Patent ID: 7032759

Claim:
A pusher centrifuge for the separation of a mixture into a solid cake and into a liquid phase, including an outer screen drum rotatable about an axis of rotation, a mixture distributor arranged in the screen drum with a pusher base apparatus and an infeed device, with the pusher base apparatus being arranged and designed such that the solid cake is displaceable by means of the pusher base apparatus and the mixture can be introduced by the infeed device via the mixture distributor into an empty space which arises on the displacement of the solid cake by the pusher base apparatus, with the mixture distributor including at least one funnel for the pre-acceleration of the mixture, wherein the funnel is rotatably arranged about a drive axis and is rotatable at a pre-settable speed of rotation about the drive axis by means of a drive, and wherein the mixture distributor includes an inlet funnel which has a curved extent and an opening angle which becomes one of larger and smaller in the direction towards the pusher base apparatus.