Abstract: A discharge-controlled method for a compressed air-controlled wet settling machine for the preparation of mineral mixtures, particularly for the washing of raw coal, is carried out such that the preparation takes place by means of pulsation of a separating liquid in a work chamber, whereby the pulsation is controlled by means of inlet and outlet valves and results in a stratification of the minerals on the settling machine carrier such that the heavier materials are stratified below the lighter materials. The layer level of the heavier material is measured by a scanner, in particular a float, and an actual-reference regulation controls a discharge apparatus for the heavier minerals. Measurement of the actual value of the heavier material layer level takes place by way of the scanner during a period of time which lies asymmetrically between the opening time of the outlet valve and the opening time of the inlet valve, and in particular shortly before the opening time of the inlet valve.

Abstract: An automatic control for an electropneumatic wet settling machine, for the separation of mineral mixtures, in particular coal, through the pulsation of the separating liquid, provides that the separating liquid is energized and controlled by means of compressed air in pulsing chambers, and that measuring devices for measuring the movement of the separating liquid are provided to signal, advantageously on an analog basis, the movement of the separating liquid in order to control the introduction and exhaust of compresssed air from the pulsing chambers.

Abstract: Apparatus for the cooling of cement clinker or the like being discharged from a rotary kiln, the apparatus including at least two cooling means arranged to receive the discharge from the rotary kiln and adjustably positionable distributor means arranged to proportion the discharge of the rotary kiln selectively between the two or more cooling means.

Abstract: A furnace is disclosed for the heat treatment of mainly lumpy to fine grained material. The furnace is either a shaft furnace or a rotary furnace for the calcination or sintering of limestone, dolomite or magnesite. The calcination material passes through a preheating zone, a calcination zone and a cooling zone. The calcination zone has a gas feed and gas withdrawal device. A calcination device is provided in the calcination zone to which is connected a gas conveying device for the production of a hot gas circulation. The hot gas circulation device is situated between the gas withdrawal device and the calcination device and is provided as a conveying blower subjected to a cooling liquid.

Abstract: A method for reducing the sulfur content of coal which involves an integrated, continuous process including the steps of grinding the coal in a dry state, activating the ground coal to increase substantially the magnetic susceptibility of the pyrite contained therein, and separating the thus activated pyrite magnetically from the remainder of the coal.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the thermal treatment of pulverulent material in which the material is preheated and finely calcined in a calcination zone, the improvement involving pre-calcining the pulverulent material in a highly turbulent gaseous stream containing combustible fuel in a pre-calcination zone prior to final calcination.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the production of cement clinker from a raw material containing sufficient moisture to be agglomerated wherein the raw material is dried and subsequently subjected to calcining in a series of steps including preheating, deacidification, sintering and cooling. The exhaust gases are passed from the calcining step into the drying step. The raw material exiting from the drying step is pulverized into a fine powder and then transferred directly into the preheating step without intermediate storage.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for leaching and precipitating metal values from a metal bearing solid in which the solid is simultaneously crushed and acid leached in a vibratory grinding mill, and the pulp thus produced is subjected to a simultaneous leaching and precipitation step in a vibratory reactor into which there is introduced a metal which is higher in the electromotive series than the metal to be recovered, together with controlled amounts of water.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for smoothing local unevenness from the surface of bar material, such as anode bars, consisting of clamping the bar rigidly against a supporting frame and moving a smoothing device along the bar, said smoothing device maintained in continued contact with the bar by means of rollers pushing against opposed parallel faces of the bar. The rollers allow the smoothing device to move according to the general contour of the bar, so that only local unevenness is removed, and excessive smoothing due to curvature in the overall bar length is eliminated.

Abstract: A furnace assembly for the pyrometallurgical treatment of fine-grained ore concentrates including a housing in which there is located a reactor for reacting an ore concentrate and an oxygen-rich gas admitted thereto, the housing further having means therein defining a collection chamber for collection of the molten metal and a settling hearth in the housing communicating with the collection chamber. The housing is provided with a downwardly offset wall means in the roof thereof and partition means in dependent relationship with such offset wall means. The partition means are positioned to isolate the upper portion of the collection chamber from the settling hearth. An exhaust stack is provided transversely with respect to the long dimension of the settling hearth.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the manufacture of molded bodies from sludges in which a plurality of sludges having different average particle sizes are subjected sequentially to filtration and dehydration in a mold to build up the molded body.

