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US 5,768,987 AGranted
Device for clearing the surface of a drum press
AssigneeFinbark Oy
InventorTimo Tapio Saalasti
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Abstract
The invention relates to a drum press comprising a device for clearing the inner surface of the drum or the outer surface of the roll. The drum is usable for instance for squeezing moist bark so as to make it suitable as a fuel. The drum press has a removing device placed at a distance from the drum or roll surface for removing material. The removing device is placed at a distance from the surface and on the surface there is provided a clearing device attached thereto. The present invention markedly reduces wear on the drum.
Claims10
A drum press which comprises:
- a rotating drum having an inside surface,
- a rotating press roll mounted within the rotating drum,
- removing means fixedly mounted within the rotating drum to form a gap between the removing means and the inside surface of the rotating drum for removing material from the drum surface, and
- clearing means mounted to the inside surface of the rotating drum for clearing the gap between the removing means and the inside surface of the drum.
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A drum press which comprises:
- a rotating drum having an inside surface,
- a rotating press roll mounted within the rotating drum,
- removing means fixedly mounted within the rotating drum to form a gap between the removing means and the inside surface of the rotating drum for removing material from the drum surface, and
- clearing means mounted to the inside surface of the rotating drum for sweeping away the material from the removing means clearing the gap between the removing means and the inside surface of the drum.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.