(under the class definition) Apparatus comprising a driven rotating runner* comprising a hollow rotating fluid receptacle (e.g. drum, cylinder) having an inlet port or passage at or near its axis of rotation and an outlet port in its peripheral wall, the rotary motion of said receptacle causing the fluid to be inducted through the inlet port or passage into the interior of the receptacle and to leave said receptacle through the outlet port.
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494, Imperforate Bowl: Centrifugal Separators, appropriate subclasses, for apparatus and process for breaking up a mixture of fluids or fluent substances into two or more components by centrifuging within a generally solid-walled, receptacle-like member.
