EP3877097A1 - Selector roller - Google Patents

Selector roller

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EP3877097A1
EP3877097A1 EP19805141.9A EP19805141A EP3877097A1 EP 3877097 A1 EP3877097 A1 EP 3877097A1 EP 19805141 A EP19805141 A EP 19805141A EP 3877097 A1 EP3877097 A1 EP 3877097A1
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selector
roller
circumferential
rollers
circumferential throat
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Romeo Paladin
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Lignum Technologies AG
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Xylo Technologies AG
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07BSEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B1/00Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like
    • B07B1/12Apparatus having only parallel elements
    • B07B1/14Roller screens
    • B07B1/15Roller screens using corrugated, grooved or ribbed rollers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27NMANUFACTURE BY DRY PROCESSES OF ARTICLES, WITH OR WITHOUT ORGANIC BINDING AGENTS, MADE FROM PARTICLES OR FIBRES CONSISTING OF WOOD OR OTHER LIGNOCELLULOSIC OR LIKE ORGANIC MATERIAL
    • B27N3/00Manufacture of substantially flat articles, e.g. boards, from particles or fibres
    • B27N3/08Moulding or pressing
    • B27N3/10Moulding of mats
    • B27N3/14Distributing or orienting the particles or fibres
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21BFIBROUS RAW MATERIALS OR THEIR MECHANICAL TREATMENT
    • D21B1/00Fibrous raw materials or their mechanical treatment
    • D21B1/02Pretreatment of the raw materials by chemical or physical means
    • D21B1/023Cleaning wood chips or other raw materials

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  • the present invention concerns a selector roller which can be used in machines for selecting wood material, and more generally flake or chip material, which is then used to obtain, for example, chipboard panels of the Particleboard, Oriented strand boards (OSB) or Medium density fiberboard (MDF) type, or other types.
  • OSB Oriented strand boards
  • MDF Medium density fiberboard
  • chips also comprising with this term all the other similar, alike or comparable products such as flakes, sawdust, particles, etc.
  • the chips are normally screened with roller systems located on a single plane or on more or less coplanar planes.
  • rollers of these selector machines have cylindrical or sub-cylindrical shapes, for example with one or more circumferential cusps.
  • rollers are normally shaped, and the rollers are normally associated with specific substantially parallel drawing shafts, in which the rollers of one shaft cooperate with those of the shaft nearby so as to obtain conformations suitable to obtain the desired selection.
  • particleboard panels we intend those panels, composed of wood particles, bonded with suitable glues, and normally hot pressed.
  • These panels can be characterized by a single-layer structure, by a multi-layer structure, or by a structure defined as“continuous variable granulometry”, or of another type.
  • the chips are selected either with constant size, or with a variable size, even very fine, in relation to the specific type of panel.
  • a fundamental element that determines the quality of the panels is the “workability” of the panel itself, and this parameter is related to the duration of the cutting tools and abrasive belts used.
  • the systems for removing contaminants from recycled wood chips are complex and normally provide, at the beginning of the cleaning cycle, roller screens to divide the incoherent mass into various homogeneous fractions.
  • each of said fractions is then advantageously cleaned with suitable specialized systems to treat the specific granulometries of each fraction.
  • the selection of fine fractions is usually obtained by reducing the gap between the profiles of the opposite screening rollers to minimum values, which can even reach less than a millimeter.
  • the quality of the panel is determined by the absence of impurities that are normally present in the chips, even more so when recycled woods are used as a starting point.
  • the chips are screened in suitable granulometries, each of which is subsequently cleaned with various systems to remove the cubic particles and/or those with a large thickness and/or heavy foreign bodies in order to have a reasonable certainty that the contaminants are not present in the panel.
  • the Applicant has therefore posed himself the problem of studying the phenomenon in depth in order to simplify and better guarantee the quality of the selection so as to obtain a considerable reduction in costs, and at the same time a certain exclusion of the undesired components.
  • selector screens are known in which selector rollers 110 are present having a cusp-shaped conformation 118 and operating in reciprocal opposed cooperation on substantially parallel shafts along a common plane, thus defining a substantially uniform passage gap for the chips.
  • selector rollers 110 each have a hole 120 for keying the roller on a roller-bearing shaft, and a circumferential surface 116 provided with selector portions 113 which have surface modifications and workings in selective terms as a function of the type of selection that has to be made.
