Abstract: An agitating pulverizer which agitates an object and a binder charged into a tank and repeatedly granulates and pulverizes the object, thereby forming particulate matter with a desired particle size. The agitating pulverizer comprises a tank for allowing the object and the binder to be charged thereinto. A low-speed rotating member and a high-speed rotating member are provided at the central bottom portion of the tank and arranged to be rotatable in the directions opposite to each other. A lower agitating member is placed adjacent to the bottom of the tank and interconnected to the low-speed rotating member so as to push the object and the binder upward and also to draw them toward the center of the tank. An upper agitating member is interconnected to the high-speed rotating member and placed farther upward of the lower agitating member so as to push the object and the binder downward and upward, thereby applying shearing force and centrifugal force to the object.

Abstract: An eccentric vibrating mill with at least one grinding container, to which is solidly attached the exciter unit as vibrating drive, and in which for the purposes of improving the grinding properties of conventional vibrating mills according to the present invention there is provision for the grinding container to be excited eccentrically on one side, that is, outside the gravity axis and the mass center of the grinding container, whereby a balancing mass is provided for balancing the eccentric mass and the drive side spring axis lies between the gravity axes of the grinding container and the exciter unit and the exciter unit is operated such that uneven vibrations such as circular, elliptical and linear vibrations are produced.

Abstract: For the continuous autogenous grinding of a free-flowing stock containing insoluble particles of varying diameter, the stock is set rotating concentrically of an axis in a grinding chamber, insoluble particles of greater diameter being concentrated superproportionally in the grinding chamber. There is no need of an auxiliary-grinding-body retaining device.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprises a grinding receptacle, in which a high-speed agitator is disposed. An auxiliary-grinding-body outlet discharges from an end of the grinding receptacle, a grinding-stock and auxiliary-grinding-body return line leading from this outlet to the other end of the grinding receptacle. Directly adjoining the auxiliary-grinding-body outlet, a grinding-stock supply line opens into the line, which ensures the auxiliary grinding bodies to circulate reliably.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a granulating and coating technique, and more particularly to a technique wherein powder and granules are contained in a drum rotating about a substantially horizontal axis and the rotary drum is rotated for granulation of the granules and (or) coating. There is provided a rotary drum (1) for containing the powder and granules (M) and rotating about the substantially horizontal axis, and also provided a baffle member (12) continuously or intermittently rotating or swinging at the inside of the powder and granules (M) layer in the rotary drum (1). The baffle is turned in the granules, so that the raw materials for the powder and granules can be prevented from adhering to the baffle member and the rotary drum or from peeling off therefrom, thus obtaining products of uniform coating.

Abstract: A continuous dispersing apparatus in which stirring vanes in a vessel disperse pulverizing media, wherein mill base containing coarse pigment particles is prevented from being discharged. The apparatus includes a vessel for containing pulverizing media with a supply inlet and a discharge outlet being formed at respective ends of the vessel, a rotating disc mounted on a rotating shaft passing through the vessel, and a partition defining a gap which prevents the passage of the pulverizing media while passing dispersed material, the partition dividing the vessel into a plurality of chambers. Each chamber is provided with at least one stirring device mounted on the rotating shaft. The partition includes a rotating disc releasably fixed to the rotating shaft and a ring-shaped plate releasably fixed to the vessel.

Abstract: The lifting element (16) consists of a parallelepipedal block of elastomer designed to be fixed to the internal wall of a grinding mill and forms part of the lining of the latter. Its face (24) exposed to the grinding elements includes cavities (26) to allow the grinding elements to be embedded therein.

Abstract: A media basket mill for dispersing a selected constituent into a liquid vehicle to produce a mixture of the constituent and the liquid vehicle within a mixing vessel includes a basket extending in an axial direction between a upper end and a lower end, a media bed in the basket, and an impeller, the basket having a wall for retaining the media bed within the basket and openings in the wall for permitting passage of the mixture through the wall in response to operation of the impeller when the basket is immersed in the mixture in the vessel, the wall including a bottom wall portion at the lower end and an axially extending side wall portion having an overall diametral dimension, the openings being located at least in the side wall portion, the impeller including a rotor mounted for rotation about the axial direction, and impeller blades on the rotor, the impeller blades having at least blade portions located radially outwardly beyond the diametral dimension of the side wall portion of the wall of the basket fo

Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus to continuously operate a bead mill. At the outlet of the bead mill is a separator screen which prevents particles of a certain size from being discharged. After running the bead mill, the screen tends to get clogged with large sized particles. The present invention provides an ultrasonic probe that periodically cleans the screen when the pressure within the milling chamber reaches a predetermined value.

