Patent ID: 8192342

Claim:
A separator comprising: at least one of a singly and doubly conical separator drum mounted rotatably at only one of the drum's axial ends and the drum having a vertical axis of rotation; a rotary spindle, located only at one of the drum's lower and upper ends, is provided to drive the separator drum, the rotary spindle being mounted oscillatingly; an inflow pipe for a product to be processed; at least two liquid outlets, a first liquid outlet for a lighter liquid phase and a second liquid outlet for a heavier liquid phase, the first liquid outlet including a stripping disk; a solids discharge port located in a region of the separator's largest inner circumference; a separation plate in the separator drum; and the second liquid outlet being followed outside the drum by a settable throttle device having an annular disk for displacing a liquid radius of the heavier liquid phase, up to which radius the heavier phase extends in the drum, by a throttling in an outflow cross section for the heavier liquid phase.