Local Application Within Comminuting Zone Patents (Class 241/57)
  • Patent number: 10974251
    Abstract: A pulverizing device includes: a housing; a pulverization table configured to rotate inside the housing; and a throat, disposed inside the housing on a radially outer side of the pulverization table, for forming an upward air flow. The throat includes: an inner ring extending along an outer periphery of the pulverization table; an outer ring, disposed on a radially outer side of the inner ring so as to form an annular flow passage between the inner ring and the outer ring; and a plurality of throat vanes disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring. The following expressions are satisfied: 2.0?L/d?4.0; and 0.5?H/d?1.5, where H is a gap between the inner ring and the outer ring with respect to a radial direction, L is a length of the throat vanes, and ā€˜dā€™ is a distance between adjacent two of the throat vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kashima, Shinji Matsumoto, Kosuke Kitakaze, Yasuhito Onishi, Hiroaki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 10888867
    Abstract: A crushing device and a method for crushing materials therewith. The crushing device includes a jaw crusher having two jaws, wherein at least one jaw moves reciprocally toward the other jaw and away from the other jaw when in use, a supply device for supplying material to be crushed to the jaw crusher, and a discharge device for discharging crushed material. The crushing device includes a housing that encloses the jaw crusher, a ventilation device provided with air outlet openings that open into the crushing space, by means of which ventilation device air can be blown under pressure between the jaws of the jaw crusher device, and an exhaust device, which exhausts air mixed with fine material produced by the jaw crusher from the housing. The exhaust device is configured to convey the fine material mixed with the air to a collecting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: OIJENSE BOVENDIJK B.V.
    Inventor: Koos Jacobus Schenk
  • Patent number: 9114400
    Abstract: A grinding type vertical grain milling machine is capable of shortening a dimension of a machine body in the vertical direction and removing bran by evenly suctioning an entire bran removing chamber. The grinding type vertical grain milling machine includes a bran removing metallic mesh cylinder with a main shaft, an integral grinding type grain milling roll body, a bran removing chamber, and a bran discharge pipe that discharges bran to the outside of the machine. A fan-pulley is provided between the bran removing chamber and the bran discharge pipe. The fan-pulley rotationally drives the main shaft to which the grinding type grain milling roll is axially attached and generates a bran removing wind to convey bran produced by the grain milling action of the grinding type grain milling roll from the bran removing chamber toward the bran discharge pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Seto, Kazunobu Kajihara, Kazuto Nonaka, Yasunori Koike, Koji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9067212
    Abstract: A mill includes a grinding chamber, a rotating shaft located in the grinding chamber, a rotating body structured to have a rotary member fixed to the rotating shaft, a casing provided to form an outer shell of the grinding chamber, an inlet arranged to supply a solid-gas two-phase flow K containing particles and a gas to the grinding chamber, and an outlet arranged to discharge the solid-gas two-phase flow K? from the grinding chamber. A cylindrical frame member having an inner peripheral surface formed in a corrugated shape is located in the casing. The solid-gas two-phase flow K supplied via the inlet into the grinding chamber is circled in the grinding chamber, while being accelerated by the rotating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: TSUKASA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumio Kato
  • Patent number: 8967503
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for comminuting refrigeration appliances (12), in which the refrigeration appliances (12) are introduced into the comminution chamber (16) through a supply opening (14) of a comminution chamber (16), are continuously comminuted in the comminution chamber (16), and comminuted refrigeration appliance material (24) is discharged from the comminution chamber (16) through a discharge opening (26) of the comminution chamber (16), the comminution chamber (16) is flushed with air in that, per time unit, a predetermined volume (L1) of the air which is present in the comminution chamber (16) and which is enriched with process gases which occur during comminution of the refrigeration appliances (12) is supplied to the gas processing means (34) through a gas conveying line (32) which is connected in a gas conveying manner to the discharge opening (26) and a gas processing means (34), and a volume of air (L4) corresponding to that predetermined volume (L1) is supplied to the comminution c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: BHS-Sonthofen GmbH
    Inventors: Angelo Schmandra, Christopher Dreschsel
  • Patent number: 8960578