  • the surface modifications can possibly alternate with unmodified surfaces.
  • rollers do not allow to adequately discharge heavy foreign bodies, or possible solid elements, such as for example metals, stones, inert materials or other.
  • selector rollers are described in the patent application with number WO 2019/137830 filed on 09.01.2019 (see figs. 2a-2b-2c). These selector rollers 210 also have a hole 220 for keying the roller on a roller-bearing shaft 212, and a circumferential surface 216 provided with selector portions 213 which have surface workings and modifications having a selective function.
  • Known selector rollers 210 have a cusp-like shape 218 defined by two sides 211, by an apical portion 215 and by lateral shoulders 217. In this case, the selector portions 213 define a stepped development 213.
  • the surface modifications on the selector portions 113, 213 of the known selector rollers 110, 210 can be of the radial, circumferential, or helical type.
  • rollers having a circumferential surface with cylindrical or possibly convex shape with rounded shapes at their ends are also allow the use of rollers having a circumferential surface with cylindrical or possibly convex shape with rounded shapes at their ends.
  • the cusps of the rollers can alternate with the cusps of the rollers disposed on a parallel and adjacent shaft.
  • US-A-5,842,507 discloses a wood chip conditioner comprising two rollers having an outer surface forming a conditioning surface which comprises a series of sequentially alternating peaks and valleys radially circumscribing the roll so that a substantially sinusoidal pattern extends along the outer surface of the roll.
  • the peaks and valleys of opposite rolls form a nip of uniform thickness through which wood chips traverse.
  • WO-A-2014/167407 discloses a device for riddling materials comprising at least two riddling rollers, each of them comprising fixed tools disposed side by side along each roller so as to define interstitial spaces both between two adjacent tools of the same roller and between tools of two adjacent rollers.
  • the tools of one roller extend from an external surface of a corresponding fixing or distancing element fixed to a shaft of rotation of the roller.
  • the rollers do not have a selector portion cooperating whit a selector portion of an opposite roller. Therefore, this solution, while it allows working and separate inter materials arising from demolitions or excavations, is not suitable for working and separate wood chips.
  • US-A- 1,498, 144 discloses a screening device to grade coal without breaking it, comprising a screening bed formed by a plurality of parallel rolls consisting of a plurality of spools keyed on a shaft.
  • the rollers are provided with grooves which cooperate with the grooves of an opposite roll to form an aperture through which the screened material can fall through the screening bed. This solution do not allow to screen woodchips.
  • GB-A-280,191 discloses grizzlies for screening coal, coke and similar material.
  • One purpose of the present invention is therefore to improve the strong selection capability of any selector machine whatsoever with rollers located on adjacent and facing axes, in an alternating and non-alternating manner, of the type identified above, as well as similar and comparable rollers.
  • Another purpose of the present invention is therefore to obtain selector rollers that improve and complete the selector function.
  • rollers identified above it is also a purpose of the invention to allow the rollers identified above to guarantee, already during the step of the first selection process, the removal of the heavy contaminants from the mass of particles.
  • Another purpose is the reduction of investments, of energy consumption and of the labor required, all resulting in a substantial reduction of costs, of occupied spaces and pollution.
  • Another purpose is to make the first selection of the chips efficient so as to avoid further production of wood dusts otherwise generated in the necessary additional processes, knowing that the dusts are a loss of wood material suitable for the production of the panels, a risk for the operators and damage to the environment.
  • Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a selector roller which also allows to discharge, and/or eliminate, in a simple and effective manner, solid contaminants and inert materials, preventing, or at least limiting, the wear of the rollers and consequently increasing the useful life of a set of selector rollers.
  • Another purpose of the invention is therefore to discharge as quickly as possible the solid contaminants and inert materials, which, due to size and shape, would otherwise remain for a long time between the rollers, ruining the profiles of the circumferential surfaces.
  • the Applicant has devised, tested and embodied the present invention to overcome the shortcomings of the state of the art and to obtain these and other purposes and advantages.
  • the present invention concerns perfected selector rollers, which function in an improved and more efficient manner with respect to selector rollers of the state of the art.
  • the invention is directed to selector rollers which have a circular or sub-circular profile such as convex, cusp shaped or inclined.
