Patent ID: 7252111

Claim:
An apparatus for the equilibration of the throughput of-highly viscous fluids in closed pipeline systems, comprising a supply line, a tank having temperature-controlled inside walls, a plate which is displaceable in the tank and forms a seal against the walls of the tank, said supply line communicating with one or more openings through the plate and a discharge opening in the base of the tank, a discharge unit attached to said discharge opening, wherein the volume of said tank changes automatically as a result of the difference in the throughputs at the inflow and outflow and the resultant displacement of the plate and wherein the inner sides of the plate and of the base have a complementary conical, profile and the fluid is distributed within the plate by a star-shaped distributing channel to the outer edge of the plate in such a way that it leaves into the tank evenly over the entire periphery of the plate.