INERTIAL THICKENER Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC B01D33/27 

FIELD: process engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to food industry and may be used at tinned food factories. Inertial thickener comprises housing with filter arranged therein, inlet pipe, helical nozzle and filtrate and thickened discharge pipes. Multistart conical filter is composed of sections assembled of perforated equilateral triangles and perforated isosceles triangles connected in periphery in turns and interconnected by their free sides. Sides of said perforated equilateral triangles and perforated isosceles triangles are equal while base of isosceles triangles are larger than their sides. Number of perforated equilateral triangles and perforated isosceles triangles in a section makes at least six and should even.

EFFECT: expanded performances.

5 dwg