Abstract: An activated pozzolan composition includes a fine interground particulate blend of an initially unactivated natural pozzolan and a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) different than the initially unactivated natural pozzolan. The initially unactivated natural pozzolan may include volcanic ash or other natural pozzolanic deposit having a moisture content of at least 3%, and the activated pozzolan composition can have a moisture content less than 0.5% The initially unactivated natural pozzolan may have a particle size less than 1 mm before intergrinding with the SCM.

Abstract: A grinding process, in a grinding unit including a first shop including a first mill and a first separator, an outlet from the first mill being connected to an inlet of the first separator; a second shop including a second separator and a second mill, an outlet from the second separator being connected to an inlet of the second mill; the second separator being fed by the material coming from the first separator, wherein the first separator is operated at a tangential speed of 15 to 25 m/s and a radial speed of 3.5 to 5 m/s; and the second separator is operated at a tangential speed of 20 to 50 m/s and a radial speed of 2.5 to 4 m/s.

Abstract: The invention relates to a classifier 10 for use with a pulveriser which pulverises raw material. The classifier 10 classifies crushed material into a fine fraction which is expelled via an upper fuel outlet 33 and a coarse fraction which is returned to the pulveriser via a lower rejection outlet 44 for further crushing. The classifier 10 has an internal housing 20 which defines a classification zone 25 and a plurality of triangular flaps 39, each of which are pivotally attached to the housing 20. The flaps 39 are displaceable between a closed position in which they are arranged alongside one another such that sides of adjacent flaps 39 are in abutment and they together define a skirt having a continuous periphery; and an open position in which the flaps 39 are outwardly displaced, widening the outlet 44 in order to allow built-up coarse material to be discharged.

Abstract: A biomass pulverizing apparatus includes a pulverizing apparatus body including a feedstock supply pipe, the pulverizing apparatus body for supplying biomass feedstock from above in a vertical axial direction, a pulverizing table for placing the biomass feedstock, a drive section for rotationally driving the pulverizing table, a pulverizing roller for pulverizing the biomass feedstock by a pressing force, the pulverizing roller being operated in conjunction with the rotation of the pulverizing table, a blower unit for forming an upward flow upward from below on the outer peripheral side of the pulverizing table so as to jet conveying gas for conveying the pulverized biomass powder in an air stream, a classifier, the classifier for classifying the biomass powder accompanied with the conveying gas, and a blowing gas introduction section.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing toner is provided which includes a pulverizer for pulverizing a material into particles, a classifier for classifying the particles by size, a discharging path for discharging the particles from the pulverizer to the classifier, a returning path for returning relatively coarse particles among the classified particles from the classifier to the pulverizer, and a handling unit for handling particles. A method for manufacturing toner is also provided which includes pulverizing a material into particles in a pulverizer, discharging the particles from the pulverizer to a classifier via a discharging path, classifying the particles by size in the classifier, and returning relatively coarse particles among the classified particles from the classifier to the pulverizer. The handling unit is provided on at least one of the discharging path and the returning path, and includes a mechanism for preventing accumulation of the particles using airflow.

Abstract: A pulverized material producing system capable of producing a pulverized material dried sufficiently from a raw material, while at the same time suppressing production costs, even in the case where the raw material has a high moisture content and viscosity, is provided. A pulverized material producing system that includes a pulverizer 2, a container 3, and a heated air supplier 4 that supplies heated air is used. The container 3 includes a first inlet 10, second inlets 11a and 11b, a first outlet 12, and a second outlet 13, and is configured so that a swirl flow 35 is created within the container. The heated air is supplied by the heated air supplier 4 to the interior of the container 3 via the second inlets 11a and 11b. The pulverizer 2 includes a casing 20 provided with a suction port 22 and a discharge port 23, an impeller, and a screen 24 that has many pores, and has blower functionality.

Abstract: A fluid spray nozzle for spraying fluid, satisfying a formula (r?r0)?L tan 35°, wherein r0 is a radius of a section having a minimum area of the nozzle when cut perpendicular to a spray direction of the fluid; and r is a radius of cross-sections of an upstream side and a downstream side of the spray direction from the section having a minimum area with a distance of L.

Abstract: A roller mill for pulverizing material and separating the pulverized material has a mill for crushing the material and a classifier disposed on the mill for separating the crushed material. The mill includes a grinding mechanism that has a plurality of grinding rolls and a grinding ring that coact to pulverize material within a mill housing, which defines a grinding chamber. The classifier is a centrifugal-type classifier having a motor-driven rotor disposed within a classifier housing, which define a classifying chamber. The rotor has a plurality of blades that extend outwardly from the rotor. As the rotor rotates within the classifying chamber, the blades separate fine sized particles from oversized particles by passing the finer sized particles through the blades, and contacting and propelling the oversized particles against the classifier housing. The oversize particles fall downward through an outer annular passage defined by a baffle and the mill housing back to the grinding mechanism.

Abstract: A method and jet mill apparatus for generating fine particles by means of a jet mill with an integrated dynamic air classifier including a classifying wheel classifying wheel shaft and classifier housing, wherein between the classifying wheel and classifier housing a classifier gap is formed and between the classifying wheel shaft and the classifier housing a shaft passage is formed, wherein gap flushing of classifier gap or shaft passage takes place with compressed gases of low energy content, and wherein comminution jet inlets are present which are charged with energy-rich superheated steam. Through the invention a dynamic air classifier explained above and a corresponding operating method therefor are additionally created.

Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a cement finishing mill, and operating the mill at an optimal point, are disclosed. To determine an optimal point of operation, values of mill power and sound are collected and compared to values predicted by a model to determine if the mill is choking. This choking determination is used in one of two processes to determine an optimal point of operation for the mill. In the first process, as long as the mill is not choking, the amount of fresh feed input to the mill is incrementally increased; when choking occurs, the amount of fresh feed is decreased until choking ceases. In the second process, the amount of fresh feed input to the mill is increased and decreased in an oscillating manner over time, to find the amount of feed that results in the mill approaching, but never reaching, a choking state.

Abstract: Described is a method as well as a plant for drying and comminution of moist, mineral raw materials, such as chalk, marl and clay, by which method the raw materials are dried and comminuted subject to simultaneous supply of hot gases in a drier crusher (8) from which the material is subsequently directed in suspended form to a separator (11) in which it is separated into a coarse fraction which is returned to the drier crusher (8) for further drying and comminution and into a fine fraction which is directed to the next stage of the process and where any hard material components such as flint, sand and marble are subjected to grinding in a separate grinding unit (16). The method and plant is peculiar in that a part quantity of the coarse fraction from the separator (11) is proportionately fed to the separate grinding unit (16) for the grinding of hard material components.

Abstract: A roller mill for pulverizing material and separating the pulverized material has a mill for crushing the material and a classifier disposed on the mill for separating the crushed material. The mill includes a grinding mechanism that has a plurality of grinding rolls and a grinding ring that coact to pulverize material within a mill housing, which defines a grinding chamber. The classifier is a centrifugal-type classifier having a motor-driven rotor disposed within a classifier housing, which define a classifying chamber. The rotor has a plurality of blades that extend outwardly from the rotor. As the rotor rotates within the classifying chamber, the blades separate fine sized particles from oversized particles by passing the finer sized particles through the blades, and contacting and propelling the oversized particles against the classifier housing. The oversize particles fall downward through an outer annular passage defined by a baffle and the mill housing back to the grinding mechanism.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roller mill, particularly an air-swept roller mill provided with a device for separating magnetizable constituents, particularly iron particles from the milling area. The invention also relates to a method for grinding materials with magnetizable, particularly iron-containing constituents, e.g. slag, in an air-swept roller mill where, for avoiding concentrations of magnetizable particles, particularly iron particles, on the grinding pan, said particles are electromagnetically separated and removed from the roller mill.

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.

Abstract: The invention relates a pulverizer equipped with a free air purging mechanical seal/classifier design that provides free air purging of the seal gap between the mechanical seal assembly and the classifier. The invention also provides a coarse particle extraction assembly wherein the coarse particles rejected by the classifier can be reliably discharged from the pulverizer or recirculated to the inlet. Furthermore, the rejected coarse particles can be subjected to jet milling and then recirculated. The invention also provides a free air cooling arrangement for cooling both the lower bearing member and the area of the vertical drive shaft where it meets the lower bearing member. The invention also provides an improved feed nozzle for use of the pulverizer in drying applications.

Abstract: A cylindrical chamber has a drive shaft rotatably mounted therein and extending along substantially the entire longitudinal extent thereof. This drive shaft is rotatably driven by a motor preferably at a speed of about 3600 rpm. Solid particles to be comminuted which may be of coal, limestone/dolomite, or hydrated lime are fed into the chamber. Pressurized air is fed into the bottom of the chamber. Uplifting pressure for driving the air and particles upwardly in the chamber may be provided by pressurized gas in conjunction with a stationary velocity head. The upwardly driven particles are first driven through a plurality of rotors which are driven by the shaft and provide a centrifugal force which comminutes the particles. The particles are then driven through a plurality of semi-permeable screens which are rotatably driven by the shaft and further comminute the particles to a micronized state. To lower NO.sub.x and SO.sub.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for drying and grinding moist raw cement or other material wherein the moist material is introduced to a grinding zone at which it is ground to produce relatively fine and relatively coarse particles which are separated and delivered to separate outlets. Hot drying gas is delivered to the path of fresh material flowing to the grinding zone to pre-dry such material, and the ground particles flowing to the respective discharge outlets are further dried by hot gas. The further dried relatively coarse particles are delivered the fresh material inlet and mixed with fresh material therein.

Abstract: A method of controlling the operation of the bowl mills in a coal-fired steam generating power plant is disclosed; and in particular a method of controlling the operation of such bowl mills such that the furnace of a steam generating power plant can more rapidly respond to abrupt changes in the demands placed upon the output of the furnace due to abrupt changes in the power requirements of an electric power grid.

Abstract: An improved coal pulverizer classifying system including a classifier cone extension to protect coal flow into the pulverizer from the annular fine-lifting airflow from the pulverizer throat. The classifier cone extension replaces traditional intermittent discharge structure, improving flow through the classifier system and reducing the disruptive effects of the discharge on the annular flow from the pulverizer throat. The pulverizer feedpipe outlet is located in the classifier cone extension, but above the throat of the extension to prevent interference between the feedpipe and the flow of coal through the extension. In a preferred form an adjustable clearance cone is mounted for vertical adjustment on the lower end of the feedpipe.

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.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for defibering paper and dry pulp in a substantially dry processing environment is disclosed. The apparatus and method for defibering paper and dry pulp uses a dry processing cell into which cellulose material is supplied. The dry processing cell includes a rotating element for creating a turbulent air flow within the cell. The turbulent air flow causes the cellulose material to be circulated within the dry processing cell and to collide with the rotating element, cell walls, and the cellulose matter, itself. This circulation causes disassociation of the cellulose material from the filler, inks and other materials into single cellulose fibers that are capable of being removed from the cell for further processing.

Abstract: A cylindrical vessel has a drive shaft rotatably mounted therein and extending along substantially the entire longitudinal extent thereof. This drive shaft is rotatably driven by a motor at a speed of 1,500-10,000. Solid particles to be comminuted which may be of coal and limestone/dolomite or lime are fed into the vessel. Connected to the shaft and rotatably driven therewith is a centrifugal compressor fan which forms an uplifting air curtain which suspends the particles. Mounted above the compressor and rotatably driven by the drive shaft are a plurality of rotors, screens, and a disc mounted in an aperture formed in a fixed plate which forms a circular vortex in the space between the disc and the plate. The particles are comminuted by the successive action of the rotors, screens and the circular vortex, larger particles being repelled for further comminution while the finer particles are fed from the vessel to cyclonic classifiers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the dry grinding of solids, comprises initial coarse grinding of the solids in a controlled vortexing of a fluidized bed and directing the solid fine particles generally upwardly into a vortex grinding zone and grinding the upwardly directed solid particles in the vortex grinding zone by passing a portion of the particles through the vortex grinding zone. The vortex grinding zone comprises at least one successively vertically disposed grinding stage comprising passing particles upwardly through at least one horizontal vortex zone of an annular gap, defined by a stationary plate with a circular aperture, hereafter cleaning up the upward moving product mix by eliminating coarser particles by gravity separation with a centrifugal expelling fan and subjecting the remaining part of the upwardly particles to the vertical vortexing of a rotating semipermeable means, defined by a rotating assembly containing a broad mesh screen therein.

