Bulbous fractional collector in distillation head
OwnerElliot Kremermaninventor
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Abstract
A distillation head with fraction collector is disclosed. In embodiments thereof, the fraction collector has a bottom portal which is raised up from the floor or bottom thereof. Fractions which condense fall to the floor and a lip of the bottom portal, raised from the floor of the fraction collector, prevents condensed fractions from falling downwards through a path of entry. Rather, condensed fractions exit in liquid form out a side portal. The fraction collector further has side walls which are, in embodiments, partially vertical and/or partially curvilinear and/or partially bulbous. The distillation head also can have a top portal through which a vacuum can be applied.
Claims16
A distillation head, comprising:
- a vertical tube extending into a fraction collector;
- said fraction collector having a side exit portal allowing fluid flow from said fraction collector to a condenser, said side exit portal being perpendicular to said vertical tube;
- said fraction collector being free from obstruction other than said vertical tube forming a shelf therein.
A fraction collector comprising:
- a horizontal bottom side;
- a side wall having a combination of vertical and curvilinear portions;
- wherein an interior space of said fraction collector is defined between said horizontal bottom side, said side wall, and a top side opposite said horizontal bottom side, and a vertical tube extends past said horizontal bottom side into said interior space of said fraction collector;
- further comprising a side exit portal whose bottom-most extent is at said horizontal bottom side of said fraction collector and wherein said bottom-most extent has a second portal extending there-through.
A fraction collector forming a bulbous section between a vertical tube entering into a bottom side of said bulbous section and a top portal, said top portal being aligned with said vertical tube,
- said bulbous section having side walls and a side exit portal that cuts into one of said side walls of said bulbous section, said side exit portal has a bottom side which is horizontal and continuous with said bottom side of said bulbous section.
A distillation head comprising:
- a fraction collector forming a unitary structure with a lower tube, said lower tube extending above a bottom side of said fraction collector;
- an exit portal on a side of said fraction collector;
- wherein said exit portal extends to and is horizontally in line with said bottom side of said fraction collector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.