Device for treating fluids with magnetic lines of force

A device for the treatment of fluids with magnetic lines of force comprising:

• an elongated hollow non-ferromagnetic outer casing having a longitudinal axis and fluid inlet and outlet means at the longitudinal ends thereof;
• at least three spaced-apart and longitudinally coextensive elongated magnet assemblies, each positioned within said outer casing and having a longitudinal axis substantially parallel with that of adjacent magnet assemblies and with the longitudinal axis of said outer casing to form elongated laminar passageways for said fluid therebetween;
• each of said magnet assemblies comprising at least one tier of at least two permanent magnets, each magnet being encased in a non-ferromagnetic jacket and arranged in a coaxial line with the other magnet or magnets in the same tier with like poles of said magnets adjacent each other;
• said non-ferromagnetic jacket having its ends supported by ferromagnetic support members and the length of each tier of jacketed magnets being supported between its ends by at least one ferromagnetic support member adjacent the ends of the jacketed magnets received therein, to magnetize said support members with the polarity of the magnet ends supported thereby;
• said magnet assemblies being positioned so that the polarities of the support members in one of said magnet assemblies are unlike the polarities of the oppositely disposed support members in an adjacent magnet assembly;
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• means for fixedly positioning said magnet assemblies within said outer casing.