Centrifugal machines

Claim 1

IN A CENTRIFUGAL MACHINE; A WET HOUSING; PERFORATED SEPARATING DRUM MEANS THEREIN INCLUDING A FIRST END AND A TERMINAL END; MEANS FEEDING A MIXTURE, COMPRISING LIQUID COMPONENTS WHICH WILL PASS THROUGH SAID DRUM MEANS AND SOLID COMPONENTS WHICH WILL BE RETAINED ON THE INTERIOR PERIPHERAL SURFACE, TO SAID FIRST END OF SAID DRUM MEANS; A DRY HOUSING ADJACENT THE TERMINAL END OF SAID DRUM MEANS; MEANS FOR DISCHARGING THE SOLID COMPONENTS RETAINED ON SAID DRUM MEANS FROM THE TERMINAL END OF SAID DRUM MEANS TO SAID DRY HOUSING; AND DEFLECTOR MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID TERMINAL END OF SAID DRUM MEANS INCLUDING A FIRST BAFFLE SPACED GENERALLY AXIALLY OUTWARD FROM THE DRUM MEANS HAVING A SECTION GENERALLY RADIALLY SPACED OUTWARDLY FROM THE TERMINAL END OF THE DRUM MEANS TO RECEIVE SOLID COMPONENTS DISCHARGED GENERALLY RADIALLY FROM SAID DRUM MEANS AND INCLINED INWARDLY RELATIVE TO THE DRUM MEANS, CHANNELING THE SOLIDS DISCHARGED IN AN AXIALLY INWARD DIRECTION TO INTERMIX THE RELATIVELY WET SOLID COMPONENTS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID DRUM MEANS WITH THE DRIER SOLID COMPONENTS RADIALLY INWARD THEREOF; A SECOND BAFFLE, INCLUDING A SECTION DISPOSED TO RECEIVE SOLID COMPONENTS FROM THE INWARDLY INCLINED SECTION AND LOCATED RADIALLY OUTWARDLY OF SAID INWARDLY INCLINED SECTION, INCLINED OUTWARDLY RELATIVE TO THE TERMINAL END OF SAID DRUM MEANS TO REVERSE THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF THE COMPONENTS AND RETURN THEM AXIALLY OUTWARDLY TO SAID DRY HOUSING; AND MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID DRUM MEANS.