Patent ID: 8820668

Claim:
A roller press for the pressure treatment of granulated material, comprising: two rollers rotatably mounted in bearing housings, driven in a counter-rotating manner and separated from each other by a roller nip, a machine frame for the roller press having brackets with sliding tracks formed therein, bottom sides and top sides of the bearing housings slidably mounted on the sliding tracks of the brackets of the machine frame such that the rollers mounted in the bearing housings are loose relative to one another and are movable transversely towards and away from one another relative to the roller nip and along the sliding tracks, hydraulic cylinders, each pressing on a roller bearing housing on the one hand and against the machine frame on the other hand, arranged to press one roller against the oppositely situated roller through the granulated material situated in the roller nip, the bearing housings of the rollers being supported on two side parts of the machine frame by the hydraulic cylinders that apply roll compaction pressure.