    Abstract: A high impact pressure processor comprises of a piston. The piston comprises of a piston seal, a piston cap, a piston shaft, and a plurality of vent holes. The piston seal, located at an end of the piston shaft, seals out air from a container of a food processor or blender. This enables high impact pressure to be placed on the ingredient(s) in the container, thus creating smoother and thicker mixtures of ingredient(s). The plurality of vent holes allows air into container when needed, but are easily sealed off with the piston cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Warren Shawn Byrne
  • Patent number: 8905336
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for comminution of mill feed, in particular for the cement industry, wherein the grinding material is subjected in a mill, in particular an air swept roller mill, to a grinding-drying with supply of a hot gas, is classified and fed as a dust-gas mixture to a filter for dust separation. In order to improve the energy balance and to save heat energy which is generated using a hot gas generator it is provided that fresh gas or fresh air, which is admixed for removal of the moisture of the grinding material in a predefinable portion to the recirculated hot gas or process gas, is preheated before admixing. The preheating of the fresh gas takes place in a heat exchanger through transfer of the heat energy of the process gas to be removed which is then discharged at a lower temperature to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: LOESCHE GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Buchanenko
  • Patent number: 8900415
    Abstract: A process and a unit for fluidized bed torrefaction and grinding of particles of a biomass with a largest dimension of 2 cm to 5 cm, and which unit contains an envelope having a general shape of a sector having a) two substantially vertical walls delimiting that sector; and b) at least one inclined wall defining three zones, from bottom to top: a lower zone provided with a fluidization means, and provided with a grinder placed at the bottom of that zone; an intermediate zone (2) provided with a fluidization means; and an upper zone (3) provided with a fluidization means; and a pipe (11) for introducing the particles reaching into the unit to the level of the intermediate zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Matthieu Rolland, Sylvain Louret
  • Patent number: 8844848
    Abstract: A waste disposal apparatus, for disposing of waste materials using aerobic decomposition, includes a decomposition chamber having a waste inlet for receiving waste materials, and a closure member for closing the inlet and sealing the decomposition chamber. The apparatus includes a stirrer for stirring waste materials in the chamber, and a waste outlet for discharging waste materials from the chamber after aerobic decomposition thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Peter Sage-Passant
  • Publication number: 20140231555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for grinding mill material and to a roller mill and is suited in particular to a finest grinding of relatively hard and dry materials, for example cement clinker and granulated blast furnace slag and also for relatively large roller mills. In order to avoid mill vibrations due to over-grinding of the mill material and to reduce the specific work requirement as well as increasing the throughput a fine material nozzle is arranged after each grinding roller, from which fine material nozzle an air jet with defined impulse is directed from above onto a fine material concentration zone. The fine material concentration zone is formed directly after the grinding zone of each grinding roller and is virtually free of supplied material to be ground and accumulated on a retention rim region. The fine material blown outwards and upwards is fed to a rising conveying air flow and subsequent classifying process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: LOESCHE GMBH
    Inventors: Andre Baetz, Michael Keyssner, Joerg Langel, Michael Triebs
  • Patent number: 8800901
    Abstract: A pulverizer includes a cutting rotor with a multiplicity of cutting blades, a cutting stator surrounding the cutting rotor with a plurality of stator blades, a milling stock inlet for the milling stock feed and a discharge screen in direction of rotation of the cutting rotor located after the milling stock inlet, wherein all stator blades in direction of rotation of the cutting rotor are arranged between the milling stock inlet and the discharge screen. Furthermore, an operating method for a pulverizer as described above is also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Netzsch-Condux Mahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Nied, Wolfgang Rohmann, Hermann Sickel, Thomas Becker
  • Publication number: 20140209723
    Abstract: A device for comminuting media materials that store sensitive information. The device is a rotating mill core with removable flat edged blades, a set of stacked bed knives and a screen. The mill core rotates in close proximity to the bed knives to shear the material being fed, and in close proximity to the screen in order to grate the material. A flywheel is attached to the mill core in order to conserve rotational energy and improve the efficiency of the device. A knurled roller is installed in the device that feeds the material into the knife mill as well as holds the material steady during the initial shear. Vacuum ports facilitate cleanup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: PHISTON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: M. Ali Ebadian, Jose Luis Rivero De La Guarda, JR., Allen C. Cuadra, Ryan D. Ortiz
