Title of Invention

CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR

Abstract A screen bowl type centrifugal separator which can not only eliminate the problem of the productivity being lowered resulting from the occurrence of clogging with the crystals in the screen part, but also minimize the amount of leakage of the object to be treated in the screen part. Inside of the hub (41) of the screw conveyor (40), a cleaning liquid receiving part (43) which receives the cleaning liquid for the cleaning nozzle (45) is provided. In the cleaning liquid receiving part (43), a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer object to be treated in the screen part (30) is provided, being partitioned independently of the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part (43). The cleaning liquid supplied to the inside of the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) is jet spouted directly toward the residual layer object to be treated from the outer circumferential edge of the flight (42) through the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid path provided along the direction of the helix of the flight (42), with no relation to said cleaning liquid receiving part (43) .
Full Text DESCRIPTION
Centrifugal Separator
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a centrifugal separator
which comprises a screw conveyor inside of a bowl, supports
them so as to be relatively rotatable, separates the object to
be treated from a feed stock supplied to the inside of said
bowl, and carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said
object to be treated with a screen part provided along the
inner circumferential surface at one end of the bowl, a hub of
said screw conveyor having a cleaning liquid receiving part for
receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the inside of the hub
and a cleaning nozzle which jet spouts the cleaning liquid from
the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part toward said
screen part. Such a centrifugal separator is used for
purification of a variety of crystals in the field of the
chemical industry and the food industry.
BACKGROUND
With conventional screen bowl type centrifugal separators,
when a feed stock consisting of crystalline solid matters and a
solvent is supplied to the inside of the bowl, the feed stock
is separated into the crystals, which are the object to be
treated, and the solvent by the centrifugal force, the crystals
being settled onto the inner circumferential surface of the
bowl, conveyed by the screw conveyor which is provided with a
minute difference in speed between it and the bowl, and
subjected to deliquidization at the tapered part provided on
one side of the bowl.
The deliquidized crystals generally have impurities
produced in the process of manufacture thereof, and the solvent
itself deposited on their surfaces, and in order to clean these
surplus deposits, a screen part has conventionally been
provided on the inner circumferential side of the bowl

following the tapered part, with cleaning nozzles which jet
spout the cleaning liquid toward the pertinent portion being
provided in the hub of the screw conveyor for carrying out
cleaning by jet spouting the cleaning liquid all over the
crystals which are being conveyed in the screen part. For
example, refer to the patent literature 1 (Japanese Laid-Open
Publication No. 2000-325831).
However, with the screen bowl type centrifugal separator
as mentioned above, the crystals will not be conveyed by the
conveyor in the clearance in the radial direction that is formed
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight of the
screw conveyor and the inner circumferential surface of the
screen part, the residual layer of crystals being pressed
against the outer circumferential edge of the flight to be
firmly tightened without being moved in a long period of time
of operation.
The crystals forming such a residual layer present a problem
that they impede not only the penetration of the cleaning liquid,
but also the movement of themselves for replacement with new
residual layer crystals. Such a condition is generally called
screen clogging. To eliminate the condition of clogged screen,
it has been required to temporarily stop the supply of the feed
stock, and instead, supply the cleaning liquid for a certain
period of time. Thus, while the supply of the feed stock is
stopped, the production is interrupted, which has been a factor
of lowering the productivity.
Further, there has been a problem that, when the cleaning
liquid is applied to all over the whole of the crystals which
are conveyed by the flight, a part of the crystals is caused
to leak in the screen part by the amount which is in proportion
to that of the cleaning liquid passing through the layer of
the crystals, and the amount which is in proportion to the mesh
size of the screen.
Being developed in view of the problems of the prior art
as mentioned above, the present invention is intended to
provide a screen bowl type centrifugal separator which can not

only eliminate the problem of reduction in productivity
resulting from the occurrence of clogging due to the object to
be treated, such as crystals, in particular, in the screen
part, which is the critical portion of the screen bowl type
centrifugal separator, but also minimize the amount of leakage
of the object to be treated in the screen part.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The spirit of the present invention to achieve the above
purpose is disclosed in the following items :
[1] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw
conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively
rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a screen
part provided along the inner circumferential surface at one
end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a cleaning
liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning liquid
supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle which
jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein a liquid
conduction part for jet spouting at least a part of the
cleaning liquid directly toward the residual layer crystals
formed in the clearance between the outer circumferential edge
of the flight of said screw conveyor and the inner
circumferential surface of said screen part is provided; and
the tip of at least a part of the cleaning liquid conduction
part is located within 10 mm from the inner surface of the
screen part.
[2] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw
conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively

rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a screen
part provided along the inner circumferential surface at one
end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a cleaning
liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning liquid
supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle which
jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part for
receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer
object to be treated formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight of said screw conveyor and
the inner circumferential surface of said screen part is
provided inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part, being
partitioned independently of the inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part; and
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid path is formed
along the direction of the helix of said flight for causing the
cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part to be directly jet spouted toward said
residual layer object to be treated from the outer
circumferential edge of said flight, with no relation to said
cleaning liquid receiving part.
[3] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw
conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively
rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a screen
part provided along the inner circumferential surface at one
end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a cleaning

liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning liquid
supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle which
jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part for
receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer
object to be treated formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight of said screw conveyor and
the inner circumferential surface of said screen, part is
provided inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part, being
partitioned independently of the inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part ;
in the locations where the inner circumferential edges of
said flight range, a connection tube is provided at prescribed
intervals along the direction of the helix of the flight on the
bottom side of said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving part, and a cleaning liquid discharge hole which
connect to said connection tube, being radially extended from
the inner circumferential surface side of the hub to the outer
circumferential edge of the flight inside the wall of the hub
or the flight of said screw conveyor, is provided ; and the
cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part is directly jet spouted toward said
residual layer object to be treated from the tip opening of
said respective cleaning liquid discharge holes which are
opened at the outer circumferential edge of said flight.
[4] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw
conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively
rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a screen

part provided along the inner circumferential surface at one
end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a cleaning
liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning liquid
supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle
which jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part for
receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer
object to be treated formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight of said screw conveyor and
the inner circumferential surface of said screen part is
provided inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part, being
partitioned independently of the inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part ;
in the locations adjacent to the surface on the side
opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of said
flight, a connection tube is provided at prescribed intervals
along the direction of the helix of said flight on the bottom
side of said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part, and in the hub of said screw conveyor, a cleaning liquid
connection hole to which said connection tube is connected is
provided ;
on the surface on the side opposite to the object-to-be-
treated conveying surface of said flight, a cleaning liquid
discharge pipe which is connected to said cleaning liquid
connection hole, extending in the radial direction from the
inner circumferential edge to the outer circumferential edge of
the flight, is mounted at prescribed intervals along the
direction of the helix of the flight ; and
the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part is directly jet spouted toward

said residual layer object to be treated from the tip opening
of said cleaning liquid discharge pipe.
[5] The centrifugal separator of item 4, wherein, in the
tip surface of the outer circumferential edge of said flight, a
channel which consecutively extends along the direction of the
helix of the flight, and to which the tip opening, of said
respective cleaning liquid discharge holes is connected is
formed.
[6] The centrifugal separator of item 2, item 3, item 4,
or item 5, wherein, into the inside of the hub of said screw
conveyor, a feed tube for supplying the feed stock that extends
in the axial direction of the hub is inserted ;
a cleaning liquid supply path for supplying the cleaning
liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part is
formed inside of said feed tube, and at intermediate points on
the feed tube that are opposed to said cleaning liquid
receiving part in the radial direction, openings of said
cleaning liquid supply path are provided ; and
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path for
supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part is formed inside
of said feed tube, and at intermediate points on the feed tube
that are opposed to said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving part in the radial direction, openings of said
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path are
provided.
[7] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw
conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively
rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a

screen part provided along the inner circumferential surface at
one end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a
cleaning liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning
liquid supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle
which jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein
inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part, a plurality
of residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes which
are arranged at prescribed intervals along the direction of the
helix of said flight in the locations adjacent to the surface
on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface of the flight of said screw conveyor is provided ;
along the outer circumferential edge of the surface on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of
said flight, a cover flight with a small width that extends in
the direction of the helix of the flight is mounted with a
prescribed spacing being given with respect to the surface on
the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface
; and
the cleaning liquid inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part that springs out from said residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes is directly jet spouted
toward the residual layer object to be treated formed in the
clearance between the outer circumferential edge of said flight
and the inner circumferential surface of said screen part
through the clearance between the outer circumferential edge of
said flight and said cover flight.
[8] The centrifugal separator of item 7, wherein said
cleaning liquid receiving part is provided with a partition
plate which partitions the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part into two or more in the axial direction in the

screen part of said bowl for allowing a particular cleaning
range in said screen part to be selected.
[9] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw
conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively
rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a screen
part provided along the inner circumferential surface at one
end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a cleaning
liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning liquid
supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle which
jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part for
receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer
object to be treated formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight of said screw conveyor and
the inner circumferential surface of said screen part is
provided inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part, being
partitioned independently of the inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part ;
inside of the locations adjacent to the surface on the side
opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of said
flight, a plurality of connection tubes are provided at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of said
flight on the bottom side of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part, and in the hub of said screw
conveyor, a plurality of residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid discharge holes to which said respective connection
tubes are connected, respectively, are provided ;

along the outer circumferential edge of the surface on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of
said flight, a cover flight with a small width that extends in
the direction of the helix of the flight is mounted with a
prescribed spacing being given with respect to the surface on
the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface ; and
the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part that springs out from said
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge
holes is directly jet spouted toward said residual layer object
to be treated through the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of said flight and said cover flight.
[10] The centrifugal separator of item 9, wherein, into the
inside of the hub of said screw conveyor, a feed tube for
supplying the feed stock that extends in the axial direction of
the hub is inserted;
a cleaning liquid supply path for supplying the cleaning
liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part is
formed inside of said feed tube, and at intermediate points on
the feed tube that are opposed to said cleaning liquid
receiving part in the radial direction, openings of said
cleaning liquid supply path are provided ; and
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path for
supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part is formed inside
of said feed tube, and at intermediate points on the feed tube
that are opposed to said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving part in the radial direction, openings of said
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path are
provided.
[11] A centrifugal separator which comprises a screw

