Abstract:
A revolver feeder for treatment of cellulose containing material comprising a rotor having a plurality of spaces for the material extending axially through the rotor and adapted in different positions of the rotor to be brought into communication with openings formed in, respectively, a feed end plate and a discharge end plate so as during rotation of the rotor to be fed with material and subsequently with treating fluid under high pressure to be dis- charged upon further rotation of the rotor, said end plates being inter- connected by draw bars equally spaced about the circumference of said end plates outside said rotor. Unbalanced pressure forces acting on the end plates due to pressure variations in the spaces of the rotor are equalized by traction force producing devices disposed individually for all or those draw bars positioned adjacent the areas exposed to high outwardly directed pressure forces from said spaces so as to balance the pressure forces and maintain a substantially uniform bearing play between the end plates and the ends of the rotor along the circumference of the rotor. Preferably, each individual traction force producing device contains an automatically operative pressure control device causing production of a traction force counterbalancing an outwardly directed increased pressure from the adjacent space of the rotor. In order to establish a predetermined bearing play or a floating contact, removable bearing discs or sealing discs are interposed between the opposing faces of the rotor and the end plates.
Abstract:
An apparatus for subdividing a mass of small particles into a plurality of sub streams of relatively variable size comprising two disc-shaped members which between them define an interspace, and at least one of which rotates at high speed. The mass of particles is introduced at the centrum of the interspace and slung outwardly by centrifugal force into the interspace with substantially uniform peripheral distribution about the circumference of the disc-shaped members and into a circumferential annular chamber which is subdivided into sections by means of peripherally displaceable collecting shields; the length of the arc shaped sections being adjustable relative to one another determine the relative magnitude of the sub stream caught in each section by its associated shield which stream is discharged through an opening formed in the circular outer wall of the respective section.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a grinding apparatus for vegetable or fibrous raw material comprising a casing surrounding grinding discs mounted rotatably relatively one another and means for supplying steam under high pressure, so called primary steam, together with the raw material into the casing, where the introduced material is ground in the interspace between the grinding disc, the ground material being discharged from the casing through an outlet controlled by an adjustable valve. In order to keep the quantity of steam escaping from the casing along with the discharged produce, the outlet valve is devised to be actuated by the pressure in the casing via a control device responsive to said pressure which is determined, in addition to the action of the primary steam, by secondary steam supplied separately through a conduit to the casing.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a grinding apparatus of the type having grinding discs arranged in a housing of which at least one is rotatable and which between themselves form a grinding space for the grinding produce such as wooden chips fed dispersed in an aqueous vehicle to the centre of the space to be forced therethrough in outward direction under strong axial grinding pressure. Under this procedure the temperature of the vehicle is increased which results in evaporation of water which in turn unfavourably affects the produce such as the wooden chips the fibres of which may be locally overheated and miscoloured. To counteract this evaporation of water, ducts are formed in the grinding discs, at least the stationary one for supply of water to the grinding space between the discs. This arrangement is particularly useful when the grinding discs are composed of concentrical elements defining an outwardly decreasing grinding space permitting a highly advanced desintegration of the starting material.
Abstract:
A disc type press for expression of liquid from suspensions of particle material comprising substantially coaxially mounted press discs adapted to be urged towards one another while rotating in the same direction and defining a progressively constricted pressing interspace between the discs. The material to be dewatered is introduced at the space where the interspace between the discs is relatively wide and squeezed when passed to the place of narrowest spacing between the discs. In order to increase the capacity of the press without any appreciable increase of the outer dimensions of the press and of the structural elements absorbing the stresses produced by the pressing forces, at least one additional central press disc is inserted between the outer press discs. Preferably the additional press disc or discs are mounted axially displaceable on a shaft carrying the outer discs.
Abstract:
A grinding aparatus especially for lignocellulose containing material having two pairs of cooperating grinding discs. In each pair of grinding discs one disc is fixed to a stationary casing and the other carried on a common shaft extending through the casing from end to end and mounted rotatably in bearings permitting axial self-adjustment of the shaft responsive to the pressure prevailing in the interspaces between each pair of cooperating grinding discs; the disc mounted on the rotatable shaft performing a rotational movement relative to the disc which is fixed to the stationary casing. Each pair of cooperating grinding discs has a supply channel for the material to be ground. A feeler member is provided to ascertain the axial position of the shaft and adapted to emit an impulse to a control or regulation member for distributing of the material to be ground to the supply channels in such a manner that divergences in the width of the interspaces within the two pairs of cooperating discs are compensated by increase of the supply of material to be ground to the channel communicating with the interspace having momentarily the smaller width.
Abstract:
GRINDING APPARATUS FOR FIBROUS MATERIAL COMPRISING A PAIR OF GRINDING DISCS, AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH IS CARRIED BY AN AXIALLY DISPLACEABLE SHAFT SUPPORTED IN TWO SPACED COMBINED RADIAL AND AXIAL THRUST BEARINGS, EACH BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A SERVOMOTOR FOR PROVIDING THE AXIAL DISPLACEMENT, ONE OF THE SERVOMOTORS BEING OPERATIVE TO AUGMENT THE GRINDING PRESSURE EXERTED ON THE GRINDING DISCS BY THE OTHER SERVOMOTOR AND TO MINIMIZE BEARING PLAY IN A RADIAL DIRECTION.