  • selector rollers as a function of the peripheral profile, can work parallel to or alternated with other selector rollers.
  • the selector rollers can also be located along a single plane or on advantageously parallel planes.
  • a selector roller for selecting particles advantageously but not exclusively of wood material, advantageously comprises a hole for inserting the roller on a roller-bearing shaft and a selector portion specifically equipped for the selection.
  • the equipped portion has surface workings and modifications suitable to operate in a desired manner on the chips to be selected.
  • the selector portions are configured to cooperate with the selector portions of another selector roller so as to define a passage gap through which the chips can pass.
  • the selector roller comprises at least one circumferential throat made in the external surface. The circumferential throat is particularly aimed at operating on the heavy contaminants.
  • the circumferential throat can be configured to increase locally the gap between respective selector portions of two cooperating rollers so as to allow possible heavy contaminants to be easily and rapidly discharged.
  • the at least one circumferential throat in particular, can be disposed adjacent to the at least one selector portion.
  • the at least one circumferential throat in particular, can be made within the selector portion.
  • the selector roller can comprise a plurality of selector portions and a plurality of circumferential throats.
  • the circumferential throats and selector portions can be alternated with each other along a direction axial to the selector roller.
  • the selector roller comprises two lateral shoulders and a substantially central cusp, defined by sides inclined with respect to each other, also possibly not equal, and by a circumferential apical portion.
  • each side of the cusp can comprise at least one selector portion and at least one circumferential throat.
  • the present invention is also applicable to rollers having a circumferential selector surface that is cylindrical, or convex, conical, or with a double-cone with cusp offset toward one side or in any case not central.
  • rollers with a central cusp we will describe only the case of rollers with a central cusp, with the understanding that the description is applicable, with minimal adaptations, to every type of selector rollers.
  • the conformation of the selector rollers in the case taken as an example, entails a disposition of the rollers, during use, such that the passage gap between facing rollers has a zigzag development.
  • the Applicant has discovered that by providing suitable circumferential throats or recesses positioned at least in the flanks of the sides that determine the cusp of the selector rollers, a better selection of the unwanted contaminants is obtained, that is, the solid or inert components such as metals of any type, pebbles, rubble, or suchlike.
  • the invention therefore eliminates these solid contaminants making other subsequent working processes unnecessary, and consequently also reduces the wear of the external surfaces of the selector rollers, extending their useful life and reducing costs.
  • the circumferential selector portions can have circumferential sizes that decrease from the cusp toward the lateral shoulder along the respective side.
  • the two sides of the cusp can be specular, and/or one side can be equipped differently and specialized according to particulates and specific selection processes and/or inert materials to be eliminated.
  • each side of the selector roller which defines the cusp comprises one or more circumferential throats, or recesses, respectively interposed between the adjacent selector portions and/or between a selector portion and the apical portion.
  • circumferential throats can also be provided between one selector portion and a respective lateral shoulder.
  • the circumferential throats can have a rounded, semi-cylindrical or V-shaped circumferential bottom.
  • the lateral shoulder of the selector roller which operates in conjunction with the lateral shoulder of another adjacent roller, can also have, or define, a circumferential throat according to the invention.
  • the adjacent lateral shoulders of two adjacent rollers define a circumferential recess, that is, each lateral shoulder has its own circumferential recess.
  • the opposite cusps of facing rollers can generally have a conical shape, that is, with circumferential, or sub-circumferential steps, or possibly have a convex or undulated shape, as is shown as a purely indicatively example in the first drawings attached.
  • the circumferential throats present in the facing rollers are disposed along a single plane orthogonal to the axis in a known manner.
  • the circumferential throats of two facing rollers lie on planes orthogonal to the axis but alternately offset by a desired value.
  • the apical portion can have surface workings and modifications the same as or different from the surface modifications and workings provided on the selector portions.
  • the conical shapes of at least one side that is, the stepped shapes of at least one side, fall under the present invention where they have at least one circumferential throat on at least one side of the cusp, if present.
  • the at least one circumferential throat depending on how the roller is to be operated, can be orthogonal to the axis of rotation, or lie at least partially on a plane inclined with respect to the orthogonality to the axis of rotation.
  • the circumferential throats engage with the contaminants and allow to discharge almost all the various heavy foreign bodies minimizing the wear of the external surfaces of the rollers.
