Debris separator

A debris separator comprising:

• a first chamber that separates debris from debris-borne airflow and a second chamber that collects the debris;
• wherein the first chamber comprises a shroud, an input port having an inlet and adapted to connect to a debris source via a first conduit, an output port adapted to connect to a vacuum source via a second conduit, and a barrier;
• whereby debris-borne airflow is caused to enter the first chamber through the input port by suction facilitated at the output port;
• said shroud having an upper portion and an outward sloping sidewall having a similarly sloping inner surface;
• said input port passing through the shroud and configured to direct the debris-borne airflow through the inlet tangential to the inner surface and parallel to the barrier;
• said output port passing through the upper portion and functioning to evacuate cleaned airflow from the first chamber;
• said barrier situated below and adjacent the inlet and having an upper surface and a peripheral opening adjacent the inner surface and functioning to reduce turbulence in the second chamber;
• whereby the sloping inner surface imparts force vectors having a y-component on the incoming debris thereby separating it from the airflow and directing it through the peripheral opening into the second chamber.