FI129649B

FI129649B - Lajittelulaite

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Publication number: FI129649B
Application number: FI20195063A
Authority: FI
Inventors: Jarno Heikkilä; Tuomo Aho
Original assignee: Valmet Technologies Oy
Priority date: 2019-01-31
Filing date: 2019-01-31
Publication date: 2022-06-15
Also published as: CN111501393A; CN111501393B; FI20195063A1; EP3690135A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a screening device for screening pulp suspensions and/or for stock preparation, which screening device (10) comprises a screening cylinder (12) and an inside the screening cylinder (12) located rotor (13) with foils (14) connected to the rotor (13) by foil arms (17), which screening device (10) comprises an inlet fitting (20) and a feed chamber (11) above of the screening cylinder (12) into which inlet flow of the pulp suspension is guided through the inlet fitting (20), which screening device (10) comprises a housing (25), which housing (25) has an inlet opening (28) for the inlet fitting (20). The screening device (10) comprises a flow guide (29, 30) extending from the in-let opening (28) in the housing (25) of the screening de-vice (10) a distance inside the screening device (10) and that the flow guide (29, 30) inside the feed chamber (11) of the screening device (10) guides the inlet flow into the feed chamber of the screening device (10) and prevents the incoming inlet flow to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber (11) of the screening device (10).

Description

A screening device The invention relates generally to producing fiber webs. Particularly the invention relates to a screening device for screening pulp suspensions according to the pre- amble of claim 1.

As known from the prior art in fiber web machines, especially in paper and board machines, the fiber web is produced and treated in an assembly formed by a number of apparatuses arranged consecutively in a process line. A typical production and treatment line comprises a forming section comprising a head box and a forming unit and a press section as well as a subseguent drying section and a reel-up. The production and treatment line can further comprise other devices and sections for finishing the fiber web, for example, a size press, a calender, a coating section. The production and treatment line also comprises typically at least one winder for form- ing customer rolls as well as a roll packaging apparatus.

Before the head box pulp suspensions comprising recycled or virgin fiber are treated to be fed into the head box to be used to produce the fiber webs. A treatment system of the pulp suspensions for example comprises a pulping section, a deashing sys- tem, a coarse screening section, a centrifugal cleaning section, a fractionation sec- tion, a fine screening system, a fiber thickening system and fiber refining systems. Screening is used for removing stickies, dirt specks and other impurities from the — pulp suspension and for maximizing accept pulp quality and for ensuring constant runnability of the fiber web production process and for minimizing fiber losses in the pulp suspension treatment before the forming section and for minimizing breakdown of impurities and for protecting following process stages in the fiber web production. N Screening is used in connection with pulp suspension treatment for pulp suspension | 25 comprising recycled fiber and/or virgin fiber. In treatment of pulp suspensions com- 5 prising recycled fiber screening is used in OCC line screening processes, in DIP line oO screening processes and in stock preparation. In treatment of pulp suspensions > comprising virgin fiber screening is used in chemical pulping, mechanical pulping = and in stock preparation. Depending on type of the impurity composition of the pulp 2 30 suspension varies but generally impurities to be removed by screening are metals, 3 sand, plastics, rubber, waxes, glass, stickies, ink, bark, pitch, shives, knots, rust, > chemicals, robe and/or fiber bundles.

In the screening different types of screening devices are used. Main types of screen- ing devices can be divided to coarse screens, fine screens, machine screens and broke screens. The present invention relates especially to machine screens, which are typically the last screening devices used to screen the pulp suspensions and to prepare the stocks before the forming sections and the head boxes thereof in the fiber web production lines.