  • Patent number: 8727246
    Abstract: In a process for producing a particulate polysaccharide derivative by dry-grinding a moist polysaccharide derivative the median length of the particles after dry-grinding is controlled by controlling the moisture content of the polysaccharide derivative prior to dry-grinding. Advantageously the median length of the particles after dry-grinding is adjusted to a first value by a first moisture content of the polysaccharide derivative prior to dry-grinding and is adjusted to a second value by a second moisture content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yvonne M. Goerlach-Doht, Juergen Hermanns
  • Patent number: 8727249
    Abstract: A roller mill for grinding particulate material such as for example cement raw materials, cement clinker and similar materials, said roller mill comprising a mill housing enclosing a grinding table and a set of rollers rotatable about a vertical shaft. The set of rollers are configured for interactive operation with the grinding table and comprising a number of rollers each rotating about a roller shaft which is connected to the vertical shaft via a hinged connection with a center of rotation which allows a free circular movement of the roller in upward and downward direction in a plane comprising the centerline of the roller shaft. The center of rotation of the hinged connection in a vertical plane is located under the centerline of the roller shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Bent Horning, Alexander Helm
  • Patent number: 8720806
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Retsch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Reinhold Mahler
  • Patent number: 8714469
    Abstract: A device for comminuting bulk charge stock with a housing surrounding a rotational axis. The housing has a first front wall, a second front wall plane parallel at an axial distance and a shell wall connecting the first front wall and second front wall on the circumferential side, which together form a comminuting chamber. A comminuting system rotating about the rotational axis is arranged in the comminuting chamber, which comminuting system has first comminuting tools and second comminuting tools interacting therewith, which form a concentric comminuting zone for charge stock. In order to cool the comminuting zone effectively and economically, a cooling channel is provided, which surrounds the shell wall outside in the plane of the comminuting chamber, wherein the cooling channel has an entry opening for charging with cooling gas and an exit opening for the discharge of the cooling gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Patent number: 8684289
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a substrate and first and second disks. The disks are rotatably located over the substrate, each disk having an outer circumference with teeth thereon. The first disk is positioned to interleave one or more of its teeth with the teeth of the second disk. The substrate includes a channel with an exit port located near the teeth of one of the disks. Another apparatus comprises at least one disk rotatably located over a substrate and in a well of the substrate, the disk having an outer circumference with teeth thereon. The disk is positioned to provide a maximum distance of less than about 10 microns between each one the teeth and a nearest wall defining the well. The substrate includes a channel with an exit port located near the teeth of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Thomas N. Krupenkin, Paul Kolodner, Joseph Ashley Taylor
  • Patent number: 8616478
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the treatment of a material in the form of fragments or particles which is moved and/or rotated, mixed, heated and, if appropriate, comminuted by at least one mixing element (12, 21) in a receiver or cutter-compactor (1), where, in the course of the process, undesired substances which impair the treatment of and/or further operations on the material are removed from the material by introducing a gas, in particular air or an inert gas, in a region below the level of the material located in the receiver (1) during its operation, or below the level of material of the mixing vortex which forms within the receiver (1), where the gas is forced to flow through at least a subregion of the material, and where the gas then saturated with, or with an increased concentration of, undesired substances is discharged from the receiver (1) in a region above the level of the material located in the receiver (1) during its operation or above the level of the material of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Georg Weigerstorfer, Klaus Feichtinger, Peter Pauli
  • Patent number: 8528844
