Central processed material discharge assembly for rotary processing vessels

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH AN ELONGATED HERMITICALLY SEALED PROCESSING VESSEL MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF AND HAVING A HEAT EXCHANGE CONDUIT THEREIN AND PROVIDED WITH AN END WALL AT THE DISCHARGE END THEROF HAVING A CENTRALLY DISPOSED DICAHARGE OPENING THERIN, A FLUID JOINT AND PROCESSED MATERIAL DISCHARGE ASSEMBLY DISPOSED AT THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID VESSEL AND COMPRISING A CYLINDRUCAL MEMBER SECURED AT THE INNER END THEREOF TO SAID END WALL FOR ROTATION THEREWITH, THE INNER END OF SAID CYLINDERICAL MEMBER BEING HERMETICALLY SEALED TO SAID END WALL AND COMMUNICATING WITH SAID DISCHARGE OPENING THERIN, A TUBE DISPOSED WITHIM SAID CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND SECURED THEROF FOR ROTATION THERWITH, SAID TUBE BEING SPACED RADIALLY INWARDLY FROM SAID CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY CONCENTRIC THERWITH TO DEFINE AN ANNULAR SPACE THEREBETEEN, A ,ONIFOLD MOUNTED ON THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID VESSEL AND COMMUNICATING BETWEEN SAID CONDUIT AND THE INNER END OF SAID TUBE SO AS TO ACCOMMODIATE THE SUPPLY OF HEAT EXCHANGE FLUID FROM SAID TUBE INTO SAID CONDUIT, SAID CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND SAID TUBE EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID END WALL AND AXES THEREOF SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDING WITH THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID VESSEL, A STATIONARY DISCHARGE HOOD MOUNTED ADJACENT TO THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID VESSEL AND HAVING A FIRST OPENING IN THE ADJACENT FIRST SIDE THEREOF TO RECEIVE SAID CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND AN ALIGEND SECONF OPENING IN THE REMOTE SECOND SIDE THEROF TO RECEIVE SAID TUBE, A FIRST HERMETIC SEAL BETWEEN SAID CYLENDRICAL MEMBER AND SAID FIRST SIDE OF SAID DISCHARGE HOOD AND A SECOND HERMETIC SEAL BETWEEN SAID TUBE AND SECOND SIDE OF SAID DISCHARGE HOOD, SAID SEALS ACCOMMODATING ROTATION OF SAID CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND SAID TUBE RELATIVE TO SAID DISCHARGE HOOD, AND SPIRAL CONVEYOR ARRANGED IN THE ANNULAR SPACE BETWEEN SAID CYLINDERICAL MEMBER AND SAID TUBE AND EXTENDING RADICALLY THERBETWEEN AND SECURED THERETO FOR ROTATION THEREWITH, THE INNER END OF SAID CONVEYOR PROJECTING INTO THE ADJACENT DISCHARGE END OF SAID VESSEL AND THE HOOD END THEROF TERMINATING ADJACENT TO SAID DISCHARGE HOOD SO AS TO MOVE PROCESSED MATERIAL FROM THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID VESSEL THROUGH THE ANNUALAR SPARE BETWEEN SAID CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND SAID TUBE INTO SAID DISCHARGE HOOD INCIDENT TO ROTATION OF SAID VESSEL.