  • the circumferential throats can have a depth such as to define, in direct or indirect union with the circumferential throats of an opposite roller, a passage gap having an amplitude comprised between about 1.5 and about 5 times the amplitude of the passage gap present between the selector portions.
  • the passage gap defined by the circumferential throats has an amplitude comprised between about 1.5 and about 3 times the amplitude of the passage gap present between opposite selector portions.
  • the circumferential throat(s) can have a maximum depth comprised between about 1 mm and about 6mm, preferably comprised between lmm and 4 mm.
  • the circumferential throats have a width comprised between about 0.2 and 1.5 times the amplitude of the respective adjacent selector portions.
  • the circumferential throats have a width comprised between about 0.2 and 0.9 times the amplitude of the respective adjacent selector portions.
  • the circumferential throats have a width comprised between about 0.2 and 0.5 times the amplitude of the respective adjacent selector portions.
  • the throats all have substantially the same sizes, an advantageous solution when the granulometry of the inert materials is substantially uniform.
  • the throats have in the same roller one or more widths so as to be able to act on different granulometries.
  • the throats in the same roller can have depths differentiated according to the characteristics of the heavy contaminants.
  • the two sides which determine the cusp, have the same number of selector portions with different size and/or conformation morphologies.
  • the two sides of the roller which determine the cusp, have selector portions differentiated by size and/or conformation and/or number.
  • a machine to select particles of wood material can comprise at least two parallel and alternated roller-bearing shafts.
  • each shaft of the selector machine comprises at least two rollers, the rollers having respective external surfaces provided with selector portions facing and cooperating with each other.
  • the selector machine comprises positioning means suitable to allow the reciprocal positioning of the adjacent shafts, the positioning means being chosen from means of the manual type, interlock means, or controlled and programmed means.
  • - figs la and lb are respectively a view of a plurality of selector rollers according to the state of the art disposed respectively facing each other, and a detailed view of the external surface of one of the known rollers;
  • - figs. 2a - 2b - 2c are respectively a view of a plurality of selector rollers according to state of the art disposed respectively facing each other, and a detail of the external surface of the rollers in a lateral view and in a perspective view;
  • - fig. 3 is a view of a plurality of selector rollers according to embodiments described here disposed respectively facing each other;
  • figs. 3a - 3b - 3c - 3d are partial section views of possible variants of profiles of the external surfaces of the selector rollers of fig. 3;
  • - fig. 4a - 4b - 4c are enlarged views of possible variants of the profiles of facing selector rollers of fig. 3.
  • - fig. 5 is a partial view of two facing rollers according to variant embodiments described here;
  • - fig. 6 is a partial view of two facing rollers according to other variant embodiments described here;
  • - figs. 7a - 7b - 7c are partial views of possible variants of profiles of selector rollers
  • figs. 8a - 8b - 8c are enlarged views of possible variants of the profiles of facing selector rollers of fig. 5.
  • Embodiments of the present invention are described here with reference to the attached drawings from 3 to 8c and concern selector rollers 10, hereafter also referred to as“rollers”, suitable to select particles and flakes of fibrous material, advantageously wood, but not only, to divide it according to size and granulometry.
  • Said rollers can also be used to treat other types of material in flakes or in flat or substantially flat elements, containing heavy contaminants with a predominantly granular or spherical or cubic shape.
  • the rollers 10 have an annular shape, which develops around a central axis X, defining the axis of rotation, and are provided with a central hole 20 by means of which the roller 10 can be keyed, possibly in a replaceable manner, on a shaft 12.
  • Parallel batteries of rollers 10 are provided in a selector machine, which are mounted on respective axes X, X’ or shafts 12, the series of rollers 10 being present on one shaft 12 cooperating with a series of rollers 10 present on another shaft 12 parallel to the first.
  • rollers 10 As a function of the shape of the rollers 10 on one shaft 12 they can or may not be alternated with rollers 10 present on the parallel shaft 12.
  • the shafts 12 can be provided, for example alternatively, lying on parallel planes.
  • This variant being suitable to exert a greater action of selection or transport of the material located on the rollers 10.
  • the roller 10 has an external circumferential surface 16 suitable to cooperate, during use, with respective external surfaces 16 of rollers 10 respectively facing each other to operate the desired selection.
