Abstract: A vertical ball mill includes: a rotor, which is axially and radially supported at an upper end; a stator, which radially extends around the rotor, stands in a self-supporting manner and has a lateral surface that is oriented tangentially to the rotor; and a base plate supporting the weight of the stator. The stator includes least two stator segments, which may be separated from one another, stand unsupported in the separated state and may be moved relative to one another; wherein each of the stator segments has, on at least one side edge of a wall which forms the lateral surface, a sealing surface for sealing to the other stator segment, and has, on the bottom edge, a standing surface for sealing to the base plate; wherein the stator segment standing surface weighs on a load-bearing surface of the base plate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus that is an attrition mill for grinding or comminuting ores, mine wastes, and radioactive wastes some of which may comprise metals, which may include uranium and/or cesium and/or mercury and/or thorium and/or rare earth elements. Also disclosed are processes that employ the apparatus for combined grinding and optionally leaching metals from ores and wastes. Some such methods comprise an optional step of grinding and mixing the ore or waste with a solid inorganic base with water addition or with an aqueous inorganic base, follow by a step of grinding and mixing the ore or waste with an aqueous inorganic acid with or without leaching salt addition, to solubilize the metals present in the ore or the waste. The disclosed apparatus and methods, in some embodiments, enable efficient grinding and attrition of ores substrates and mine wastes even without need for grinding media.

Abstract: A running device and method of using the device are disclosed. The device may include a moveable material within an inner chamber of the running device's housing. In operation, a running device may be held in each hand and the runner may thrust both hands downward prior to landing and quickly bring the devices to a vertical stop after landing. Bringing the devices to a vertical stop may cause the moveable material to collide with the housing and increase the force exerted by the runner on the ground. A delay component may delay the peak force exerted by the material against the housing so that the translation of that force to the ground coincides with the peak force that the runner would have exerted against the ground in the absence of the devices.

Abstract: This invention consists of a new analyzer system of the sounds generated in mills that capture the signals issued by the mineral and steel balls cascade that perform grinding. These signals are processed in an embedded system (2) formed by a field programmable gates array (FPGA) and a processor. The system is comprised of an industrial microphone array (1) that captures the sound signals that are converted from analog to digital through and acquisition system (3) specialized in sound signals, processed by a FPGA capable of performing parallel operations at high speed due to the customized hardware developed for this application, and sent to the processor through a high-speed data bus.

Abstract: A kitchen appliance for processing foodstuff includes a housing, a bowl, a bowl lid, and a bail handle. The bowl is removably mountable onto the housing and comprises an upper rim defining a mouth for selectively receiving a rotatable tool within the bowl. The bowl lid is removably mountable onto the upper rim of the bowl and comprises a top wall and a flange depending downwardly therefrom. The bail handle is pivotably affixed to opposing sides of the housing. The bail handle is pivotable between (1) a disengaged position in which the bowl lid may be removed from the bowl and in which the bowl may be removed from the housing and (2) an engaged position in which the bail handle applies downward pressure on the bowl lid to retain the bowl lid on the upper rim of the bowl and to retain the bowl on the housing.

Abstract: A grinding device, comprising a body configured as a hollow barrel having an opening and a first fixing element positioned close to the opening; an inner cap configured to mount to an inner wall of an end close to the opening of the body having a second fixing element corresponding to the first fixing element; wherein an aperture is provided on the inner cap, and a first leak-proof seal is configured to surround the aperture; an outer cover having a second leak-proof seal, wherein the second leak-proof seal engages the first leak-proof seal for leak-proofing; and a grinding element positioned inside the body and capable of moving therein freely; wherein an area of any cross section of the grinding element is bigger than the aperture of the inner cap.

Abstract: A laboratory grinding mill having at least one grinding bowl configured to carry out a rotary movement about its central axis, and designed for conveying a liquid or gaseous medium therethrough. A rotary lead-through device having a stationary part and a movable part is coupled to the movement of the grinding bowl. The stationary part is provided with at least one connection for a stationary conduit, and the movable part is provided with at least one connection with a conduit that leads to the grinding bowl.

