Patent ID: 7398729

Claim:
A compacting press for powdery to granular bulk materials, comprising: a roller housing; two counterrotating rollers arranged in one plane, said rollers are held in said roller housing; a plurality of bearing blocks positioned within said roller housing for supporting said rollers, said bearing blocks of one of said rollers are held by detachable chocks, at least one of said rollers being a loose roller which is flexibly supported by force generators, said force generators are positioned above said bearing blocks; a plurality of electric motor drives and electric motors, each of opposing ends of each of said rollers is connected to the respective electric motor drives and the respective electric motors, wherein all of the electric motors of the drives of each of said rollers are interconnected to each other by an electrical shaft so that the rollers rotate at the same speed, wherein the drives of the loose roller are borne by said loose roller; wherein the roller housing is arranged vertically, the roller housing comprises two separate parts, a bottom part of the two separate parts having one of said rollers and two of the bearing blocks connected thereto and a top part of the two separate parts having the loose roller and the other two of the bearing blocks connected thereto, one side of said top part is held by a swivel bearing to the bottom part and the other side of said top part is lockable to the bottom part by a locking element, wherein the top part is swiveled open by way of the swivel bearing.