AIR SEPARATOR FOR THE LOOSE MATERIALS Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B07B4/06 B07B7/83 

FIELD: food industry; agriculture; other branches of economy; production of air separators for loose materials processing.

SUBSTANCE: the invention is pertaining to separation of loose materials with application of electric and aerial methods and may be used in an agriculture, agriculture products processing and the food-processing industry and other branches of economy. The air separator for loose materials includes: a hopper with a feeding mechanism; the mounted on the same shaft rotating drum and two fans located at its open butts, a housing protecting the drum and enveloping it along the external circumference with a clearance between them. The drum has the located along the whole its perimeter through longitudinal slots, in which corona-forming electrodes are arranged, and the fans are made with the oppositely directed to each other blades mounted with a capability to form the air streams directed oppositely to each other into the internal cavity of the drum. At that the hopper with the feeding mechanism is placed at the level of a tangential line to the circumference of the housing at a distance equal to the radius of the housing from the vertical axis of its center. The technical result of the invention is improvement of quality of separation of materials and an increase of productivity the separator.

EFFECT: the invention ensures improvement of quality of separation of loose materials and an increase of productivity the separator.

2 cl, 1 dwg