Shiftable bottom wall for separator bowl and wear shoe therefor

摘要

A centrifuge for continuously separating a lubricating liquid from lubrication-impregnated metal chips. A motor having a drive shaft thereon is mounted so that the drive shaft is drivingly coupled to a substantially bell-shaped centrifugal separator bowl having a bottom wall and an outwardly widening conical portion. The separator bowl is formed with openings intermediate the top edge and bottom wall for discharge of the liquid therethrough. A plurality of blades may be mounted on the separator bowl adjacent the top edge and are movable therewith for effecting a movement of air into an annular collecting structure from the air inlet and out through the outlet duct to effect an entrainment of the metal chips in the air movement for discharge out through the outlet duct. The bottom wall of the separator bowl has a bottom wall liner with a plurality of radially extending blades thereon on top thereof. The bottom wall liner is fixedly maintained relative to the conical wall structure but is angularly shiftable relative thereto either manually or in response to the blades engaging extraordinarily large pieces of metal, such as rod ends or the like.