Patent ID: 8808154

Claim:
A drive apparatus in a scroll centrifuge comprising: a rotating drum ( 12 ); a scroll ( 16 ) mounted coaxially therein; a drive motor ( 18 ) associated with the drum ( 12 ); and a scroll motor ( 28 ) coupled to a scroll shaft ( 38 ) via a gearbox ( 36 ) having a housing ( 40 ) nonrotatably connected to a hollow drum drive shaft ( 24 ), wherein the housing ( 40 ) of the gearbox ( 36 ) for driving the scroll ( 16 ) is rotatably mounted in a floor-mounted housing ( 44 ), the housing ( 40 ) of the gearbox ( 36 ) having a hollow output shaft ( 50 ) that is connected via a coupling ( 52 ) to the hollow drum drive shaft ( 24 ), wherein the scroll motor ( 28 ) is configured as a flange motor, which is flange-mounted onto the floor-mounted housing ( 44 ) and which has an output shaft ( 30 ) that is nonrotatably connected to an input shaft ( 34 ) of the gearbox ( 36 ).