Abstract: A vibratory mill principally for the treatment of cement and fly ash, which mill has a grinding chamber (1) with a wall (6, 7) at each of the two ends of the chamber, which mill includes an inlet (2) for material that is to be treated and an outlet (3) at the rear wall (7) of the grinding chamber (1), at the lower part of the grinding chamber, and a first wall (5) inside the chamber at the end at which the outlet (3) is located, which wall (5) is provided with one or several openings (8) at its upper part, which openings allow passage of material that has been sufficiently ground from the grinding chamber to the outlet (3). The inlet (2) is located in the lower part of the grinding chamber (1) at the wall (6) that is opposite to the location of the outlet.

Abstract: A mechano-chemical reactor comprising, driving means extended along one or more parallel axis, a mass made oscillating by the driving means along the direction of a vertical axis and an elastic system for a partial compensation of the inertial forces generated by the oscillating mass. The oscillating mass includes at least one restricted environment loaded with solid and/or liquid substances are loaded in order to be treated by the kinetic energy of milling bodies. The elastic system comprises flexible elements made of a titanium alloy which are either one-dimensional, i.e. a plurality of rectilinear parallel rods, or bi-dimensional, i.e. at least a polygonal plate having two sides parallel to the axis of the driving means. In rest conditions the flexible elements are extended substantially perpendicular to the direction of the oscillations of the mass.

Abstract: A trunnion seal assembly for joining a stationary inlet/outlet box of a ball tube mill to a rotational interior of the ball tube mill includes an outer ring component configured to be mounted to an outer wall of the stationary inlet/outlet box. An inner ring component is joined to the outer ring component substantially concentrically with the outer ring component. A flexible pad seal is configured to be joined to the outer wall of the stationary inlet/outlet box proximate outer ring component. The pad seal includes a first annular sealing surface. A mill head extension ring configured to be joined to a rotational mill head is located proximate to and substantially concentric with the inner ring component. The mill head extension includes a second annular sealing surface sealingly engaged with the first annular sealing surface of the flexible pad seal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for processing milling material and masses in continuous processes, in particular the treatment of fat-containing masses. Milling with one swashplate (1) with a fixed plate or two swash plates (1), conching with swashplates (1) and also, as a final process step, tempering and crystallizing by means of swashplates (1).

Abstract: Methods and arrangements to lyse a biological sample are described. The arrangements comprise a lysis tube containing the sample, one or more electromagnets generating a magnetic field, and one or more permanent magnets inside the lysis tube. The permanent magnets move and lyse the sample when a magnetic field is generated by the electromagnets.

Abstract: A stirred ball mill assembly includes multiple vessels each having a body supporting sets of magnets rotatable with respect to the body. Each vessel defines an enclosed milling chamber, and has a stirring arm assembly extending in the respective enclosed milling chamber and connected for rotation with the respective sets of magnets. The sets of magnets and the stirring arm assembly are completely enclosed within the respective vessel. The vessels are configured to be stacked with one another so that adjacent ones of the sets of magnets are magnetically coupled with one another. A drive motor assembly has another set of magnets magnetically coupled with one of the sets of magnets of the stacked vessels. The drive motor can rotate the stirring arm assemblies within the milling chambers of the milling chambers of the stacked vessels via magnetic coupling of the magnets.

Abstract: Disclosed is a media mixing mill, which is capable of obtaining a high-quality product while ensuring adequate pulverization/dispersion functions. The media mixing mill of the present invention includes a grinding container having a material inlet and a spherical-shaped grinding chamber, an agitating member rotatably installed inside the grinding chamber and in adjacent relation to an inner wall of the grinding container, grinding media contained in the grinding chamber, and a centrifugal-type media-separating member rotatably disposed inside the grinding chamber and in opposed relation to the agitating member.

