Patent ID: 7021572

Claim:
A hull separator comprising: a substantially cylindrical housing with an upper material inlet, which merges into a delivery chute; a lower material outlet; a lower gas inlet; an upper gas outlet; several baffles arranged concentrically to a central axis of the housing and cascading over one another, which have conical baffle surfaces which distribute material inflowing through the delivery chute in a direction of inner walls of the housing; a hopper between every two baffles for deflecting material flow to a baffle surface of an underlying baffle, with each lower baffle protruding into an open floor of the hopper; an opening of the gas inlet arranged under a lowest baffle, concentrically to a central axis of the housing; and an upper first baffle having a closed conical baffle surface, while the baffle surfaces of the upper baffles are open at a cone apex.