Patent attributes
A drying device for a mixture of a liquid and one or more solids, having a receiving container for the mixture, a rotor that is situated with one section of its circumference in the receiving container, and a drive device for rotatively driving the rotor, the rotor having a plurality of flat entrainment elements, characterized in that the entrainment elements have a radial orientation with respect to a rotational axis of the rotor, wherein at least some of the entrainment elements have a configuration in which relatively narrow entrainment elements alternate with relatively wide entrainment elements in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and/or at least some of the entrainment elements are provided with a plurality of through openings.