Abstract: A two stage hammer mill which reduces recycled glass and its associated contaminants to small glass particles in the 100-800 grit size range and waste. The glass grinder is of light weight, modular construction, such that it may be taken apart, relocated, and restored to operation quickly and easily. A modular design also allows it to be easily cleaned and reconfigured to produce aggregate of selectable size. Located on separate rotors, installed in separate grinding chambers, the two hammer mills are spaced apart from one another and mounted within a common housing. The first stage provides a relatively coarse reduction of the material flow, which then passes into the secondary grinding chamber where the material is further ground. The design of the hammers in this hammer mill are such that they entrain a large quantity of air, accelerate it to high velocity, and drive the mixture of air and material through the system, entraining small, medium and large sized particles.

Abstract: A recirculating grinding plant with a crushing high-pressure roller press and sifter which has low energy consumption and which operates without a separate drive disagglomerator for disagglomerating the roll press scabs. The raw material together with the scabs of the roller press are delivered directly to the delivery chute (15) of the disagglomerator/sifter, which is a static cascade sifter (16) enclosed by a column-like sifter housing and having two sift-zone barriers. The barriers form a sifting zone therebetween and sifter air flows through them in a cross-current fashion. The barriers include cascade-like or shutter-like deflectors (16a, 16b) pointing towards the bottom in direction of the discharge opening (19) for the sifted coarse material fragments (20). The two deflectors (16a, 16b) and the sifting zone (17) located therebetween are arranged oblique to the vertical.

Abstract: A new and improved media granulation apparatus includes a cyclone chamber assembly which includes an outer wall, a plurality of vortex controller assemblies connected to the outer wall, and an inner wall. A first conduit is connected to the inlet of the cyclone chamber assembly. A blower assembly is connected to the first conduit, for creating a cyclone flow within the cyclone chamber assembly, and a media feed assembly is connected to the first conduit for supplying media to be ground to the cyclone chamber assembly. The respective vortex controller assemblies include a vortex control element which is substantially cylindrical, e.g. D-shaped, in cross-section and a pivot for connecting one end of the vortex control element to the outer wall. A slot-riding connector is connected to the vortex control element for riding in an arced slot in the outer wall.

Abstract: An improved coal pulverizer classifying system in which the feedpipe and classifier cone are provided with extensions to protect coal flow into the pulverizer from the annular fine-lifting airflow from the pulverizer throat. The feedpipe and cone extensions replace traditional intermittent discharge structure, improving flow through the classifier system and reducing the disruptive effects of the discharge on the annular flow from the pulverizer throat. An adjustable classifier venturi is also provided to adjust the exit angle and exit velocity of the fines leaving the classifier cone by the combustion delivery chute.

Abstract: The apparatus for processing a composite supply of material having limestone, culm or gob and pond fines for grinding reduction with coal, has the ability to discard the low BTU value materials and materials hard to grind, and comprising grinding means having a grinding chamber in which the composite supply of material is processed to initiate the first removal of fine material so that the remainder is left to go through a grinding step with emphasis on discarding the low BTU value and hard to grind material while the remainder is subject to reduction to a fineness that responds to a supply of air acting to carry the fines to a cyclone separator to recover the fines for use in a combustion step and reuse the air to circulate through the grinding chamber and pick up heat of combustion to cause moisture reduction in some of the material to improve the efficiency in the grinding process, and to limit the presence of sulfur in the stack gas from the combustion step.