In publication DE 102011079230 A1 is disclosed a pressure screen for cleaning a fibrous suspension, in which an adjustable limiter is located inside an inlet fitting and thus it limits the cross-sectional area of the inlet fitting and thus throttles the flow and displaces the rotational axis of the flow towards the side. In the arrangement the flow accelerates at the inlet opening as the same volume flow must go through the decreased cross-sectional area. In publication US 2006138039 A is disclosed a filter device comprising planar, plate- like filter elements. In publication US 6631809 A is disclosed a screen with a centrally located cone or otherwise shaped obstacle in the feed chamber and the incoming inlet flow leaves — the inlet fitting opening in high tangential speed. In publication US 2007114157 A1 discloses a screening suspensions for pulp sus- pensions. In publication US 2246669 A is disclosed a screening device for pulp suspensions, in which an inlet fitting is centrally located and feeding in direction of central axis of a screening cylinder. In publication US 5048765 A is disclosed a screening device for pulp suspensions, in which an inlet fitting is centrally located and feeding in direction of central axis of S a screening cylinder. = The screening device, or the screen, comprises as main components inside a hous- oO 25 ing a screening cylinder and a rotor located and rotating inside the screening cylin- > der, which thus forms a housing around the screening cylinder. A commonly used = screen type comprises the screening cylinder provided with a cylindrical screening 2 surface eguipped with apertures for screening pulp. The apertures in the screening 3 surface may be e.g. circular or elongated holes, or mutually parallel slots provided > 30 inthe surface of the screening cylinder. A screen equipped with a screening cylinder typically further includes a rotor arranged inside the cylindrical screening surface for rotating the pulp in the screen and foils or blades supported against the frame of the rotor such that when the rotor rotates, the blades produce on the screening surface a pressure pulse on account of which reject pulp and fibers collected onto the screening surface become released from the screening surface and return to the pulp suspension. In screening devices, the rotor is used to cause the pulp suspen- sion to flow and to create the pressure pulse so that the pulp suspension is flown from the accept side to the feed side of the screening surface of the screening cyl- inder and to keep the screening surface clean. In screening devices, the pulp suspension or the stock in stock preparation is fed into the screening cylinder inside the housing. In screening devices with inlet flow through an inlet fitting connected and ending to an inlet opening arranged to the cylindrical surface of a cylindrical part of the housing surrounding the screening cyl- inder or to a top part of the housing closing and covering the feed chamber of the screening device. Inlet flow to the screening cylinder is guided by the inlet fitting first to the feed chamber of the screening device of the screening space of the screening cylinder i.e. the rotor and foil area and there from to the screening space for screen- ing. In screening devices with inlet types known from prior art there has been diffi- culties to create stabile inlet flow as the flow from the inlet fitting ending at the inlet opening causes disturbances and instability in the flow patterns, inlet flow and flow towards the rotor and foil area, already flowing inside the feed chamber of the screening device, when meeting these flows. This makes it also difficult to control the inlet flow and its speed as the instability causes speed and acceleration varia- tions in the flow and may also cause a turbulences and disturbances to the flow pattern in the screening space of the screening device. An object of the invention is to create a screening device, in which the disadvantages and problems of prior art are eliminated or at least minimized. N 25 In particular an object of the invention is to provide a new type of screening device, N in which problems relating to the stability of the flow patterns in the screening device 5 are eliminated or at least minimized.

O > In order to achieve the above-mentioned objects and those that come apparent later = the screening device according to the invention is mainly characterized by the fea- 2 30 tures of the characterizing clause of claim 1. Advantageous embodiments and fea- 3 tures are disclosed in the dependent claims. N According to the invention the screening device for screening pulp suspensions and/or for stock preparation comprises a screening cylinder and an inside the screening cylinder located rotor with foils connected to the rotor by foil arms, which screening device comprises an inlet fitting and a feed chamber of the screening cylinder into which inlet flow of the pulp suspension is guided through the inlet fitting, which screening device comprises a housing, which housing has an inlet opening for the inlet fitting, wherein the screening device comprises a flow guide extending from the inlet opening in the housing of the screening device a distance inside the screening device and the flow guide inside the feed chamber of the screening device guides the inlet flow into the feed chamber of the screening device and prevents the incoming inlet flow to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber of the screen- ing device. as the flow guide inside the feed chamber of the screening device guides the inlet flow into the screening device and prevents the incoming inlet flow not to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber of the screening device and thus the inlet flow remains stable.

According to an advantageous feature of the invention the flow guide is positioned tangentially in respect of the circumference of the housing.

The tangential position- ing of the flow guide provides for the inlet flow to smoothly follow the circumference of the housing.

According to an advantageous feature of the invention the flow guide is positioned semitangentially in respect of the circumference of the housing.

The semitangential positioning of the flow guide provides for the inlet flow to smoothly follow the circum- ference of the housing.

According to the invention the flow guide inside the feed chamber of the screening device forms a blocking radius extending to a distance from the circumference of N the housing that is smaller than the radius of the housing.