    Abstract: A roller mill for grinding particulate material such as cement raw materials, cement clinker and similar materials includes a mill housing, a substantially horizontal and stationary grinding table, and a number of rollers each rotating about a roller shaft which is connected to a rotatable vertical shaft centrally positioned relative to the stationary grinding table. The rollers are configured for interactive operation with the grinding table. The grinding table is stationary. The roller mill also includes at least one first device utilized for introducing gases into the mill housing and at least one second device for continuously diverting ground material suspended in gases out of the mill housing. As a consequence hereof, the process for the roller mill with a stationary grinding table will be continuous and the diameter of the grinding table will not be subject to limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Bent Horning, Alexander Helm
  • Publication number: 20130199424
    Abstract: A device and method for producing a fine-grained fuel, in particular from solid, paste-like or aqueous energy feed stocks, by drying and crushing, including an impact reactor having a rotor and impact elements, a labyrinth seal in the region of the rotor shaft of the impact reactor, a device for feeding hot drying gas through the labyrinth seal into the impact reactor and at least one further feed device for hot drying gas in the bottom region of the impact reactor, a feed device for solid or paste-like energy feed stocks in the top region of the impact reactor, at least one extractor device for a gas flow containing crushed and dried energy feedstock particles, and a device for separating and extracting crushed and dried energy feed stock particles from the gas flow extracted from the impact reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicants: PROACTOR SCHUTZRECHTSVERWALTUNGS GMBH, THYSSENKRUPP UHDE GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Abraham, Stefan Hamel, Ralf SchƤfer
  • Patent number: 8500048
    Abstract: An apparatus for drying and powderizing organic material. The apparatus includes at least one chamber including: an intake adapted to receive warm air and the material into the at least one chamber, and an outlet adapted to transport warm air and powder out of the at least one chamber; at least one rotatable drive shaft in the at least one chamber adapted to rotated; and at least one blade assembly on the at least one drive shaft. The blade assembly includes a blade hub about the rotatable drive shaft and at least one blade coupled to the blade hub, wherein the at least one blade is adapted to powderize the material to expose a surface of the material to the warm air so that moisture in the material evaporates into the warm air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Cake Energy, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Potter
  • Publication number: 20130105607
    Abstract: A pulverizing apparatus for processing a powder material that can be readily melted by friction heat generated between the pulverizing apparatus and the material. The pulverizing apparatus includes a casing (2) having a cylindrical inner face, a rotor (10) driven to rotate about the axis X of the casing and having a rugged portion (10G) in its outer periphery, a gas source providing a gas flow for conveying the powder material from a feed opening (3) provided at an end of the casing along the an axial direction to a discharge opening (4) provided at the other axial end of the casing, a coolant source providing coolant to flow in a coolant passage (15) formed inside the rotor. The rugged portion is divided along the axial direction by an annular cutout portion (11) extending along the peripheral direction of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA MICRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshikawa, Takashi Shibata, Kohei Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8430348
    Abstract: A garbage disposer includes a casing, a garbage cup (103), a stirrer, an electrical heater (110), a deodorizing box (111) and a blower (113). An impeller (3) is arranged in the chamber surrounded by the mounting board (1) of the blower and the blower casing (2). An electromotor (4) is arranged at the other side of the mounting board. The output shaft of the electromotor drives the impeller (3) through the mounting board (1). The inlet (96) of the blower is provided on the blower casing in the axis direction of the impeller. The outlet (97) of the blower is provided on the circumference of the blower casing. The mounting board (1) includes a board body (81) and a mounding portion (82) formed integrally. The board body (81) and the mounding portion (82) are perpendicular to each other. Several recesses (85) are formed by punch on the outside of the right angle (83) formed by the board body (81) and the mounding portion (82).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Inventors: Shixi Xin, Chunping Tan
  • Patent number: 8413917
    Abstract: A roller mill for grinding particulate material such as cement raw materials, cement clinker and similar materials comprises a mill housing surrounding a substantially horizontal grinding table, a number of rollers each rotating about a roller shaft and configured for interactive operation with the grinding table and at least one mechanism or device for introducing gases into the mill housing. The at least one mechanism or device for introducing gases into the mill housing comprises an annular duct having openings in a wall facing the grinding table and being located around the outer circumference of the grinding table. As a consequence hereof, a significant reduction of the pressure loss in a roller mill and thus a significant reduction of energy consumption will be ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventor: Bent Horning
