Patent ID: 7014448

Claim:
A compacting facility for bulk goods comprising: a roller press; a screw conveyor oriented horizontally and having a horizontal direction of conveyance, said screw conveyor being positioned upstream from the roller press; a feeding hopper positioned as a bulk goods feeder over said screw conveyor, the feeding hopper comprising at least a downstream shaft and an upstream shaft which lie above the screw conveyor and are aligned one behind the other relative to the direction of conveyance of the screw conveyor, the upstream shaft and the downstream shaft being oriented substantially perpendicularly to the direction of conveyance, the screw conveyor, the upstream shaft, and the downstream shaft being configured such that said screw conveyor receives various types of bulk goods from said downstream shaft and said upstream shaft at two separate locations which are offset from each other, and a granulator for granulating the bulk goods being located downstream from the roller press, the granulator comprising a separating device which separates granulated bulk goods according to grain size, and which recirculates the granulated bulk goods unsuitable for immediate processing back to the upstream shaft to be fed to the screw conveyor, whereby recirculated granulated bulk goods from the upstream shaft and bulk goods from the downstream shaft become mixed in the screw conveyor.