Abstract: A mechanism and method for preheating a coarse fraction and a more fine limestone fraction in a shaft preheater including a first central vertical inlet for receiving the coarse fraction which forms a descending core in a vertical preheating chamber, and a second vertical inlet receiving the finer fraction annularly around the core, directing a first upper gas feed radially into the fractions with the gas first penetrating the outer finer fraction and then the inner fraction, and directing a second heating gas flow at a lower level into the core to bring the core up to the temperature of the outer layer, with the gases being received from a rotary kiln, and mixing the fractions and directing them to the rotary kiln from the lower end of the preheating chamber.

Abstract: This invention relates to a countercurrent combustion method and apparatus for the production of calcined lime in a furnace which contains, in sequence, at least one preheating zone, combustion zone, and a cooling zone. The entire combustion air is passed through the cooling zone thereby to preheat the same. A portion of the thus preheated air is withdrawn from the furnace and heated in a recuperation zone which may be within or outside the vertical shaft furnace but is located between the preheating zone and the combustion zone. In the recuperation zone, the air is heated to approximately the deacidification temperature and then is supplied to the combustion zone.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the production of molded bodies which are shaped by means of a filtration-dehydration process wherein such bodies after shaping are subjected to a rolling movement preferably by means of a roller conveyor to strengthen and homogenize the same before being further processed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for the safe preparation of pulverized coal comprises the steps of mixing coal with an inert gas in a pulverizing mill, separating dry coal dust from an exhaust gas bearing a residue of coal dust in a separator, mixing the exhaust gas with additional inert gas and filtering the coal dust from the gas mixture in a filter.

Abstract: Hot dust laden gases from heated kilns in cement plants are mixed with a cooler moistening medium to provide a mixture having a dew point lying within a temperature range in which dust separation in electrofilters is greatly enhanced. Volatile alkali compounds in the gases condense on the dust particles and are substantially completely filtered out of the gases before discharge of the gases to the atmosphere. The electrical resistance of the dust in the gas is reduced by the moisture from high levels of about 10.sup.15 [ohm.times.cm] to levels below about 10.sup.11 [ohm.times.cm] so that efficient dust precipitation in electrofilters can be effected at low temperatures of about 150.degree. C. and at the same time removal of alkali from the cement clinker is enhanced.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for the production of plate glass. A glass melting furnace containing molten glass connects with an outflow furnace in such fashion that central layers of molten glass in the glass melting furnace are conveyed to the outflow furnace. The outflow furnace connects with an outflow nozzle which forms a flat glass band from which the plate glass is cut. The outflow speed of the glass band issuing from the outflow nozzle is regulated by a static pressure adjustment determined by a height of the molten glass in the separate outflow furnace. A supply channel to the nozzle preferably contains heating electrodes for resistance heating of the molten glass prior to issuance from the nozzle.

Abstract: A roll crushing mill of the type having a frame with two rotatably disposed crushing rolls parallel and in opposition to one another forming therebetween a crusher gap are both deflectable relative to one another, each roll being mounted on a rotary shaft, each shaft being mounted on a carriage, and the carriages being swingably pivoted on the frame.

Abstract: A bucket wheel charging valve having an outer enclosing housing with first and second counter-rotatable wheels on parallel axes therein with each wheel having cells along the periphery with the cell walls swung on an axis coincident with the opposite wheel and the tip end of the spokes between the cells sweeping the cells of the opposite wheel as each wheel is incrementally advanced while the other cell is stationary.

Abstract: A high intensity magnetic field separator for the wet preparation of magnetizable particles of solids receives a charging material having a carrier medium with the particles therein through an arrangement of ferromagnetic bodies, organized as a matrix, in the area of a magnetic field. A hollow body of magnetically inert material is rotatably mounted for rotation about a vertical axis and carries a ferromagnetic body on its outer side and rotates in close proximity about at least one magnetic system which fixedly mounted within the interior of the rotating body. The hollow body is at least approximately rotationally symmetrical and is preferably a cylinder, but may take the shape of a truncated cone or a polygon. The magnetic system comprises an arrangement of superconducting coils in a cryostat which has refrigeration conduits extending down through the open of the hollow body and downwardly through the base of the machine which mounts the hollow body.