  • Publication number: 20130061787
    Abstract: A biomass pulverizing apparatus includes a pulverizing apparatus body having a feedstock supply pipe, a pulverizing table for placing the supplied biomass feedstock thereon, a drive section for rotationally driving the pulverizing table, a pulverizing roller for pulverizing the biomass feedstock by a pressing force, and a blower unit for forming an upward flow upward from below on the outer peripheral side of the pulverizing table so as to jet conveying gas, and the pulverizing apparatus further includes an erected weir that is provided around the pulverizing table, and a first extending weir that extends from the pulverizing apparatus body side at lower portions of the pulverizing rollers and is formed with a plurality of slits that forms a predetermined gap with the upper surface of the erected weir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yutaka Iida, Tsugio Yamamoto, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Masaaki Kinoshita, Yoshishige Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20130055934
    Abstract: A biomass pulverizing apparatus includes a pulverizing apparatus body including a feedstock supply pipe, the pulverizing apparatus body for supplying biomass feedstock from above in a vertical axial direction, a pulverizing table for placing the biomass feedstock, a drive section for rotationally driving the pulverizing table, a pulverizing roller for pulverizing the biomass feedstock by a pressing force, the pulverizing roller being operated in conjunction with the rotation of the pulverizing table, a blower unit for forming an upward flow upward from below on the outer peripheral side of the pulverizing table so as to jet conveying gas for conveying the pulverized biomass powder in an air stream, a classifier, the classifier for classifying the biomass powder accompanied with the conveying gas, and a blowing gas introduction section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Takuichiro Daimaru, Masaaki Kinoshita, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Norichika Kai
  • Patent number: 8356764
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a substrate and first and second disks. The disks are rotatably located over the substrate, each disk having an outer circumference with teeth thereon. The first disk is positioned to interleave one or more of its teeth with the teeth of the second disk. The substrate includes a channel with an exit port located near the teeth of one of the disks. Another apparatus comprises at least one disk rotatably located over a substrate and in a well of the substrate, the disk having an outer circumference with teeth thereon. The disk is positioned to provide a maximum distance of less than about 10 microns between each one the teeth and a nearest wall defining the well. The substrate includes a channel with an exit port located near the teeth of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Thomas Krupenkin, Paul Kolodner, Joseph Ashley Taylor
  • Patent number: 8317117
    Abstract: The chipper drum of the present disclosure is configured to maximize its cutting width while decreasing its overall size. In particular, the chipper drum of the present disclosure includes air deflectors recessed on the ends of the drum that are configured to generate the air flow necessary to blow chips out of the chipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Edwin N. Galloway, James L. O'Halloran, Jeffrey D. Bradley, John T. Bouwers, Larry Schut
  • Patent number: 8141801
    Abstract: A vertical grinding mill is provided including a closed vertical milling container in which a screw conveyor is arranged for rotary drive so as to convey grinding bodies to the top. The package of grinding bodies adjusts itself during operation such that the surface thereof is configured to slope radially outwards and downwards and to end in the region of the bottom edge of an outlet for grinding stock. Gas is introduced into the milling container above the package of grinding bodies. The gas and grinding stock are discharged from the milling container via the outlet for grinding stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Maschinefabrik Gustav Eirich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Gerl, Jens Sachweh
  • Patent number: 8118247
    Abstract: An agitator ball mill for finely grinding or dispersing material has a cylindrical or conical grinding chamber for accommodating grinding bodies and for accommodating the material which is to be ground or dispersed. It also has an inlet, which is arranged at one end of the grinding chamber, an agitator, which extends in the axial direction into the grinding chamber and has agitating means, and a product outlet for the ground or dispersed material, the product outlet being arranged at the other end of the grinding chamber. Arranged in a central region at the outlet end of the grinding chamber is a gas outlet through which gaseous components, but not grinding bodies, can be discharged out of the grinding chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Willy A. Bachofen AG
