US3586250A - Adjustable noncoaxial disc refiner - Google Patents

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US3586250A
US3586250A US771861A US3586250DA US3586250A US 3586250 A US3586250 A US 3586250A US 771861 A US771861 A US 771861A US 3586250D A US3586250D A US 3586250DA US 3586250 A US3586250 A US 3586250A
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    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
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  • a TTOR/V' Y ADJUSTABLE NONCOAXIAL DISC REFINER This invention relates to improvements in disc refiners which render them particularly advantageous for use in highdensity pulp-refining procedures. While the application of the invention embodiments is obviously not so limited, for purposes of illustration they will be described as used for the defiberizing of fibrous pulps which are presented in slurry form the solids content of which is percent or more.
  • the plates of conventionally provided single and double disc refiners have a high incidence of wear. This has necessitated frequent replacement and maintenance procedures. Moreover, on application to fibrous materials such as raw wood chips, for example, they absorb a considerable amount of energy and draw a great amount of power. Both these conditions are objectionable and have invited a considerable amount of research and experimentation, mainly directed to improvements in the refining plates per se.
  • the present invention affords a simple but effective solution to these problems. Not only does the invention effectively reduce or obviate these problems but it renders the disc refiners much more effective in their ability to separate fiber bundles. There naturally results a higher quality product at a lower cost.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide an improved disc refiner characterized by low-power draw and a high capacity to defiberize without fiber deterioration.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide an improved disc refiner characterized by opposed refiner plates in parallel and eccentrically offset as to their centers whereby to produce particularly improved separation of the fiber content of fiber solids which are moved therebetween.
  • An additional object ofj the invention is to provide means and methods whereby disc refiners may be more effectively applied to improve and simplify high-consistency or high-density refining procedures.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a disc refiner and a method of its use possessing the advantageous structural features, the inherent meritorious characteristics, and the method of employment herein described.
  • FIG. 1 of the drawings reveals a strictly schematic showing of a double rotary disc refiner, in elevation, embodying the various features of the present invention.
  • the refining disc units 10 and 11 respectively mount to adjacent ends of shafts l2 and 13 to have their refining surfaces disposed in an adjacent opposed relation in a manner to be further described.
  • Each shaft is supported in inboard and outboard bearings.
  • the shaft 12 projects through and mounts in bearings 14 and while the shaft 13 projects through and mounts in bearings 16 and 17.
  • the bearings 14 and 15 each mount, in turn, to pedestal supports 18 and are established thereby to position the shaft 12 at a fixed level referenced to a common base for all the pedestals.
  • the details of the base are not illustrated since in and of themselves they form no particular partof the present invention except to establish a reference plane.
  • the inboard and the outboard bearings 16 and 17 for the shaft 13 respectively mount to pedestal supports 19.
  • the pedestal supports 19 each include a saddle portion 20, which in part encompasses and supports the lower portion of the bearing housing which mounts thereto, and a surrounding underlying base portion 21.
  • the base portion 21 may be considered as nothing more involved than an H-frame the projected upper extremities of which are adapted to nest the related saddle portion 20.
  • Projecting vertically from the bridging portion of the H-frame in the example schematically illustrated, is a threaded body 23 of a screw which projects through an aperture in the center of the overlying saddle 20.
  • a nut 22 may be fixed for rotation in connection with the bottom of saddle 20 and in threaded engagement about the related screw 23. It should thus be obvious that the disposition of the shaft 13 may be variously controlled by rotation of the nuts 22 in respect to each of the screws 23 in the pedestal supports 19.
  • the drawings reveal the refining disc units 10 and 11 as encased in a housing 24 having a discharge outlet 25 at a peripheral portion ofthe rotatable disc units and an inlet 26 defined by an inlet spout 27.
  • the disc unit 10 mounts to the shaft 12 which has a relatively fixed horizontal orientation.
  • the unit 10 has through passages adjacent the shaft 12 for delivery therethrough of raw wood or other material in a high-consistency or high-density slurry form.
  • the wood and the accompanying liquid forming the vehicle for its movement is passed by way of spout 27 through the inlet 26 and openings in the disc 10 to move between the respectively opposed refining surfaces 29 and 30 of the disc unit 10 and the opposed disc unit 11 to exit at their periphery and discharge in a defiberized condition.
  • the shafts 12 and 13 will each mount a rotor element of a motor which is centered between the inboard and outboard support pedestals. in each instance the motor will conventionally house a stator in surrounding relation to the rotor.
  • the respective motor housings embody and support the stator and are fixedly attached to the adjacent bearing housings to thereby maintain a uniform airgap or clearance between the stator and rotor.
  • the nuts 22 will be respectively adjusted on the screws 23 to establish the refining surface 30 of disc unit 11 in parallel with the refining surface 29 of the disc unit 10.
  • This procedure establishing the refining surfaces in parallel will be carried out in an operating condition of the refiner.