Abstract: An attritor has one end of the milling chamber defined by a wall from which a bearing and seal housing is cantilevered, the wall having a flange onto which the milling vessel can be replaceably and interchangeably attached. The milling vessel and housing have a horizontal axis and a rotor rotatable about this axis in the housing as agitator elements for the loose milling medium therein.

Abstract: Apparatus to mashing and to dehydrate food product includes a base portion, a housing, a roler and a mixer driven by driving means. During operating the dehydrator, the roller will rotate to produce a centrifuging force which forces water preserved in the food product to be expelled. The mixer will rotate with the roller too which mashes the food product. An air inlet guides hot air into the roller to dry the mashed food product for preservation purpose.

Abstract: A ball mill for use in mechanical alloying and grinding comprising a plurality of ferromagnetic balls within a spherical or cylindrical chamber or cell of a paramagnetic material. The chamber has a substantially horizontal axis of rotation. At least one magnet is mounted outside the chamber to produce a magnetic field within the chamber. The magnet is physically moveable, relative to the chamber, between a plurality of locations on an arc centered on the axis of rotation of the chamber.

Abstract: An agitator mill comprises a milling container and a rotor mounted therein. The rotor is built up in axial direction of individual rings and is provided with radially projecting agitator tools being integral with the rings and consisting of a wear-resisting material of good heat conduction. The rings are cooled by a cooling medium at their surfaces facing away from the grinding area.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for finely grinding minerals and similar materials in an essentially dry state to particle sizes at which the ground material can be used as a filler. The method is characterized by effecting at least the final grinding phase in a closed grinding cavity that has been placed under a sub-pressure. The pressure in the grinding space shall preferably be lower than the prevailing ambient pressure by up to about 10 kPa.The invention also relates to a mill having a grinding cavity that can be placed under a sub-pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for reducing, dispersing, wetting and mixing pumpable, non-magnetic multiphase mixtures comprises a sealed annular-gap chamber having an annular gap which forms a working chamber, into which the material to be worked flows in from the bottom and flows out from the top. This annular-gap chamber is formed by a double tube, the outer tube of which is surrounded by an outer exciter system and the inner tube of which is surrounded by an inner exciter system. In the working chamber there are, apart from the material to be worked, freely mobile magnetic working media, which move in the direction of the rotating electromagnetic fields within the multiphase mixture flowing through the annular-gap chamber and perform translatory transverse motions and tumbling motions. Within the working chamber or the annular gap there exist an inflow zone and an outflow zone, which are in each case free from working media.

Abstract: A vertical medium-stirring type pulverizer has a wear-preventive structure for preventing wear of its screw blade. The structure includes a plurality of magnets provided on the top surface of the screw blade. At least one of the pulverizing medium and the material to he pulverized which are contained in the pulverizing shell of the pulverizer is a magnetic material. The magnets serve to attract the magnetic medium or material thereto to form a lining on the top surface of the screw blade. A similar wear-preventive structure may be provided on the inner surface of the shell to prevent wear of the inner surface of the shell.

Abstract: A crushing apparatus crushes a supplied material into the form of a fine powder. The material is supplied into a crushing tank while disposing the crushing tank within the processing tank. The supplied material is crushed within the crushing tank and then is discharged to the interior of the processing tank through the axial flow pump member and an axial flow promoting member. During operation, the material is continuously circulated within the processing tank in a manner passing through the crushing tank, whereby crushing is performed in such circulating process. Since the axial flow pump member is provided at the lower portion of the crushing tank, the material in the inclined casing is guided axially downward to generate an axial flow when the inclined vane is rotated. A pumping effect is provided by the axial flow. The crushed material is sucked to the side of the inclined casing and then is emitted downward.

Abstract: An apparatus for dispersing and grinding a material by means of a grinding medium, such as balls or beads, comprises a grinding vessel, and a rotor rotatably disposed in the grinding vessel to define a narrow annular flow path between the rotor and the inner wall of the grinding vessel. On the outer peripheral surface of the rotor, a set of guiding protrusions is disposed for guiding, in the circumferential direction, the flow of a mixture of the grinding medium and material flowing within the annular flow path. Inside the rotor, an inside flow path extends in the axial direction and a backward screw is disposed for returning the grinding medium in the inside flow path to the upstream side of the grinding vessel. The grinding medium gathering at the downstream side of the grinding vessel efficiently enters the inside flow path through inflow conduits provided on the rotor, the grinding medium and is urged backwards toward the upstream side by the backward screw.

