Rotary electrostatic electrical apparatus

Claim 1

AN ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A PAIR OF RELATIVELY ROTATABLE MEMBERS HAVING SPACED COAXIAL SURFACES DEFINING A SEPARATING SPACE THEREBETWEEN, A DIELECTRIC POLAR LIQUID IN SAID SPACE, SAID LIQUID EXHIBITING HIGH RESISTIVE AND DIELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICS WHEN SUBSTANTIALLY PURE BUT HAVING COMPARATIVELY LOWER RESISTIVITY AND DIELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICS WHEN CONTAINING CONTAMINANT IONS, ELECTRICX CHARGE-CARRIER MEANS ASSOCAITED WITH ONE OF SAID MEMBERS, MEANS CARRIED BY A FIRST OF SAID MEMBERS AND DEFINING A PLURALITY OF CAVITIES HAVING OPEN SIDES FACING SAID SPACE, A PLURALITY OF SEMI-PERMEABLE MEMBRANES RESPECTIVELY SEALING THE OPEN SIDES OF SAID CAVITIES AND HAVING SURFACES EXPOSED TO THE DIELECTRIC LIQUID IN SAID SPACE, A CONDUCTIVE LIQUID FILLING SAID CAVITIES AND CONTACTING THE OPPOSITE SURFACES OF SAID MEMBRANES, MEANS INCLUDING AN ELECTRODE IN EACH CAVITY IN CONTACT WITH THE CONDUCTIVE LIQUID THEREIN, A HIGH-VOLTAGE TERMINAL CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID ELECTRODES AND ANOTHER TERMINAL AT A SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT VOLTAGE FROM THAT OF THE HIGHVOLTAGE TERMINAL CONNECTED TO ANOTHER OF SAID ELECTRODES, SAID ELECTRODES COOPERATING WITH SID CHARGE-CARRIER MEANS TO CREATE ELECTRIC FIELDS ACROSS SAID SPACE ADJACENT THE RESPECTIVE MEMBRANES. THE FIELD ADJACENT ONE MEMBRANE BEING DIRECTED TOWARD SAID ONE MEMBRANE AND THE FIRST ADJACENT ANOTHER MEMBRANE BEING DIRECTED AWAY FROM SAID ANOTHER MEMBRANE DURING AT LEAST A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE ROTATIONAL CYCLE OF THE MACHINE, SAID FIELDS DIRECTING CONTAMINANT IONS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE POLARITY IN SAID DIELECTRIC LIQUID THROUGH THE MEMBRANES INTO THE RESPECTIVE CAVITIES TO MAINTAIN THE DIELECTRIC LIQUID IN A STATE OF HIGH PURITY WITH HIGH RESISTIVITY AND DIELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICS.