Mixing of particulate and fibrous materials
Abstract
Abstract Two or more materials, at least one of which is fibrous are mixed together by supplying the materials onto a dish-shaped circular surface which is free of projections, closely surrounding the edge of the circular surface with a wall which extends upwards from the surface and rotating the surface with the materials upon it and thus flinging the materials outwards centrifugally and causing them by the dished shape of the surface to be deflected upwards over the face of the wall which slows down the rotation applied to the materials by the rotating surface and directs the materials inwards again towards the centre of the surface whence they are flung centrifugally outwards so that the materials form a toroidally shaped mass around the edge of the surface and the materials circulate around the toroid following a helical path.
Inventors
- 👤 R Milik
Bibliographic Details
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