Patent ID: 7311654

Claim:
A solid bowl helical conveyor centrifuge, comprising: a rotatable drum having a horizontally-oriented axis of rotation; a rotatable screw arranged in the rotatable drum; at least one discharge opening oriented at an angle with respect to the horizontally-oriented axis of rotation, the at least one discharge opening configured to discharge solids from the rotatable drum; an adjusting device assigned to the at least one discharge opening, by which adjusting device an outlet cross-section of the at least one discharge opening is changeable and the adjusting device includes a movable adjusting disk arranged in the rotatable drum as an extension of the rotatable screw, and which movable adjusting disk is non-rotatably connected with one or more of the following: a) the rotatable drum, b) the rotatable screw, and c) a screw body; at least one connecting rod fastened to the movable adjusting disk; and wherein an end of the at least one connecting rod facing away from the movable adjusting disk is one of directly and indirectly connected with one of a rod and a pipe which centrically penetrates an inlet pipe in the horizontally-oriented axis of rotation of the solid bowl helical conveyor centrifuge.