Abstract: An agitator mill for treating free-flowing grinding stock comprises a discharge device, which is provided with a separating device to be disposed in the grinding chamber. In the separating device a mixing device is arranged, which comprises a mixing body movable in longitudinal direction of the cylindrical separating device.

Abstract: An agitator mill includes a housing having first and second ends defining a milling chamber adapted to hold a grinding media therein. The housing includes an inlet to introduce product into the milling chamber to be ground and an outlet for the discharge of the ground product. An agitator shaft includes a first end rotatably supported on the first end of the milling chamber, a plurality of spaced agitation elements thereon and a second free end. A freely rotatable screen device is supported on the second end of the housing at the outlet and has a leading end which extends to proximate the second end of the agitator shaft. The ground product flows through the screen device out of the outlet, with the screen device being caused to rotate by the fluid coupling of the agitator shaft with the screen device.

Abstract: The material supplied to the interior of the crushing tank by the material supply device is: crushed into the form of a fine powder by the agitator; sent upward by a gas to be directed to the classifier through the guide device; classified in the course to the classifier and the fine powder reduced to a predetermined particle size is extracted to the outside by means of the fine powder discharge tube. On the other hand, the coarse powder of which the particle size has not been reduced to the predetermined particle size is guided again to the crushing tank through a ring-like circulation passage formed between the inner peripheral surface of the communicating portion of the classifier and the outer peripheral surface of the dispersing tube of the guide device so as to be crushed by the agitator. Since this process is repeated, a fine powder of the predetermined particle size is obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of operating a stirring ball mill which has a preferably cylindrical, rotating barrel provided with an inlet at one end and an outlet at the other end, in which a stirring shaft provided with stirring means rotates. This method includes operating the mill at supercritical rotatory speed with a degree of fill of at least 25%, while the balls are retained in the mill. In this manner a great throughput is achieved and a narrow grain size range, without requiring a great amount of space.

Abstract: An ultrafine grinding mill in which fed material flows down through an agitated bed composed of small grinding medium characterized in that the ultrafine grinding mill comprises a vertically arranged cylindrical housing, a net member having a mesh size preventing the grinding medium from passing therethrough and arranged at the bottom of the cylindrical housing, a rotary shaft arranged on a central axis of the cylindrical housing, and agitating blades mounted at several stages on the rotary shaft, and in that both a gap between the tip of each agitating blade and the inner surface of the cylindrical housing and a gap between the agitating blade of the lowermost stage and the net member are not more than 2/3 the diameter of the grinding medium at room temperature.

Abstract: A milling method for pulverizing agricultural products, minerals, etc. comprises the steps of whirling a grain material within a pulverizing chamber; and pulverizing the material by utilizing the friction due to a difference in moving speed between material particles which is generated as the material is whirled. A milling device comprises: a body frame; first and second rotary blades arranged opposite to each other within the body frame and defining, together with the inner walls of the body frame, a pulverizing chamber; a material feeding inlet formed on the body frame on the side of the first rotary blade and communicating with the pulverizing chamber; and a collection outlet provided axially in alignment with the second rotary blade and communicating with the pulverizing chamber. The collection outlet communicates with an associated suction device.

Abstract: In a vibrating stirred ball mill, a stirred ball mill is mounted on a bearing which is provided with an eccentric drive. The stirrer is connected to the stirrer drive via an articulated shaft.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for finely-grinding minerals and similar material intended for use as filler material to a particle size appropriate for this purpose, with a mill which operates by agitating grinding medium and in which the material is ground in a substantially dry state. The invention is characterized by predetermining the stay time of the material being ground in the mill; maintaining the predetermined stay time partly by discharging ground material from the mill at a predetermined, essentially constant rate, and partly by adjusting the infeed of material to the mill in relation to the quantity of material discharged from the mill by the amount of material present in the mill increases during the infeed of material thereto; and by interrupting the infeed of material to the mill over a predetermined short period of time when the material reaches a predetermined highest level in said mill.