    Inventors: Frank Ronald Lang, Marc Weider, Erich Jeker
  • Patent number: 8113452
    Abstract: A roller mill for grinding particulate material such as cement raw materials, cement clinker and the like includes a grinding table and a set of rollers rotatable about a vertical shaft. The set of rollers include a number of rollers rotating about separate roller shafts, which are connected to the vertical shaft. A nozzle ring for directing gases into the roller mill is also included. The nozzle ring encloses the grinding table. Means for regulating the gas flow through the nozzle ring is also provided. At least some of the regulation means are arranged to rotate together with the rollers. Preferably, the position of at least some of the regulation means for regulating gas flow through the nozzle ring relative to the rollers may remain the same so that the gases introduced into the mill via the nozzle ring may exhibit the same flow pattern in relation to the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Jan Folsberg, Rainer Closter Jespersen
  • Patent number: 8061637
    Abstract: The invention concerns an impact mill suitable for installation in a container. To this end, the container must have an opening, e.g. a manhole with flange. The mill is designed as a complete and independent module without a separate mill housing, all functional components are mounted on a plate which is flanged onto the manhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hosokawa Alpine Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Georg Konetzka
  • Patent number: 8006925
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method for superfine powder grinding industrial waste slag in an energy-saving and environmental-friendly type of closed cycle with high yield and the apparatus for the same. The method combines a drying process and a powder grinding process, adopts an in-line monitoring process, automatically adjusts and controls the operating parameters. Therefore, the invention changes the conventional open cycle into a closed cycle, shortens the cycle, achieves the automatic control and adjustment of the operating parameters, and obtains the superfine product with high yield. So the invention enhances the application value of industrial waste slag, extends the applicable field of industrial waste slag, and increases the extra value of final product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Jiangsu Kehang Environment Engineering Technology
    Inventor: Huaiping Liu
  • Patent number: 7971808
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vertical grinding mill including a closed vertical milling container in which a screw conveyor is arranged for rotary drive so as to convey grinding bodies to the top. The package of grinding bodies adjusts itself during operation such that the surface thereof is configured to slope radially outwards and downwards and to end in the region of the bottom edge of an outlet for grinding stock. Gas is introduced into the milling container above the package of grinding bodies. The gas and grinding stock are discharged from the milling container via the outlet for grinding stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Gerl, Jens Sachweh
  • Patent number: 7905434
    Abstract: In order to manufacture the compound powder or the porous granulated substance in an efficient manner, a powder processing apparatus has an accumulating face on which the processing target powder is to be accumulated and a processing face disposed in opposition to the accumulating face and convexly curved, and a moving means for moving the accumulating face and the processing face along the accumulating face relative to each other. The apparatus comprises an excitement treatment means capable of applying an excitation energy to the processing target powder accumulated on the accumulating face from an excitation energy supplying portion disposed in opposition to the accumulating face or an oscillation means for oscillating the accumulating face or the processing face in a direction intersecting the accumulating face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Hosokawa Micron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makio Naito, Hiroya Abe, Kiyoshi Nogi, Masuo Hosokawa, Takehisa Fukui, Masahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 7793870
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for husking and degerminating grains of maize. The aim of the invention is to provide an efficient and simple degermination of maize. To this end, during a wet degermination process, cleaned maize is wetted, and then husked and degerminated, and directly supplied to the comminution stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: BĆ¼hler AG
    Inventors: Othmar Gerschwiler, Walter Eugster, Urs Zwahlen
  • Patent number: 7699250
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Progressive Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald W. Jones
  • Patent number: 7665681
