Patent ID: 7481922

Claim:
Fluid treatment apparatus for conditioning a fluid flowing therethrough and thereby improving the properties thereof; said treatment apparatus comprising a hollow enclosure having an inlet end spaced from an outlet end with there being an internal flow passageway extending from said inlet end into communication respective said outlet end; an opening formed between said inlet end and said outlet end; said enclosure further having a treatment chamber in the form of a hollow sump arranged laterally respective said inlet end and outlet end; said sump having an untreated fluid entrance end in communication respective said opening and spaced from a blind end with there being a closure member attached to and forming said blind end; a diverter member affixed to an interior wall of said enclosure at a location that separates said inlet end from said outlet end; said diverter divides the opening into a sump entrance and a sump discharge whereby flow from the inlet end is diverted into the entrance to the sump and flow from the sump discharge is diverted from the sump into the outlet end; an alloy disk assembly comprising a plurality of apertured spaced disks prepared from the metal elements copper, zinc, nickel, silver, and tin; a disk mount extending from and affixed to said diverter member by which said plurality of alloy disks are mounted in spaced relationship within said sump; there being disk apertures aligned respective the sump entrance to form an inlet flow path through the disk apertures, and further including disk apertures aligned respective the sump discharge to form a treated discharge flow path from the sump into the outlet end; whereby, fluid flowing from said inlet end to said outlet end is forced to follow a path that extends from said inlet end towards said diverter which diverts the fluid flow into the sump entrance whereupon countercurrent flow is induced through the apertures of one side of the alloy disk assembly respective to the fluid returning from apertures located on the other side of the alloy disk assembly where the flow continues through the enclosure and to the outlet end thereof.