Flow apparatus for the continuous physical and/or chemical treatment of substances

Claim 1

IN A FLOW APPARATUS FOR TREATING MATERIALS, AN UPRIGHT CYLINDRICAL HOUSING, A PRIME MOVER, A ROTATABLE SHAFT IN AND COAXIAL TO SAID HOUSING, COUPLED WITH SAID PRIME MOVER, SPACEDLY ARRANGED DISINTERGRATING UNITS IN AND COAXIAL TO SAID HOUSING, EACH OF SAID UNITS COMPRISING, A CENTRALLY PIERCED STATOR DISC, A HOLDING MEANS IN FIXED RELATION WITH HOUSING AND WITH SAID STATOR DISC, A CIRCULAR ROW OF SPACEDLY ARRANGED CUTTING STATOR TEETH FIXED TO SAID STATOR DISC AT A RADIAL DISTANCE FROM THE INNER WALL OF SAID HOUSING TO FORM TOGETHER WITH SAID WALL AN ANNULAR DISCHARGE SPACE, A ROTOR DISC FIXED TO SAID ROTATABLE SHAFT AND DISPOSED AT AN AXIAL DISTANCE FROM SAID STATOR DISC, A CIRCULAR ROW OF SPACEDLY ARRANGED CUTTING ROTOR TEETH FIXED TO SAID ROTOR DISC AND SURROUNDING A CENTRAL INLET SPACE, SAID ROTOR TEETH BEING CONCENTRIC TO AND SURROUNDED BY SAID STATOR TEETH IN CLOSE RADIAL PROXIMITY FOR CUTTING COOPERATION WITH SAID STATOR TEETH, HOPPERS FIXED TO SAID HOUSING, EACH HOPPER BELONGING TO ONE OF SAID UNITS AND BEING ARRANGED ABOVE AND SPACED FROM THE STATOR DISC OF THE RESPECTIVE UNIT TO FORM TOGETHER WITH SAID STATOR DISC A PASSAGE WAY OPENING TO SAID CENTRAL INLET SPACE, AN APERTURE IN SAID HOLDING MEANS TO ALLOW RE-CIRCULATIONS OF THE MATERIAL IN ONE AND THE SAME UNIT FROM SAID ANNULAR DISCHARGE SPACE THROUGH SAID PASSAGE WAY TO SAID CENTRAL INLET SPACE, A FEEDING MEANS ABOVE THE UPPERMOST UNIT, AND A DISCHARGE MEANS AFTER THE LOWERMOST UNIT.