    Abstract: A roller mill for pulverizing material and separating the pulverized material has a mill for crushing the material and a classifier disposed on the mill for separating the crushed material. The mill includes a grinding mechanism that has a plurality of grinding rolls and a grinding ring that coact to pulverize material within a mill housing, which defines a grinding chamber. The classifier is a centrifugal-type classifier having a motor-driven rotor disposed within a classifier housing, which define a classifying chamber. The rotor has a plurality of blades that extend outwardly from the rotor. As the rotor rotates within the classifying chamber, the blades separate fine sized particles from oversized particles by passing the finer sized particles through the blades, and contacting and propelling the oversized particles against the classifier housing. The oversize particles fall downward through an outer annular passage defined by a baffle and the mill housing back to the grinding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Michael M. Chen
  • Publication number: 20100006680
    Abstract: An apparatus for drying and powderizing organic material. The apparatus includes at least one chamber including: an intake adapted to receive warm air and the material into the at least one chamber, and an outlet adapted to transport warm air and powder out of the at least one chamber; at least one rotatable drive shaft in the at least one chamber adapted to rotated; and at least one blade assembly on the at least one drive shaft. The blade assembly includes a blade hub about the rotatable drive shaft and at least one blade coupled to the blade hub, wherein the at least one blade is adapted to powderize the material to expose a surface of the material to the warm air so that moisture in the material evaporates into the warm air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventor: Patrick Potter
  • Patent number: 7578458
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for grinding cellulose, in which a raw cellulose material (6) is uniformly moistened with a given quantity of liquid by means of a moistening unit (1) before being ground in a grinding mill (2). A first conveying mechanism (3) conveys the raw cellulose material (6) to the moistening unit (1) while a second conveying mechanism (4) conveys the moist raw cellulose material on the grinding mill (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: SE Tylose GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Eberhard Perplies
  • Publication number: 20090090799
    Abstract: A grinding system includes a mill housing. A milling unit in the housing has a moveable milling member operable to grind coal. A drive system includes a drive shaft and at least one gear in a gear case drivingly connecting the milling member to the drive shaft. An exhauster is operable to draw air into the housing through an inlet and draw a mixture of air and powdered coal out of the housing through an outlet. A pressurization system is operable to maintain the gear case pressure at a higher pressure than an air pressure in the housing. In one method of grinding coal a gear case pressure is maintained at a pressure higher than a pressure at the housing inlet while the milling member grinds coal into a powder and the exhauster draws a mixture of powdered coal and air out of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: AMEREN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory A. Musch, Steve V. Miller
  • Patent number: 7497394
    Abstract: In a method for treating waste products and recycling products of solid organic or inorganic materials or composite materials or mixtures thereof, a breaking-up or separation of the components by means of an impulse is effected in the composite material or the mixture by a device which suddenly interrupts the flow of said composite material or mixture. Process air is fed in a counter-rotating, rising flow path into the spiral-like downward transport path generated in a rotor having a vertical axis and a shockwave is generated between the layers of the composite material against a deflector wall of the rotor. In addition, two radially spaced, coaxially arranged wall faces rotate relatively to one another about their axis and the composite materials or mixtures moved by centrifugal forces are moved and broken up between deflector faces projecting radially from the deflector walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Result Technology AG
    Inventors: Christoph Muther, Kee Loo Tan
  • Patent number: 7472853
    Abstract: Described is a roller mill (1) for grinding particulate material such as cement raw materials, cement clinker and similar materials, said roller mill (1) comprising a housing (3) which surrounds a grinding table (7) which is rotatable about a vertical axis (5), said grinding table being supported via a support (9) by a machine foundation (11), at least one roller (13) rotatable about a substantially stationary axis (12), said roller being configured for interaction with the grinding table (7) and an electric motor (15), which comprises a rotor (16) which is firmly connected to the grinding table (7) and a stator (17). The roller mill is peculiar in that the stator (17) constitutes an integral part of the support (9) for the grinding table (7), so that at least some of the load imposed by the at least one roller (13) on the grinding table (7) is transmitted via the stator (17) to the machine foundation (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: FLSMIDTH A/S
    Inventor: Luis Petersen
  • Patent number: 7441716
