Patent ID: 6899747

Claim:
A separator for a wet vacuum device, the separator comprising: a bottom and a sidewall connected to the bottom; the sidewall comprised of stays defining slots between the stays, wherein an air/gas stream, containing particles to be separated from the air/gas stream, enters the separator through the slots near the bottom and wherein the particles are separated from the air/gas stream by centrifugal force and are expelled from the separator at a spacing from the bottom through the slots; wherein 3 to 45 of the slots are distributed about a circumference of the sidewall; and wherein the slots have a slot depth and a slot width, wherein the slot depth is substantially 0.2 up to 2.5 times as large as the slot width; wherein the slots have an air intake area near the bottom provided with a first cross-section and have an air exit area, located at a spacing from the bottom, provided with a second cross-section, wherein the first cross-section is smaller than the second cross-section.