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HUDSON-BOUCHER AUTOMATIC SHALE SEPARATOR
The Hudson-Boucher Automatic Shale Separator is of On top of the housing a manifold is provided for the
unique design, and entirely different from any other introduction of steam and water to thoroughly clean both
machine which has been introduced for the separation of the screen and cuttings. This feature provides for the
cuttings and other foreign matter from drilling fluid. salvage of much useful mud that ordinarily clings to the
Operated by the gravity flow of the drilling fluid against cuttings and is lost forever.
turbine blades, the machine requires no other motive The extreme simplicity of design and construction are
power. Unlike the conventional "shaker" type of separator, outstanding features of the Hudson-Boucher Automatic
the Hudson-Boucher machine effects complete separation Shale Separator. With but one moving part, it seldom
by the rotation of the screen unit as the fluid passes requires adjustment, repairs or new parts. It may truly
through. Clean mud passes through the screen, down into be said that the "first cost is last cost,"
the return trough, while cuttings are discharged out the
open end of the screen cylinder.
The turbine shaft is mounted on roller bearings which BOXED FOR EXPORT
are fully sealed off against the entrance of fluid. Length Overall 11' -6"
The screen proper is 6'0" long and may be adjusted Width OvuraH S' -6"
to proper tension by manipulation of the adjusting bars Height Overall 4'-8"
which run the length of the screen. At normal" adjustment Net Weight 1150 Ib,
St rotates at 50 r. p. m. Gross Weight 1750 Ib.