    Abstract: A closed circuit, dry processing system for processing aluminum containing products and producing reusable particles of aluminum, and a process thereof. The aluminum containing products are crushed into chips which are then separated into iron-based and ironless chips. The ironless chips are further crushed into chip fragments which are controllably supplied into a granulation chamber where the chip fragments are granulated into spheroidal particles of aluminum and other particles of organic and carbonic materials. A controlled upward airflow produced in the granulation chamber draws those of the particles exceeding a desired granulation degree out of the granulation chamber. The particles are classified as a function of their sizes and then separated as a function of their weight so that the spheroidal particles of aluminum forming the reusable particles of aluminum and residues formed by the other particles are released separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Inventors: Emile Arseneault, Andre Simard
  • Patent number: 7384010
    Abstract: A process for producing an oxygen-free, non-denaturable, cooled and dried crushed product of superior quality by effecting efficient crushing by a simple apparatus in an easy operation while preventing a decrease in qualities such as flavor, taste and masticating feel; an apparatus therefor; and a crushed product obtained thereby are provided. The apparatus for producing crushed product contains a pair of crusher discs arranged so as to define a crushing space in between confronting crushing faces thereof, a driver for rotating one of the pair of crusher discs, a cooling section adjoining the other crusher disc for cooling it, a raw material supply site for supplying one or more raw materials to the crushing space through the cooling section, a crushed product delivery site for bringing the resulting crushed product thereto from the crushing space and an inert gas supply for supplying a cooled inert gas to the crushing space via the raw material supply site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Tsukuba Food Science
    Inventors: Akira Horigane, Masaaki Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 7267295
    Abstract: A shredding machine includes a housing which defines a passageway through which a sheet of material to be shredded may pass, a punching mechanism comprising a plurality of punch members, a mechanism to move the punch members from a retracted position in which the punch members are spaced from the passageway to an advanced position in which the punch members extend through the passageway, and a feeding mechanism for feeding the sheet of material through the punching mechanism so that repeated movement of the punch members between the retracted and the advanced positions effects shredding of the material. A method of shredding sheet material comprises feeding a sheet of material to be shredded past a punching mechanism and repeatedly punching the sheet material so as to shred the entire sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: ACCO UK Limited
    Inventors: David Mead, Paul Arthur Aries
  • Patent number: 7204462
    Abstract: An insulation delivery apparatus has a hose holder and a nozzle section holder, the nozzle section holder being mounted on an extensible section of the hose holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Certainteed Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Lembo
  • Patent number: 7198212
    Abstract: The sheet shredder includes a cutter block pair equipped with plural cutter discs arranged in parallel with each other at a specified distance, cutting units to cut sheets by rotating the cutter discs of the cutter block pair in the different directions respectively, guide plates to guide cut pieces of sheets cut by the cutter discs in the specified direction, and grooves provided at the sides opposite to the cutter discs of the guide plates to lead out stickum adhered to the cutter discs or the guide plates pursuant to the sheet cutting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takuji Kato, Junichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 7168645
    Abstract: A lifting wall for a tube mill which has a discharge means with lifting vanes in order to transport the material being ground to discharge openings by the rotary movement of the tube mill. The lifting vanes are disposed obliquely with respect to the radial direction so that the material being ground slides promptly to the center where it is discharged through the discharge openings still below the horizontal longitudinal central plane of the tube mill. The lifting vanes are substantially flat and bent like blades in a region of the discharge openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Polysius AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Blatton, Hubert Grothaus, Ludger Schulte
  • Patent number: 7156331
    Abstract: A fluidized bed pulverizing and classifying apparatus is disclosed having a vessel that includes a pulverizing section having a pulverizing nozzle spraying compressed air to pulverize a powder, a classifying section located over the pulverizing section, including a classifying rotor classifying the powder, and a fluidized bed. The vessel also contains a supply of secondary air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Takahashi, Nobuyasu Makino, Fumitoshi Murakami, Makoto Hirai