Horizontal Axis Patents (Class 241/174)
  • Publication number: 20140367504
    Abstract: It is intended to, in a horizontal dry mill, prevent blow-up and adhesion of a raw material, etc., to a raw material input section. In a horizontal dry mill (10) of the present invention, a diameter of a raw material supply section (13) provided in a grinding tank (14) is set to be less than a diameter of a grinding chamber (12). Further, a diameter of a mechanical thrust generating device of the raw material supply section (13) is set to a small value according to the diameter of the raw material supply section. Furthermore, a gap (e1) between an outside dimension of a screw (26) as the mechanical thrust generating device and an inner diameter of the grinding tank (14) in the raw material supply section (13) is set between 0.5 mm and ? of a diameter of each grinding medium M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Naoki Hagiwara, Toshihiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8596566
    Abstract: A biomedical homogenizing device a seat, a rotational module, and at least one holding module. The seat has at least one driving wheel set, with each driving wheel set having at least one driving wheel. The rotational module is rotatably mounted on the seat and has a driving shaft and two rotating disks. The driving shaft extends through the at least one driving wheel set, the two rotating disks are respectively and firmly coupled to two ends of the driving shaft, and at least one driven wheel is rotatably mounted on at least one of the two rotating disks to be driven by the driving wheel of the driving wheel set. The at least one holding module is arranged between the two rotating disks and coupled with the at least one driven wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Yang-Te Hsu
  • Publication number: 20100127108
    Abstract: An agitating ball mill includes a comminution vessel surrounding an agitating shaft which is provided with a product inlet and a product outlet, wherein the comminution media located within the comminution vessel is activated through the rotation of the agitating shaft and held back in the comminution chamber by a separating and/or pre-classifying device. For optimum energy and space utilisation a pre-crushing device is arranged upstream of the comminution chamber. The pre-crushing device includes either a static or dynamic gap guard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Theron Harbs
  • Patent number: 6547171
    Abstract: The ball mill is of the type including: a rotary drum (11, 12, 13) having a horizontal axis (XX′) and each end of which is supported by a journal (14, 15) which terminates it and through which passes an axial tube (41) around which it delimits an annular duct (35), a vertical pipe (6) discharging in the vicinity of the journal at the level of a guide member (31) for directing material to be pulverized from the pipe towards the drum, and an outlet duct (36) communicating with the annular duct for ejecting from the drum the mixture consisting of the gas and the pulverized material. Each journal contains a rigid helicoidal Archimedes screw structure (32) fixed to it and turning with it about the tube, when the drum rotates, which tube is a rigid immobile gas injector tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Alstom
    Inventor: Daniel Fontanille
  • Patent number: 6029920
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a continuous type dispersing apparatus arranged to disperse particle media in a vessel by stirring blades thereof to satisfactorily perform a process for dispersing a material to be dispersed to effectively use energy of the stirring blades to disperse pigment so as to reduce required quantity of the particle media to be discharged, prevent generation of short pass and chocking phenomena, secure safety, obtain excellent crushing efficiency and dispersing efficiency and attain economical advantage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Shimizu, Makoto Dohi
  • Patent number: 6019300
    Abstract: A high-energy and superfine attritor for solids has inlet and outer fittings open tangentially into a generally cylindrical milling vessel containing a charge of loose milling bodies. The gas flow through the vessel can alternate in velocity and the rotor speed can alternately pass from a relatively high speed to a relatively low speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Zoz Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Henning Zoz
  • Patent number: 5873532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ball mill having a substantially horizontal axis of rotation and including a drum supported by two trunions having the same axis of rotation and situated at respective ends of the drum, raw coal being conveyed by substantially vertical pipework to the vicinity of a cylinder having the same axis of rotation and disposed within each trunion so as to open out into the drum, with the space lying between each trunion and its cylinder being connected to a pulverized coal outlet duct via a separator. A raw coal guide member is disposed beneath the pipework, conveying coal under gravity into the inside of the cylinder which includes a rigid Archimedes' screw on its inside surface, a main air feed being provided on said pipework upstream from the separator, all of said air being channeled towards the inside of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: GEC ALSTHOM Stein Industrie
    Inventor: Daniel Fontanille
  • Patent number: 5566896
    Abstract: An agitator mill comprises a grinding receptacle and an agitator unit disposed in the latter and having an agitator shaft. The agitator shaft is hollow, this grinding-stock/auxiliary-grinding-body return chamber being connected with the grinding chamber at one end of the agitator shaft. At the other end of the agitator shaft, the return chamber opens into a cage-type section of the agitator shaft, an auxiliary-grinding-body retaining device likewise projecting into this section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: EVV-Vermogensverwaltungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Stehr, Philipp Schmitt
