Centrifuge for separating solids from liquids

A centrifugal separator comprising a rotor mounted for rotation about an axis and including two axially united and interconnected parts forming between them a separating chamber, the rotor having a central inlet for a mixture of liquid and solid particles and having a central outlet for separated liquid, the rotor also having several peripheral outlets being constituted by channels extending through the rotor from the radially outermost part of the separating chamber to the outside of the rotor body, each said channel having a discharge opening at the outside of the rotor body, means movable axially to and from sealing contact with the outside of the rotor body to close and open said channels, said means including areas which, when in sealing contact with the outside of the rotor body, exert on opposite sides of each discharge opening a sealing force substantially parallel to the rotor axis, one of said rotor parts being constituted by a bowl formed in one piece and provided with an edge portion directed radially inward, the other rotor part having a substantially smaller diameter than the bowl part and being connected therewith at said edge portion, the chamber-surrounding portion of the bowl part, including said edge portion, having a form which, as seen in an axial section through the rotor, is substantially the axial section form of a hollow conical body.