Abstract: Fresh raw material is delivered to a crushing zone for crushing. Beforehand, fine particles are separated from the raw material by means of an airstream and directed into the housing of the crusher where they are entrained by an independent gas stream that conveys crushed fines upwardly to a separator also located within the housing. The separator removes fine particles from the system and returns the remaining, relatively course tailings material to the crushing zone through a tailings return chute. At least a portion of the material exiting the tailings return chute is subjected to a secondary separation treatment to capture additional quantities of fine particles before entering the crushing zone. The captured tailings material may be mixed with the fresh raw material else reintroduced into the top of the separator to receive the secondary separation treatment.

Abstract: Apparatus for grinding material which comprises a flow of ground material that contains both desirable fines and undesirable oversize particles in which a separator rotor is equipped with shaped blades that isokinetically separate out the oversize particles and centrifuges such particles out of the path of the flow of ground material and into a path for returning the oversize particles for further grinding. The centrifuging of the oversize particles reduces the drag in the flow of the ground material into the separator rotor, and that reduces the horsepower needed to establish the movement of the ground material at a rate that improves the efficiency of the apparatus. A variation of the foregoing develops pressurization of the material in the separator zone so that the oversize ground material is forced to return to be subjected to further grinding under the influence of a differential pressure in the apparatus while the acceptable material is subject to micron sizing in the rotor.

Abstract: Roll press or mill with two adjacent rolls (2, 4) with cooperating compression surfaces, mounted in bearing housings located between an upper and lower box girder, one roll being adjustable, with a material feed system with at least one fill chamber (6) with walls (22, 24) parallel to the roll axes and extending into the roll gap (8) and with apparatus to eliminate the air entering the roll gap with the material, provided with air admission holes in the region of the roll gap leading into an air collection chamber connected with air outlets. On each side of the fill chamber walls, parallel to the axes, chambers (16, 18) extend essentially over the breadth of the compression surfaces of the rolls and are closed at their ends. The chambers are each connected to the roll gap by a passage (28, 30) formed between the compression surfaces at the perimeter of the rolls and the lower end of the walls adjacent to the walls of the filling chamber. The chambers (16, 18) are provided with air outlets (34, 36).

Abstract: Apparatus for disposing of wet sludge by conversion to a substantially dry product during grinding of the wet sludge in a drying atmosphere which promotes the separation of the grindings into coarse fractions and fine fractions so that the coarse fractions in the dried condition can be directed to enter the supply of the wet sludge for reducing the moisture content to prepare the mix of wet sludge and coarse fractions for grinding in a drying heat atmosphere to perpetuate the supply of coarse fractions for moisture reduction of the wet sludge and a supply of the fine fractions as a product of the apparatus.

Abstract: A process and device for crushing bulk materials. The material to be crushed is fed from above to a first accelerating device which accelerates it into a first crusher, the fine particles in the crushed material produced by the first crusher being carried upwards by an air or gas stream. The larger particles trickle downwards and are then carried by an air or gas stream vertically upwards to another accelerating device which accelerates them into another crusher. The fine particles produced in the second crusher are swept upwards by the air or gas stream, while the larger particles trickle downwards and are brought round to the beginning of the cycle again. The invention concerns the combination of a vertical impact crusher with a separator, both of which are preferably located inside the same housing.

Abstract: A material separator apparatus for obtaining refined material subjected to a first grind reduction which is moved into the separator where the large and/or heavier particles of the material are separated out and returned by gravity to fall back into the first grind reduction for further reduction while the finer ground material is subjected to a second separation by a rotary separating device having an array of spaced members which allow the passage of particles smaller than the spacing between members and the larger particles are refused passage and fall back for further reduction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding method and to grinding apparatus using a ring mill, in which the air speed in an air ring surrounding the grinding track is chosen to be sufficiently low that a proportion of the material which has already been comminuted to the fineness of the finished product also falls downwards against the air stream and through the air ring, is mechanically elevated and subjected to separation, the resulting tailings being delivered back to the grinding track of the ring mill. Such a solution is distinguished by a substantially reduced pressure loss and accordingly a considerable saving of energy.

