Patent Application
20090045278
The present invention relates to a ground element, for example for mills, mixers, extruders and pressure worms.
Mills and mixers are constructed, one behind another, in large numbers and with various ground plates for differing end substances and various intermediates. Usually, the ground plates on the ground disc are made of a permanent mould casting alloy to which chromium carbides impart sufficient hardness to meet the requirements placed on wear. With conventional machines and in the processing of pure wood fibre material at average speeds, this results in a satisfactory mode of operation with revision intervals of six to ten months. The quality of the ground-up fibres is markedly co-determined by the ribbed geometry of the ground plates which ensure a helical flow of material via the ribs up to the outlet. A pumping or pressing effect is thus obtained. It is crucial to achieve this effect in pressure worms and extruders. At the same time, an intimate, uniform through-mixing of the introduced substance is achieved in all cases, as the substance is of heterogeneous composition.
The manufacture of fine paper requires grinding to very small fibre diameters and lengths. This requires a small working gap in the order of magnitude of a few tenths of a millimetre. In practice, use is made of mill works which operate with rollers, cones or ground discs. In the case of ground discs, in which the material flows radially from the inside toward the outside, the relatively high circumferential velocities cause wear to take place predominantly in the outer third. However, the inner portions of the ground disc, which hardly wear at all, are crucial for the distance between the ground discs of the rotor and stator, so adjusting the shaft cannot compensate for material wear in the outer sectors of the ground disc: on adjustment of the shaft, there is a risk that the ground plates will be scraped. This risk is particularly high when starting up and shutting down the machine, when the pressure and material flow conditions are not yet stable.
For economical and ecological reasons, there is increasing demand to incorporate into the mixture of substances existing substances and material reclaimed from production. This frequently requires ceramic-type fillers also to be processed, and this markedly increases wear. To solve this problem, use is often made of relatively hard ground bodies. However, these are extremely sensitive to slight scraping. If the ground bodies in the outer working edge region are worn even slightly by a few tenths of a millimetre, an excessively large working gap is produced in the most important working region for the grinding of the fibres and substance mixtures. The output of the machine drops, as does the quality of the product. Extremely precise adjustments, capable of rapid response, can improve utilisation of the ground discs up to the geometric limit.
In the case of high-speed machines with internal pressure, the working gaps are so small as to be in the range of the resilient reactions of the machine: the smallest of changes in the vibrational behaviour of the mill work caused by changes in the material properties can therefore bring about intensive wear to the ground discs or even the destruction of the machine.
Procedurally, it is possible to boost the daily output of the machines by minimising the width of the working gap and increasing the rotational speed using advanced control means and regulator circuits. It is possible to increase the grinding output while at the same time reducing power consumption by as much as 20%. The cost of this is the need frequently to change the ground discs, as peak outputs are achieved only in a short phase of the service life. Conventional ground discs consist of a carrier and lamellar-type ground bodies which are made of permanent mould casting and arranged on the carrier. The production of the permanent mould casting ground bodies requires mass abrasion of the lamellar surface prior to integration. However, this results in sharp working edges which do not allow optimum grinding results at the start of the grinding process. Optimum grinding results are achieved only after a ‘run-in phase’ (edge rounding). If increased wear is accepted, the grinding output and product quality fall rapidly.
The object of the present invention is to propose a ground element having a longer service life. A further aim is to propose a ground body comprising a ground element which supplies the desired grinding quality from the outset. A further aim is to propose a roller, cone or ground disc mill work which can be produced cost-effectively and has a long service life. A further aim is to provide machines, in particular grinding devices such as refiners for paper, extruders for plastics material and ceramics, pressure worms for wet fibrous substances, brown coal, peat, beet chip, etc., which have long service intervals. It is desirable, in this regard, for particularly expensive and complex control means to be dispensed with.
According to the invention, the object is achieved in that at least two fastening elements, which preferably have undercuts, beads and/or corners, are provided on the fastening side opposing the working surface for fastening the ground element in corresponding holes in a support body. These ground elements have the advantage that the fastening elements allow secure fastening to a support body, so even relatively high transverse forces can be absorbed. In particular, the ground elements allow a modular construction of ground discs, so the properties of the individual ground sectors can be coordinated more effectively than in known ground discs comprising permanent mould casting plates.
