Raffinerie Tirlemontoise

Charles Henri Pinet

Georges Francois Duchateau

Pierre X Hanot

The apparatus comprises inside a rotating drum, two conveying screws nested inside one another and a partition passing through the drum axis to form two series of succeeding cells inside which the solids and the liquid move in counter-current, two liquid channels being so arranged as to start from each cell to end in another cell, the one channel extending along the drum axis while the other channel lies cross-wise thereto. The cross-wise channel increases the liquid portion separated from the solids by recovering liquid which would otherwise flow back into the solids as portions of the partition pass the horizontal. The channel is obtained by extending one wall of a basket provided in each cell beyond the axis of the drum.

Apparatus for extracting with a liquid, products which are part of solids

An extracting apparatus comprising at least one screw conveyor divided into cells, in which to form the solidmaterial supply compartment, the drum is extended beyond the conveyor last winding without substantial diameter differential by a circumferential perforated casing which is pervious to the liquid and which extends up to a terminal diametral wall provided with a central supply opening for the solid materials; said supply compartment comprises as many liquid-pervious axial elements for raising the solid materials as there are cell series in the drum; to each one of said axial raising elements is associated a slanting channel for conveying the solid materials from the supply compartment to the last cell in each cell series.

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Hoegaarden, Belgium

Charles Henri Pinet