Abstract: A grinding mill containing a plurality of milling sections and composed of: a single cylindrical stator common to all milling sections; a rotor mounted in the stator for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the stator and having a plurality of milling plates spaced apart along the longitudinal axis and each disposed in a respective milling section; and a blower facility fastened to the rotor for rotation therewith and disposed near the bottom of the stator below the lowermost milling section for conveying material to be ground and conveyor gas through a central opening in the bottom of the stator to the milling sections. An auxiliary flow inducing device is connected to the outlet of the mill. The mill further includes a finger sifter mounted adjacent the outlet end of the milling sections and rotated at a rate selected independently of the rate of rotation of the rotor. Each milling plate can be formed to have an irregular working surface.

Abstract: An impact crushing machine for finely and effectively pulverizing materials includes impact plates disposed on one side of a rotary plate and classifying blades disposed on the other side of the rotary plate. A fine grain exhaust outlet and a coarse grain exhaust outlet are disposed facing to the classifying blades. The coarse grain outlet is directly coupled with a supply path for the materials to form a circulating path, and a raw material supply pipe is coupled with the supply path.

Abstract: A vane wheel arrangement (30) particularly suited for use in a bowl mill (10) of the type that is employed for purposes of effecting therewithin the pulverization of materials such as coal. The subject vane wheel arrangement (30) which is positioned within the bowl mill (10) so as to be located in the path of flow of the air that in flowing through the bowl mill (10) transports therewith the pulverized material, is operative to effect a primary classification of the pulverized material. Encompassed within the subject vane wheel arrangement (30) are vane means (36) supported on the rotatable grinding surface (14) of the bowl mill (10) for rotation therewith, and a converging/diverging orifice means (38) located in spaced relation to the rotatable grinding surface (14). Both the vane means (36) and the exposed surfaces of the converging/diverging orifice means (38) are formed of a material that is noted for its good abrasive resistant qualities.

Abstract: A vane wheel arrangement (30) particularly suited for use in a bowl mill (10) of the type that is employed for purposes of effecting therewithin the pulverization of materials such as coal. The subject vane wheel arrangement (30) which is positioned within the bowl mill (10) so as to be located in the path of flow of the air that in flowing through the bowl mill (10) transports therewith the pulverized material, is operative to effect a primary classification of the pulverized material. Encompassed within the subject vane wheel arrangement (30) are vane means (36) supported on the rotatable grinding surface (14) of the bowl mill (10) for rotation therewith, and a converging/diverging orifice means (38) located in spaced relation to the rotatable grinding surface (14). Both the vane means (36) and the exposed surfaces of the converging/diverging orifice means (38) are formed of a material that is noted for its good abrasive resistant qualities.

Abstract: A pulverizer for pulverizing solid material such as coal in which the chmaber of the pulverizer has jets of fluid projected thereinto at high speed to cause the particles to impact against one another to effect the pulverizing and in which a sleeve is mounted within the pulverizer chamber so that the coarser particles which pass upwardly through the sleeve flow downwardly in the annular space between the sleeve and the chamber side wall, to be re-entrained by the nozzles and projected again into the sleeve for further impacting.

Abstract: A mineral breaker with a horizontally mounted driven accelerating rotor having a mineral inlet on the under surface thereof and with material to be processed being drawn into the rotor in a flow of air. The processed material is discharged also in a flow of air through a tube or tubes from the top of the rotor housing. Mineral pieces not sufficiently reduced in size may be recirculated through the rotor and additional material added for further processing. The size of processed particles is controlled by the airflow passing through the rotor.