The blocking radius pre- O 25 vents the incoming inlet flow not to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber = of the screening device. 2 According to an advantageous feature of the invention the housing comprises a E cover part of the feed chamber and a cylindrical part and that the flow guide is po- n sitioned through the cylindrical part or through the cover part of the feed chamber or S 30 through the cover part of the feed chamber and the cylindrical part. o > According to an advantageous feature of the invention end of the flow guide inside the feed chamber is straight or inclined.

According to an advantageous aspect of the invention the flow guide is configured as a part of the inlet fitting extending a distance inside the feed chamber. According to an advantageous feature of the invention the part of the inlet fitting inside the feed chamber has only a partial wall of a pipe formed wall of the inlet fitting. According to 5 an advantageous feature of the invention the partial wall of the part of the inlet fitting inside the feed chamber covers only lower part of the part. According to an advan- tageous feature of the invention the screening device comprises a guide plate ar- ranged on outer surface of the inlet fitting. The guide plate supports the part of the inlet fitting inside the feed chamber of the screening device from bending and pre- vents by the flow caused wear of the part of the inlet fitting inside the feed chamber of the screening device. According to an advantageous aspect of the invention the flow guide is configured as a guide plate extending inside the feed chamber from the inlet opening. The guide plate provides a guiding effect to the inlet flow already in the feed cham- ber of the screening device away from the incoming inlet flow and towards the screening space in the rotor and foil area inside the cylindrical part of the housing. As is clear from the above by the screening device according to the invention and many advantages are achieved and especially stabile flow patterns are achieved in the screening device. The inlet flow and its speed to the screening device as is controllable well as the flow pattern in the feed chamber of the screening device and in the screening space is stable. In the screening device according to the invention the tangential or semitangential inlet flow does not meet the inlet flow already cre- ated inside the feed chamber of the screening device and thus no disturbances or instability is caused. As the stabile inlet flow in the feed chamber of the screening N 25 — device is achieved by the invention, also the flow pattern of the rotor and foil area of N the screening device i.e. of the screening space is more stable and uniform and thus 5 foil pulses in the flow pattern of the screening space are not disturbed and stability o in foil pulses is thus also achieved. This enables to optimize efficiency of the feed I side of the screening device as the flows of the feed chamber are stabilized and = 30 have a uniform distribution. Thus, also lowering the rotating speed of the rotor and & further energy savings and/or more efficient screening can be achieved.

LO 2 In the following the invention is explained in detail with reference to the accompa- N nying drawing to which the invention is not to be narrowly limited.

In figure 1 is shown schematically an advantageous example of a screening device according to the invention.

In figure 2 is shown schematically seen from above an advantageous example of a feed chamber of a screening device according to the invention.

In figure 3 is shown schematically seen from above an advantageous example of a feed chamber of a screening device according to the invention.

In figures 4A-4D is shown schematically seen from above some advantageous ex- amples of inlet fittings and their positions in screening devices according to the in- vention. — In figure 5 is shown schematically an advantageous example of a cover part of the feed chamber of a screening device according to the invention.

In figures 6A-61 is shown schematically seen from side of inlet fittings and their po- sitions in screening devices according to the invention.

During the course of the following description relating to figures 1 — 61 like numbers and signs will be used to identify like elements according to the different views which illustrate the invention and its advantageous examples.

In the figures some repeti- tive reference signs have been omitted for clarity reasons.

In figure 1 an example of a screening device 10, for example a machine screen 10, according to the invention is shown, which comprises a screening cylinder 12 and a rotor 13 located and rotating inside the screening cylinder 12. The rotor 13 com- prises a hub 16 to be connected to a motor or like providing power for the rotational N movement of the rotor 13. The screening cylinder 12 is cylindrical and its surface O comprises apertures, for example circular or elongated holes, or mutually parallel = slots provided in the surface of the screening cylinder 12 for passing through accept oO 25 of the pulp suspension during screening or of the stock during stock preparation. > The rotor 13 arranged inside the cylindrical screening cylinder 12 is for rotating the = stock in the screening device 10 in the screening space located between the inner 2 surface of the screening cylinder and the outer surface of a rotor body 12 of the rotor 3 13. In the screening space i.e. in the rotor and foil area of the screening device foils D 30 14 are located.

