Patents by Inventor Nikolai VATANSKI

Nikolai VATANSKI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and an arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a large grinding mill drum, and a large grinding mill drum
    Patent number: 9636685
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of mineral and metallurgical processes, to disintegrating in general and to disintegrating by tumbling mills, and more particularly to a method and arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a large grinding mill drum, and to a large grinding mill drum. An arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a grinding mill drum has a sensor arrangement attached to at least one lifting bar bolt of an at least one lifting bar of the grinding mill. The sensor arrangement includes at least one force transducer attached to the at least one lifting bar bolt. With the help of the measurement arrangement, more reliable measurement data can be provided for the determination of the degree of fullness of a grinding mill drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OUTOTEC (FINLAND) OY
    Inventors: Jukka Pirttiniemi, Esa Porkka, Nikolai Vatanski
  • A METHOD AND AN ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING A DEGREE OF FULLNESS OF A LARGE GRINDING MILL DRUM, AND A LARGE GRINDING MILL DRUM
    Publication number: 20170036213
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of mineral and metallurgical processes, to disintegrating in general and to disintegrating by tumbling mills, and more particularly to a method and arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a large grinding mill drum, and to a large grinding mill drum. An arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a grinding mill drum has a sensor arrangement attached to at least one lifting bar bolt of an at least one lifting bar of the grinding mill. The sensor arrangement includes at least one force transducer attached to the at least one lifting bar bolt. With the help of the measurement arrangement, more reliable measurement data can be provided for the determination of the degree of fullness of a grinding mill drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jukka PIRTTINIEMI, Esa PORKKA, Nikolai VATANSKI