A continuous centrifuge (10) has a basket (30) with upper and lower basket portions (43, 44) separated by an intermediate slip portion (45). The lower basket portion (43) has an included angle of 40 50.degree., to separate "green" molasses from the sugar crystals, while the upper basket portion (44) has an included angle of 50 60.degree., to separate washed molasses from the sugar crystals. The inner faces of the walls of the basket portions (43, 44) have radial drainage grooves (46), closed at ...

A continuous composter for continuously processing organic waste material from a generally heterogeneous state into a generally homogenous state. The composter includes a container rotatably mounted on a support frame about its longitudinal axis that defines an inner chamber containing an amount of the heterogeneous waste material for continuous circulation therein. An agitator located within the inner chamber is rotatably mounted on fixed end walls about its own longitudinal axis that is offset...

The invention relates to a continuously operating press for pressing planar products. The press comprises facing platens (7, 7') between which the product (1) to be pressed is passed in order to subject the same to compression. The press further includes slat elements (2, 2') introduced as a continuous line of adjacent slat elements between the product (1) being pressed and both ones of the press platens (7, 7') so as to make the slats to travel with the product being pressed and to slide along ...

A continuous riveter is provided, which can make a rivet distance in a blind rivet holder small since an available continuous riveter having a linear guide plate elongated from a rivet supply section could not reduce the rivet distance while avoiding the interference with a vertically movable cylinder. A guide plate (43) elongated from an accommodation case (40) of a rivet supply section C is provided with a bent section (43b) inclined at a predetermined angle .alpha. with respect to a linear fe...

A continuous mixer in which a pair of left and right rotors 4 are rotatably inserted into a chamber 2 having a feed port 13 and a discharge port 14 for materials at both axial ends, respectively, a gate device 17 for adjusting the polymer flow resistance of the materials is provided halfway in the axial direction of the chamber 2, and a first and a second mixing portions 19, 21 are formed at portions, respectively, of the rotors 4 positioned upstream and downstream of the gate device 17, wherein...

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for excavating material from a mining or reclamation operation, and is generally considered useful in open cast mining operations. The apparatus has a first conveyor and a second conveyor attached to a chassis. The first conveyor is fitted with a material remover such as a excavator bucket on a first end. Material discharges from the first conveyor onto a second conveyor which is generally longitudinally aligned with the first conveyor and h...

A continuous furnace for baking ceramic molded parts has a heating area (14), a baking area (16) and a cooling area (18). At least one smoke gas duct (22) extends from the heating area (14) into a combustion chamber (24) and at least one hot air duct (28) leads back from the combustion chamber (24) to the heating area (14). Hot air loaded with binder fractions is extracted from the heating area at one or several spots. The combustion gases are then led into a combustion chamber where they are bu...

A continuous centrifuge of the type comprising a perforated basket of generally frusto-conical configuration which is adapted to rotate about a rotational axis and along whose inner peripheral wall a liquids/solids mix is caused to travel, with solids being discharged over the mouth of the rotating basket at its wider end and liquids being collected via the basket perforations. The basket has at least three separating stages of different inclination relative to the basket rotational axis, with t...

A method memoizes a computation as follows. A set of input parameters is provided to the computation. A determination is made to see whether a memo contains results of the computation on sets of memoized parameters near the set of input parameters. If true, the computation for the set of input parameters is reconstructed using the results of the computations on the sets of memoized parameters near the set of input parameters. If false, the computation is performed using the set of input paramete...

A method of continuous composting is carried out in a train of composting trays in an elongate enclosed tunnel. Garbage is deposited into the composting tunnel via a blending trough in which blending augers blend the garbage. The trough then tilts to empty the garbage into an inlet in the top surface of the tunnel to fill an upstream one of the trays. A ram shunts the trays stepwise through the tunnel. The tracks may be U-channels, the webs of which are connected to tunnel sidewalls. The trays r...