Continuous holes are preferably provided in the elements, which holes can be used for injecting or draining water. The water produced on pulping of fibres can thus be removed rapidly. The holes are expediently in the form of slots with a diffuser-like outlet.
The proposed, novel ground elements have the advantage that the ground elements can be produced by powder pressing or preferably by powder injection moulding (PIM). This allows the ground elements to be produced cost-effectively. Expediently, the ground elements are surface-compacted (by duplex coating: diffuse ion nitriding+IBAD, ion beam assisted deposit of WC—Co, TiN, DLC, etc.). This allows the production of very durable ground elements having high thermal stability.
According to a preferred embodiment, a first type of ground element is made of materials having high thermal stability. These can include, for example, ground elements made of hard metal and mixed with high-temperature carbides, high-temperature (mixed) carbides, nitrides or borides or mixtures thereof with a cobalt matrix. Preferably, the first type of ground element is made of hard metal comprising WC, TiC, SiC—SiN, optionally also borides or similar hard phase formers with a Ni/Co—Cr—V—Nb—B—Si—C-type eutectic matrix. Ground elements of this type are distinguished by a high thermal stability of greater than 2,000° C., preferably greater than 2,500° C. and particularly preferably greater than 2,800° C.
A second type of ground element, made of ceramic materials, is advantageously provided. This second type can be made of inexpensive materials. A possible composition of the ground element is, for example, Si—Al—Zr oxide. Alternatively, the second type of ground element can be made of pressed carbon fibres, optionally with DLC coating.
The present invention also relates to a ground body comprising ground elements according to the invention, which is characterised in that drilled or punched holes are provided in the support body and in that the ground elements comprising the fastening elements are received in the drilled or punched holes with an interlocking fit. The interlocking fit can be produced in this case by sheathings with materials having a lower melting point than the ground elements and support body or carrier plate respectively. Ground bodies of this type have the advantage that the ground elements can be exchanged rapidly by being heated. The geometry and material properties of the ground bodies composed of individual ground elements can also be optimised. Thermal internal stresses can thus be avoided at the bearing faces. The ground elements comprising the fastening elements can be made, by powder pressing, preferably powder injection moulding (PIM), of materials sintered to high strength. These (individual) ground elements are expediently fastened to perforated carrier plates with an interlocking fit by means of their fastening elements. The ground elements can therefore be exchanged easily and rapidly. The fastening elements arranged in the drilled or punched holes are expediently sheathed with plastics material, bonded or soldered. Sheathing of the fastening elements has the advantage that the fastening elements are secured in the support body.
Advantageously, the first type of ground element is inserted in the support body by co-sintering of the ground element and support body, preferably by two-step pressing of the ground elements and support body in the same press mould (by powder pressing or PIM). It is expedient if the first type of ground element having a compacted surface is inserted on a support body of geometry such that welding/tack-welding to working faces of apparatuses is possible without extending the heat affected zone into the ground element.
Preferably, the fastening elements comprising beads and/or corners are produced by cold pressing and inserted into the holes in the support body with low internal stress. This embodiment has the advantage that the fastening elements can no longer become detached from their fastenings.
A preferred embodiment provides for the provision of ground elements of the first and the second type on the support body. This has the advantage that the differing regions of a ground plate can be provided with differing grinding properties. Preferably, a plurality of ground elements of the same type, adjacent to one another in each case, are combined to form sectors having specific grinding properties or the plurality of ground elements form working edges having identical properties. Advantageously, the ground body has, in the direction of the flow of material, at least two sectors occupied by ground elements of the first or the second type.
Preferably, there are arranged on carrier plates a plurality of individual ground elements, the size of which corresponds to the size of conventional permanent mould casting plates. This has the advantage that the carrier plates comprising the ground elements can be used instead of the conventional permanent mould casting plates. Although the ground elements according to the invention can be arranged directly on a housing wall, for example, of an extruder or on a rotor carrier disc, the use of an additional carrier plate or a carrier body has the advantage that the ground elements can be pre-assembled thereon. The ground elements can also easily be recycled, as the carrier plates comprising the ground elements can be introduced directly into a furnace in order to melt the solder or other materials which have a relatively low melting point and can be used for the detachable fastening of the ground elements on the carrier plate.