The foils 14 of the rotor 13, when the rotor 13 rotates, produce on N the screening cylinder 12 a pressure pulse on account of which reject pulp and fibers collected onto the screening surface become released from the screening surface and return to the pulp suspension and accept pulp is flown through the apertures of the screening cylinder 12. The foils 14 are attached to the foil arms 17 of the rotor

13. The foils 14 extend in longitudinal direction substantially over the longitudinal length of the rotor 13 and the screening cylinder 12. The screening device 10 also comprises a feed chamber 11 located in connection with the screening cylinder 12, into which feed chamber 11 the inlet flow of the pulp suspension and/or the stock for stock preparation is guided via an inlet fitting 20 through an inlet opening 28. The screening device also comprises as outer frame a housing 25 with a cylindrical part 27 surrounding the screening cylinder 12 and the rotor 13 and foil 17 area. The housing 25 also comprises a cover part 26 of the feed chamber provided on and covering the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 and attached, typically openable, to the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. The cover part 26 and the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25 may also be of same body. The screening de- vice 10 also comprises a flow guide, which in the example of figure 1 is formed as an inside the feed chamber 11 extending part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 for the inlet flow into the screening device 10. In the example of figure 1 the inlet fitting 20 is arranged in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 to the cover part 26 of the housing 25. To form the flow guide the inlet fitting 20 extending through the inlet opening 28 in the cover part 26 of the housing 25 from outside the screening device 10 and extends a distance inside the screening device 10. The part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 forms the flow guide and guides the inlet flow into the screening device and prevents the incoming inlet flow to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device and thus the inlet flow remains stable. The part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 comprises in this example also a guide plate 30 arranged on the outer surface of the inlet fitting 20 also guiding the inlet flow already in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 away from the in- N coming inlet flow and towards the screening space in the rotor 13 and foil 14 area N inside the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. The guide plate 30 may have a 5 wedge- or sail-type shape and an increasing height and/or width form the end of the o 30 inlet fitting towards the outer circumference of the feed chamber 11 and towards the I housing 25. The guide plate 30 also supports the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 inside = the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 from bending and prevents by the & flow caused wear of the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 inside the feed chamber 11 of S the screening device 20. The flow guide can also be formed without the guide plate > 35 30 i.e. only by the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 extending inside the feed chamber

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In figure 2 an example of a screening device 10, for example a machine screen 10, according to the invention is shown, which comprises a screening cylinder 12 and a rotor 13 located and rotating inside the screening cylinder 12. The rotor 13 com- prises a hub 16 to be connected to a motor or like providing power for the rotational movement of the rotor 13. The screening cylinder 12 is cylindrical and its surface comprises apertures, for example circular or elongated holes, or mutually parallel slots provided in the surface of the screening cylinder 12 for passing through accept of the pulp suspension during screening or of the stock during stock preparation. The rotor 13 arranged inside the cylindrical screening cylinder 12 is for rotating the stock in the screening device 10 in the screening space located between the inner surface of the screening cylinder and the outer surface of a rotor body 12 of the rotor

13. In the screening space i.e. in the rotor and foil area of the screening device foils 14 are located. The foils 14 of the rotor 13, when the rotor 13 rotates, produce on the screening cylinder 12 a pressure pulse on account of which reject pulp and fibers collected onto the screening surface become released from the screening surface and return to the pulp suspension and accept pulp is flown through the apertures of the screening cylinder 12. The foils 14 are attached to the foil arms 17 of the rotor