Abstract: A material grinding mill having a grinding chamber with a closed bottom, a material feed disposed to force ground material to move axially of the rotary grinder to an outlet at one or both sides of the grinding chamber, a scroll liner directed to lie adjacent the path of rotation of the grinder and form a venturi throat inlet to the grinding chamber, a supply of drying medium admitted to the mill to be sucked through the venturi throat for drying the material during the grinding while moving it through the side outlet, and a classifier for returning oversize material to the grinding chamber through the venturi throat.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved vertical type pulverizing and classifying apparatus comprising a lower, pulverizing chamber and an upper, classifying chamber, wherein a material under treatment is carried by gas streams. The disclosed apparatus includes a conduit between the pulverizing chamber and the classifying chamber for sending particles of the material emerging from a primary classification to the classifying chamber for a secondary classification. A floating chamber is provided circumferentially of the conduit to receive particles descending from the classifying chamber for a further classification, whereby resulting fine particles are blown back to the classifying chamber and coarse particles are returned to the pulverizing chamber by way of a material feeder.

Abstract: A pressure-chamber grinder comprises a grinder chamber of substantially circular section, which chamber is provided with a feed opening for the material to be ground, fed as a gas-tight plug, and the opposite end of which chamber is provided with an outlet opening for the ground material. Tangentially directed grinding-gas nozzles are fitted and are uniformly spaced around the entire circumference of the mantle face of the grinder chamber, or at least of part of same. The object of the present invention is to force the entire material flow to rush into every grinding zone.

Abstract: There is disclosed a grinding crusher having a grinder piece disposed within a crushing chamber for relative rotation with respect to a casing defining the crushing chamber. The casing is journaled and driven in high speed rotation so as to cause a material within the casing to be centrifugally pressed against the inner peripheral surfaces thereof.

Abstract: A pulverizing machine in which alongside the pulverizer rotor 16 are a classifier zone 29 and a conveyor zone 41. The rotor 16 has pulverizer members 25 which project into an annular reducing zone 27. Guide means 17 is provided in the conveyor zone to provide spiral paths to convey a rotating flow of air and reduced material spirally inwards from one end part 45 of the reducing zone to the classifier zone 29, and the latter is positioned to allow oversize material particles to pass outwards from the classifier zone directly to said end part of the reducing zone while the undersize particles are carried inwards, optionally via a rotary classifier 18, to an outlet 15.

Abstract: A classifier mill having first and second series of beaters (1, 2) on respective sides (3, 4) of the periphery (5) of a rotary pulverizer disc (6) within a chamber (7), an independently rotary classifier (8) coaxial therewith and radially inwards of the second series of beaters (2), an entry (9) for material into the chamber (7) at a position intermediate the pulverizer axis and the first series of beaters (1), and an exit (10) for fines coaxial with the classifier (8) and remote from the pulverizer (6), is further provided within the chamber (7) with an annular wall (18) extending radially outwards from clear of the periphery (19) of the classifier (8) to beyond the periphery (5) of the second series of beaters (2), and with a cylindrical wall (20) extending from the annular wall (18) past the peripheries of both series of beaters (1, 2), the cylindrical wall (20) being provided with a series of circumferentially spaced openings (21) disposed radially outwards with respect to only the first series of beaters

Abstract: Apparatus for processing waste material which includes domestic and industrial waste, and in which the recovery of aluminum containers is an important aspect. The apparatus comprises a shredding mill and a housing structure to which the waste material is delivered in such manner that the difficult to shred heavy objects are allowed to separate by gravity action, and the remainder of the waste material is dispersed by an air stream such that the air responsive fractions are collected in a separator chamber and the remainder of the fractions are fed into the shredding mill under the control of gate means which responds to ability of the shredder to receive and process the same without overloading the motor drive.

Abstract: A breaking machine having a disintegrator module, storage shaft, and a regulating shaft. Fibers are fed into a disintegrator module of the breaking machine and are thereafter led into a storage shaft. At this point, the fibers are alternatively exited from the machine or fowarded to a regulating shaft for recycling to the disintegrator module. The cycle may be reproduced several times and is automatically controlled by a control panel where preselected digital values are set to control the operation and cycling of the machine.

Abstract: A system for disposing of sewage sludge by treating the sludge in apparatus which processes the sludge through relatively inert gas drying and grinding stages and utilized as much of the dried and ground sludge as is needed to produce heat for maintaining the drying process in the system once the system has become substantially self sufficient on use of the sludge as the drying heat source. The remaining excess sludge is then in a form either granular or fine suitable for direct sale.