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Title: Micronized grinding apparatus

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6162215

Apparatus for grinding coal to micron fineness having a grinding chamber with a grinding surface supported by a circumferential wall in the grinding chamber, a plurality of grinding rolls orbiting in the grinding chamber for grinding the coal, air supply bustle surrounding the grinding chamber, air flow restrictor means opening from the air supply bustle to the grinding chamber to create a back pressure in the air supply bustle for substantially evenly distributing the air supplied to the grinding chamber around the circumference of the grinding chamber, and wherein the restrictor means directs the air flow tangentially relative to the circumferential wall of the grinding chamber so that the coal particles are caught up in a cyclonic movement having a large initial horizontally directed force to maintain a body of coal particles in the orbit of the grinding rolls, which horizontal force gradually diminishes as the vertical force component of the air flow lifts the ground coal particles out of the grinding chamber.

Assignee:
Williams Patent Crusher and Pulverizer Co.
Patent Number(s):
US 4522343
OSTI ID:
6162215
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 13 Dec 1982; Other Information: PAT-APPL-448950
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English