US3595290A - Apparatus for comminuting grain - Google Patents
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- US3595290A US3595290A US831468A US3595290DA US3595290A US 3595290 A US3595290 A US 3595290A US 831468 A US831468 A US 831468A US 3595290D A US3595290D A US 3595290DA US 3595290 A US3595290 A US 3595290A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
- B02C18/00—Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments
- B02C18/06—Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives
- B02C18/16—Details
- B02C18/18—Knives; Mountings thereof
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
- B02C11/00—Other auxiliary devices or accessories specially adapted for grain mills
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- the invention relates to an apparatus for comminuting grain and, more particularly, to an inertial breaker for subdividing grain, e.g. to obtain a flour fraction.
- inertial breakers for commin uting grain have been provided heretofore with movable or immovable striking bodies to which the grain is fed.
- the grain flows freely to the impact members which engage the grain and break it up prior to passage of the grain through a sieve. Particles which do not pass through the screen are further comminuted by a hammer or blade. It has been found that this system yields a heterogeneous product made up, as is apparent, by the particles which freely pass through the sieve and particles which are crushed through the latter.
- the rotors used for these purposes are complex and are not subject to even wear so that balancing them creates a dilficulty.
- This object is achieved, in accordance with the present invention, by providing an impact rotor drum, fitted with externally projecting toothed blades and rotated in one sense while a counterrotating feed rotor constitutes an impeller entraining the grain between the rotors and in the direction of the blades at high velocity.
- a counterrotating feed rotor constitutes an impeller entraining the grain between the rotors and in the direction of the blades at high velocity.
- FIG. 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a cross section illustrating how the blades of the impact rotor are affixed to the rotor body
- FIG. 3 illustrates a detail view of the repellers carried by the housing.
- the grain-breaker apparatus as distinct from a crushing device, comprises a housing 1 rotatably receiving a feeding rotor or impeller 2, a regulator or guide 3 for passing the grain at a controllable rate along the underside of the impeller 2 and an impact rotor 5 which is also rotatably mounted in the housing.
- the rotor 5 is formed along its periphery with angularly spaced arrays of radially projecting toothed knives or blades 6 of generally trapezoidal configuration.
- arrays of toothed repellers 4 affixed to the housing 1.
- the toothed repellers 4 thus constitute fixed blades (FIG.
- the feeding rotor or impeller 2 is mounted on the shaft of an electric motor (not shown) and is driven at about 3000 r.p.m., the periphery of the rotor 2 being provided with fan blades to facilitate the projection ofthe grain tangentially into the path of the counterrotating rotor 5.
- the latter is mounted on the shaft of another electric motor (not shown) with the same rotary speed, i.e. 3000 r.p.m.
- trapezoidal slots On the periphery of the drum of the rotor 5, are formed trapezoidal slots (FIG. 2) in which the toothed blades 6 are fitted and separated by adjusting lamellas 7, the thicknesses of which determine the clearance between the blades 6 and hence the particle size of the comminuted grain.
- the regulator 3 comprises a steel surface running along the periphery of the rotor 2 and the entire throat of the breaker and which can be adjusted toward and away from the latter via an adjusting slot, to control the rate at which grain is fed through the device.
- the toothed repellers 4 may be attached to the housing in such manner that they can rotate about their axes for ad ustment and to replace wornout teeth.
- the grains enter the path of the feeding rotor at high speed and are entrained in the counterclockwise sense along the underside of the rotor and are projected tangentially from the latter into the path of the counterclockwise rotating member 5.
- the stream of grain is thus tangential to the opposite side of rotor 5 from that at which the grain leaves the rotor 2 and hence encounters the blades 6 as the latter move in the opposite direction.
- the grain passes into the path of these blades at a relative speed much higher than is obtainable with conventional systems.
- the grain is subdivided into small pieces and a small percentage of undesirable flour fraction.
- the grain particles are entrained by the blades through the arrays of repellers 4 and finally are projected at high velocity upwardly out of the apparatus.
- the apparatus operates without a sieve, has a simplified construction since it omits the sieve and bearings and belts commonly used in other apparatus.
- the wear of the blades is less so that they last longer than the blades of conventional hammers and the profile blade 6 has been found to have improved efficiency.
- a grain comminuter comprising a housing formed with a grain inlet; an impeller rotatably mounted in said housing for projecting grain in one direction along a path; an impact rotor mounted rotatably in said housing and formed with a peripheral array of outwardly projecting blades displaceable on' said rotor to intercept said path and rotatable in a direction opposite the direction in which said grain is projected by said impeller; and at least one array of repeller blades attached to said housing for intercepting grain entrained by said impact motor and cooperating therewith to comminute the grain.
