With Material Retaining Means At Axial End Of Rotary Surface Patents (Class 241/226)
  • Patent number: 11992846
    Abstract: An infeed protection device for a rolling mill, comprising a housing and a plurality of parallel rotating rollers. A product infeed is formed by two of the rollers which rotate about rotational axes arranged parallel with one another and arranged at an adjustable roller space with respect to one another. The infeed protection device comprises a profile which is arranged parallel with the rollers forming the product infeed and extends over the length of the product infeed. In an infeed direction of the rotating rollers, the profile is upstream of the rollers forming the product infeed. At least one vertical through-opening is formed in the profile. A space is formed between the profile and the rollers. The infeed protection device further comprises a holder for fastening the infeed protection device to the housing of the rolling mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Bühler AG
    Inventor: Thomas Versnik
  • Patent number: 11612895
    Abstract: A grinding roll including a roll body having a cylindrical outer surface extending axially between a first end and a second end and a flange attached to at least one of the first and second ends. The flange includes an outer edge that extends radially past the cylindrical outer surface of the roll body. A first surface of the flange forms a perpendicular continuing surface with the cylindrical outer surface of the roll body. A second surface of the flange forms a continuation of one of the first and second ends of the roll body. The flange includes wear protection liner elements on the first surface. The first surface of the flange includes at least one lower part adjacent the cylindrical outer surface of the roll body and at least one upper part adjacent the outer edge of the flange. The lower part includes a first type of wear protection liner elements and the upper part includes a second type of wear protection liner elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Metso Outotec USA Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Harbold, Vadim Reznitchenko
  • Publication number: 20140263789
    Abstract: In a container and method for processing food, the container has a closed end, and open end and a tubular sidewall extending therebetween and together with the closed end defining an interior space of the container. The container is configured to accommodate a blade member within the interior space of the container. The container has a center and the sidewall has at least one rib projecting inward of the interior space of the container and extending heightwise along at least a portion of the sidewall. The rib is asymmetric in transverse cross-section. A blade member is also disclosed and is configured to have different planes in which the blade member moves upon rotation of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Kroy Everett Nernberger, Jacob Daniel Smith, David W. Everett
  • Patent number: 8833687
    Abstract: A grinding assembly for the comminution of material that enhances the durability of the side edges of both a grinding roll and a flange roll. Both the grinding roll and the flange roll include a wear ring that is received within a side groove formed at each end of a cylindrical roll body. The wear ring includes a series of spaced receiving cavities that each receive a wear member. Each wear member includes a radially outer surface and an axial end face to enhance the durability of the edge of the roll body. The edge ring is retained on the roll body by a series of connectors that pass through the edge ring. In the flange roll design, a flange ring is attached to the roll body by a series of connectors that also secure the edge ring to the roll body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Metso Minerals Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Harbold, Vadim Reznitchenko
  • Publication number: 20140217217
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller crusher having two generally parallel rollers arranged to rotate in opposite directions, towards each other, and separated by a gap, each roller having a first end and a second end. The roller crusher comprises a flange attached to at least one of said ends of one of said rollers. The flange extending in a radial direction of said roller, and has a height above an outer surface of said roller which is sufficient to extend across said gap substantially along a nip angle of said roller crusher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: METSO MINERALS (SWEDEN) AB
    Inventor: Lars Gronvall
  • Patent number: 8708264
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a roller crusher having two generally parallel rollers arranged to rotate in opposite directions, towards each other, and separated by a gap, each roller having a first end and a second end. The roller crusher includes a flange attached to at least one of the ends of one of the rollers. The flange extends in a radial direction of the roller, and has a height above an outer surface of the roller which is sufficient to extend across the gap substantially along a nip angle of the roller crusher. A feeding structure is formed on the flange and extends in an axial direction of the roller to engage material toward the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Metso Minerals (Sweden) AB
    Inventor: Lars Gronvall
  • Patent number: 8695907
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a roller crusher having a base frame and a roller frame movably connected to the base frame. Two generally parallel rotatable rollers separated from each other by a gap are arranged in the roller frame. The roller crusher further includes a feeding arrangement mounted to the base frame for feeding material to the rollers and at least one balancing cylinder is provided which are connected to and arranged to manipulate the roller frame relative to the base frame such that the position of the rollers relative to the feeding arrangement can be adjusted. Front and rear cheek plates are provided at the roller frame partially covering front and rear end surfaces of one of the rollers and at least partially covering an opening between the feeding arrangement and the two rollers, the cheek plates being fixedly mounted to the roller frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Metso Minerals Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Vadim Reznitchenko, Keith Harbold
