In order to provide an automatically operating cooling air regulating
device for a grate cooler for cooling hot bulk material such as cement
clinker, for example, which can be constructed easily and can be used
without problems both for non-moving and also in particular for moving
cooling grate regions or moving cooling grate systems, a regulating
device with a regulator housing which is arranged below the cooling
grate, performs its movements with it and is flowed through by the
cooling air supplied is proposed according to the invention, an inner
body which can be moved translatorily by the cooling air flow being
guided displaceably in the regulator housing and the free flow cross
section of the regulator housing remaining for the cooling air being
reduced automatically with increasing height inside the regulator housing
of the inner body against which the cooling air flows, and vice versa.