Patent ID: 6193071
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: B03C,Y10S

Abstract:
A magnetic force field separator for separating select materials of a fluid stream out of a main stream, which uses the combination of a force propelling a fluid stream through an elongate outer housing and magnetic field forces produced by parallel triangular cross sectionally shaped to move select materials in the fluid stream which are influenced by said magnetic field forces, across the fluid stream in a general direction parallel to the rods, the separator comprising:an elongate outer housing, having outer side walls, to contain said fluid stream containing said select materials which are influenced by said magnetic field forces,means to propel said fluid stream axially through said elongate outer housing,means to separate said fluid stream into separate plenum flows having higher concentration of said select materials along the length of said elongate outer housing, through multiple openings in said outer side walls of said elongate outer housing,a plurality of triangular cross sectionally shaped, ferromagnetic, parallel rods originating and terminating near opposite side walls of said elongate outer housing, oriented at an angle between parallel and perpendicular to the direction of said force propelling said fluid stream through the separator, said rods producing said magnetic field forces between adjacent said rods, whereby said magnetic field forces are perpendicular to said rods,and means for creating said magnetic field forces between said rods.