Lifting element for pipe coolers for material produced at least partially in lumps

A lifting element for particulate material ranging in size between large lumps and small particles, said lifting element being mountable on the interior of a rotary shell of means for cooling said particulate material, said lifting element including a mounting portion which can be fixed to the rotary shell and a carrier portion connected to said mounting portion and extending essentially perpendicularly inward of said rotary shell, said carrier portion having at least one aperture passing therethrough and said aperture being of sufficiently large dimension so that smaller particles or particulate material pass through said aperture to prevent the lifting of said smaller particles by said carrier portion so that said carrier portion lifts substantially only large portions of said particulate material in response to rotation of said rotary shell and wherein the carrier portion is of fork-like construction, including at least two tines connected to and extending outwardly from said mounting portion and between which said aperture is located.