APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING AND REMOVING SUSPENDED MATTER

PURPOSE:To permit continuous operation and to achieve cost reduction, by a rotating process of a vessel filtering a liquid during, removing the remaining suspended matter and effecting the filtration by harnessing the own weight of water. CONSTITUTION:While a vessel 1 charged with a liquid at a liquid charging station 11 is rotated along a travel rail 9 by a support arm 6, the liquid fraction in the vessel 1 is flowed, by a filtration action due to its own weight, out of the bottom through a filter mechanism into grooves, and suspended matter remains on a filter cloth 4 and discharged outside the vessel by spontaneous drop as a hook 14 is disengaged at a suspended matter discharging station 12 to open a cover 2. When the cover 2 is closed again to engage the hook 14, the vessel 1 is brought to the station 11 and receives the next liquid charge. While many vessels 1 are brought successively and continuously to the station 11, the suspended matter is brought to the station 12, so that the continuity of operation is attained and cost reduction due to filtration by it own weight can be achieved.