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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1974
Robert L Shaffer, Olathe, KS (US);
Donald G Mason, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ecodyne Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
A sludge removal system for use in the removal of settled sludge collected on the bottom surface of a circular clarifier. The system includes a plurality of self-supporting sludge receiving conduits of various lengths extending radially outward from the center of the tank in a common horizontal plane. Each conduit has a sludge pick-up port associated with the outer end thereof. Vertical riser tubes extend upward from the inner ends of the conduits into a sightwell assembly. At the upper end of each riser tube is a flow control valve arrangement to regulate the amount of sludge flow through each conduit. The valve indicates a pipe within a pipe, both pipes having slotted openings cut therefrom, to provide a variable flow orifice the size of which may be controlled by rotating the inner pipe about the stationary outer pipe. The upper edges of the slotted openings extend above the static liquid level in the clarifier.