Three-product nozzle-type centrifuge

Claim 1

A CENTRIFUGE ROTOR COMPRISING CONICALLY-SHAPED END PORTIONS WITH THEIR WIDE ENDS ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER TO CONSTITUTE AN ANNULAR SEPARATING CHAMBER, PASSAGE MEANS FOR INTRODUCING A MIXTURE INTO SAID SEPARATING CHAMBER PRIMARY OVERFLOW MEANS ON ONE OF SAID CONICALLY-SHAPED END PORTIONS FOR CENTRIFUGALLY DISCHARGING PRIMARY OVERFLOW, DISCHARGE NOZZLES MOUNTED UPON THE OUTER PERIPHERY OF THE SEPARATING CHAMBER FOR THE DISCHARGE OF CENTRIFUGALLY SEPARATED UNDERFLOW THEREFROM, A HUB PORTION CONSTITUTING THE OUTER END OF THE OTHER CONICAL END PORTION, A ROTOR SHAFT EXTENDING FROM SAID HUB KPORTION CENTRALLY THROUGH SAID PRIMARY OVERFLOW, A COMPLEMENTARY COMPARTMENTED CONSTRUCTION DETACHABLY CONNECTED TO SAID HUB PORTION AND PROVIDING AN INFLUENT CHAMBER ADJACENT TO SAID HUB PORTION AND TO SAID SEPARATING CHAMBER AS WELL AS PROVIDING AN ANNULAR DISCHARGE CHAMBER ADJACENT TO SAID INFLUENT CHAMBER AND HAVING AN ANNULAR DAM MEMBER FOR CENTRIFUGALLY DISCHARGING SECONDARY OVERFLOW A PLURALITY OF DIVERGENT INFLUENT CONDUITS SPACED AROUND THE ROTOR AXIS AND LEADING FROM SAID INFLUENT CHAMBER THROUGH SAID HUB PORTION INTO THE REGION OF SAID NOZZLES, AND A PLURALITY OF CONVERGENT EFFLUENT CONDUITS ALSO SPACED AROUND THE ROTOR AXIS LEADING FROM AN INTERMEDIATE CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATING ZONE THROUGH SAID HUB PORTION INTO SAID ANNULAR DISCHARGE CHAMBER FOR DISCHARGING SECONDARY OVERFLOW OVER SAID DAM, SAID DIVERGENT CONDUITS AND SAID CONVERGENT CONDUITS BEING ARRANGED IN ALTERNATION.