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BG1011468 | 1968-06-11 |
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US (1) | US3595290A (xx) |
BE (1) | BE734322A (xx) |
CH (1) | CH498656A (xx) |
DE (1) | DE1929692A1 (xx) |
FR (1) | FR2010672A1 (xx) |
GB (1) | GB1268534A (xx) |
YU (1) | YU142469A (xx) |
Cited By (7)
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US4039150A (en) * | 1975-04-10 | 1977-08-02 | Investmentbolaget Elajo Ab | Apparatus for handling waste products |
US4402464A (en) * | 1981-04-27 | 1983-09-06 | Shire Sr Harry E | Scrap granulator |
WO1996010457A1 (en) * | 1994-09-30 | 1996-04-11 | Nadia Paolini | Synchroniser and accelerator system for feeding aggregates which coincides with the hammer action to be used with a hammer mill |
US6217442B1 (en) * | 1998-02-24 | 2001-04-17 | Arnold Schmidt | Grain processing apparatus and methods |
EP1322423A1 (en) | 2000-09-14 | 2003-07-02 | Mills Patent Management | Improvements in the reversible and not reversible secondary and tertiary hammer mills |
WO2008105019A1 (en) * | 2007-02-26 | 2008-09-04 | Michele Paolini | Hammer mills completely to impact for crushing, to be used in the building circle and in agriculture |
US20150336103A1 (en) * | 2014-05-20 | 2015-11-26 | Eco Green Equipment, Llc | Shredder blade assembly |
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US1840893A (en) * | 1929-08-19 | 1932-01-12 | Frank D Giddings | Grinding machine |
US1861779A (en) * | 1930-08-01 | 1932-06-07 | Her Born Engineering And Mfg C | Coal pulverizer and feeder |
FR791927A (fr) * | 1935-06-29 | 1935-12-19 | Râpe à fruits et produits similaires | |
FI27635A (fi) * | 1955-04-12 | Groenberg Anton Bertil | Anordning för behandling av halm eller dylikt | |
DE1157062B (de) * | 1960-06-14 | 1963-11-07 | Eickhoff Geb | Schlagwerkzeug fuer Schlaegermuehlen |
US3436028A (en) * | 1966-11-25 | 1969-04-01 | Farmhand Inc | Hammermill and feed control device therefor |
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- 1969-06-06 YU YU01424/69A patent/YU142469A/xx unknown
- 1969-06-09 US US831468A patent/US3595290A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1969-06-10 FR FR6919215A patent/FR2010672A1/fr not_active Withdrawn
- 1969-06-10 BE BE734322D patent/BE734322A/xx unknown
- 1969-06-11 DE DE19691929692 patent/DE1929692A1/de active Pending
- 1969-06-11 GB GB29698/69A patent/GB1268534A/en not_active Expired
- 1969-06-11 CH CH893269A patent/CH498656A/fr not_active IP Right Cessation
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FI27635A (fi) * | 1955-04-12 | Groenberg Anton Bertil | Anordning för behandling av halm eller dylikt | |
US1840893A (en) * | 1929-08-19 | 1932-01-12 | Frank D Giddings | Grinding machine |
US1861779A (en) * | 1930-08-01 | 1932-06-07 | Her Born Engineering And Mfg C | Coal pulverizer and feeder |
FR791927A (fr) * | 1935-06-29 | 1935-12-19 | Râpe à fruits et produits similaires | |
DE1157062B (de) * | 1960-06-14 | 1963-11-07 | Eickhoff Geb | Schlagwerkzeug fuer Schlaegermuehlen |
US3436028A (en) * | 1966-11-25 | 1969-04-01 | Farmhand Inc | Hammermill and feed control device therefor |
Cited By (11)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4039150A (en) * | 1975-04-10 | 1977-08-02 | Investmentbolaget Elajo Ab | Apparatus for handling waste products |
US4402464A (en) * | 1981-04-27 | 1983-09-06 | Shire Sr Harry E | Scrap granulator |
WO1996010457A1 (en) * | 1994-09-30 | 1996-04-11 | Nadia Paolini | Synchroniser and accelerator system for feeding aggregates which coincides with the hammer action to be used with a hammer mill |
US6217442B1 (en) * | 1998-02-24 | 2001-04-17 | Arnold Schmidt | Grain processing apparatus and methods |
EP1322423A1 (en) | 2000-09-14 | 2003-07-02 | Mills Patent Management | Improvements in the reversible and not reversible secondary and tertiary hammer mills |
EP1322423B1 (en) * | 2000-09-14 | 2017-12-27 | Raf - Ricambi Attrezzature Per La Frantumazione S.P.A. | Improvements in the reversible and not reversible secondary and tertiary hammer mills |
WO2008105019A1 (en) * | 2007-02-26 | 2008-09-04 | Michele Paolini | Hammer mills completely to impact for crushing, to be used in the building circle and in agriculture |
US20150336103A1 (en) * | 2014-05-20 | 2015-11-26 | Eco Green Equipment, Llc | Shredder blade assembly |
US10864523B2 (en) * | 2014-05-20 | 2020-12-15 | Eco Green Equipment, Llc | Shredder blade assembly |
US20210094042A1 (en) * | 2014-05-20 | 2021-04-01 | Eco Green Equipment, Llc | Shredder blade assembly |
US11794194B2 (en) * | 2014-05-20 | 2023-10-24 | Eco Green Equipment, Llc | Shredder blade assembly |
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CH498656A (fr) | 1970-11-15 |
BE734322A (xx) | 1969-11-17 |
FR2010672A1 (xx) | 1970-02-20 |
YU142469A (en) | 1973-04-30 |
GB1268534A (en) | 1972-03-29 |
DE1929692A1 (de) | 1969-12-18 |
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