  • Publication number: 20130277477
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller crusher of the type which comprises a pair of crushing rollers is provided. The crushing rollers are generally parallel to one another and rotate in opposite directions, each roller including a shaft which has end portions, mounted in respective roller bearings. The roller crusher comprises a feeding arrangement for feeding material to be crushed to a crushing zone of the roller crusher. The roller crusher is characterized in that it further comprises a dust protecting enclosure enclosing the crushing zone, the dust protecting enclosure having an inlet opening upstream of the crushing zone and in communication with said feeding arrangement, and an outlet opening downstream of the crushing zone, and in that the roller bearings are arranged outside of the dust protecting enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: METSO MINERALS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Vadim Reznitchenko
  • Publication number: 20130277479
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a roller crusher having a base frame and a roller frame movably connected to said base frame. Two generally parallel rotatable rollers separated from each other by a gap are arranged in said roller frame. The roller crusher further comprises a feeding arrangement mounted to the base frame for feeding material to the rollers and at least one balancing cylinder is provided which are connected to and arranged to manipulate the roller frame relative to the base frame such that the position of the rollers relative to the feeding arrangement can be adjusted. Front and rear cheek plates are provided at the roller frame partially covering front and rear end surfaces of one of the rollers and at least partially covering an opening between the feeding arrangement and the two rollers, the cheek plates being fixedly mounted to the roller frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: METSO MINERALS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Vadim Reznitchenko, Keith Harbold
  • Publication number: 20130277478
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller crusher having two generally parallel rollers arranged to rotate in opposite directions, towards each other, and separated by a gap, each roller having a first end and a second end. The roller crusher comprises a flange attached to at least one of said ends of one of said rollers. The flange extending in a radial direction of said roller, and has a height above an outer surface of said roller which is sufficient to extend across said gap substantially along a nip angle of said roller crusher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: METSO MINERALS (SWEDEN) AB
    Inventor: Lars Gronvall
  • Publication number: 20120061501
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cheek plate which has high-efficiency, stable liquid draining performance, and achieves optimum draining performance with respect to raw material. The cheek plate (1) is provided at the front or rear of a pair of press rolls (32a, 32b) which are disposed laterally. Furthermore, a liquid drain port (14) is provided in such a way as to face a raw material catching section (33) for the press rolls (32a, 32b). The inlet side of the liquid drain port (14) is provided with a wedge wire screen (2) in such a way that liquid passage slots (22) thereof are disposed vertically or laterally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsui Engineering & Ship Building Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Kounosu
  • Patent number: 7997518
    Abstract: The invention relates to a material bed roller mill having two rollers (1, 2) which are rotatably supported in a machine frame (3) and driven in opposite directions and whose roller gap, which is charged from above with the grinding material to be comminuted, is delimited at its ends during the operation of the roller mill by a grinding material guide plate (5) which can be removed from its operating position, wherein a) the grinding material guide plate (5) is displaceable in an upward direction and away from the end of the roller gap to such an extent relative to its operating position that the rollers (1, 2) can be removed from the machine frame (3) in the horizontal direction; b) during that displacement movement, the grinding material guide plate (5) is guided by guide bodies along an arc-shaped guide and c) in the operating position, the grinding material guide plate (5) is supported towards the outside against the forces exerted by the grinding material by support members which are connected pivotably
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Polysius AG
    Inventors: Nils Hörster, Helmut Lücke, Silvio Lorenz
  • Patent number: 5386946
    Abstract: A roll mill, particularly a flaking mill with a product channel on each of the axial ends of the rollers utilizes at least two rollers having guide channels with adjoining guide surfaces, at their axial ends, with the guide channels and guide surfaces, conveying the product to be milled into the converging gap or nip of the rollers. The guide surfaces are pivotable via a piston-cylinder unit from an operating position into a discharge position where in the latter position, foreign objects which have accumulated on the guide surface are removed via an open flap, below the guide surface, into a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Buhler AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Fetzer
  • Patent number: 5246176
    Abstract: Cleaning means having at least one blast pipe (8) which ensure uniform falling conditions inside return conduits (6) are arranged on a squeezing roll mill (1, 2) having lateral return conduits (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Buhler AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Fetzer, Bruno Burkhard
