Patent ID: 7331472

Claim:
Apparatus for separating a disperse mixture of two non-miscible liquids, of water and petroleum or of water and gasoline or of water and diesel fuel or of water and a mixture of petroleum, gasoline and/or diesel fuel, including: a tank having a bottom ( 1 ), a cover ( 2 ), side walls ( 3 ) and end walls ( 4 , 5 ), ensuring an elongated path in the horizontal plane, an inlet opening ( 6 ) positioned at a level with respect to the bottom ( 1 ) and mounted at an end wall ( 4 ) at the beginning of the said elongated horizontal path for supplying the said mixture to be separated, two outlet openings ( 7 , 8 ) mounted on the second end wall ( 5 ) at the end of the said elongated horizontal path, the first outlet opening ( 8 ) being located below the level of the inlet opening ( 6 ), near said tank bottom ( 1 ), and the second outlet ( 7 ) being located above the first outlet opening ( 8 ) and at least on the level of the inlet opening ( 6 ), whereby said first outlet opening ( 8 ) is connected to a vertical channel ( 10 ) furnished with a sink ( 11 ) which sink is located above the first outlet opening ( 8 ) and at least on the level of the inlet opening ( 6 ) and guiding means comprises guiding plates ( 14 a - e , 15 a - e ) alternately mounted above and below the level of the center of the inlet opening ( 6 ) along said horizontal path.