According to an independent aspect of the invention, a first sector is occupied by ground elements which ensure “emergency running properties”. The surface of this first sector projects beyond the surfaces of the adjacent sectors preferably by a specific distance. This is based on the idea of raising, in a machine, at least the ground elements of a first sector from the ground elements of a second, preferably adjacent sector, so the first sector forms what is known as a scraping protection means. This can prevent ground elements or entire ground plates, respectively, from being destroyed if they should enter into contact during operation. Because the surface of the (first) ground element having “emergency running properties” is set apart from the other (second) ground elements, there is, in a mill work, a smaller working gap between the first ground element and an opposing face than between the other ground elements and the opposing face. The opposing face can, in this case, also be occupied by ground elements or be formed by a stationary wall with or without a structure (lamellas or the like).
Obviously, in the various uses of the ground elements, for example in extruders, screw-type extruders, on ground plates of refiners, a respective sector of ground elements having high thermal stability is used as the scraping protection means. In other words, in the region of this sector, there is a smaller working gap, so remaining sectors comprising ground elements are protected.
The ground element having emergency running properties (a plurality of identical elements can be combined to form sectors) is preferably made of an abrasion-resistant material which has a fine-grained structure but also residual strength. The ground element of the first type can be made thicker than ground elements of the second type. However, it is also conceivable to cause the first ground elements to be set apart by appropriate configuration of the base (support body). However, it is also conceivable to make the ground element having emergency running properties or sectors formed therefrom from pressed carbon fibres.
According to a preferred embodiment, the other ground elements of the second and third sector can consist of inexpensive ceramic elements. The initially described ground element can, in this case, be the central sector and the surface of the first ground element can be set apart from the surfaces of the two other (second) ground elements. This embodiment is particularly suitable for high-speed refiner paper mills with ground discs comprising annular sectors optimised for the desired operations. Advantageously, the central sector is set apart from the surfaces of the inner and outer sector. The central sector has “emergency running properties” and therefore acts as a scraping protection means which prevents the other sectors from rubbing against one another during operation.
A particularly advantageous embodiment makes provision for the ground body to have a carrier plate on which a plurality of first and/or second ground elements is arranged. This carrier plate can correspond to the size of known one-piece permanent mould casting segments. Compared to conventional ground bodies, this is a completely different design in which the one-piece permanent mould casting segments are divided into a plurality of individual ground elements. This allows completely different production methods to be used for the production of the ground bodies or ground elements respectively, for example powder injection moulding (PIM). This production method allows the fastening members to be directly formed integrally with the ground elements. Advantageously, the individual ground elements have on their back (i.e. opposing the working surface) fastening members which are connectable or connected to the support body with an interlocking fit. The compression-loaded faces can thus still have low internal stress. Possible fastening members include bolts, hollow pins, screws or the like. These ground elements have the advantage that the especially operable outer zone is 100% usable, i.e.—in contrast to conventional ground bodies comprising permanent mould casting plates—there are no longer any screw holes for fastening the ground elements in the working face.
Preferably, the fastening members are dovetailed feet received in holes in the support body, preferably round holes comprising an upwardly conical bore. These have the advantage that they can be sheathed with plastics material—or soldered—in a defined position at low heat and can thus be secured in the support body. The feet can be polygonal in order to allow horizontal stresses to be delimited in the plastics material of the support body material. The support body can, in turn, have precise cylinder hollow pins which can secure the fastening members, for example, in a rotor while at the same time allowing rapid exchange. Also possible, in the case of support bodies which have to protect merely the outer edges of rotors or worms, are integrally formed tabs fastened to the rotor using short, detachable weld seams.
The sectors are expediently covered by a plurality of ground elements which have surface structures well known to a person skilled in the art. For example, in the paper production process, surface structures of the sector parts, for example ribbed geometries comprising channels a few millimetres in depth, are to ensure the pulping of pulp into optimally thin fibres and the discharge of the material. Ground elements of such configuration could also be referred to as lamellar elements or lamellar bodies. Preferably, these lamellar elements of the sectors are produced by powder injection moulding (PIM) or by powder pressing, optionally hot isostatic pressing (HIP).
The use of PIM allows a three-layered composite body to be optimised and mass-produced cost-effectively: merely the layer directly below the coating (TiN, DLC, etc.) is expensive hard metal, sintered as a perfect substrate. The base is formed, for example, by hardenable, ferritic chromium steel (17-4) co-sintered with the hard metal. This has the additional advantage that a composite body of this type can also be connected to a carrier plate by welding.
