IP Library Granted Patent US 8,419,607
Granted Patent B2
US 8,419,607 · App. 12/514,690 · Granted Apr 16, 2013

Centrifuge including a drum and solid discharge orifices having bores arranged at selected vertical heights along an exterior of the drum

Inventors: Wilfried Mackel (Lippetal, DE); Andreas Penkl (Lippetal, DE); Thomas Bathelt (Oelde, DE); Kathrin Quiter (Drensteinfurt, DE); Klaus Baalmann (Greven, DE)
Assignee: Westfalia Separator AG
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Patent No.
US 8,419,607
App. No.
12/514,690
Granted
Apr 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A centrifuge includes a centrifugal drum rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation. The centrifugal drum includes one or more solids discharge orifices located at an area of the largest inside diameter of the drum. The solids discharge orifices include bores having discharge openings. The bores are arranged at least partially on an exterior of the centrifugal drum in a vertical direction Z at selected vertical heights along the exterior of the centrifugal drum.

Claims (18)

1. A centrifuge comprising:

a centrifugal drum rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation, the centrifugal drum including one or more solids discharge orifices located at an area of the largest inside diameter of the drum, the solids discharge orifices including bores having discharge openings, and wherein the bores are arranged at least partially on an exterior of the centrifugal drum in a vertical direction Z at selected vertical heights along the exterior of the centrifugal drum;

wherein the solids discharge orifices include orifice bodies which are inserted into the discharge orifices in a drum jacket and extend through the drum jacket from an inside to an outside of the centrifugal drum, and the orifice bodies are each configured with the bores extending from an interior of the drum in the direction of the exterior of the drum; and

wherein the orifice bodies include a first bore section and the bores first extend essentially in a radial direction from the inside to the outside of the centrifugal drum, and then the first bore section changes to a second bore section oriented at an angle with respect to the first bore section, and the discharge openings located in the second bore section are each aligned at an angle with respect to the radial direction.

2. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the bores are arranged at least in the area of their respective discharge openings.

3. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the bores are oriented and aligned such that a solids phase exits from the discharge openings at least in two different directions.

4. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge openings are situated in at least two mutually different planes which are aligned perpendicularly with respect to the axis of rotation of the drum.

5. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge openings are situated in the circumferential direction alternately in two mutually different planes which are oriented perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the drum.

6. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the solids discharge orifices include orifice bodies which are arranged in the area of the largest inside diameter of the centrifugal drum.

7. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the orifice bodies are each inserted differently into the discharge orifices in such a manner that their respective discharge openings lead out in different vertical planes.

8. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge openings are each offset toward the inside relative to the largest inside diameter of the centrifugal drum as a lengthening of the second bore section, and a recess is constructed in the drum jacket, which recess is formed at an angle with respect to the radial direction.

9. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein one of the solids discharge orifices and the bores include inlet openings which are situated in one of a common plane and at a vertical height relative to the vertical axis of rotation.

10. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the bores of the orifice bodies are each constructed at a different vertical height.

11. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge openings are constructed in an annular area of a drum bottom part which drum bottom part has a constant diameter.

12. The centrifuge according to claim 1 , wherein the centrifugal drum is constructed having one of a single-conical and a biconical interior.

13. A centrifuge comprising:

a centrifugal drum rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation, the centrifugal drum including one or more solids discharge orifices located at an area of the largest inside diameter of the drum, the solids discharge orifices including bores having discharge openings, and wherein the bores are arranged at least partially on an exterior of the centrifugal drum in a vertical direction Z at selected vertical heights along the exterior of the centrifugal drum; and

wherein the discharge orifices are alternately oriented diagonally upward and diagonally downward relative to the exterior of the drum.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 25, 2014
From: WESTFALIA SEPARATOR AG
To: WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GMBH
Reel/Frame 033225/0782 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 25, 2014
From: WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GMBH
To: GEA WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GMBH
Reel/Frame 033225/0828 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 25, 2014
From: GEA WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GMBH
To: GEA MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT GMBH
Reel/Frame 033225/0853 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE INCORRECT SERIAL NUMBER FROM 12/513,838 TO 12/514,690. DOCUMENT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 023172 FRAME 0379. ASSIGNOR HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 17, 2009
From: MACKEL, WILFRIED; PENKL, ANDREAS; BATHELT, THOMAS; QUITER, KATHRIN; BAALMANN, KLAUS
To: WESTFALIA SEPARATOR AG
Reel/Frame 023251/0181 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2009
From: MACKEL, WILFRIED; PENKL, ANDREAS; BATHELT, THOMAS; QUITER, KATHRIN; BAALMANN, KLAUS
To: WESTFALIA SEPARATOR AG
Reel/Frame 023172/0379 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2006 053 491 · Nov 14, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
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