  • the external surface 16 is provided with at least one selector portion 13 provided with surface modifications 21, 22, 23 configured to actuate the desired selection of the chips, facilitating the action of feeding and drawing them between successive rollers 10.
  • the selector portions 13 can have transverse grooves 21 , made in transverse direction in the respective side 11.
  • the transverse grooves 21 on one selector portion 13 are offset with respect to the transverse grooves 21 of an adjacent selector portion 13.
  • the selector portions 13 can have modifications and deformations suitable to define hollows 22 and protrusions 23 suitable to facilitate the drawing of the chips.
  • the hollows 22 and the protrusions 23 can have a shape defining a zigzag profile (fig. 3a).
  • the hollows 22 and the protrusions 23 define an undulated profile (fig. 3b)
  • the hollows 22 and the protrusions 23 can have mating shapes, for example rectangular (fig. 3d), square, or trapezoidal (fig. 3c).
  • each roller 10 comprises at least one circumferential throat 14 made in the external surface 16 and configured to operate on heavy contaminants.
  • each roller 10 comprises a plurality of circumferential throats 14 alternated with selector portions 13.
  • the circumferential throats 14 are advantageously defined by grooves having a substantially constant section which develop on the entire circumference of the roller 10.
  • the circumferential throats 14 have a circular development lying on a plane orthogonal to the axis X.
  • At least one part of the circumferential throat is provided.
  • selector portions 13 and circumferential throats 14 alternate each other along the axis X.
  • the rollers 10 according to the invention have a cusp 18 defined by conical lateral surfaces to form two conical or sub-conical sides 11 , the top of the cusp 18 being defined by an apical portion
  • the roller 10 also has lateral shoulders 17 in the axial ends, normally, but not necessarily, cylindrical, suitable to cooperate, during use, with respective lateral shoulders 17 of adjacent rollers 10 on a same shaft 12.
  • a roller 10 can be obtained in a single body.
  • a roller 10 can also be obtained with two facing half- rollers and possibly joined together in relation to the apical portion 15 of the cusp 18 or in a different position orthogonal to the axis X.
  • This conformation allows to obtain on the plane that contains all the axes X, X’ of the shafts 12 a zigzag slit having the desired characteristics.
  • the two sides 11 are morphologically identical.
  • the two sides 11 have different diametric lengths.
  • the two sides 11 have different conformations.
  • the two sides 11 can be specular or obtained differently.
  • the two sides 11 have a conical development.
  • one of the two sides 11 has a continuous conical development and the other a stepped conical development.
  • each side 11 has one or more selector portions 13, having a conical, sub-conical or cylindrical development.
  • the roller 10 comprises at least one circumferential throat 14 on each side 11 that defines the cusp 18.
  • one or more selector portions 13 and one or more circumferential throats 14 can be present on each of the sides 1 1.
  • the selector portions 13 of one side 1 1 can all be the same or differentiated on one side 11 with respect to the other.
  • the selector portions 13 can also be differentiated on a same side 11 depending on the type of selection desired.
  • the roller 10 comprises a plurality of circumferential throats 14, disposed on one side 1 1 and on the other of the cusp 18 and between one and the other of the selector portions 13.
  • a circumferential throat 14 can also be provided between a selector portion 13 and the adjacent lateral shoulder 17.
  • a circumferential throat 14 can also be present in correspondence with the zone where two adjacent rollers 10 are adjacent to each other.
  • the circumferential throats 14 of a roller 10 have homogeneous shapes and characteristics.
  • the shapes and/or characteristics of the circumferential throats 14 can be different from one another, or in groups, along the same side 11 or differentiated on one side with respect to the other of the cusp 18, in order to satisfy different needs of selection and/or distinction of the heavy contaminants.
  • the number of selector portions 13 and/or circumferential throats 14 on one or the other side 11 can vary as a function of the type and/or size of the chips to be selected and the shape and/or type of heavy contaminants that have to be discarded.
  • figs. 3, 5 and 6 show possible embodiments.
  • Fig. 3 shows rollers 10 having two selector portions 13 and two circumferential throats 14 on each side 11 and possibly one throat 14 defined by the lateral shoulders 17 of two adjacent rollers 10;
  • fig. 5 shows rollers 10 having three selector portions 13 and four circumferential throats 14 on each side 11, and
  • fig. 6 shows rollers 10 having three selector portions 13 and three circumferential throats 14 on each side.