  • Patent number: 5174511
    Abstract: Apparatus for feeding particulate material to a roll mill, such as a roll refiner mill, or flaking mill has rollers (1, 2) pressed against each other with the help of a pressure exerting device, and a feeding compartment disposed above the nip (3) for the supply of the material to be ground. The feeding compartment (5) has a supply opening (14), succeeded by a device (11) for supplying mixed material to the rollers (1 and 2). This device is composed of a swivel spout (11) driven backward and forward, substantially lengthwise along the nip (3), by a pivot drive (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Buhler AG
    Inventors: Edgar Ruegger, Josef Huber, Hugo Hegelbach
  • Patent number: 5102058
    Abstract: A cheek plate for preventing material from passing unmilled around the ends of a pair of milling rollers of a milling apparatus. The cheek plate is of a generally cuneiform shape having a pair of concave edges and is mounted on an end plate of the milling apparatus a short distance from the rollers. Compressed air supplied centrally of the cheek plate is distributed for release to the atmosphere along the concave edge of the cheek plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Ag Processing Inc., a cooperative
    Inventors: Craig Mericle, Ron Bocian, Daryl Sybesma
  • Patent number: 5054701
    Abstract: An apparatus for milling particulate mineral material comprises two cylinders rotatable in opposite directions about parallel axes defining a plane while being yieldingly pressed towards each other, the cylinders defining therebetween a milling compression space having an inlet for the particulate material above the plane and an outlet for the milled material below the plane. To reduce the formation of agglomerates and prevent circumferential and/or lateral flushing of the material, the outlet space is closed by respective lateral flanges at the opposite cylinder end faces and a barrier including a scraping bar extending across the outlet space below the plane into contact with the flanges and having one edge in contact with the peripheral surface of one of the cylinders while an opposite edge defines a milled material output of reduced cross sectional area with the peripheral surface of the other cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Fives-Cail Babcock
    Inventors: Rene Durinck, Philippe Lagache, Alain Cordonnier
  • Patent number: 4915311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller mill with two rollers, a grinding gap formed thereby and a material inlet shaft the end walls of which bear on their lower ends carrier plates with replaceable sintered metal wear parts. Each wear part is formed by a plurality of small sintered metal plates of small area which are set close against one another like a mosaic and are individually screwed onto the carrier plate so that in case of wear only those small sintered metal plates which are actually worn can be replaced simply, quickly and economically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Krupp Polysius AG
    Inventors: Heinz Grachtrup, Otto Heinemann, Helmut Krumme, Helmut Lucke, Werner Schossler, Karl von Greiffenstern
  • Patent number: 4905917
    Abstract: A roll mill, particularly a flaking mill, for milling particulate material comprises at least two rollers, especially a stationary roller and a movable one, pressed against each other by means of a pressure exerting device. Product is supplied in a width greater than the axial width of the rollers and their nip. Channels are arranged on both lateral ends of the rollers and collect the material fed in excess of the axial length of the rollers, said channels being preferably open towards the rollers, especially over their whole length. Each of said channels discharges onto a guide surface situated above the nip of the rollers and discharges in turn all the material from the channels into the nip above the upper gripping zone of the nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Gebrueder Buehler AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Fetzer, Edgar Ruegger
  • Patent number: 4838494
    Abstract: A roller mill such as a roll press or roll jaw crusher with crushing rollers and end face plates for lateral limitation of the nip mounted with pivotal links on the side walls of a product delivery chute and triangularly spaced support springs for the face plates urging them toward the nip with wear-resistant coatings on the inner surface of the face plates with the face plates having a lower removable extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Willy Jakobs
  • Patent number: 4752036
    Abstract: Helix apparatus fastened to the end flanges on a rotatable beater in a granulator for reducing the size of particles is provided to direct the granular particles from the opposing ends of the beater inwardly toward the central portion to reduce the amount of particles escaping through the opposing end walls of the granulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Olin Research Center
    Inventor: Mark A. McCully
  • Patent number: 4193555
    Abstract: A roll mill has sealing devices pressed against the ends of the rolls to seal the roll gap so that material being processed is not squeezed out (such as oil seed during treatment for flaking). The sealing devices include flow guides (such as recesses therein). A curtain of material, wider than the rolls are long, falls onto the roll gap, and so much of it as exceeds the width of the rolls is guided by the flow guides into the roll gap from beyond the ends of the rolls outwardly of the roll ends. This happens because the flow guides themselves extend near the roll gap but stop short of the roll ends. The sealing devices may include a sealing pin surmounted by an elongate wedge member, the two having communicating recesses which together form the flow guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Gebruder Buhler AG
    Inventor: Edgar Ruegger