Patent ID: 7041045
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: B04B

Abstract:
1. In a skimmer device for discharging liquid from a centrifuge drum, comprising a vertically arranged skimmer disc pipe and a skimmer disc, which is arranged inside the centrifuge drum and is provided with at least one inlet duct that extends from the periphery of the skimmer disc and empties into at least one shaft duct, which extends at least partially along the skimmer disc pipe, whereby the inlet duct and the shaft duct form a discharge duct having at least one throttle point where the cross-sectional area of the discharge duct is reduced, the improvement wherein, the inlet duct is divided into at least two partial inlet ducts that are located one above the other through horizontally arranged duct separating elements and that all empty into the common shaft duct, and wherein each partial inlet duct is provided with at least one throttle element in the partial inlet duct at a throttle point.