Abstract: A continuous grinding system for comminuting material in a liquid includes a grinding vessel and a rotating shaft carrying one or more mixing arms disposed within the vessel. A funnel-shaped housing and a cylindrical extension project into the vessel and the rotating shaft extends through the housing and the extension with the mixing arms being disposed beneath the extension. The rotating shaft also carries one or more radially projecting, angled impeller blades which are disposed within the extension. The blades may engage the extension in which event the extension may be separate from the housing or may terminate short of the inner wall of the extension in which event the extension may be secured to the housing. The cylindrical extension in a modified form of the invention extends into the housing a distance equalling from about 10% to about 75% of the depth thereof and preferably from about 50% to about 55%.

Abstract: A ball mill for the manufacture of goods such as chocolate, formed by the suspension of solid particles in a fatty carrier. The ball mill is arranged so as to execute different processing operations at the same time in order to achieve high productivity and goods of high quality with limited capital goods investment. The ball mill (2) includes a rotating shaft (34) containing a central conduit (38) and having arms provided with fluid-distributing conduits (39) and openings (40). The goods are processed by injecting fluid into the mass as the solid suspended particles are crushed. In the case of chocolate, sterilized air, a neutral gas or lecithin can for example be injected. The ball mill can be utilized in the manufacture of food goods, inks or paints.

Abstract: Mill for triturating and breaking up solids predispersed in liquids, whose stator consists of two hollow truncated cone-shaped halves connectable to each other by their open major bases provided with flanges, with their minor bases closed and provided with external cooling or heating chambers. The front half presents the grinding body separating means and the outlet connection of the ground product, with its cooling or heating chamber. The rear half presents a central orifice traversed by the rotating shaft of the mill and the inlet connection of the product to be ground. The rotor consists of a body formed by two hollow truncated cones, joined by their open major bases and their minor bases being closed, which are attached to the shaft end. It has a hermetic seal formed by a ring fastened to the shaft, surrounded by a retainer fastened to the rear half of the stator.

Abstract: A media basket mill is used for dispersing a selected constituent into a liquid vehicle to produce a mixture of the constituent and the liquid vehicle and includes a basket containing a media bed of discrete media elements for immersion within a batch of the constituent and the liquid vehicle in a mixing vessel, a first impellar for establishing a first pressure differential adjacent a first end of the basket for moving the mixture along a circuit through the basket, and through the media bed in the basket, when the basket is immersed in the batch in the vessel and a second impeller for establishing a second pressure differential adjacent a second end of the basket for assisting in the movement of the mixture along the circuit into the basket and through the basket, and through the media bed in the basket, to increase the throughput of the mixture through the basket and the media bed in the basket, while deterring escape of media elements from the basket the second end of the basket.

Abstract: A process of media milling employing a mill having a magnetic circuit of magnetic impellers (11) on a shaft (12), magnetized media, and a magnetizable outer shell (10).

Abstract: A grinding appliance, intended especially for grinding material in the form of flowable or pasty conglomerates, consists of a housing (1) with an inlet chamber (2), a grinding chamber (3) for receiving grinding balls and an outlet (4). A rotatably mounted agitator body (5) which can be driven by means of a motor (7) is arranged in the grinding chamber. So that the conveyance can be controlled in a simple way independently of the rotational speed of the agitator body, the inlet chamber (2) is preceded by a storage vessel (46) which is equipped with an air-pressure connection (50) and which is sealingly closeable (FIG. 1). Alternatively, a pump can also be inserted in the storage vessel and the air-pressure connection be selectively exchangeable with a return connection.

Abstract: A luminescent sheet for stamps comprising a subtrate and a luminescent layer formed on the surface of said substrate, characterized in that said luminescent layer contains fine particles of an inorganic fluorescent pigment, said fine particles being prepared by providing a dispersion containing particles having a mean specific surface area Sw.sub.2 of said inorganic fluorescent pigment in water, and subjecting said dispersion to wet-grinding to obtain an aqueous dispersion containing fine particles having a mean specific surface area Sw.sub.1 of said inorganic fluorescent pigment, and said fine particles satisfying the equation: 2.0.gtoreq.Sw.sub.1 /Sw.sub.2 .gtoreq.1.05.

Abstract: Media mill (1) having a magnetic circuit of magnetic impellers (11) on a shaft (12), magnetized media, and a magnetizable outer shell (10) which provides improved efficiency. The impellers (43) are magnetized by being sandwiched between at least two permanent magnets (45) in or on the shaft (42), which magnets have the same polar charge facing each other.