conveyor inside of a bowl, supports them so as to be relatively
rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a feed stock
supplied to the inside of said bowl, and carries out cleaning
and deliquidization of said object to be treated with a screen
part provided along the inner circumferential surface at one
end of the bowl, a hub of said screw conveyor having a cleaning
liquid receiving part for receiving the cleaning liquid
supplied to the inside of the hub and a cleaning nozzle which
jet spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part toward said screen part, wherein
inside of the hub of said screw conveyor on one side thereof,
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber
which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning said residual
layer object to be treated formed in the clearance between the
outer circumferential edge of the flight of the screw conveyor
and the inner circumferential surface of said screen part is
provided, being partitioned independently of said cleaning
liquid receiving part;
on the outer circumference of the hub of said screw conveyor,
a plurality of residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
introducing tubes are arranged at prescribed intervals in the
circumferential direction of the hub, being extended along the
axial direction of the hub so as to penetrate through said
flight, respectively, with one end of the respective residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes being
connected to the inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving chamber;
at intermediate points on said respective residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes, a plurality of
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes which
are arranged at prescribed intervals along the direction of
the helix of the flight of said screw conveyor in the locations
adjacent to the surface on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface of said flight are
provided;
along the outer circumferential edge of the surface on the

side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of said
flight, a cover flight with a small width that extends in the
direction of the helix of the flight is mounted with a prescribed
spacing being given with respect to the surface on the side opposite
to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface ; and
the cleaning liquid which has been introduced into said
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes
from said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber
and which springs out through said respective residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid discharge holes is directly jet spouted toward said
residual layer object to be treated through the clearance between the
outer circumferential edge of said flight and said cover flight.
[12] The centrifugal separator of item 7, item 8, item 9, item
10, or item 11, wherein said cover flight is mounted, being provided
with a slope with respect to the surface on the side opposite to
the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of said flight such that
the clearance is gradually narrowed down from the side closer to said
hub to the side closer to the outer circumferential edge of the
flight, and is mounted through supporting plates which are arranged
at prescribed intervals.
Next, the function of the present invention will be described.
When the feed stock is supplied to the inside of the bowl, the
centrifugal force separates the feed stock into the object to be
treated and the mother liquid inside of the bowl, the object to be
treated being settled onto the inner circumferential surface of the
bowl, and such object to be treated is conveyed by the screw conveyor
which is provided with a difference in rotational speed between it
and the bowl. However, in the radial clearance formed between
the outer circumferential edge of the flight of the screw conveyor
and the inner circumferential surface of the screen part, the

object to be treated is not sufficiently conveyed by the
conveyor, forming a residual layer.
The object to be treated deliguidized on the way of being
conveyed generally have impurities produced in the process of
manufacture thereof, and the mother liquid itself deposited
on their surfaces, and in order to remove these surplus
deposited matters, at least a part of the cleaning liquid is
directly jet spouted toward the residual layer crystals formed
in the clearance between the outer circumferential edge of the
flight of the screw conveyor and the inner circumferential
surface of the screen part from the liquid conduction part in
the screen part provided along the inner circumferential
surface of the bowl at the one end side thereof.
Thereby, besides the whole of the object to be treated, the
residual layer crystals formed in the clearance between the
outer circumferential edge of the flight of the screw conveyor
and the inner circumferential surface of said screen part can
be directly cleaned in particular, thus no residual layer
crystals are anchored, resulting in the movability being
enhanced, and the penetrability of the cleaning liquid through
the whole of the object to be treated during conveying being
improved. Therefore, clogging with the object to be treated
in the screen part can be prevented; the amount of the cleaning
liquid as that for substitution of the impurities in the object
to be treated, which is the original application, can be
minimized; and the amount of leakage of the object to be treated
in the screen part can be minimized.
At least a part of the cleaning liquid is directly jet
spouted toward the residual layer crystals formed in the
clearance between the outer circumferential edge of the flight
of the screw conveyor and the inner circumferential surface
of the screen part from the liquid conduction part. Because
said liquid conduction part is provided such that the thickness
of the residual layer crystals is held to within 10 mm by the
penetration of the cleaning liquid jet spouted from the liquid

conduction part. Because said liquid conduction part is provided such
that the thickness of the residual layer crystals is held to within 10
mm by the penetration of the cleaning liquid jet spouted from the liquid
conduction part, the cleaning liquid effectively passes through the
residual layer crystals, which allows the amount of leakage of the
object to be treated in the screen part to be more effectively reduced.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item [1], at
least a part of the cleaning liquid is directly jet spouted toward the
residual layer crystals formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight of the screw conveyor and the inner
circumferential surface of the screen part from the liquid conduction
part. Because the tip of at least a part of the cleaning liquid
conduction part is located within 10 mm from the inner surface of the
screen part, the cleaning liquid effectively passes through the residual
layer crystals, which makes it possible to more effectively reduce the
amount of leakage of the object to be treated in the screen part.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item [2],
when the feed stock is supplied to the inside of the bowl, the
centrifugal force separates the feed stock into the object to be treated
and the mother liquid inside of the bowl, the object to be treated being
settled onto the inner circumferential surface of the bowl, and such
object to be treated is conveyed by the screw conveyor which is
provided with a difference in rotational speed between it and the bowl.
However, in the radial clearance formed between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight of the screw conveyor and the inner
circumferential surface of the screen part, the object to be treated is
not sufficiently conveyed by the conveyor, forming a residual layer.
The object to be treated deliquidized on the way of being
conveyed generally have impurities produced in the process of
manufacture thereof, and the mother liquid itself deposited on
their surfaces, and in order to remove these surplus
deposited matters, the cleaning liquid is jet spouted toward
the object to be treated from the cleaning nozzle provided
in the hub of the screw conveyor for carrying out cleaning in the

screen part provided along the inner circumferential surface
of the bowl at the one end side thereof. The cleaning liquid
mentioned here is supplied to the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part provided inside of said hub through the cleaning
liquid supply path separately provided inside of the feed tube
for supplying the feed stock to the inside of the bowl, for
example.
Inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part, a residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part for receiving the
cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer of said object
to be treated is provided, being partitioned independently of
the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part, and the
cleaning liquid supplied to the inside of this residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid receiving part is directly jet spouted
toward the residual layer object to be treated from the outer
circumferential edge of the flight through the residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid path formed along the direction of the
helix of the flight, with no relation to said cleaning liquid
receiving part. Thereby, the cleaning of the object to be
treated by the cleaning nozzle and the cleaning of the residual
layer object to be treated by the residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid path can be separately performed, which allows
the respective cleaning liquids to be rendered different from
each other in type and amount of liquid.
Thus, besides the whole of the object to be treated, the
residual layer object to be treated formed in the clearance
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight of said
screw conveyor and the inner circumferential surface of said
screen part can be directly cleaned in particular, thus no
residual layer object to be treated is anchored, resulting in
the movability being enhanced, and the penetrability of the
cleaning liquid through the whole of the object to be treated
during conveying being improved. Therefore, clogging with the
object to be treated in the screen part can be prevented; the
amount of the cleaning liquid as that for substitution of the
impurities in the object to be treated, which is the original

application, can be minimized; and the amount of leakage of the
object to be treated in the screen part can be minimized.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item [3],
the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part springs out into the inside of the bowl from
the cleaning liquid discharge holes provided in the wall of the hub
or the flight of said screw conveyor, being passed through the
connection tubes disposed at prescribed intervals along the direction
of the helix of the flight in the locations where the inner
circumferential edges of the flight range. The cleaning liquid
discharge holes are radially extended from the inner circumferential
surface side of the hub to the outer circumferential edge of the
flight, allowing the cleaning liquid to be directly jet spouted
toward said residual layer object to be treated from the tip opening
of said respective cleaning liquid discharge holes which are opened
at the outer circumferential edge of the flight.
Herein, if, as with the centrifugal separator as defined in item
[5], a channel which consecutively extends along the direction of the
helix of said flight, and to which the tip opening of said
respective cleaning liquid discharge holes is connected is formed in
the tip surface of the outer circumferential edge of the flight, the
cleaning liquid from the tip opening of said respective cleaning
liquid discharge holes is spread throughout the entire area of the
outer circumferential edge of the flight along the channel, and can
be directly jet spouted toward said residual layer object to be
treated such that the cleaning liquid is spread over the entire
circumference in the radial direction.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item
[4], the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part passes through the connection
tubes which are provided at prescribed intervals along the
direction of the helix of said flight in the locations
adjacent to the surface on the side opposite to the object-to-be-
treated conveying surface of the flight, and the cleaning liquid

connection holes provided in the wall of the hub of said' screw
conveyor, being introduced into the cleaning liquid discharge pipes
which are provided at prescribed intervals along the direction of the
helix of said flight on the surface on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface of the flight.
The respective cleaning liquid discharge pipes extend radially , •
from the inner circumferential edge to the outer circumferential edge
of the flight, and from the tip opening of the respective cleaning
liquid discharge pipes disposed along the outer circumferential edge
of the flight, the cleaning liquid can be directly jet spouted toward
said residual layer object to be treated. According to such a
configuration, the need for work to provide holes in the flight
itself is eliminated, and the cleaning liquid discharge pipes can be
post-attached to the flight, which allows the manufacture to be
carried out relatively easily.
Further, in order to supply the cleaning liquid to the inside of
said cleaning liquid receiving part and the inside of said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part provided inside of the
hub of said screw conveyor, a part of the feed tube for supplying the
feed stock that is also inserted into the inside of the hub can be
effectively used, as with the centrifugal separator as defined in
said item [6].
In other words, a cleaning liquid supply path for supplying the
cleaning liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part
is formed inside of the feed tube, and at intermediate points on the
feed tube that are opposed to said cleaning liquid receiving part in
the radial direction, openings of the cleaning liquid supply path are
provided.
Similarly, a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
supply path for supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside
of said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part is
formed inside of the feed tube;, and at intermediate points on the
feed tube that are opposed to said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part in the radial direction, openings of the

residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path are provided.
Thereby, the cleaning liquid can be separately and effectively
supplied to the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part and the
inside of the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item [7],
when the feed stock is supplied to the inside of the bowl, the
centrifugal force separates the feed stock into the object to be
treated and the mother liquid inside of the bowl, the object to be
treated being settled onto the inner circumferential surface of the
bowl, and such object to be treated is conveyed by the screw conveyor
which is provided with a difference in rotational speed between it
and the bowl. However, in the radial clearance formed between the
outer circumferential edge of the flight of the screw conveyor and
the inner circumferential surface of the screen part, the object to
be treated is not sufficiently conveyed by the conveyor, forming a
residual layer.
The object to be treated deliquidized on the way of being
conveyed generally have impurities produced in the process of
manufacture thereof, and the mother liquid itself deposited on their
surfaces, and in order to remove these surplus deposited matters, the
cleaning liquid is directly jet spouted toward the object to be
treated from the cleaning nozzle provided in the hub of the screw
conveyor for carrying out cleaning in the screen part provided along
the inner circumferential surface of the bowl at the one end side
thereof. The cleaning liquid mentioned here is supplied to the inside
of the cleaning liquid receiving part provided inside of said hub
through the cleaning liquid supply path separately provided inside
of the feed tube for supplying the feed stock to the inside of the
bowl, for example.
The cleaning liquid inside of said cleaning liquid receiving
part is not only jet spouted from said cleaning nozzle, but also
springs out into the inside of the bowl from the plurality of
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes which are
arranged at prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of
said flight in the locations adjacent to the surface on the side

opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of the flight.
Herein, the cleaning liquid is directly jet spouted toward the
residual layer object to be treated through the small clearance
between the cover flight with a small width that extends in the
direction of the helix of the flight with a prescribed spacing being
given with respect to the surface on the side opposite to the object-
to-be-treated conveying surface of the flight along the outer
circumferential edge of the surface on the side opposite to the
object-to- be-treated conveying surface of the flight, and the outer
circumferential edge of the flight, without being scattered.
Thereby, besides cleaning of the whole of the object to be
treated by means of the cleaning nozzles, the residual layer object
to be treated can be locally cleaned as well in particular, thus no
residual layer object to be treated is anchored, resulting in the
movability being enhanced, and the penetrability of the cleaning
liquid through the whole of the object to be treated during conveying
being improved. Therefore, clogging with the object to be treated in
the screen part can be prevented; the amount of the cleaning liquid
as that for substitution of the impurities in the object to be
treated, which is the original application, can be minimized ; and
the amount of leakage of the object to be treated in the screen part
can be minimized.
As with the centrifugal separator as defined in item [8],when
said cleaning liquid receiving part is provided with a partition
plate which partitions the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving
part into two or more in the axial direction in the screen part of
said bowl, the cleaning liquid may be supplied to the inside of all
the compartments of said cleaning liquid receiving part through the
cleaning liquid supply path separately provided inside of the feed
tube for supplying the feed stock to the inside of the bowl, or the
cleaning liquid may be supplied to the inside of only a part of the
compartments, for example.
In such a case, the cleaning liquid is jet spouted toward the
screen part only in the range where it is opposed, in the radial
direction of the bowl, to the inside of the compartment of the

cleaning liquid receiving part to which the cleaning liquid has been
supplied. Thereby, the cleaning range in the screen part can be
selected as appropriate.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item [9], a
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part for receiving
the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer of the object to
be treated is provided inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part,
being partitioned independently of the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part, and the cleaning liquid which has been supplied to
the inside of this residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part passes through the connection tubes which are provided at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of said flight
in the locations adjacent to the surface on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface of the flight, and springs
out from the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes
provided in the wall of the hub of said screw conveyor.
The cleaning liquid which has sprung out into the inside of the
bowl can be directly jet spouted toward said residual layer object to
be treated through the small clearance between the cover flight with
a small width that extends in the direction of the helix of said
flight along the outer circumferential edge of the surface on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of the
flight, and the outer circumferential edge of the flight, without
being scattered. Thereby, as with the centrifugal separator as
defined in item [7], the penetrability of the cleaning liquid through
the object to be treated, and the movability of the residual layer
object to be treated can be enhanced.
Further, with the present centrifugal separator, in order to
supply the cleaning liquid to the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part and the inside of the residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part provided inside of the hub of said screw
conveyor, a part of the feed tube for supplying the feed stock that
is inserted into the inside of the hub can be effectively used, as
mentioned in item [10].

In other words, a cleaning liquid supply path for supplying the
cleaning liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part
is formed inside of the feed tube, and at intermediate points on the
feed tube that are opposed to said cleaning liquid receiving part in
the radial direction, openings of the cleaning liquid supply path are
provided.
Similarly, a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path
for supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part is formed inside of the
feed tube, and at intermediate points on the feed tube that are
opposed to said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part in the radial direction, openings of the residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid supply path are provided. Thereby, the cleaning
liquid can be separately and effectively supplied to the inside of
the cleaning liquid receiving part and the inside of the residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part.
According to the centrifugal separator as defined in item [11],
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber which
receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer of the
object to be treated is provided inside of said hub on one side
thereof independently of said cleaning liquid receiving part, and the
cleaning liquid which has been supplied to the inside of this
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber is
introduced into the respective plurality of residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid introducing tubes arranged on the outer circumference
of the hub.
And, the cleaning liquid which has been introduced into the
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes
passes through the respective plurality of residual, layer crystal
cleaning liquid discharge holes which are provided at prescribed
intervals at intermediate points on the respective residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes, springing out into the
inside of the bowl. The cleaning liquid which has sprung out can be
directly jet spouted toward said residual layer object to be treated
through the small clearance between the cover flight with a small

width that extends in the direction of the helix of said flight along
the outer circumferential edge of the surface on the side opposite to
the object-to-be-treated conveying surface of the flight, and the
outer circumferential edge of the flight. Thereby, as with the
centrifugal separator as defined in items [7] and [9] , the
penetrability of the cleaning liquid through the object to be
treated, and the movability of the residual layer object to be
treated can be enhanced.
Further, if, as with the centrifugal separator as defined in
item [12], said cover flight is mounted, being provided with a slope
with respect to the surface on the side opposite to the object-to-be-
treated conveying surface of said flight such that the clearance is
gradually narrowed down from the side closer to said hub to the side
closer to the outer circumferential edge of the flight, and is
mounted through supporting plates which are arranged at prescribed
intervals, the cleaning liquid which springs out from said hub side
can be received in a wide span, and the received cleaning liquid can
be directly jet spouted toward the residual layer object to be
treated from a narrow span.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a first
embodiment of the present invention ;
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the whole
of a centrifugal separator according to a first embodiment of the
present invention ;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line III-III in
FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a
second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view
illustrating the critical portion of a centrifugal separator
according to a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line VI-VI in
FIG. 4;
FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a
third embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII
in FIG. 7;
FIG. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a
fourth embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 10 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
whole of a centrifugal separator according to a fourth
embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a sectional view taken along the line XI-XI in
FIG. 9;
FIG. 12 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a
fifth embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 13 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a
sixth embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 14 is a sectional view taken along the line XIV-XIV
in FIG. 13;
FIG. 15 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the
critical portion of a centrifugal separator according to a
seventh embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 16 is a sectional view taken along the line XVI-XVI
in FIG. 15.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinbelow, various exemplary embodiments of the present
invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 show a first embodiment of the present
invention.
A centrifugal separator 10 according to the present
embodiment is a so-called screen bowl type centrifugal
separator, comprising a screw conveyor 40, inside of a
substantially cylindrical type bowl 20, and supporting the
screw conveyor 40 and the bowl 20 such that these are relatively
rotatable, and is configured such that a feed stock supplied
to the inside of said bowl 20 can be separated into the object
to be treated and the mother liquid.
Herein, the object to be treated refers to a variety of
crystals, and the like in the chemical industry and the food
industry, and particularly, refers to, for example,
terephthalic acid, which is a raw material for PET bottles and
polyester fabrics, paraxylene, which is a raw material for
terephthalic acid, bisphenol, which is a raw material for
CD-ROM, monosodium glutamate, which is a raw material for
chemical seasonings, and the like. The mother solution refers
to various solvents. With the variety of crystals,
unpolymerized substances and the solvent constituting the
slurry have deposited on their surfaces in the manufacturing
process, and these deposited matters can be
cleaning-substituted by the cleaning liquid (a specific other
solvent, or the like). Hereinbelow, the present embodiment will
be described when it is applied to crystals as an object to
be treated.
As shown in FIG. 2,- the bowl 20 and the screw conveyor 40
inside thereof are rotatably pivotally supported inside of a
casing 11 through shafts 12a, 12b. The bowl 20 and the screw
conveyor 40 are rotation-driven with a minute difference in
speed by a differential gear 14 connected to a bearing 13 on
one side. Such a differential gear 14 itself is well known.

