Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing device for centrifuge, wherein the shaft of the centrifuge is supported by two elementary bearing support bodies mounted elastically on the frame independently of each other by elastic blocks and sleeves. Each body is fixed to a sleeve, these two sleeves, oriented towards each other, being connected by an elastic sheath so as to form a sort of hermetic oil chamber. The shaft drive pulley is of diameter less than that of the openings of the frame which surmount it, so that the assembly composed of the rotating pieces and the bearing arrangement can be extracted through the top by removing some screws, without actual dismantling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a centrifuge with a turbine system for hydraulic control and the like, wherein the system comprises an annular member having a groove mounted to slide in a housing hollowed in the lower face of the bowl 4, this groove member being fast with a support wedged on the conical bearing surface of the shaft. The liquid arrives through the ports in a plate whose ports discharge into the groove. The liquid injected in 14 raises a movable bowl member and uncovers the ports for draining the sludge from the bowl. By overflow, a drain valve is suppled of the groove into another hydraulic path with liquid to open the bowl. The bowl 4 may thus be withdrawn from the shaft by being lifted without dismantling of its lid. The invention is applicable to centrifuges with hydraulic controls.

Abstract: A centrifugal separator including a bowl rotatable about an axis having a bottom and a cover separated by an intermediate flange portion having an annular row of discharge openings, a hollow piston-like member in the bowl axially moveable between a position in which it is sealed against the cover and a position in which it is retracted from the cover and communicates with said discharge openings, a liquid control system for moving the piston-like member between said axial positions while the bowl is rotating, and an hydraulic seal system including an annular gutter-shaped member around the inside of said intermediate flange portion and containing a dense sealing liquid such as mercury and an annular sealing member extending from the periphery of the piston-like member into the gutter-shaped member and sealed therewith by the sealing liquid, the sealing liquid and the control liquid interfacing near the gutter-shaped member and effecting a balance therebetween due to gravitational and centrifugal forces acting