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Abstract

An improved continuous centrifugal machine includes a rigid base structure, a bearing housing, a normally vertical basket shaft journalled for rotation on bearings in the bearing housing, an upwardly open frusto-conical centrifugal basket secured to the upper end of the basket shaft for rotation therewith, a stationary curb wall mounted on the base structure and surrounding the basket, buffering assemblies for resiliently mounting the bearing housing on the base structure to permit gyration of the basket, and a motor mounted to one side of the curb wall and connected by an improved system to the lower end of the shaft for rotating the basket. In accordance with improvements in the machine an annular support ring is mounted on the base structure within the curb wall and has an upwardly facing surface. An annular chambering unit formed as an integrated structure and supported on the support ring in space between the side wall of the basket and the curb wall includes an annular base wall having an upwardly facing surface supported and seated on the support ring, horizontally spaced outer and inner annular partitions mounted on and projecting upwardly from the base wall and having their respective upper ends disposed adjacent to the upper and lower ends of the side wall of the basket. A floor partition extends between the annular partitions above the base wall and with the annular partitions forms a liquid collecting chamber outside and beneath the side wall. The buffering assemblies are fixed to portions of the base wall and located radially inwardly of the support ring so that the buffering assemblies, the chambering unit, the bearing housing and the basket can be assembled as a unitary structure that as a unit is liftable from and replaceable on the support ring.

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