  • the selector portions 13 can have a diameter decreasing between the apical portion 15 of the cusp 18 and the lateral shoulders 17. According to some embodiments, the selector portions 13 can define a continuous conical development (fig. 3) or a stepped conical development (figs. 5 and 6).
  • the selector portions 13 have a stepped conical development, it can be provided a circumferential throat 14 for each step.
  • the lateral shoulders 17 can also be variably shaped and possibly provide ridges or hollows able to facilitate the discharge of heavy contaminants.
  • a roller 10 can be in a single body, or in two facing bodies cooperating with the facing walls, both bodies having respective lateral shoulders 17.
  • the lateral shoulders 17 can be shaped so as to define, with a lateral shoulder 17 of an adjacent roller 10, a circumferential recess 25 in correspondence with the annular ring 19, suitable to cooperate with the cusp 18 of a facing roller 10, which defines a circumferential throat 14.
  • the circumferential recess 25 can have a flat, conical, or curved profile.
  • the facing lateral shoulders 17, depending on the type of heavy contaminants to be eliminated, can be plano-cylindrical (fig. 4a and 8a), conical (fig. 4b and 8b), or determine a rounded throat (fig. 4c and 8c). Also in this case, it is the type of retention of the inert materials that determines this conformation.
  • facing lateral shoulders 17 have a plano-cylindrical conformation, they can or may not have defining shoulders or edges 24.
  • edges 24 delimit a plane conformation (fig. 8a), a conical conformation (fig. 8b) or a rounded conformation (fig. 8c), the choice of the conformation is determined as in the other cases.
  • the conformation of the adjacent lateral shoulders 17 is indifferent with respect to the circumferential throats 14 between the selector portions 13 in the same roller 10, so that the conformation of the former can be different from the conformation of the latter.
  • the perimetral conformation of the cusp 18 and/or of the apical portion 15 is determined by the drawing action which has to be exerted on the chips and on the heavy contaminants.
  • the apical portion 15 can have workings and modifications 21, 22, 23 substantially analogous to those present on the selector portions 13.
  • the apical portion 15 can have hollows and protrusions 22, 23 which define pyramid-shaped portions, possibly separated from each other by grooves 21 disposed in a transverse direction.
  • the sides 11 can be inclined, with respect to the central axis X, by an angle a comprised between about 20° and about 60°.
  • the sides 11 can be inclined, with respect to the central axis X, by an angle a comprised between about 30° and about 50°.
  • the circumferential throats 14 can have a maximum depth D comprised between about 1mm and about 6mm measured with respect to the lowest edge that defines the throat 14.
  • lowest edge we mean the edge that is located at a shorter distance from the central axis X with respect to the other edge that defines the circumferential throat 14.
  • the circumferential throats 14 can have a first width Wl, measured in the direction of the central axis X, comprised between about 1mm and about 7mm.
  • the first width Wl can be comprised between about 2mm and about 5mm.
  • the selector portions 13 can have a second width W2 comprised between about 1mm and about 6mm.
  • the first width Wl of a circumferential throat 14 can be comprised between about 0.2 and 1.5 times the second width W2 of an adjacent selector portion 13.
  • the chips with an elongated shape transit mainly in a substantially horizontal and lying position with respect to the external surface 16 of the rollers, in the gap defined by the facing selector portions 13 and are discharged when their size is smaller than the first passage gap Gl .
  • the heavy contaminants can instead fall to the bottom of the circumferential throats 14 and from the edges that delimit them.
  • the amplitude of the passage gap G2 between the facing circumferential throats 14 is from about 1.5 to about 5 times the amplitude of the passage gap Gl defined between the facing selector portions 13.
  • the amplitude of the passage gap G2 in correspondence to a circumferential throat 14 is from about 1.5 to about 3 times the amplitude of the passage gap Gl defined between facing selector portions 13.
  • the first amplitude Gl can be for example comprised between 1mm and 12mm and the second amplitude G2 can be comprised between 1.5mm and 18mm.
  • rollers 10 can also depend on the position of the rollers 10 in a selector machine in order to obtain progressive selections.

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