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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2016
Crown Iron Works Company, Roseville, MN (US);
James Benson, Stillwater, MN (US);
George E. Anderson, Champlin, MN (US);
Philip Fisher, Ham Lake, MN (US);
Richard Ozer, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Crown Iron Works Company, Blaine, MN (US);
Abstract
An extractor may have a housing that maintains a solvent pool in which solids material being processed is immersed during operation. One or more bed decks can be positioned inside of the housing to provide multiple extraction stages. In some examples, the bed decks are arranged to provide one bed deck positioned at a vertically elevated position relative to another bed deck, thereby providing a drop zone where the solids material passing through the machine drops from the vertically elevated bed deck to a lower bed deck. To reduce the amount of solids material passing through the drop zone that becomes entrained in the solvent, the exactor can be configured with a settling zone. In some examples, the settling zone is formed by truncating the length of the vertically elevated bed deck, providing increased space and residence time for the solids material to fall out of suspension.