Patent ID: 8778192
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: B29B,F26B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for dehydrating a granulate-liquid mixture, the apparatus comprising: a casing; a hollow sieve body arranged in the casing and suspended thereto, the sieve body including a sieve provided as a side wall, wherein the sieve body tapers towards the bottom end, and wherein a clearance between the casing and the sieve body is formed; an inlet for passing the granulate-liquid mixture into an upper region of the sieve body; an outlet for the dewatered granulate arranged at the bottom of the sieve body, wherein the inlet is arranged in the sieve body, and wherein the sieve is shaped such that the liquid, while passing through the sieve body from top to bottom, laterally escapes through the sieve, due to centrifugal or gravitational forces, out of the sieve body into the clearance; and a suction device for generating a partial vacuum in the casing, wherein air flows through the outlet into the sieve body and from there through the sieve into the clearance between the casing and the sieve body.