Abstract: A system and a method for producing a quantified defined portions of powder from at least one biological material at cryotemperature is shown, comprising means for grinding the biological material deposited in at least one first vessel to the powder; means for loosening the powder resulting from grinding the biological material in the first vessel; means for positioning at least one first opening in the first vessel, and means for transferring the quantified defined portions of powder in a plurality of second vessels by using the first opening as a transfer way.

Abstract: A stirring or dispersing device (1), has a hermetically sealed mixing chamber (5), a tool (2), and a drive mechanism (4) located outside of the mixing chamber (5). The tool (2) can be driven around a central shaft in the mixing chamber (5) which has a rod-shaped element (3) for force transmission from the drive mechanism (4) to the tool (2). The rod-shaped element (3) is connected at the entry to the mixing chamber (5) with a diaphragm (6), which is a part of the wall (7) of the mixing chamber (5), and the rod-shaped element (3) can be put into a wobbling movement by the drive mechanism (4), so that its end located in the interior of the mixing chamber (5) performs a rotating movement. The tool is constituted by a number of grinding elements (22) or balls to be introduced into the mixing chamber (5).

Abstract: A sand wheel seal for a grinding mill, which in use is internally disposed within said mill. Preferably the sand wheel seal is integrally formed with a mill throat liner wheel and may be releasably secured to a feed end of said mill. The grinding mill may be any one of a Sag, Ag, Ball or Rod mill.

Abstract: A laboratory vibration grinding mill comprising a circular oscillating drive that operates in at least two dimensions, at least one support, and a respective elongated grinding bowl held in each support. The grinding bowl has a filling of grinding bodies and is provided with frontal grinding bowl bases. The support for a grinding bowl is configured such that a longitudinal axis of the grinding bowl forms an angle of less than 90° with a plane of movement of the circular oscillating drive such that due to movement paths of the grinding bodies in the grinding bowl caused by the inclined position of the grinding bowl relative to the plane of movement of the circular oscillating drive, the frontal grinding bowl bases are incorporated into a size-reduction process as abutment and grinding surfaces.

Abstract: A media grinding mill having a grinding chamber in the shape of a donut or torus within which at least one plow travels along a circular path typically creating one or more pressure regions between the plow and the grinding chamber walls that facilitates the grinding operation. Optional guide vanes positioned on the plows can further control the grinding process.

Abstract: A vial and impactor combination for use in a cryogenic mill is disclosed. The impactor includes a steel or similar core, and a surrounding exterior of polycarbonate or similar inert material. The vial is made preferably of polycarbonate with endcaps also made of polycarbonate.

Abstract: A stirring or dispersing device (1), has a hermetically sealed mixing chamber (5), a tool (2), and a drive mechanism (4) located outside of the mixing chamber (5). The tool (2) can be driven around a central shaft in the mixing chamber (5) which has a rod-shaped element (3) for force transmission from the drive mechanism (4) to the tool (2). The rod-shaped element (3) is connected at the entry to the mixing chamber (5) with a diaphragm (6), which is a part of the wall (7) of the mixing chamber (5), and the rod-shaped element (3) can be put into a wobbling movement by the drive mechanism (4), so that its end located in the interior of the mixing chamber (5) performs a rotating movement. The tool is constituted by a number of grinding elements (22) or balls to be introduced into the mixing chamber (5).