and thus detailed description is omitted.
The inside of the casing 11 is partitioned for providing
a later described discharge port 24 provided for the bowl 20,
a screen part 30, a dam part 26, and the like, respectively.
And. under the casing 11, a crystal discharge port 15 connected
to said discharge port 24, a cleaning liquid discharge port
16 connected to said screen part 30, and a mother liquid
discharge port 17 connected to said dam part 26 are provided,
respectively.
One end side (the right side in FIG. 2) of the bowl 20
provides the direction along which crystals are discharged,
and from the other end side (the left side in FIG. 2) of the
bowl 20, the bowl is partitioned into a parallel cylinder part
21 with a larger diameter, a tapered part 22 which inside
diameter is gradually reduced toward the one end, and a parallel
cylinder part 23 with a smaller diameter, in this order. On
the end side of the parallel cylinder part 23 with a smaller
diameter, a crystal discharge port 24 is formed, and on the
end side of the parallel cylinder part 21 with a larger diameter,
a dam part 26 which regulates the liquid level measured along
the radial direction of the bowl 20, and is capable of
discharging the mother liquid after the crystals having been
separated, to the outside of the bowl 20 is provided.
As shown in FIG. 1, the parallel cylinder part 23 with a
smaller diameter has a number of filtered liquid discharge
holes 25 formed in the wall surface, and is covered with a
cylindrical filtering medium 31 over the entire circumference
on the inner circumference side, thus providing the screen part
30. For the size of the filtered liquid discharge hole 25, there
is no need for much consideration about the diameter of the
crystal particles, but the filtering medium 31 is made of a
material having a number of minute holes or slits which diameter
or size is smaller than the particle diameter of the crystals.
Specifically, a wedge wire screen, a porous ceramic molding,
or the like, may be used, for example. The inner circumferential
surface of the parallel cylinder part 23 is cut by the depth

equivalent to the thickness of the filtering medium 31.
The screw conveyor 40 is made up of a hub 41 which provides
an axis of rotation therefor, and a flight 42 which is provided
in the form of a screw on the outer circumference of the hub
41, and the flight 42 is formed such that the crystals are
conveyed toward the one end side (the right side in FIG. 2)
of the bowl 20. Between the outer circumferential edge of the
flight 42 and the inner circumferential surface of the parallel
cylinder part 23 (the surface of the filtering medium 31 of
the screen part 30), a clearance in the radial direction is
provided because the screw conveyor 40 and the bowl 20 are
constructed to be rotated at different speeds.
The hub 41 is provided with a cleaning liquid receiving part
43 which receives the cleaning liquid supplied to the inside
of the hub 41, and a cleaning nozzle 45 which jet spouts the
cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part 43 toward the screen part 30 of said bowl 20.
The cleaning liquid receiving part 43 is made up of a portion
which is surrounded by a partition extending by a prescribed
width in the axial direction around the entire circumference
of the inner circumferential surface of the hub 41.
In the circumferential wall of the hub 41 that provides the
bottom side of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43, a cleaning
liquid connection hole 44 is provided at prescribed Intervals,
and on the outer circumferential surface side of the hub 41,
a cleaning nozzle 45 which is connected to said cleaning liquid
connection hole 44 is protruded. Herein, the cleaning nozzle
45 is disposed slightly toward the other side (the left side
in FIG. 1) off the pitch center of the flight 42 and in a location
where it is opposed to the screen part 30 in the radial direction,
as shown.in FIG. 1.
Further, inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43,
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46
which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual
layer crystals formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42 and the inner

circumferential surface of the screen part 30 is provided,
being partitioned independently of the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part 43. The residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part 46 is formed by providing a partition
which extends by a prescribed width in the axial direction at
both ends of a cylindrical member over the entire circumference
thereof, and on the bottom side, a connection tube 47 is
protruded at prescribed intervals, the respective connection
tubes 47 causing the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving part 46 to be fixedly installed with a separation
from the inner circumferential surface of the hub 41 inside
of said cleaning liquid receiving part 43. As shown in FIG.
1, the respective connection tubes 47 are disposed at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of said
flight 42 in the locations where the inner circumferential
edges of the flight 42 range.
In the present embodiment, a plurality of cleaning liquid
discharge holes 49 which connect to said respective connection
tubes 47 are provided, being radially extended from the inner
circumferential surface side of the hub 41 to the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42 inside the wall of the
hub 41 or the flight 42 in the locations where the inner
circumferential edges of the flight 42 of the screw conveyor
40 range. The respective cleaning liquid discharge holes 49
provide a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid path together
with the respective connection tubes 47 for causing the
cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part 46 to be directly jet spouted toward the
residual layer crystals on the screen part 30 from the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42, with no relation to said
cleaning liquid receiving part 43.
The cleaning nozzle 45 which is connected to the cleaning
liquid connection hole 44 and the plurality of cleaning liquid
discharge holes 49 constitute a liquid conduction part for
causing at least a part of the cleaning liquid to be directly
jet spouted toward the residual layer crystals formed in the

clearance between the outer circumferential edge of the flight
42 of said screw conveyor 40 and the inner circumferential
surface of said screen part 30. And. the tips of the plurality
of cleaning liquid discharge holes 49 to which the respective
connection tubes 47 are connected, and which are at least a
part of the cleaning liquid conduction part are located within
10 mm from the inner surface of the screen part 30. In addition,
said liquid conduction part is provided such that the thickness
of the residual layer crystals is held to within 10 mm by the
penetration of at least a part of the jet spouted cleaning
liquid.
Into the inside of the hub 41, a feed tube 60 for supplying
the feed stock that extends in the axial direction of the hub
41 is inserted. The starting end of the feed tube 60 extends
out beyond the hub 41 and the bowl 20, providing a feed stock
supply port 61, and the terminating end of the feed tube 60
is disposed substantially at the center of the inside of the
hub 41, providing a feed stock outlet port 62. Further, into
the inside of the feed tube 60, a cleaning liquid supply tube
71 providing a cleaning liquid supply path for supplying the
cleaning liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving
part 43, and a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply
tube 72 providing a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
supply path for supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside
of said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
46 are inserted.
The starting end of the cleaning liquid supply tube 71
provides a cleaning liquid supply port 71a which opens
substantially at right angles to the axial direction on the
starting end side of the feed tube 60. In addition, at
intermediate points on the feed tube 60 that are opposed to
the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 in the radial direction
inside of the hub 41, openings 71b of the cleaning liquid supply
tube 71 are opened substantially at right angles to the axial
direction. On the other hand, the starting end of the residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid supply tube 72 provides a

residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply port 72a which
opens substantially at right angles to the axial direction on
the starting end side of the feed tube 60. In addition, at
intermediate points on the feed tube 60 that are opposed to
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46
in the radial direction inside of the hub 41, openings 72b of
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply tube 72 are
opened substantially at right angles to the axial direction.
Next, the function of the centrifugal separator 10
according to the first embodiment will be described.
In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the feed stock is supplied to the inside
of the bowl 20 through the feed tube 60 by use of a pump or
other driving source. The feed stock which is fed from the feed
stock supply port 61 comes from the feed stock outlet port 62
located substantially in the vicinity of the center inside of
the hub 41 of the screw conveyor 40, filling the bowl 20 to
a prescribed level which is preset by the dam part 26 inside
of the bowl 20. The feed stock is subjected to the action of
the centrifugal force inside of the bowl 20, resulting in the
crystals being settled to be separated from the mother liquid.
The crystals settled onto the inner circumferential surface
of the bowl 20 by the action of the centrifugal force are
conveyed to the tapered part 22 of the bowl 20 by the flight
42 of the screw conveyor 40 which is rotated at a speed slightly
different from that of the bowl 20, and are deliquidized while
being moved on the inner circumferential surface of the tapered
part 22, being brought closer to the axis than the liquid level
preset by the dam part 26, before further being conveyed to
the screen part 30.
The crystals deliquidized on the way of being conveyed have
impurities produced in the process of manufacture thereof, and
the mother liquid itself deposited on their surfaces, and the
crystals which have reached the screen part 30 are cleaned by
the cleaning liquid jet spouted from the cleaning nozzle 45
provided in the hub 41. As the cleaning liquid, pure water,
acetic acid solution, pure phenol solution, sulfuric acid

solution, hydrochloric acid solution, or the like is generally
used, and the cleaning liquid is supplied to the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part 43 provided inside of the hub
41 through the cleaning liquid supply tube 71 which is
separately inserted into the feed tube 60. The cleaning liquid
received by the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 is passed
through the cleaning liquid connection hole 44 in the
circumferential wall of the hub 41 before being jet spouted
from the cleaning nozzle 45.
The crystals are thus subjected to cleaning and
deliquidization in the screen part 30, and further conveyed
toward the discharge port 24, however, in the clearance between
the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42 of the screw
conveyor 40 and the inner circumferential surface of the screen
part 30, a residual layer of crystals is formed. Such residual
layer crystals are directly and locally cleaned by the cleaning
liquid which is jet spouted from the outer circumferential edge
of the flight 42 through the residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid path, with no relation to said cleaning liquid receiving
part 43. The cleaning liquid used here is often the same as
that which is jet spouted from said cleaning nozzle 45, and
is supplied to the inside of the residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid receiving part 46 provided inside of the hub 41 through
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply tube 72 which
is separately inserted into the feed tube 60.
In details, the cleaning liquid inside of the residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46 is jet spouted into
the inside of the bowl 20 from the cleaning liquid discharge
holes 49 provided inside the wall of the hub 41 or said flight
42, being passed through the connection tubes 47 disposed at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of the
flight 42 in the locations where the inner circumferential
edges of the flight 42 range. The cleaning liquid discharge
holes 49 are radially extended from the inner circumferential
surface side of the hub 41 to the outer circumferential edge
of the flight 42, allowing the cleaning liquid to be directly

jet spouted toward the residual layer crystals from the tip
opening of the respective cleaning liquid discharge holes 49
which are opened at the outer circumferential edge of the flight
42.
As described above, besides cleaning of the whole of the
crystals by means of the cleaning nozzles 45, the residual layer
crystals can be locally and directly cleaned in particular by
means of the residual layer crystal cleaning paths, thus no
residual layer crystals are anchored, resulting in the
movability being enhanced, and the penetrability of the
cleaning liquid through the whole of the crystals during
conveying being improved. Therefore, crystal clogging in the
screen part 30 can be prevented; the amount of the cleaning
liquid as that for substitution of the impurities in the
crystals, which is the original application, can be minimized;
and the amount of leakage of the crystals in the screen part
30 can be minimized.
Moreover, the cleaning liquid is separately supplied to the
inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 and the residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46, which are
partitioned from each other, thus the amount of the cleaning
liquid which is jet spouted from the cleaning nozzles 45 and
the amount of the cleaning liquid which is jet spouted from
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid path can be
separately controlled from the external, which allows both
amounts of the cleaning liquid to be easily adjusted to be set
at an optimum value, respectively, for minimization of the
substitution rate for crystal cleaning and the amount of
leakage.
In the screen part 30, the cleaning liquid which has been
jet spouted from the cleaning nozzle 45 and the residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid path is passed through the filtering
medium 31 after cleaning the crystals and the residual layer
crystals, and is discharged from the filtered liquid discharge
holes 25 to the outside of the bowl 20. The crystals which have
been cleaned and deliquidized in the screen part 30 are

