Abstract: At a centrifugal separator (21), where separated sediment is thrown out in jets (26) from the rotor (22) of the separator through a determined number of nozzles (1, 2, 3) a sensing means (28) is arranged to be influenced by the respective jet and give off a signal (U), which is a measure of a quantity, e.g. the flow, of the medium of the jet, which signals (U) are given off to an apparatus (38), which is arranged to record the signals (U) and in its turn give off a signal (39, 39A, 39B, 39C), if said quantity of the medium in one or more jets is changed, e.g. if the flow through a nozzle ceases by the nozzle having been blocked or if the flow through a nozzle has increased by the nozzle having been eroded.

Abstract: In a centrifugal rotor having an axially movable slide for opening and closing peripheral outlets from the separating chamber, there is formed a so-called closing chamber between the slide and the rotor body. The closing chamber is charged with operating liquid from the central axis of the rotor through a channel in the rotor. In the passage between the channel and the closing chamber are means by which the hydraulic pressure exerted on the slide from operating liquid in the channel is first reduced or eliminated in connection with discharge of operating liquid from the closing chamber and thereafter is again caused to act for closing of the slide.

Abstract: A centrifugal rotor contains a member slidable axially of the rotor to open and close its peripheral outlets, and on the side of this member opposite from the separating chamber is an operating chamber for receiving liquid to maintain the slidable member in its closing position. Said member is moved to its opening position by draining part of the liquid from the operating chamber, the remaining liquid acting to return the slidable member to its closing position when only part of the material in the separating chamber has been discharged through the peripheral outlets. Means are provided for adjusting the magnitude of the force by which the slidable member is kept in its closing position, thereby enabling adjustment of the amount of material discharged from the separating chamber upon each opening of the peripheral outlets.

Abstract: In a centrifuge rotor having intermittently opening peripheral outlets for discharging separated solids and having a paring chamber with stationary paring means for discharging separated liquid, an arrangement is provided to prevent air from passing into the paring channel when opening of the peripheral outlets causes the liquid level to move radially outward in the rotor. The arrangement includes an annular partition of the rotor which allows liquid flow from its separating chamber to its paring chamber during normal operation but which prevents some liquid in the paring chamber from returning to the separating chamber due to opening of the peripheral outlets, and first and second stationary annular discs coaxial with the rotor and operable while the peripheral outlets are opened to maintain, respectively, a first liquid seal between the separating chamber and the paring channel and a second liquid seal between the paring channel and the atmosphere surrounding the rotor.