Abstract: Disclosed is a media mixing mill, which is capable of obtaining a high-quality product while ensuring adequate pulverization/dispersion functions. The media mixing mill of the present invention comprises a grinding container having a material inlet and a spherical-shaped grinding chamber, an agitating member rotatably installed inside the grinding chamber and in adjacent relation to an inner wall of the grinding container, grinding media contained in the grinding chamber, and a centrifugal-type media-separating member rotatably disposed inside the grinding chamber and in opposed relation to the agitating member.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multimaterial component or construction, whereby a multimaterial component or construction is manufactured comprising wear resistant material and elastomer material. The invention also includes use of a multimaterial component or construction manufactured with said method.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for combinatorial (i.e., high-throughput) materials research, such as catalysis research, that involves parallel apparatus for simultaneously effecting mechanical treatments such as grinding, mixing, pressing, crushing, sieving, and/or fractionating of such materials are disclosed. The methods and apparatus are useful for mechanically treating catalysis materials and other solid materials, including without limitation, electronic materials such as phosphors, colorants such as pigments, and pharmaceuticals such as crystalline drugs or drug candidates. The simultaneous protocols and parallel apparatus offer substantial improvements in overall throughput for preparing arrays of materials, such as catalysis materials.

Abstract: An object is to provide a particulate matter vibro-fluidizing device capable of circulating particulate matter by vibro-fluidizing the particulate matter in such a manner that granules are homogeneously dispersed over an entire surface as a result of circulating most of particulate matter 3 so that the particulate matter appears at high speed without the necessity of using a fluid such as air or gas, or a medium such as impact balls etc., so that composite processes such as crushing of an agglomerate powder and dispersion, mixing and drying of particulate matter can be carried out directly with respect to the circulating particulate matter without the necessity of a complex mechanical structure.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprises an annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber which is defined by an inner wall of a grinding receptacle and an outer wall of a rotor; and an interior grinding chamber which is defined by an inner wall of the rotor and an outer casing of an interior stator. The grinding chambers are interconnected by a deflection chamber. g<h applies to the radial gap width g of the exterior grinding chamber in relation to the radial gap width h of the interior grinding chamber.

Abstract: Efficient process control of a rotary breaker is dependent upon the rate at which aggregate material is delivered to the rotary breaker. An improved pre-screening apparatus provides enhanced control of the amount of undersized material allowed to bypass the rotary breaker, thus allows some control of feed rate other than the upstream mining conditions. Further, a variable speed drive mechanism allows for enhanced control of the breaking process occurring within the rotary breaker. These improvements allow for the increase in maximum feed rate to an existing rotary breaker or allows for the installation of smaller and more economical original equipment. In addition, an improved discharge mechanism is provided to increase the discharge rates of a breaker without varying size or speed of rotation. These improvements allow for advanced automated process control.

Abstract: A pilot plant scale SAG mill suitable for use in design of a commercial scale SAG mill. The ball mill has a cylindrical outer chamber having flanges at opposed ends. The cylindrical outer chamber contains a removable grinding chamber in the form of a sleeve. The removable grinding chamber has a diameter of 2-5 feet and a ratio of diameter:length in the range of 3:1 to 1:1. The removable grinding chamber contains a plurality of steel balls. The removable grinding chamber extends partly down the length of the cylindrical chamber and has longitudinal lifters attached to the internal surface of the sleeve. The lifters are capable of lifting steel balls located in the removable grinding chamber during rotation of the cylindrical outer chamber. The removable grinding chamber has means at one end for receiving particulate ore from a feed hopper and a removable diaphragm at the opposed end, the removable diaphragm having outlet ports therein for discharge of ground particulate ore into the cylindrical outer chamber.

Abstract: A tumbler for tumbling concrete products comprises a rotatable cylindrical drum having an input end that is slightly elevated relative to an output end. Tire retread strips are placed side-by-side on the radially inner surface of the drum and extend along its length. Clamps having lateral arms extending on either side are engaged with lateral tread grooves on the strips. The clamps are bolted to the drum between adjacent strips thereby securing the strips to the radially inner surface of the drum.

Abstract: A simply and compactly built drive system for a tube mill is provided whose force transmission is no longer threatened by flexures and other deformations of the grinding tube. A one-piece ring gear having a diameter less than or equal to the diameter of the grinding tube is attached to the small diameter end of a discharge cone of the grinding tube.