13. The foils 14 extend in longitudinal direction substantially over the longitudinal length of the rotor 13 and the screening cylinder 12. The screening device 10 also comprises a feed chamber 11 located in connection with the screening cylinder 12, into which feed chamber 11 the inlet flow of the pulp suspension and/or the stock for stock preparation is guided via and inlet opening 28 and an inlet fitting 20 ending at the inlet opening 28. The screening device also comprises as outer frame a hous- ing 25 with a cylindrical part 27 surrounding the screening cylinder 12 and the rotor 13 and foil 17 area. The housing 25 also comprises a cover part 26 of the feed chamber provided on and covering the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 N and attached, typically openable, to the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. The N cover part 26 and the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25 may also be of same 5 body. The screening device 10 also comprises a flow guide, which in the example o 30 of figure 2 is formed as an inside the feed chamber 11 extending guide plate 30. In I the example of figure 2 the guide plate 30 is located at the inlet opening 28 in the = cover part 26 of the housing 25. The guide plate 30 extends from the inlet opening & 28 in the cover part 26 of the housing 25 and extends a distance inside the screening S device 10. The guide plate 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device > 35 — 10 guides the inlet flow into the screening device and prevents the incoming inlet flow to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device and thus the inlet flow remains stable. The guide plate 30 also guides the inlet flow already in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 away from the incoming inlet flow and towards the screening space in the rotor 13 and foil 14 area inside the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. The guide plate 30 may have a wedge- or sail- type shape and an increasing height and/or width form towards the outer circumfer- ence of the feed chamber 11 and towards the housing 25 i.e. a decreasing height and/or width towards the center of the feed chamber. In figure 3 is shown an advantageous example of a feed chamber 11 of a screening device 10 surrounded by the housing 25, by the cylindrical part 27 or by the cover part 26 of the housing 25. The flow guide 29, 30 extends through an inlet opening 28 in the housing 25 from outside the screening device 10 and extending a distance inside the screening device 10. The flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 guides the inlet flow into the screening device and pre- vents the incoming inlet flow not to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device and thus the inlet flow remains stable. As can be seen — from the figure 3 the flow guide 29, 30 is not positioned centrally inside the housing 25 but instead in a semitangential or tangential position from the imaginary diameter of the housing 25 and providing a radius change of the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 and creating a blocking radius dr ex- tending to a distance of r-dr from the imaginary center point of the housing 25. The blocking radius dr prevents the incoming inlet flow not to meet the inlet flow already in the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10. The flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 forming the blocking radius dr extends to a distance from the circumference of the housing 25 that is smaller than the radius r of the housing 25.

In figures 4A-4D is shown some advantageous examples of flow guides 29, 30 and N their positions in screening devices 10. In the example of figure 4A the flow guide N 29, 30 extends inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 tangentially 2 such that the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 2 10 is tangentially positioned in respect of the circumference of the housing 25. The E 30 end 21 of the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 is straight. In the example n of figure 4B the flow guide 29, 30 extends inside the feed chamber 11 of the screen- S ing device 10 semitangentially towards the center of the feed chamber of the screen- > ing device 10 such that the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the N screening device 10 is semitangentially positioned in respect of the circumference of the housing 25. The end 21 of the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 is straight. In the example of figure 4C the flow guide 29, 30 extends inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 tangentially such that the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 is tangentially positioned in respect of the circumference of the housing 25. The end 21 of the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 is inclined towards the circumference of the housing 25. In the example of figure 4B the flow guide 29, 30 extends inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device 10 semitangentially towards the center of the feed cham- ber of the screening device 10 such that the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed cham- ber 11 of the screening device 10 is semitangentially positioned in respect of the circumference of the housing 25. The end 21 of the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 is inclined towards the center of the housing 25. The flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 can be substantially cylindrical i.e. pipe-like with sub- stantially unchangeable diameter but it can also have an increasing or decreasing diameter as well as an increasing or decreasing height and/or width on the length of the flow guide 29, 30 in case of a substantially non-cylindrical shape. In figure 5 is shown an example of the cover part 26 of the housing 25 of the screen- ing device. The flow guide 29, 30 extends from an inlet opening 28 in the cover part 26 of the housing 25 and extends a distance inside the screening device forming the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 of the screening device. In this example the flow guide 29, 30 inside the feed chamber 11 has only as a partial wall formed flow guide 29, 30.

In figures 6A-61 is shown flow guides 29, 30, parts 29 of inlet fittings 20 and/or guide plates 30 and their positions in screening devices 10. In figure 6A the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25, in the feed chamber of the cylindrical part 27 next to the cover part 26 of the housing 25. In figure 6B the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate N 30 is positioned at the cover part 26 of the housing 25. In figure 6C the part 29 of N the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cover part 26 of the 2 feed chamber and the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. In figures 6A-6C the part 2 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is in substantially perpendicular E 30 position in relation to the cylindrical direction of the housing 25. In figure 6D the part n 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cylindrical part S 27 of the housing 25, in the feed chamber of the cylindrical part 27 next to the cover > part 26 of the housing 25. In figure 6E the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the N guide plate 30 is positioned at the cover part 26 of the housing 25. In figure 6F the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cover part 26 and the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. In figures 6D-6F the part 29 of the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is inclined in respect of the cylindrical direc- tion of the housing 25 such, that inlet flow via the flow guide 29, 30 is substantially directed towards the screening space inside the cylindrical screening cylinder 12 (fig. 1 or fig. 2). In figure 6G the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25, in the feed chamber of the cylindrical part 27 next to the cover part 26 of the housing 25. In figure 6H the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cover part 26 of the housing 25. In figure 61 the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is positioned at the cover part 26 and the cylindrical part 27 of the housing 25. In figures 6G-61 the inlet fitting 20 and/or the guide plate 30 is inclined in respect of the cylindrical direction of the housing 25 such, that inlet flow via the flow guide 29, 30 is substantially directed towards the feed chamber 11 from the screening space inside the cylindrical screen- ing cylinder 12 (fig. 1 or fig. 2). In the description in the foregoing, although some functions have been described with reference to certain features, those functions may be performable by other fea- tures whether described or not. Although features have been described with refer- ence to certain embodiments or examples, those features may also be present in other embodiments or examples whether described or not. Above only some advantageous examples of the inventions have been described to which examples the invention is not to be narrowly limited and many modifications and alterations are possible within the invention.

