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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1986
Karl-Heinz Zettier, Oelde, DE;
Westfalia Separator AG, Oelde, DE;
Abstract
A drum for clarifying and separating centrifugates. It has at least one skimmer for diverting the clarified or separated centrifugates, a stationary inlet pipe extending into an inlet chamber, which rotates along with the drum, through an aperture that is slightly wider than the inlet pipe, outlets extending from the inlet chamber into a vestibule that communicates with channels ascending through a set of nested plates within the drum, and, upstream of the inlet chamber, an annular space that communicates with the inlet chamber through an annular channel. To provide simple means of improving the inlet conditions to the extent that the drum will be able to withstand greater supply fluctuations with no injector effect where the inlet pipe enters the inlet chamber, a skimming disk with runoff apertures on the bottom in the vicinity of the inlet chamber is fastened to the inlet pipe and positioned in the annular space in such a way that centrifugate can be returned to the inlet chamber through the runoff apertures and the annular channel.