Abstract: A tubular vessel is loaded with a combination of grinding media and a material to be ground. The vessel is capped to contain the grinding media and material therein. Grinding of the contained material is effectuated by reciprocating the capped vessel in a direction parallel to its longitudinal axis. The grinding media may comprise either a ball or a slug, and may further utilizing a plurality of balls, perhaps of different sizes. To increase volume, a plurality of vessels may be gathered together into a sample holder. The sample holder is them reciprocated in a direction parallel to the axes of the included vessels.

Abstract: A pilot plant scale SAG mill suitable for use in design of a commercial scale SAG mill. The ball mill has a cylindrical outer chamber having flanges at opposed ends. The cylindrical outer chamber contains a removable grinding chamber in the form of a sleeve. The removable grinding chamber has a diameter of 2-5 feet and a ratio of diameter:length in the range of 3:1 to 1:1. The removable grinding chamber contains a plurality of steel balls. The removable grinding chamber extends partly down the length of the cylindrical chamber and has longitudinal lifters attached to the internal surface of the sleeve. The lifters are capable of lifting steel balls located in the removable grinding chamber during rotation of the cylindrical outer chamber. The removable grinding chamber has means at one end for receiving particulate ore from a feed hopper and a removable diaphragm at the opposed end, the removable diaphragm having outlet ports therein for discharge of ground particulate ore into the cylindrical outer chamber.

Abstract: The test mill is a reduced-scale model of an industrial mill used in the mining industry and comprising a rotary shell (10) capable of rotating about its longitudinal and horizontal axis. This shell is capable of containing a certain amount of grinding media and of receiving a certain amount of material to be ground so as to be able to operate under conditions comparable with those of an industrial mill. The shell is divided, in the longitudinal direction, by a perforated transverse partition (24), into a grinding chamber (20) and a measurement chamber (22), the perforations in the partition being sized to hold the grinding charge back and allow the ground matter to pass through, whereas the shell (10) comprises a series of injectors (28) allowing fluid products to be injected into the grinding chamber (20). It is possible to make in-situ and continuous analyses of the pulp in the measurement chamber.

Abstract: There is described a milling machine which has a shell main unit and enables an improvement in the efficiency of crushing ore by uniform distribution of grinding members within the shell main unit and which enables an improvement in the quality of crushed stones by prevention of excessive crushing of ore. The shell main unit includes a first cylindrical section provided on an ore supply side and a second cylindrical section provided on a crushed stone outlet side. The first cylindrical section is tapered such that the inner diameter thereof becomes greater toward the ore supply side, and the second cylindrical section is tapered such that the inner diameter thereof becomes greater toward the ore supply side. The first cylindrical section is tapered with a very small cone angle, and the second cylindrical section is tapered with a cone angle greater than that of the first cylindrical section. The axial center of the shell main unit resides in the first cylindrical section.

Abstract: A mill in a coal-burning utility electrical power generation plant has a rotary drum for pulverizing coal, and has a mill head at an axial end thereof. A stationary divider plate divides the mill head into an entrance receiving coal, and an exit discharging pulverized coal dust. An openable door on the mill head is moveable between a closed position and an open position. The door in the closed position is intersected by the rotational axis of the drum and has a lateral dimension transverse to such axis and greater than the inner diameter of the mill head. The door in the closed position spans the divider plate and closes both the entrance and exit of the mill head. The door in the open position exposes both the entrance and the exit. The divider plate may be removed by withdrawing it axially through the door opening without cutting the divider plate into multiple sub-pieces.

Abstract: A multiple barrel chamber for a media mill where the media mill is used to grind and disperse pigments for paint, coating, ink products, and other pigment-vehicle fluids, as well as grinding and dispersing other particulate matter. More particularly, a three barrel grinding chamber including a lengthwise rotatable shaft in each barrel portion is disclosed. Each shaft includes a disc array overlapping an adjacent disc array. Utilization of variable speed bi-directional motors, preferable independently controlled, to rotate each shaft allows impact, tack-shear, and slurry grinding to be accomplished with one media mill. The grinding efficiencies achieved far exceed those of conventional media mills. Media mill grinding discs are also disclosed.