Abstract: A pulverizer has a shell having an inlet port for introducing air and the material to be pulverized into the shell and a discharge port through which the pulverized product is discharged from the shell. The shell is filled with a pulverizing medium such as steel balls. A vertical screw shaft having a screw blade thereon is rotatably mounted in the shell. The screw shaft is hollow and provided at the bottom end thereof with an outlet port. The outlet port is located behind the screw blade with respect to the direction of rotation of the screw shaft. A fluid supply box is provided at the bottom of the screw shaft and extends from the screw shaft to the outer edge of the screw blade. The outlet port is formed in the fluid supply box. A scrape plate protrudes downwards from the bottom end of the screw shaft. Three or more screw blades may be provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dispersing process in which a mill base consisting of solids and of a liquid phase is conveyed through a stirred ball mill containing a grinding medium, energy is supplied in this stirred ball by rotating rotors, and the solids are dispersed, and wet with the liquid phase, wherein the rotors rotate at such a high speed that the grinding medium moved by them forms, as the result of the centrifugal force, a rotating grinding medium charge which is in contact with the inner wall of the stirred ball mill, a space which is essentially free of a grinding medium being formed in the center of this grinding medium charge, the mill base is fed radially into the stirred ball mill, flows radially through the grinding medium charge in such a way that a centrifugal fluidiesd bed is formed with respect to the grinding medium, and is removed from the space which is free of grinding medium through an apparatus for separating off grinding medium.

Abstract: An agitator mill has an in each case annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber and an interior grinding chamber, which are delimitated from each other by a cup-shaped agitator element, the interior grinding chamber and the exterior grinding chamber being connected with each other by bypasses formed in the agitator element for the return of auxiliary grinding bodies. In order to improve the grinding result and to increase the lifetime of the auxiliary grinding bodies or to be able to use even smaller auxiliary grinding bodies without their reaching a separator device arranged ahead of a grinding stock exit, carriers are arranged in the area of the bypasses at the inner casing of the agitator element and extend over a substantial part of the radial width of the interior grinding chamber and into it.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for grinding mineral products and similar hard materials with the aid of a grinding medium agitated by a pin-equipped rotor, and is characterized in that the pins are manufactured of cemented metal carbide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for pulverizing a material to produce a fine powdery material such as silica powder as a material for a filler for sealing semiconductors. It has a shell and a screw shaft mounted in the shell. A disk having an inverted conical bottom surface is coaxially secured to the bottom of the screw shaft. The disk serves to protect the blade of the screw shaft from wear. Also owing to the inverted conical bottom surface, a centripetal force acts on the screw shaft while in rotation, thus preventing it from running out of true. By providing a plurality of screw shafts in the shell, the fluid in the shell flows in a complicated manner, thus increasing the pulverizing efficiency. A partitioning plate formed with a hole in the upper or lower part thereof may be provided between the adjacent screw shafts to minimize the possibility of shortcircuiting of the material from the inlet of the shell to its outlet.

Abstract: A continuous grinding system for comminuting material in a liquid includes a grinding vessel and a rotating shaft carrying one or more mixing arms disposed within the vessel. A funnel-shaped housing and a cylindrical extension project into the vessel and the rotating shaft extends through the housing and the extension with the mixing arms being disposed beneath the extension. The rotating shaft also carries one or more radially projecting, angled impeller blades which are disposed within the extension. The blades may engage the extension in which event the extension may be separate from the housing or may terminate short of the inner wall of the extension in which event the extension may be secured to the housing.

Abstract: A dispersing and grinding apparatus disperses and grinds material by the use of a particulate grinding medium. A separator installed at the discharge end of the apparatus separates the processed material from the grinding medium. The separator comprises a stationary stator, and a rotatable rotor mounted so that the rim area of the rotor is spaced from and faces the stator to define therebetween a small gap which is large enough to permit the processed material to pass therethrough small enough to prevent the grinding medium from passing therethrough. The rotor has on its underside a plurality of protruding guide portions configured as arc-shaped protrusions which forcibly guide and disperse the grinding medium tending to collect and concentrate at the rim area of the rotor.

Abstract: A dispersing and grinding apparatus comprises a vessel having an inlet for receiving a material to be processed and an outlet for discharging the processed material. A rotor is rotatably disposed within the vessel and positioned relative to the inner wall of the vessel to define therebetween a narrow, annular flow path for the passage therethrough of a mixture of the material and a grinding medium. The rotor has a plurality of axially extending grooves on the periphery thereof for guiding the mixture in the circumferential direction as the rotor rotates. The rotor is separated into a plurality of processing zones in the axial direction thereof, and the grooves in each processing zone are phase shifted in the circumferential direction with respect to the grooves in adjacent processing zones.

