Claims
- 1. A rotary tubular drum for separating and cooling castings and molding sand, said drum having a longitudinal centerline and a drum wall substantially a conical part becoming narrower towards the discharge end of closed over the axial length thereof and extending substantially horizontally, means connected to said drum for rotating the same about said centerline, a feed opening means at one axial end of said drum for receiving castings and sand and having a low point at a first radial location with respect to said longitudinal centerline, means for discharging castings and sand separately at the other axial end of the drum, a liner having a foraminous liner part within the drum, said liner part being connected to and merging gradually and without abrupt change of diameter into the closed drum wall at a distance axially remote from said one axial end, said foraminous liner part extending axially toward said other axial end of the drum over more than half the length of the drum, sand raising vanes between the foraminous liner part and the closed drumwall around said liner part, said sand raising vanes extending over part of the length of the liner part, said means for discharging sand comprising an axial downstream end of said closed drumwall including a sand discharge edge concentrated in one short axial zone of the drum and having a low point at a second radial location with respect to said longitudinal centerline, the foraminous liner part decreasing in diameter downstream of said sand raising vanes axially upstream of and up to said sand discharge edge, the liner extending past said sand discharge edge and terminating at a third radial location with respect to said longitudinal centerline and forming said means for discharging castings from the drum, the theoretical maximum sand level in the drum being determined by a straight connecting line between the first radial location and the second radial location, said second radial location being farther from said longitudinal centerline than said first radial location, the straight line intersecting the foraminous liner part at a point before the sand discharge edge so that essentially all of the sand moving through the drum passes through said foraminous liner part before reaching the other axial end of the drum, and the sand raising vanes terminating in the downstream direction at a distance before the intersecting point.
- 2. A drum according to claim 1, wherein said foraminous liner part at the upstream end has a first conical part becoming narrower in the downstream direction from a point of contact with the cylindrical drumwall and joining a cylindrical part of the foraminous liner part, along the outside of said cylindrical part said sand raising vanes being provided, said cylindrical part at its discharge end joining a conical part becoming narrower towards the discharge end of the drumwall for separating sand and castings, the drumwall being cylindrical around said first conical part and around said part with sand raising vanes.
- 3. A drum according to claim 1, wherein the foraminous liner part in the zone of the sand raising vanes is cylindrical and directly joins the cylindrical closed drumwall upstream thereof having the same diameter.
- 4. A drum according to claim 1, wherein the space between the liner end the closed drum wall around it, at least over the greater axial part of the area of the sand raising vanes, has a dimension in radial direction of at least 10 cm and at the most 30 cm.
- 5. A drum according to claim 4, wherein said space has a radial dimension between 1/10 and 1/30 of the inner diameter of the liner in the same plane perpendicular to the axis of the drum.
- 6. A drum according to claim 1, wherein the foraminous liner part is conical over its entire length up to the axial zone of the sand discharge edge, and wherein the closed drumwall around the foraminous liner part is conical at least over the greater part of the length of the sand raising vanes, with the conical part having a cone angle smaller than the cone angle of the foraminous liner part.
- 7. A drum according to claim 1, wherein the foraminous liner part is conical over its entire length up to the axial zone of the sand discharge edge and wherein the closed drumwall around the foraminous liner part is cylindrical over at least the greater part of the axial zone over which the sand raising vanes extend, the sand raising vanes increasing in radial dimension axially towards the sand discharge edge.
- 8. A drum according to claim 1, wherein the conical foraminous liner part has to total cone angle smaller than 45.degree..
- 9. A drum according to any one of claims 1 7, 8, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, wherein the closed drum wall has removable parts for varying the diameter of the
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 06/441,515, filed November 2, 1982 now abandoned.
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