Abstract: A coal-burning utility electrical power generation plant includes a mill provided by a rotary drum for pulverizing coal. The drum is rotational about an axis and has mill heads at distally opposite axial ends thereof. Each mill head has a cylindrical mill head extension extending axially, and a stationary cylindrical seal ring concentric with the mill head extension and defining an annular gap therebetween. A pair of axially spaced annular seals are provided between the mill head extension and the seal ring, and seal the annular gap therebetween to prevent leakage of coal dust through the annular gap. A spacer is provided between the seals and maintains the seals in axially spaced relation and prevents rolling movement of the seals into the annular interfaces between the spacer and the mill head extension and between the spacer and the seal ring as the mill head extension rotates relative to the seal ring, to prevent coal dust bypass, and leakage to atmosphere.

Abstract: In a nutating machine such as a high intensity comminution machine having a nutating drum (1), a support bearing is provided by pairs of rolling bearing surfaces (6 and 8, and 7 and 9). In order to reduce power requirements and wear, each pair of complementary contact paths traced out by the bearing surface pairs has an equal ratio of (a) the path length of the stationary bearing surface (8, 9) to (b) the path length of the nutating bearing surface (6, 7). In one embodiment, irrotational movement of the nutating element is achieved by having equal path lengths as between the stationary bearing surface and the nutating bearing surface in both pairs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pulverizer which can readily miniaturize a whole pulverization apparatus including the pulverizer and can be used for various purposes such as grinding aggregate or pigments, polishing decorative stones or pinballs, and mixing and stirring liquid of high density. The pulverizer is formed by a hollow rotator rotating with an article to be pulverized introduced inside and a pulverizing medium consisting of a necessary number of members, and pulverizes the article by up-and-down motions of the pulverizing medium as the hollow rotator rotates. The hollow rotator is provided with apertures formed on its outer surface at necessary portions which communicate inside to serve both as inlets and outlets for the article.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a continuous type dispersing apparatus arranged to disperse particle media in a vessel by stirring blades thereof to satisfactorily perform a process for dispersing a material to be dispersed to effectively use energy of the stirring blades to disperse pigment so as to reduce required quantity of the particle media to be discharged, prevent generation of short pass and chocking phenomena, secure safety, obtain excellent crushing efficiency and dispersing efficiency and attain economical advantage.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprises an annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber, which is defmed by an inner wall of a grinding receptacle and an outer wall of a rotor and an interior grinding chamber, which is defined by an inner wall of the rotor and an outer jacket of an interior stator. The grinding chambers are interconnected by a deflection chamber. Allocated to the interior stator is a separating device which comprises inner annular disks rotatingly drivably coupled with the rotor and outer annular disks non-rotarily connected to the interior stator.

Abstract: A double barrel chamber for a media mill where the media mill is used to grind and disperse pigments for paint, coating, ink products, and other pigment-vehicle fluids, as well as grinding and dispersing other particulate matter. Centered in each barrel is a rotatable shaft. On each shaft are a number of horizontally spaced discs. The shafts are parallel and arranged such that the edges of the discs overlap to cause major impacting and mixing in the central portion of the chamber when the shafts are rotated in a common direction. Also disclosed is a coiled cooling water jacket system for cooling a chamber. The system allows 100%, or near 100%, recovery of cleaning solvent, limits potential damage to a pumping system and allows slurry feeding flexibility. A special bearing seal section is disclosed which allows use of a diaphragm pump.