discharged from the discharge port 24 to the outside of the
bowl 20, and finally recovered from the crystal discharge port
15 provided in the casing 11.
Thus, when the feed stock is supplied to the inside of the
bowl 20, the centrifugal force separates the feed stock into
the object to be treated and the mother liquid inside of the
bowl 20, the object to be treated being settled onto the inner
circumferential surface of the bowl 20, and such object to be
treated is conveyed by the screw conveyor 40 which is provided
with a difference in rotational speed between it and the bowl
20. However, in the radial clearance formed between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42 of the screw conveyor
40 and the inner circumferential surface of the screen part
30, the object to be treated is not sufficiently conveyed by
the conveyor, forming a residual layer.
The object to be treated deliquidized on the way of being
conveyed generally have impurities produced in the process of
manufacture thereof, and the mother liquid itself deposited
on their surfaces, and in order to remove these surplus
deposited matters, at least a part of the cleaning liquid is
directly jet spouted toward the residual layer crystals formed
in the clearance between the outer circumferential edge of the
flight 42 of the screw conveyor 40 and the inner circumferential
surface of the screen part 30 from the liquid conduction part
in the screen part 30 provided along the inner circumferential
surface of the bowl 20 at the one end side thereof.
Thereby, besides the whole of the object to be treated, the
residual layer crystals formed in the clearance between the
outer circumferential edge of the flight 42 of the screw
conveyor 40 and the inner circumferential surface of said
screen part 30 can be directly cleaned in particular, thus no
residual layer crystals are anchored, resulting in the
movability being enhanced, and the penetrability of the
cleaning liquid through the whole of the object to be treated
during conveying being improved. Therefore, clogging with the
object to be treated in the screen part 30 can be prevented;

the amount of the cleaning liquid as that for substitution of
the impurities in the object to be treated, which is the
original application, can be minimized; and the amount of
leakage of the object to be treated in the screen part 30 can
be minimized.
Said liquid conduction part is provided such that, when at
least a part of the cleaning liquid is directly jet spouted
toward the residual layer crystals formed in the clearance
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42 of the
screw conveyor 40 and the inner circumferential surface of the
screen part 30 from the liquid conduction part, the thickness
of the residual layer crystals is held to within 10 mm by the
penetration of the cleaning liquid jet spouted from the liquid
conduction part, thus the cleaning liquid effectively passes
through the residual layer crystals, which allows the amount
of leakage of the object to be treated in the screen part 30
to be more effectively reduced. In addition, the tip of at least
a part of the cleaning liquid conduction part is located within
10 mm from the inner surface of the screen part 30, thus the
cleaning liquid effectively passes through the residual layer
crystals, which makes it possible to more effectively reduce
the amount of leakage of the object to be treated in the screen
part 30.
FIG. 4 to FIG. 6 show a second embodiment of the present
invention.
With a centrifugal separator 10A according to the present
embodiment, a channel 49a which consecutively extends along
the direction of the helix of said flight 42, and to which the
tip opening of said respective cleaning liquid discharge holes
49 is connected is formed in the tip surface of the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42 in the above-described
first embodiment. Specifically, the width of the channel 49a
may be set at 1 to 5 mm or so, and the depth may be set at 10
to 25 mm or so, for example. The portions which are the same
as those in the first embodiment are provided with the same
signs, and a duplicated description thereof is omitted.

According to such second embodiment, the cleaning liquid
from the tip opening of said respective cleaning liquid
discharge holes 49 is spread throughout the entire area of the
outer circumferential edge of the flight 42 along the channel
49a. and can be directly jet spouted toward said residual layer
object to be treated such that the cleaning liquid is spread
over the entire circumference in the radial direction. Thereby,
as with said first embodiment, the penetrability of the
cleaning liquid through the crystals, and the movability of
the residual layer crystals can be enhanced.
FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 show a third embodiment of the present
invention.
With a centrifugal separator 10B according to the present
embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the respective connection tubes
47 in said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part 46 are disposed at prescribed intervals along the
direction of the helix of said flight 42 in the locations
adjacent to the surface 42b on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface 42a of the flight 42,
and in the circumferential wall of said hub 41, cleaning liquid
connection holes 48 to which the respective connection tubes
47 are connected are provided.
And on the surface 42b on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface 42a of the flight 42
of the screw conveyor 40, a plurality of cleaning liquid
discharge pipes 80 which are each connected to said respective
cleaning liquid connection holes 48. extending in the radial
direction from the inner circumferential edge to the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42, are mounted at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of the
flight 42. Such cleaning liquid discharge pipes 80 provide a
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid path together with the
connection tube 47 and the cleaning liquid connection hole 48.
According to such third embodiment, the cleaning liquid
inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part 46 passes through the connection tubes 47 which are

provided at prescribed intervals along the direction of the
helix of said flight 42 in the locations adjacent to the surface
42b on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface 42a of the flight 42, and the cleaning liquid connection
holes 48 provided in the wall of the hub 41 of said screw conveyor
40, being introduced into the cleaning liquid discharge pipes
80 which are provided at prescribed Intervals along the
direction of the helix of said flight 42 on the surface 42b
on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface 42a of the flight 42.
The respective cleaning liquid discharge pipes 80 extend
radially from the inner circumferential edge to the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42, and from the tip opening
of the respective cleaning liquid discharge pipes 80 disposed
along the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42, the
cleaning liquid can be directly jet spouted toward said
residual layer object to be treated. According to such a
configuration, the need for work to provide holes in the flight
42 itself is eliminated, and the cleaning liquid discharge
pipes 80 can be post-attached to the flight 42, which allows
the manufacture to be carried out relatively easily. By
radially mounting the respective cleaning liquid discharge
pipes 80 with the narrowest possible spacings, the cleaning
liquid can be jet spouted toward the residual layer crystals
so as to spread over the entire circumference.
FIG. 9 and FIG. 11 show a fourth embodiment of the present
invention.
A centrifugal separator 10 according to the present
embodiment is a so-called screen bowl type centrifugal
separator, comprising a screw conveyor 40 inside of a
substantially cylindrical type bowl 20, and supporting the
screw conveyor 40 and the bowl 20 such that these are relatively
rotatable, and is configured such that a feed stock supplied
to the inside of said bowl 20 can be separated into the object
to be treated and the mother liquid.
Herein, the object to be treated refers to a variety of

crystals, and the like in the chemical industry and the food
industry. and particularly, refers to, for example,
terephthalic acid, which is a raw material for PET bottles and
polyester fabrics, paraxylene, which is a raw material for
terephthalic acid, bisphenol, which is a raw material for
CD-ROM, monosodium glutamate, which is a raw material for
chemical seasonings, and the like. The mother solution refers
to various solvents. With the variety of crystals,
unpolymerized substances and the solvent constituting the
slurry have deposited on their surfaces in the manufacturing
process, and these deposited matters can be
cleaning-substituted by the cleaning liquid (a specific other
solvent, or the like). Hereinbelow, the present embodiment will
be described when it is applied to crystals as an object to
be treated.
As shown in FIG. 10, the bowl 20 and the screw conveyor 40
inside thereof are rotatably pivotally supported inside of a
casing 11 through shafts 12a, 12b. The bowl 20 and the screw
conveyor 40 are rotation-driven with a minute difference in
speed by a differential gear 14 connected to a bearing 13 on
one side. Such a differential gear 14 itself is well known,
and thus detailed description is omitted.
The inside of the casing 11 is partitioned for providing
a later described discharge port 24 provided for the bowl 20,
a screen part 30, a dam part 26, and the like, respectively.
And, under the casing 11, a crystal discharge port 15 connected
to said discharge port 24, a cleaning liquid discharge port
16 connected to said screen part 30, and a mother liquid
discharge port 17 connected to said dam part 26 are provided,
respectively.
One end side (the right side in FIG. 10) of the bowl 20
provides the direction along which crystals are discharged,
and from the other end side (the left side in FIG. 10) of the
bowl 20, the bowl is partitioned into a parallel cylinder part
21 with a larger diameter, a tapered part 22 which inside
diameter is gradually reduced toward the one end, and a parallel

cylinder part 23 with a smaller diameter, in this order. On
the end side of the parallel cylinder part 23 with a smaller
diameter, a crystal discharge port 24 is formed, and on the
end side of the parallel cylinder part 21 with a larger diameter,
a dam part 26 which regulates the liquid level measured along
the radial direction of the bowl 20, and is capable of
discharging the mother liquid after the crystals having been
separated, to the outside of the bowl 20 is provided.
As shown in FIG. 9, the parallel cylinder part 23 with a
smaller diameter has a number of filtered liquid discharge
holes 25 formed in the wall surface, and is covered with a
cylindrical filtering medium 31 over the entire circumference
on the inner circumference side, thus providing the screen part
30. For the size of the filtered liquid discharge hole 25, there
is no need for much consideration about the diameter of the
crystal particles, but the filtering medium 31 is made of a
material having a number of minute holes or slits which diameter
or size is smaller than the particle diameter of the crystals.
Specifically, a wedge wire screen, a porous ceramic molding,
or the like, may be used, for example. The inner circumferential
surface of the parallel cylinder part 23 is cut by the depth
equivalent to the thickness of the filtering medium 31.
The screw conveyor 40 is made up of a hub 41 which provides
an axis of rotation therefor, and a flight 42 which is provided
in the form of a screw on the outer circumference of the hub
41, and the flight 42 is formed such that the crystals are
conveyed toward the one end side (the right side in FIG. 10)
of the bowl 20. Between the outer circumferential edge of the
flight 42 and the inner circumferential surface of the parallel
cylinder part 23 (the surface of the filtering medium 31 of
the screen part 30), a clearance in the radial direction is
provided because the screw conveyor 40 and the bowl 20 are
constructed to be rotated at different speeds.
The hub 41 is provided with a cleaning liquid receiving part
43 which receives the cleaning liquid supplied to the inside
of the hub 41, and a cleaning nozzle 45 which jet spouts the

cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part 43 toward the screen part 30 of said bowl 20.
The cleaning liquid receiving part 43 is made up of a portion
which is surrounded by a partition extending by a prescribed
width in the axial direction around the entire circumference
of the inner circumferential surface of the hub 41.
In the circumferential wall of the hub 41 that provides the
bottom side of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43, a cleaning
liquid connection hole 44 is provided at prescribed intervals,
and on the outer circumferential surface side of the hub 41,
a cleaning nozzle 45 which is connected to said cleaning liquid
connection hole 44 is protruded. Herein, the cleaning nozzle
45 is disposed slightly off the pitch center of the flight 42
toward the other end side (the left side in FIG. 9) and in a
location where it is opposed to the screen part 30 in the radial
direction, as shown in FIG. 9.
Further, inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43,
a plurality of residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge
holes 52 which are arranged at prescribed intervals along the
direction of the helix of the flight 42 are provided in the
locations adjacent to the surface 42b on the side opposite to
the object-to-be-treated conveying surface 42a of the flight
42. Such residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes
52 are for directly jet spouting the cleaning liquid inside
of said cleaning liquid receiving part 43 toward the residual
layer crystals on the screen part 30, besides said cleaning
nozzles 45.
Along the outer circumferential edge of the surface 42b on
the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface 42a of the flight 42, a cover flight 50 with a small
width that extends in the direction of the helix of the flight
42 is mounted with a prescribed spacing being given with respect
to the surface 42b on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface 42a. The cleaning
liquid springing out from said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid discharge hole 52 is directly jet spouted toward said

residual layer crystals through the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42 and the cover flight 50.
The cover flight 50 is disposed, being provided with a slope
with respect to the surface 42b on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface 42a of the flight 42
such that the clearance is gradually narrowed down from the
side closer to said hub 41 to the side closer to the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42, and is mounted through
supporting plates 51 which are arranged at prescribed intervals
along the direction of the helix of the flight 42.
Into the inside of the hub 41, a feed tube 60 for supplying
the feed stock that extends along the axial direction of the
hub 41 is inserted. The starting end of the feed tube 60 extends
out beyond the hub 41 and the bowl 20, providing a feed stock
supply port 61, and the terminating end of the feed tube 60
is disposed substantially at the center of the inside of the
hub 41, providing a feed stock outlet port 62. Further, into
the inside of the feed tube 60, a cleaning liquid supply tube
71 for supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said
cleaning liquid receiving part 43 is inserted.
The starting end of the cleaning liquid supply tube 71
provides a cleaning liquid supply port 71a which opens
substantially at right angles to the axial direction on the
starting end side of the feed tube 60. In addition, at
intermediate points on the feed tube 60 that are opposed to
the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 in the radial direction
inside of the hub 41, openings 71b of the cleaning liquid supply
tube 71 are opened substantially at right angles to the axial
direction.
Next, the function of the centrifugal separator 10
according to the fourth embodiment will be described.
In FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, the feed stock is supplied to the
inside of the bowl 20 through the feed tube 60 by use of a pump
or other driving source. The feed stock which is fed from the
feed stock supply port 61 of the feed tube 60 comes from the
feed stock outlet port 62 located substantially in the vicinity

of the center inside of the hub 41 of the screw conveyor 40,
filling the bowl 20 to a prescribed level which is preset by
the dam part 26 inside of the bowl 20. The feed stock is subjected
to the action of the centrifugal force inside of the bowl 20,
resulting in the crystals being settled to be separated from
the mother liquid.
The crystals settled onto the inner circumferential surface
of the bowl 20 by the action of the centrifugal force are
conveyed to the tapered part 22 of the bowl 20 by the flight
42 of the screw conveyor 40 which is rotated at a speed slightly
different from that of the bowl 20, and are deliquidized while
being moved on the inner circumferential surface of the tapered
part 22, being brought closer to the axis than the liquid level
preset by the dam part 26, before further being conveyed to
the screen part 30.
The crystals deliquidized on the way of being conveyed have
impurities produced in the process of manufacture thereof, and
the mother liquid itself deposited on their surfaces, and the
crystals which have reached the screen part 30 are cleaned by
the cleaning liquid jet spouted from the cleaning nozzle 45
provided in the hub 41. As the cleaning liquid, pure water,
acetic acid solution, pure phenol solution, sulfuric acid
solution, hydrochloric acid solution, or the like is generally
used, and the cleaning liquid is supplied to the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part 43 provided inside of the hub
41 through the cleaning liquid supply tube 71 which is
separately inserted into the feed tube 60. The cleaning liquid
received by the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 is passed
through the cleaning liquid connection hole 44 in the
circumferential wall of the hub 41 before being jet spouted
from the cleaning nozzle 45.
The crystals are thus subjected to cleaning and
deliquidization in the screen part 30, and further conveyed
toward the discharge port 24, however, in the clearance between
the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42 of the screw
conveyor 40 and the inner circumferential surface of the screen

part 30, a residual layer of crystals is formed. Such residual
layer crystals are directly and locally cleaned by the cleaning
liquid which is jet spouted from the outer circumferential edge
of the flight 42, besides the cleaning provided by said cleaning
nozzles 45.
In other words, the cleaning liquid inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part 43 springs out into the inside of the
bowl 20 also from the plurality of residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid discharge holes 52 which are arranged at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of the
flight 42 in the locations adjacent to the surface 42b on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface
42a of the flight 42. The cleaning liquid which has sprung out
is directly jet spouted toward said residual layer crystals
through the small clearance between the cover flight 50 mounted
along the outer circumferential edge of the surface 42b on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface
42a of said flight 42, and the outer circumferential edge of
the flight 42 without being scattered.
In particular, because the cover flight 50 is mounted, being
provided with a slope with respect to the surface 42b on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface
42a of said flight 42 such that the clearance is gradually
narrowed down from the side closer to the hub 41 to the side
closer to the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42, and
is mounted through the supporting plates 51 which are arranged
at prescribed intervals, as shown in FIG. 9, the cleaning liquid
which springs out from the respective residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid discharge holes 52 can be received in a wide
span, and the received cleaning liquid can be directly and
locally jet spouted toward the residual layer crystals from
a narrow span.
As described above, besides cleaning of the whole of the
crystals by means of the cleaning nozzles 45, the residual layer
object to be treated can be locally cleaned as well in
particular, thus no residual layer crystals are anchored.

resulting in the movability being enhanced, and the
penetrability of the cleaning liquid through the whole of the
crystals during conveying being improved. Therefore, crystal
clogging in the screen part 30 can be prevented; the amount
of the cleaning liquid as that for substitution of the
impurities in the crystals, which is the original application,
can be minimized; and the amount of leakage of the crystals
in the screen part 30 can be minimized.
In the screen part 30, the cleaning liquid which has been
jet spouted from the cleaning nozzle 45 and the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42 is passed through the
filtering medium 31 after cleaning the crystals and the
residual layer crystals, and is discharged from the filtered
liquid discharge holes 25 to the outside of the bowl 20. The
crystals which have been cleaned and deliquidized in the screen
part 30 are discharged from the discharge port 24 to the outside
of the bowl 20, and finally recovered from the crystal discharge
port 15 provided in the casing 11.
FIG. 12 shows a fifth embodiment of the present embodiment.
With a centrifugal separator 10C according to the fifth
embodiment, said cleaning liquid receiving part 43 is provided
with a partition plate 43a which partitions the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part 43 into two or more in the axial
direction in the screen part 30 of said bowl 20 for allowing
a particular cleaning range in said screen part 30 to be
selected. The portions which are the same as those in the fourth
embodiment are provided with the same signs, and a duplicated
description thereof is omitted.
Into the inside of the feed tube 60 which is inserted into
the inside of the hub 41, a cleaning liquid supply tube 71 for
supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of one (the
left-hand portion in FIG. 12) of the compartments produced by
the partitioning plate 43a inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part 43, and a cleaning liquid supply tube 73 for
supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of the other (the
right-hand portion in FIG. 12) of the compartments produced

by the partitioning plate 43a are separately inserted, respectively.
The starting end of the cleaning liquid supply tube 71 provides
a cleaning liquid supply port 71a which opens substantially at right
angles to the axial direction on the starting end side of the feed
tube 60. At intermediate points on the feed tube 60 that are opposed
in the radial direction to one (the left-hand portion in FIG. 12) of
the compartments produced by the partitioning plate 43a inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part 43 inside of the hub 41, openings 71b
of the cleaning liquid supply tube 71 are opened substantially at
right angles to the axial direction.
In addition, the starting end of the cleaning liquid supply tube
73 provides a cleaning liquid supply port 73a which opens
substantially at right angles to the axial direction on the starting
end side of the feed tube 60. At intermediate points on the feed tube
60 that are opposed in the radial direction to the other (the right-
hand portion in FIG. 12) of the compartments produced by the
partitioning plate 43a inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part
43 inside of the hub 41, openings 73b of the cleaning liquid supply
tube 73 are opened substantially at right angles to the axial
direction.
The present embodiment is configured such that a single
partition plate 43a partitions the inside of the cleaning liquid
receiving part 43 into two in the axial direction, however, the
number of partitions is, of course, not limited to two as in this
embodiment, but, for example, two partition plates 43a may be
provided for partitioning the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving
part 43 into three in the axial direction, or three partition
plates 43a may be provided for partitioning the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part 43 into four in the axial direction.
According to such fifth embodiment, the cleaning liquid
may be supplied to the inside of all the compartments of
the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 through the cleaning liquid
supply path 71 and the cleaning liquid supply path 73 separately

provided inside of the feed tube 60 for supplying the feed stock
to the inside of the bowl 20, or the cleaning liquid may be
supplied to the inside of only a part of the compartments.
In such a case, the cleaning liquid is jet spouted toward
the screen part 30 only in the range where it is opposed, in
the radial direction of the bowl 20, to the inside of the
compartment of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 to which
the cleaning liquid has been supplied. Thereby, according to
the types, and the like, of the crystals, the object to be
treated, and the cleaning liquid, the cleaning range in the
screen part 30 can be selected as appropriate.
FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 show a sixth embodiment of the present
invention.
With a centrifugal separator 10D according to the present
embodiment, a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part 46 which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning said
residual layer crystals is provided inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part 43, being partitioned independently of
the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43.
The residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
4 6 is formed by providing a partition which extends by a
prescribed width in the axial direction at both ends of a
cylindrical member over the entire circumference thereof, and
on the bottom side, a connection tube 47 is protruded at
prescribed intervals, the respective connection tubes 47
causing the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part 46 to be fixedly installed with a separation from the inner
circumferential surface of the hub 41 inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part 43.
As shown in FIG. 13, the respective connection tubes 47 are
disposed at prescribed intervals along the direction of the
helix of said flight 42 in the locations adjacent to the surface
42b on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface 42a of the flight 42, and in the circumferential wall
of said hub 41 , residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
discharge holes 52 to which the respective connection tubes