Abstract: A method for milling ceramic powder and making a sintered body from the powder produced by such method are disclosed. A preferred embodiment includes wet-milling at least one ceramic powder by a media agitating mill wherein the volume of liquid is not more than 4 times the net-volume of the ceramic powder, a dispersing agent is added and milling is carried out using grinding media of not larger than 1 mm in diameter. A media agitating mill used for the above method is provided which includes a milling chamber, grinding media and an agitator wherein the peripheral speed of the agitator is at least 10 m/s, the grinding media having a diameter of not larger than 1 mm and the packing fraction of the grinding media is 65-85% by volume.

Abstract: An agitator mill for the treatment of flowable grinding stock has a grinding receptacle (3) with a mostly closed grinding chamber (9) and a rotatingly drivable agitator element (21) disposed therein. An interior stator (24) is disposed in the agitator element. A grinding stock supply chamber (53) is placed ahead of the grinding chamber. On the same side of the grinding receptacle (3) a separator device (34) is provided through which the grinding stock is discharged again after treatment. In order to prevent to a large extent wear on the separator device (34) and, at the same time, to achieve as even as possible a distribution of the grinding bodies in the grinding chamber (9), the agitator element (21) is designed approximately cup-shaped and disposed between the interior stator (24) and the wall of the grinding receptacle (3) with the formation of an exterior grinding chamber (9') and an interior grinding chamber (9").

Abstract: Apparatus for dispersion of solids in liquids including two relatively movable elements arranged so as to define a dispersing volume therebetween, a multiplicity of separate generally cylindrical dispersing elements disposed within the dispersing volume, and apparatus for supplying a solid suspended in a liquid to the dispersing volume for dispersing and for removing a solid dispersed in a liquid from the dispersed volume after dispersing, wherein the relatively movable elements are separated at the dispersing volume by a separation distance which is slightly greater than the minimum dimension of the dispersing elements.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for pulverizing quick lime into a slurry form. It has a vertical shell and a rotary shaft mounted in the shell. An agitating layer and a pulverizing layer are formed in the shell at its upper and lower portions, respectively. The material fed from top of the shell is agitated and melted into smaller particles in the agitating layer and then pulverized into fine particles in the pulverizing layer. The fine particles are discharged from a top or middle of the shell. A discharge pipe is provided so as to extend upwardly from the discharge port at the middle of the shell. An agitator may be provided in the discharge pipe. The material to be pulverized is prevented from going from the inlet directly to the outlet without passing through the pulverizing layer.

Abstract: A method for optimizing the processing of continuous media mills is disclosed. It has been found that using a differential pressure device to measure the pressure drop across the mill allows the on line determination of the state of media fluidization in the mill. Operation within an optimum mill base flow rate range is needed to have good fluidization of the media so that grinding can be efficient. Using differential pressure measurement allows a precise determination of the mill base flow rate range which provides full fluidization of the media and mill base flow rate control within that range.

Abstract: Media mill having a magnetic circuit of magnetic impellers on a shaft, magnetized media, and a magnetizable outer shell which provides improved efficiency.

Abstract: A source material in the form of an ore, mineral, concentrate, calcine, or reclaimed tailings is subjected to fine milling in a stirred mill having an impeller rotatable in a grinding chamber filled with grinding media. A slurry of the source material is fed, on a continuous basis, to an inlet to the grinding chamber which is generally at a low level and flows through the chamber and out of an outlet, conveniently an overflow type of outlet. The carrier liquid may be a leach solution and/or oxidizing air or oxygen can be fed to the material as it is being milled. Enhanced recoveries of gold using a cyanide leach solution as the carrier liquid can be achieved using the process.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispersion of solids in liquids including two relatively movable elements arranged so as to define a dispersing volume therebetween, a multiplicity of separate generally cylindrical dispersing elements disposed within the dispersing volume, and apparatus for supplying a solid suspended in a liquid to the dispersing volume for dispersing and for removing a solid dispersed in a liquid from the dispersed volume after dispersing, wherein the relatively movable elements are separated at the dispersing volume by a separation distance which is slightly greater than the minimum dimension of the dispersing elements.