Abstract: A pulverizer for pulverizing a product has a container and at least one working part within the container, which may contain a pulverizing medium. At least one of (1) an inner liner of the container, (2) an outer shell of the working part and (3) an outer shell of the pulverizing medium is formed from a composite ceramic material containing aluminum oxide material as a main component, and zirconium oxide material in an amount of 15-40 wt. %. At least one of Y.sub.2 O.sub.3 and CeO.sub.2 is present in the zirconium oxide material in an amount of 0.1-5 mol %. A pulverizer may comprise at least one of a working part of the pulverizer and a container having a Vickers hardness (Hv) of 1300 kgf/mm.sup.2 or higher, and a pulverizing medium whose Vickers hardness (Hv) is 100-600 kgf/mm.sup.2 lower than that of the Vickers hardness of said at least one of the working part and the container member.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprises an annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber, which is defined by an interior wall of a grinding receptacle and an outer wall of a rotor, and an interior grinding chamber, which is defined by an inner wall of the rotor and an outer jacket of an interior stator. The grinding chambers are connected with each other by a deflection chamber. The exterior grinding chamber is equipped with agitator elements, whereas the interior grinding chamber is smooth-walled, free from agitator elements. The cross-sectional surface of the exterior grinding chamber considerably exceeds the cross-sectional surface of the interior grinding chamber.

Abstract: An agitator mill for flowable mill charge grinding, has a fixed, outer, cylindrical grinding container, to which is coaxially fitted in spaced manner a cylindrical inner stator. A rotary driven, cup-shaped rotor is positioned coaxially to the grinding container and engages in the grinding area formed between the grinding container and the inner stator, so that the grinding area is subdivided into an outer grinding area and an inner grinding area, the grinding areas being interconnected hydraulically by means of a connecting area. A discharge device located within the inner stator is connected in the flow direction to the inner grinding area. A rotary, cylindrical separating screen is positioned coaxially to the rotor between the end of the inner grinding area and the discharge device.

Abstract: A conical gyratory mill for regrinding, milling or fine pulverization of materials, having a milling media, such as milling balls, located in the milling space between a milling bowl and a milling head. The material to be milled is introduced into the top of the milling space and is milled as it descends through the milling space by interaction with the milling balls, milling bowl and head. A fluid is introduced at the bottom of the milling space and is discharged at the top of the milling space, carrying with it material which has been milled to the desired degree of fineness.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprises a grinding receptacle with a cylindrical inside wall which is free from any openings whatsoever. All the openings needed for operation, in particular a separating device joined to a grinding-stock discharge line and, if required, a refill opening for auxiliary grinding bodies, are disposed in a bottom which is releasably connected with the grinding receptacle.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a high energy oscillating ball mill, useful in the preparation of nanophase materials having crystallite sizes of the order of 5 to 20 nm, with high production capacity and consisting of a grinding jar (containing, in the working conditions, the grinding balls and the materials charge to be processed) driven in an alternate regime of motion. Such a grinding jar is elastically constrained in such a way that the inertial forces originated during the oscillations are compensated.

Abstract: A continuous flow, rotary processing apparatus for horizontal transport of material at a predetermined rate. Material from an infeed conveyor enters a continuous system including at least one rotary drum operating about a horizontal axis. Each drum has a perforated circumferential wall with lateral lifters to induce flow and tumbling motion to the enclosed material. A flow control mechanism at the discharge end of each drum controls residence time of the material being processed. Material is fed and discharges from each drum through axial openings in which the flow control devices are mounted.

Abstract: A horizontal mill for ultra-fine pulverization which has enhanced pulverization characteristics and reduced power consumption while suppressing damage or wear of pulverizing media. The pulverizing media (balls) are provided in a pulverizing chamber defined by a space between an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder which are rotated relative to each other. Large diameter pulverizing media are used and the rotational speed is kept at a low level, which is opposite to the conventional theory of using small diameter media and high rotational speeds. Since the rotational speed is low, the corresponding wear of the pulverizing media is reduced. The degradation in pulverizing performance due to the low rotational speed may be recovered by using large diameter pulverizing media. Also, the dimensional ratio between the inner and outer cylinders, the interval between the inner and outer sleeves, and the axial interval between agitating vanes are suitably selected to enhance the mill performance.