  • the disc units will be relatively rotated under the influence of their respective drive motors and suitable measuring means will be utilized for insuring a positive parallel relation of the refining surfaces. Since the details of the apparatus for and method of such measurement for establishing the parallel relation are not a specific aspect of the present invention, suffice it to say that any convenient method and means for measurement within the knowledge of those skilled in the art may be here employed.
  • the refining surfaces of the disc units will be established in parallel and eccentrically offset at their centers as described. Then on energizing the disc units the raw wood chips may be delivered therebetween in a high-consistency slurry form. The chips move outwardly between the relatively rotating refining surfaces 29 and 30 and in the process there is produced a rela tively compound or eccentric action on the chips due to the radial offset of the refining surfaces. This action provides for separating forces simultaneously both in the sense of and transverse to the axis of the chips, and results in a positive and critical separation of the fiber bundles of which the chips are comprised.
  • the invention is particularly important when applied to high-density or high-consistency refining of pulp of fibrous content where the material is flowed to and through the refiner in a slurry form at a consistency of percent solids or more.
  • This is highly advantageous in that the refining or defiberizing which is the end result is achieved to an optimal degree and with a minimum of fluid present.
  • the offset of the centers of the disc refiner units may be between 0.005 inch and 1 inch. However, a range of offset between 0.020 inch and 0.080 inch is most advantageous for the greater majority of the applications of the invention units and system.
  • the invention defines a unique advance in the art of refining, particularly high-consistency refining.
  • the advantages inherent in high-consistency refining will appear in the application to low-consistency refining as well.
  • a refiner comprising a pair of disc refiner units, at least one of which rotates relative the other, characterized by said disc refiner units having adjacent relatively opposed refining surfaces and in connection therewith means for applying said refining surfaces to produce an eccentric action on any pulp mass which is passed therebetween, each of said disc units having a fixed mount to a shaft, means mounting said shafts in an elevated relation to a basesurface thereunder, and one of said shafts having a fixed orientation and the other having in connection therewith means for adjusting the orientation thereof to establish the opposed refining surfaces substantially in parallelism and to produce a selective offset of one of said refining surfaces relative the other whereby in operation to produce said eccentric action.
  • a disc refiner unit as set forth in claim 1 characterized by the center of one of said disc units being radially offset from the center of the other between 0.005 inch and 1 inch.
  • a disc refiner unit as set forth in claim 1 characterized by the center of one of said disc units being radially offset from the center of the other between 0.020 inch and 0.080 inch.
  • a disc refiner including a pair of discs having front faces in opposing adjacent relation, each disc being fixed to a shaft extending from its back face, at its center and perpendicularly thereof, means defining spaced bearing supports for each said shaft, and means included in the supports for at least one of said shafts for bodily shifting said shaft to accomplish precise parallelism of the said front faces of said discs and to achieve a selected nonaligned relation of said shafts for an eccentric offset disposition of said opposing front faces.
  • a disc refiner according to claim 4 wherein there are means included in said supports for said one of said shafts which operate independently of one another whereby adjustment of one relatively to the other relatively tilts said discs and adjustment of both in conjunction with one another relatively offsets said shafts and said discswhile maintaining parallelism of the front faces of discs.
  • a disc refiner according to claim 4 wherein said discs have a vertical disposition and said shafts extend horizontally therefrom, and said spaced bearing supports include pedestals spaced apart longitudinally of a respective shaft and a saddle mounted on each pedestal for relative raising and lowering movement, said saddles being each in an independent supporting relation to said shaft.
  • each shaft is supported by a pair of longitudinally spaced-apart saddles on respective pedestals.
  • a disc refiner according to claim 4 wherein said discs are surrounded by a case having an inlet for the entrance of material to be refined and an outlet for the discharge of refined material, and having further substantially oppositely disposed openings through which said shafts project, and a seal in at least one of said openings incorporating a flexible member to accommodate movements of a bodily shiftable shaft which projects therethrough.
  • said spaced bearing supports include a pair of spaced-apart pedestals for each shaft, characterized by a rotor fixed to each shaft, each rotor disposing between a pair of said pedestals, a stator surrounding each rotor, the rotor on a shiftable shaft bodily shifting in accompaniment therewith, and the surrounding stator being fixed relative the bearing supports for the shiftable shaft to move therewith.

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US4674689A (en) * 1980-11-19 1987-06-23 Ranks Hovis Mcdougall Ltd. Milling machines
US5244159A (en) * 1993-01-29 1993-09-14 Grindmaster Corporation Grinding burrs for coffee bean grinders
US6637686B2 (en) * 2000-02-03 2003-10-28 Andritz Ag Refiner
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US5244159A (en) * 1993-01-29 1993-09-14 Grindmaster Corporation Grinding burrs for coffee bean grinders
US6637686B2 (en) * 2000-02-03 2003-10-28 Andritz Ag Refiner
CN100436706C (zh) * 2004-07-29 2008-11-26 吴解生 偏心进料高浓磨浆机
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