plurality of glass chunks to dry ink to said plurality of glass chunks, said air flowing from an inlet in substantially a top of said second chamber; and locating a water outlet between a top and a bottom of said plurality of glass chunks in said second chamber; and draining water remaining in said second chamber through said water outlet formed in a sidewall of said second chamber, providing a tube housing having a tubular body, a bottom end plate and a top end plate, said first and second chambers are formed inside said tube housing; locating an injector tube inside said tube housing, injecting the water contaminated with ink into one end of said injector tube, an opposing end of said injector tube being located near said top end plate, the water contaminated with ink flowing out of said opposing end into said plurality of glass chunks.