47 are connected are provided. The cleaning liquid inside of
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46
that springs out from the residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid discharge hole 52 is directly jet spouted toward said
residual layer crystals through the clearance between the cover
flight 50 and the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42.
Into the inside of said feed tube 60, a cleaning liquid
supply tube 71 providing a cleaning liquid supply path for
supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part 43, and a residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid supply tube 72 providing a residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid supply path for supplying the cleaning liquid
to the inside of said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving part 46 are separately inserted, respectively.
The starting end of the cleaning liquid supply tube 71
provides a cleaning liquid supply port 71a which opens
substantially at right angles to the axial direction on the
starting end side of the feed tube 60. In addition, at
intermediate points on the feed tube 60 that are opposed to
the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 in the radial direction
inside of the hub 41, openings 71b of the cleaning liquid supply
tube 71 are opened substantially at right angles to the axial
direction.
On the other hand, the starting end of the residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid supply tube 72 provides a residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid supply port 72a which opens
substantially at right angles to the axial direction on the
starting end side of the feed tube 60. In addition, at
intermediate points on the feed tube 60 that are opposed to
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46
in the radial direction inside of the hub 41, openings 72b of
the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply tube 72 are
opened substantially at right angles to the axial direction.
According to the sixth embodiment as described above, the
cleaning liquid which has been supplied to the inside of the
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part 46 passes

through the connection tubes 47 which are provided at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of the
flight 42 in the locations adjacent to the surface 42b on the
side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface
42a of the flight 42, and springs out from the residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes 52 provided in the wall
of the hub 41 of the screw conveyor 40.
The cleaning liquid which has sprung out into the inside
of the bowl 20 can be directly jet spouted toward said residual
layer crystals through the small clearance between the cover
flight 50 mounted along the outer circumferential edge of the
surface 42b on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated
conveying surface 42a of said flight 42, and the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42, without being scattered.
Herein, the cleaning liquid is separately supplied to the
inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part 43 and the inside
of the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
46, which are partitioned from each other, thus the amount of
the cleaning liquid which is jet spouted from the cleaning
nozzles 45 and the amount of the cleaning liquid which is jet
spouted from the small clearance between the cover flight 50
and the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42 can be
separately controlled from the external, which allows both
amounts of the cleaning liquid to be easily adjusted to be set
at an optimum value, respectively, for minimization of the
substitution rate for crystal cleaning and the amount of
leakage.
FIG. 15 and FIG. 16 show a seventh embodiment of the present
invention.
With a centrifugal separator 10E according to the present
embodiment, a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
chamber 54 which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning said
residual layer crystals is provided inside of the hub 41 of
said screw conveyor 40 on one side thereof, being partitioned
independently of said cleaning liquid receiving part 43. In
the present embodiment, the residual layer crystal cleaning

liquid receiving chamber 54 is provided in the extreme portion
of the hub 41.
On the outer circumference of the hub 41, a plurality of
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes 53
are mounted such that they are arranged at prescribed intervals
in the circumferential direction of the hub 41, being extended
along the axial direction of the hub 41 so as to penetrate
through said flight 42, respectively. In the bottom of said
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber 54,
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid connection hole 54a
is bored, and the respective residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid introducing tubes 53 are connected, on one side thereof,
to the inside of the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving chamber 54 through the residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid connection hole 54a, respectively.
The respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
introducing tubes 53 are closed on the other side thereof,
however, at intermediate points on the respective residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes 53, a plurality
of residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes 53a
which are arranged at prescribed intervals along the direction
of the helix of the flight 42 in the locations adjacent to the
surface 42b on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated
conveying surface 42a of said flight 42 are provided.
The cleaning liquid inside of the residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving chamber 54 that springs out from the
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge
holes 53a is directly jet spouted toward said residual layer
crystals from the clearance between said cover flight 50 and
the outer circumferential edge of the flight 42. At an
intermediate point on the feed tube 60 that is opposed to the
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber 54
in the radial direction inside of the hub 41, an opening 72b
of the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply tube 72
is opened substantially at right angles to the axial direction.
According to the seventh embodiment as described above, the

cleaning liquid which has been supplied to the inside of the
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber 54
is introduced into the respective plurality of residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes 53 arranged on the
outer circumference of the hub 41. And, the cleaning liquid
which has been introduced into the respective residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes 53 passes through
the respective plurality of residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid discharge holes 53a which are provided at prescribed
intervals at intermediate points on the respective residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes 53, springing
out into the inside of the bowl 20.
The cleaning liquid which has sprung out into the inside
of the bowl 20 can be directly jet spouted toward said residual
layer crystals through the small clearance between the cover
flight 50 mounted along the outer circumferential edge of the
surface 42b on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated
conveying surface 42a of said flight 42, and the outer
circumferential edge of the flight 42, without being scattered.
Thereby, the cleaning of the object to be treated by said
cleaning nozzles 45 and the cleaning of the residual layer
crystals by the respective residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid introducing tubes 53 can be separately performed, which
allows the respective cleaning liquids to be rendered different
from each other in type and amount of liquid.
Now, the embodiments of the present invention have been
described with reference to the drawings, and according to
these specific configurations, the penetrability of the
cleaning liquid through the crystals, and the movability of
the residual layer crystals can be enhanced. However, the
present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and any
alterations, modifications, and additions within the spirit
and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended
claims are, of course, included in the present invention.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

According to the centrifugal separator pertaining to the
present invention, the cleaning liquid can be directly jet
spouted toward the residual layer object to be treated anchored
to the inner circumferential surface of the screen part from
the outer circumferential edge of the flight of the screw
conveyor, thus the movability of this residual layer is
improved, and the penetrability of the whole of the cleaning
liquid is increased. Therefore, only the residual layer object
to be treated can be locally cleaned to enhance the content
of the liquid in the object to be treated, and thus
solidification of the residual layer can be prevented.
When the cleaning liquid is applied to the whole of the
object to be treated, a part of the object to be treated is
caused to leak in the screen part by the amount which is in
proportion to that of the cleaning liquid passing through the
layer of the object to be treated, and the amount which is in
proportion to the mesh size of the screen part, however, by
jet spouting the cleaning liquid directly toward the residual
layer object to be treated from the outer circumferential edge
of the flight as described above, the solidification of the
residual layer object to be treated is eliminated, and the
penetrability of the cleaning liquid through the object to be
treated during conveying is improved, thus the amount of the
cleaning liquid as that for substitution of the impurities in
the object to be treated, which is the original application,
can be minimized; and the total amount of leakage of the object
to be treated in the screen part can be minimized.


WE CLAIM :
1. A centrifugal separator (10, 10A, 10B) which comprises a
screw conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20) , supports them so as
to be relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated
from a feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20), and
carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet
spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),
wherein
a liquid conduction part for jet spouting at least a part
of the cleaning liquid directly toward the residual layer
crystals formed in the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of the flight (42) of said screw conveyor
(40) and the inner circumferential surface of said screen part
(30) is provided ; and
the tip of at least a part of the cleaning liquid
conduction part is located within 10 mm from the inner surface
of the screen part (30).
2. A centrifugal separator (10, 10A, 10B) which comprises a
screw conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20), supports them so as
to be relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated
from a feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20), and
carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)

of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet
spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),
wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
(46) for receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the
residual layer object to be treated formed in the clearance
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight (42) of
said screw conveyor (40) and the inner circumferential surface
of said screen part (30) is provided inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part (43), being partitioned independently of
the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part (43); and
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid path is formed
along the direction of the helix of said flight (42) for
causing the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) to be directly jet
spouted toward said residual layer object to be treated from
the outer circumferential edge of said flight (42), with no
relation to said cleaning liquid receiving part (43).
3. A centrifugal separator (10, 10A) which comprises a screw
conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20), supports them so as to be
relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a
feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20), and
carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet

spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),
wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
(46) for receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the
residual layer object to be treated formed in the clearance
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight (42) of
said screw conveyor (40) and the inner circumferential surface
of said screen part (30) is provided inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part (43), being partitioned independently of
the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part (43);
in the locations where the inner circumferential edges of
said flight (42) range, a connection tube (47) is provided at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of the
flight (42) on the bottom side of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part (46), and a cleaning liquid
discharge hole (49) which connect to said connection tube (47),
being radially extended from the inner circumferential surface
side of the hub (41) to the outer circumferential edge of the
flight (42) inside the wall of the hub (41) or the flight (42)
of said screw conveyor (40), is provided ; and
the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part (46) is directly jet spouted
toward said residual layer object to be treated from the tip
opening of said respective cleaning liquid discharge holes (49)
which are opened at the outer circumferential edge of said
flight (42) .
4. A centrifugal separator (10B) which comprises a screw
conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20) , supports them so as to be
relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a
feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20), and

carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet
spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),wherein
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
(46) for receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the
residual layer object to be treated formed in the clearance
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight (42) of
said screw conveyor (40) and the inner circumferential surface
of said screen part (30) is provided inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part (43), being partitioned independently of
the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part (43);
in the locations adjacent to the surface (42b) on the side
opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface (42a) of
said flight (42), a connection tube (47) is provided at
prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix of said
flight (42) on the bottom side of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part (46), and in the hub (41) of
said screw conveyor (40), a cleaning liquid connection hole
(48) to which said connection tube (47) is connected is
provided ;
on the surface (42b) on the side opposite to the object-to-
be-treated conveying surface (42a) of said flight (42), a
cleaning liquid discharge pipe (80) which is connected to said
cleaning liquid connection hole (48), extending in the radial
direction from the inner circumferential edge to the outer
circumferential edge of the flight (42), is mounted at

