PLANT FOR EXTRACTING AND WASHING STARCH Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: starch industry. SUBSTANCE: plant has housing with a bottom, rotors for separating starch suspension mounted inside the housing, and mixers interposed between the rotors inside the housing. The mixers serves for mixing starch suspension, the suspension being washed immediately inside the housing. The rotors are mounted for permitting lifting and lowering. Each of the rotor has conical perforated plates. The large bases of the plates abut against each other. The smaller bases are secured to the coaxially arranged rods. The bottom plate is mounted to permit movement with respect to the top plate and to define a discharging slot. Each collector for separated liquid fraction is defined by two coaxially arranged conical shells mounted on the housing bottom. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 4 dwg