Abstract: In method for the dewatering of naturally moist, coarse lump peat or of a similar material, the material is continuously fractured into particles to approximately 2-3 cm diameter and is dispersed onto a lower screen belt. With the leading in of a provided upper screen belt the material is conveyed between the two screen belts through a preliminary dewatering zone, where at a pressure which is only given through the tension of the screen belts in a loop on at least one pair of rolls, a homogeneous filter cake is produced. The latter is pressed in a subsequent dewatering zone of a number of pairs of nip rolls at a pressure increasing along the zone between screen belts, whereby in each case between the screen belt and the nip roll a pressure belt, equal in width to the screen belt, is carried long, consisting of an elastic, watertight material, but which is designed to receive and carry away the filtrate and to stabilize the material which is to be pressed.

Abstract: In a device for the dewatering of naturally moist lump peat in natural obtained state and without flocculation agent through pressing, to obtain a natural composition, in terms of particles, of the dewatered product it is proposed that a system is integrated into the device, which has means (1,2,3,4,5) for the collection of the fluid pressed out via screens (31,32) and of the used water for the cleaning of the screens at their points of accumulation, for the static filtering (6,7) of the collected suspension, for the mixing together (30) of the fraction, separated there and condensed, with the fresh material which is to be treated and pressed by the device (34), for the guidance (11) of a portion of the filtrate separated there, essentially of a particle-free water, for the cleaning (12) of the screens (31,32) and for the removal (10) out of the device of a surplus portion of the separated filtrate exceeding the requirement of this cleaning.