Centrifuge

US5350514A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fresenius AG · DE

Inventors

• Friedrich Witthaus · Namborn, DE
• Wolfram Weber · Friedrichsthal, DE
• Wolfgang Biesel · Ottweiler, DE
• Carlo Lay · Saarwellingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 1993
• Grant date: Sep 27, 1994
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B04B2005/0492
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a centrifuge comprising a separation chamber, with which a duct is permanently connected, a main rotor, on which the separation chamber is able to be bearinged in a relatively rotatable manner with respect to it, by means of a bearing arrangement, and a guide means on the main rotor for guiding the duct from the middle lower part of the separation chamber into a part at a higher level than the centrifuge. In order to be able to introduce the separation chamber into the main rotor in a simple and controlled manner the bearing arrangement has, within the main rotor, a part which is open or is able to be opened in a radial direction for the introduction of the duct into the main rotor.