prescribed intervals along the direction of the helix ,of the
flight (42) ; and
the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part (46) is directly jet spouted
toward said residual layer object to be treated from the tip
opening of said cleaning liquid discharge pipe (80).
5. The centrifugal separator (10A) as claimed in claim 3,
wherein, in the tip surface of the outer circumferential edge
of said flight (42), a channel (49a) which consecutively
extends along the direction of the helix of the flight (42) ,
and to which the tip opening of said respective cleaning liquid
discharge holes (49), is connected is formed.
6. The centrifugal separator (10, 10A, 10B) as claimed in any
one of claims 2 to 5, wherein, into the inside of the hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40), a feed tube (60) for supplying the
feed stock that extends in the axial direction of the hub (41)
is inserted ;
a cleaning liquid supply path (71) for supplying the
cleaning liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) is formed inside of said feed tube (60) , and at
intermediate points on the feed tube (60) that are opposed
to said cleaning liquid receiving part (43) in the radial
direction, openings of said cleaning liquid supply path (71)
are provided ; and
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path (72)
for supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46)
is formed inside of said feed tube (60), and at intermediate
points on the feed tube (60) that are opposed to said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) in the radial

direction, openings of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid supply path (72) are provided.
7. A centrifugal separator (10, 1OC) which comprises a screw
conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20), supports them so as to be
relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a
feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20) , and
carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet
spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),
wherein
inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part (43), a
plurality of residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge
holes (52) which are arranged at prescribed intervals along the
direction of the helix of said flight (42) in the locations
adjacent to the surface (42b) on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface (42a) of the flight (42)
of said screw conveyor (40) is provided ;
along the outer circumferential edge of the surface (42b)
on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface (42a) of said flight (42), a cover flight (50) with a
small width that extends in the direction of the helix of the
flight (42) is mounted with a prescribed spacing being given
with respect to the surface (42b) on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface (42a) ; and

the cleaning liquid inside of said cleaning liquid
receiving part (43) that springs out from said residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes (52) is directly jet
spouted toward the residual layer object to be treated formed
in the clearance between the outer circumferential edge of said
flight (42) and the inner circumferential surface of said
screen part (30) through the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of said flight (42) and said cover flight
(50) .
8. The centrifugal separator (1OC) as claimed in claim 7,
wherein said cleaning liquid receiving part (43) is provided
with a partition plate (43a) which partitions the inside of the
cleaning liquid receiving part (43) into two or more in the
axial direction in the screen part (30) of said bowl (20) for
allowing a particular cleaning range in said screen part (30)
to be selected.
9. A centrifugal separator (10D) which comprises a screw
conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20), supports them so as to be
relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a
feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20), and
carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet
spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),wherein

a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part
(46) for receiving the cleaning liquid for cleaning the
residual layer object to be treated formed in the clearance
between the outer circumferential edge of the flight (42) of
said screw conveyor (40) and the inner circumferential surface
of said screen part (30) is provided inside of said cleaning
liquid receiving part (43), being partitioned independently of
the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving part (43);
inside of the locations adjacent to the surface (42b) on
the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface
(42a) of said flight (42), a plurality of connection tubes (47)
are provided at prescribed intervals along the direction of the
helix of said flight (42) on the bottom side of said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46), and in the
hub (41) of said screw conveyor (40) , a plurality of residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes (52) to which
said respective connection tubes (47) are connected,
respectively, are provided ;
along the outer circumferential edge of the surface (42b)
on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface (42a) of said flight (42), a cover flight (50) with a
small width that extends in the direction of the helix of the
flight (42) is mounted with a prescribed spacing being given
with respect to the surface (42b) on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface (42a) ; and
the cleaning liquid inside of said residual layer crystal
cleaning liquid receiving part (46) that springs out from said
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge
holes (52) is directly jet spouted toward said residual layer
object to be treated through the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of said flight (42) and said cover flight
50) .

10. The centrifugal separator (10D) as claimed in claim 9,
wherein,
into the inside of the hub (41) of said screw conveyor
(40), a feed tube (60) for supplying the feed stock that
extends in the axial direction of the hub (41) is inserted ;
a cleaning liquid supply path (71) for supplying the
cleaning liquid to the inside of said cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) is formed inside of said feed tube (60) , and at
intermediate points on the feed tube (60) that are opposed to
said cleaning liquid receiving part (43) in the radial
direction, openings of said cleaning liquid supply path (71)
are provided ; and
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid supply path (72)
for supplying the cleaning liquid to the inside of said
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) is
formed inside of said feed tube (60), and at intermediate
points on the feed tube (60) that are opposed to said residual
layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) in the radial
direction, openings of said residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid supply path (72) are provided.
11. A centrifugal separator (10E) which comprises a screw
conveyor (40) inside of a bowl (20), supports them so as to be
relatively rotatable, separates the object to be treated from a
feed stock supplied to the inside of said bowl (20), and
carries out cleaning and deliquidization of said object to be
treated with a screen part (30) provided along the inner
circumferential surface at one end of the bowl (20), a hub (41)
of said screw conveyor (40) having a cleaning liquid receiving
part (43) for receiving the cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the hub (41) and a cleaning nozzle (45) which jet
spouts the cleaning liquid from the inside of the cleaning

liquid receiving part (43) toward said screen part (30),
wherein,
inside of the hub (41) of said screw conveyor (40) on one
side thereof, a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving chamber (54) which receives the cleaning liquid for
cleaning said residual layer object to be treated formed in the
clearance between the outer circumferential edge of the flight
(42) of the screw conveyor (40) and the inner circumferential
surface of said screen part (30) is provided, being partitioned
independently of said cleaning liquid receiving part (43) ;
on the outer circumference of the hub (41) of said screw
conveyor (40), a plurality of residual layer crystal cleaning
liquid introducing tubes (53) are arranged at prescribed
intervals in the circumferential direction of the hub (41),
being extended along the axial direction of the hub (41) so as
to penetrate through said flight (42), respectively, with one
end of the respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
introducing tubes (53) being connected to the inside of said
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving chamber (54);
at intermediate points on said respective residual layer
crystal cleaning liquid introducing tubes (53), a plurality of
residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge holes (53a)
which are arranged at prescribed intervals along the direction
of the helix of the flight (42) of said screw conveyor (40)
in the locations adjacent to the surface (42b) on the side
opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying surface (42a) of
said flight (42) are provided ;
along the outer circumferential edge of the surface (42b)
on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated conveying
surface (42a) of said flight (42), a cover flight (50) with a
small width that extends in the direction of the helix of the
flight (42) is mounted with a prescribed spacing being given

with respect to the surface (42b) on the side opposite to the
object-to-be-treated conveying surface (42a) ; and
the cleaning liquid which has been introduced in tip.-,- said
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid introducing
tubes (53) from said residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
receiving chamber (54) and which springs out through, said
respective residual layer crystal cleaning liquid discharge
holes (53a) is directly jet spouted toward said residual layer
object to be treated through the clearance between the outer
circumferential edge of said flight (42) and said cover flight
(50) .
12. The centrifugal separator (10, 1OC, 10D, 10E) as claimed in
any one of claims 7 to 11, wherein said cover flight (50) is
mounted, being provided with a slope with respect to the
surface (42b) on the side opposite to the object-to-be-treated
conveying surface (42a) of said flight (42) such that the
clearance is gradually narrowed down from the side closer to
said hub (41) to the side closer to the outer circumferential
edge of the flight (42), and is mounted through supporting
plates (51) which are arranged at prescribed intervals.

A screen bowl type centrifugal separator which can not only
eliminate the problem of the productivity being lowered
resulting from the occurrence of clogging with the crystals in
the screen part, but also minimize the amount of leakage of the
object to be treated in the screen part. Inside of the hub (41)
of the screw conveyor (40), a cleaning liquid receiving part
(43) which receives the cleaning liquid for the cleaning nozzle
(45) is provided. In the cleaning liquid receiving part (43),
a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46)
which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual
layer object to be treated in the screen part (30) is provided,
being partitioned independently of the inside of the cleaning
liquid receiving part (43). The cleaning liquid supplied to the
inside of the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving
part (46) is jet spouted directly toward the residual layer
object to be treated from the outer circumferential edge of the
flight (42) through the residual layer crystal cleaning liquid
path provided along the direction of the helix of the flight
(42), with no relation to said cleaning liquid receiving part
(43) .

Documents:

1412-KOLNP-2005-CORRESPONDENCE.pdf

1412-KOLNP-2005-FORM 27.pdf

1412-KOLNP-2005-FORM-27.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-abstract.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-assignment.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-claims.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-correspondence.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-description (complete).pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-drawings.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-examination report.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-form 1.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-form 18.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-form 3.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-form 5.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-gpa.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-reply to examination report.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-specification.pdf

1412-kolnp-2005-granted-translated copy of priority document.pdf


Patent Number 230167
Indian Patent Application Number 1412/KOLNP/2005
PG Journal Number 09/2009
Publication Date 27-Feb-2009
Grant Date 25-Feb-2009
Date of Filing 20-Jul-2005
Name of Patentee TOMOE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
Applicant Address 9-2, NIHONBASHI 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 FUJIMOTO KOJI 9-2, NIHONBASHI 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO 103-0027
2 ONODERA ATSUSHI C/O TOMOE ENGINEERING CO., LTD. 9-2, NIHONBASHI 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO 103-0027
3 OHASHI JUN C/O TOMOE ENGINEERING CO., LTD. 9-2, NIHONBASHI 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO 103-0027
4 NUMATA MOTOKI C/O MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION SHIROISHI 1-1, KUROSAKI, YAHATANISHI-KU, KITAKYUSHU-SHI, FUKUOKA 806-0004
5 ISOGAI TAKAYUKI C/O MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION SHIROISHI 1-1, KUROSAKI, YAHATANISHI-KU, KITAKYUSHU-SHI, FUKUOKA 806-0004
6 FUKUDA KATSUNORI C/O MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION SHIROISHI 1-1, KUROSAKI, YAHATANISHI-KU, KITAKYUSHU-SHI, FUKUOKA 806-0004
PCT International Classification Number B04B 15/12
PCT International Application Number PCT/JP2003/016873
PCT International Filing date 2003-12-26
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 PCT/JP02/13612 2002-12-26 Japan
2 PCT/JP02/13613 2002-12-26 Japan