  • Patent number: 5544818
    Abstract: A horizontal mill for ultra-fine pulverization which has enhanced pulverization characteristics and reduced power consumption while suppressing damage or wear of pulverizing media. The pulverizing media (balls) are provided in a pulverizing chamber defined by a space between an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder which are rotated relative to each other. Large diameter pulverizing media are used and the rotational speed is kept at a low level, which is opposite to the conventional theory of using small diameter media and high rotational speeds. Since the rotational speed is low, the corresponding wear of the pulverizing media is reduced. The degradation in pulverizing performance due to the low rotational speed may be recovered by using large diameter pulverizing media. Also, the dimensional ratio between the inner and outer cylinders, the interval between the inner and outer sleeves, and the axial interval between agitating vanes are suitably selected to enhance the mill performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirohisa Yoshida, Katsuyuki Ueda
  • Patent number: 5544825
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: EVV-Vermogensverwaltungs-GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Stehr
  • Patent number: 5464163
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: ZOZ Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Henning Zoz
  • Patent number: 5346145
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Inoue Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Kamiwano, Yoshitaka Inoue
  • Patent number: 5253814
    Abstract: Improvements in a mill for comminuting and crushing and disagglomerating solids, predispersed in liquids, that comprises: two interconnected bored parts forming the inlet pipe of the mill, having a seat and a buffer in its inner chamber, wherein a sphere and an opposing spring are disposed in said inlet pipe. One of the bored parts exhibits a projection with said buffer with passages for the product to be treated. A thin washer is detachably inserted and mounted in a groove, which surrounds the circular detent of the first sealing means, disposed within the shaft of the rotor and the stator of the mill. A propulsion drive means is disposed crosswise in the disk annexed to the free end of the shaft of the mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Oliver Y. Batlle, S.A.
    Inventor: Carlos O. Pujol
  • Patent number: 4919347
    Abstract: A dispersing and grinding apparatus comprises a vessel having an inlet at one end for supplying material which is to be ground and dispersed, and an outlet at the other end to discharge the ground and dispersed material. A rotor is rotatably disposed within the vessel and coacts with the inner wall of the vessel to define therebetween a narrow annular flow path through which the material flows from the inlet to the outlet of the vessel. An array of guide members are formed on the inner wall of the vessel or on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor for guiding the flow of the material-grinding medium mixture so that the predominant flow of the mixture in the narrow annular flow path occurs in the circumferential direction. The guide members have forward and rearward guide surfaces for imparting forward and rearward motions to the mixture as it flows circumferentially about the annular flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Inoue Seisakusho (Mfg) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Kamiwano, Yoshitaka Inoue
  • Patent number: 4236677
    Abstract: An apparatus and process is disclosed for treating bulk material in batches in a container having a revolving shovel mechanism rotatably mounted therein and ball-like striking elements moved by the shovel mechanism, wherein heat is supplied to or removed from the bulk material and/or the bulk material is dried and the striking elements are added to the bulk material for the duration of the treatment. The ball-like striking elements having a substantially higher specific gravity than the bulk material and a diameter of at least twice the smallest distance between the shovel tools of the shovel mechanism and the container wall. The shovel tools each having a forwardly extending portion which is curved. The curved portion imparts a resultant of tangential and radial motions to the ball striking elements when contacted thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lodige, Fritz Lodige, Joseph Lucke, Roland Lucke
  • Patent number: 4098465
    Abstract: A wet grinding device having a container for receiving therein products to be ground as well as grinding balls, the container being equipped with a mixer, a delivery device for feeding the products to be ground into the container, a discharge outlet for the broken-up products, as well as a drive device for the mixer. The wet grinding device is characterized by an operating chamber divided into a plurality of grinding zones of increasing volume, the operating chamber including a mixer shaft therethrough, the latter being rotatably horizontally supported by the container. The shaft is provided with blades which have a diameter which is proportional to the diameter of the respective grinding zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Inventors: Karl Heinz Meller, Jacques Brenot
  • Patent number: 3960333
    Abstract: A mill for pumping and grinding solid particles in a fluid medium. The particles are circulated by centrifugal forces that result from rotational movement imparted to freely rolling balls or rollers about a powered circular race assembly. The balls or rollers ride along axially spaced shoulders on the ball race assembly. Apertures between the shoulders provide fluid circulation from the area in which the balls or rollers are located to the exterior of the ball race assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1976
    Inventors: Verle W. Woods, Jay A. Woods