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Patenttivaatimukset

1. Lajittelulaite massasuspensioiden lajittelemiseksi tai massan valmista- miseksi, joka lajittelulaite (10) käsittää lajittelusylinterin (12) ja lajittelusylinte- rin (12) sisäpuolelle sijoitetun roottorin (13), jossa on foileja (14) yhdistettynä roottoriin (13) foilivarsien (17) välityksellä, joka lajittelulaite (10) käsittää syöt- töyhteen (20) ja lajittelusylinterin (12) syöttökammion (11), johon massasus- pension syöttövirtaus ohjataan syöttöyhteen (20) läpi, joka lajittelulaite (10) käsittää kotelon (25), jossa kotelossa (25) on syöttöaukko (28) syöttöyhdettä (20) varten, joka lajittelulaite (10) käsittää virtausohjaimen (29, 30), joka ulot- tuu syöttöaukosta (28) lajittelulaitteen (10) koteloon (25) etäisyyden lajittelu- laitteen (10) sisäpuolelle ja virtausohjain (29, 30) lajittelulaitteen (10) syöttö- kammion (11) sisäpuolella ohjaa syöttövirtauksen lajittelulaitteen (10) syöttö- kammioon, tunnettu siitä, että virtausohjain (29, 30) lajittelulaitteen (10) syöttökammion (11) sisäpuolella muodostaa estosäteen (dr), joka ulottuu etäisyydelle kotelon (25) kehästä, joka etäisyys on pienempi kuin kotelon (25) säde ja on sovitettu estämään sisääntulevaa syöttövirtausta kohtaamasta jo lajittelulaitteen (10) syöttökammossa (11) olevaa syöttövirtausta.

2. Patenttivaatimuksen 1 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että virtausoh- jain (29, 30) on asetettu tangentiaalisesti suhteessa kotelon (25) kehään.

3. Patenttivaatimuksen 1 tai 2 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että vir- tausohjain (29, 30) on asetettu semitangentiaalisesti suhteessa kotelon (25) kehään.

4. Jonkin patenttivaatimuksen 1 - 3 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että N kotelo (25) käsittää kansiosan (26) ja sylinteriosan (27) ja että virtausohjain O 25 (29, 30) on asetettu sylinteriosan (27) läpi tai kansiosan (26) ja sylinteriosan 5 (27) läpi. 2

5. Jonkin patenttivaatimuksen 1 - 4 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että E virtausohjaimen (29, 30) pää (21) syöttökammion (11) sisäpuolella on suora 3 tai vino. S 30

6. Jonkin patenttivaatimuksen 1 - 5 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että > virtausohjain (29) on konfiguroitu syöttöyhteen (20) osaksi, joka ulottuu syöt- tökammion sisäpuolelle.

7. Jonkin patenttivaatimuksen 1 - 6 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että syöttöyhteen (20) osalla (29) syöttökammion (11) sisäpuolella on vain osittai- nen seinämä syöttöyhteen (20) putkimuotoisesta seinämästä.

8. Patenttivaatimuksen 7 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että syöttöyh- teen (20) osan (29) osittainen seinämä syöttökammion (11) sisäpuolella kat- taa vain osan (29) alemman osan.

9. Jonkin patenttivaatimuksen 6 - 8 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että lajittelulaite (10) käsittää ohjauslevyn (30), joka on järjestetty syöttöyhteen (20) ulkopinnalle.

10. Jonkin patenttivaatimuksen 6 - 9 mukainen lajittelulaite, tunnettu siitä, että virtausohjain (30) on konfiguroitu ohjauslevyksi (30), joka ulottuu syöttöau- kosta (28) syöttökammion (11) sisäpuolelle.

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