Producing the sector parts by powder injection moulding or powder pressing has the major advantage that the edges of the surface structures can already be produced in optimum form. Mills comprising ground bodies of this type therefore produce an optimum result from the outset. Conventional ground plates made of permanent mould casting, on the other hand, the surface structures of which initially have sharp edges, have first of all to run in and therefore produce an optimum result only after a specific number of operating hours.
Within the present invention, differing combinations of materials are possible for the individual sectors of ground bodies: if three (annular) sectors are provided, these can be made, in the direction of the flow of material (from inside to outside), for example, of the following materials:
permanent mould casting, hard metal, ceramics or
permanent mould casting, hard metal, carbon fibre part or
ceramics, hard metal, hard metal or
ceramics, hard metal, carbon fibre part or
hard metal, hard metal, carbon fibre part or
permanent mould casting, hard metal, carbon fibre part.
Further combinations are conceivable.
Advantageously, the dovetailed, optionally angular feet received in the holes are sheathed with plastics material or bonded or soldered (or directly co-sintered with liquid phase, see above). This has the advantage that the securing can be carried out with an interlocking fit and very rapidly. The ground elements can be removed by heating the ground bodies. In the case of three-layered composite bodies, the weld connection of the carrier plate can be undone.
Expediently, the ground elements are produced by powder pressing or PIM as lamellar bodies having surface structures.
Advantageously, the outer sectors are configured as carrier plates comprising maraging or age-hardened duplex steels—precisely drilled as a perforated plate segment using a known method. In principle, the carrier plate can also be manufactured as a punched part (
A carrier plate can be arranged on the rotor, with bores and screw holes for knop feet. Screw holes allow ground or lamellar elements respectively, which can be exchanged without dismantling the rotor, to be received directly.
For monitoring the water content, the stator-side ground bodies can be provided with bores. According to one embodiment, the lamellar bodies (ground elements) can have bores in the knop feet that can allow water to be injected or drained without active surface area being lost (
The present invention also relates to a mill, in particular a high-speed refiner for paper stock, comprising ground elements according to any one of claims 1 to 31. The carrier plate can be connected to the rotor by cylindrical hollow pins (
For monitoring the water content, the stator-side ground bodies can be provided with bores. According to one embodiment, the lamellar bodies (ground elements) can have bores in the knop feet that can allow water to be injected or drained without active surface area being lost.
The rotor can be configured as a disc, cone or roller.
The present invention also relates to a mill with ground bodies comprising sectors differing in the radial direction, which is characterised in that an annular sector is made of materials having high thermal stability and which has “emergency running properties”. Advantageously, the width of the gap between the opposing ground elements having emergency running properties is smaller than the width of the gap between the other ground elements. This has the advantage that the sector having emergency running properties prevents the other sectors from rubbing against one another and therefore damaging one another. This results in much longer service lives of the ground plates and also qualitatively improved results for the ground product.
The invention will be described hereinafter in greater detail, by way of example, with reference to the drawings, in which:
a is a cross section of an embodiment of an extruder element comprising a (water) aperture;
b is a plan view onto the extruder element; and
c is a plan view onto a punched carrier plate.
A known rotor 11 used in a mill work (
The rotor 25 differs from the known rotor in that there are provided annular sectors 31, 33 and 37 consisting, at least in part, of differing materials (not only permanent mould casting metal). A sector which has emergency running properties and projects beyond the other sectors is also provided. In the illustrated embodiment comprising three annular sectors 31, 33, 37, the central annular sector 33 projects, for example, beyond the two other annular sectors 31 and 37 (
The rotor 25 is arranged at a distance from a stationary ground disc (not shown in the figures) which can be of similar construction to the rotor carrier disc 25, i.e. occupied by identical ground elements.
The ground elements 41 are arranged on a carrier plate 51. The carrier plate can be a type of intermediate plate having a perforated structure. The perforated structure consists of a large number of holes 50 (
The configuration of the fastening feet 44 with an undercut, for example as dovetails, entails the advantage of secure fastening. The polygonal or rectangular configuration with beads (feet 46 and 48 respectively) allows an interlocking press fit by local, plastic flowing of the carrier plate without high internal stresses resulting overall in the element. For rigidly connecting the ground elements 41 on the carrier plate 51, the fastening (knop) feet, having for example an undercut, can be sheathed with plastics material 67, bonded or fixedly cast using a solder (see the description of
The hollow pins 53 are used for fastening the carrier plate 51, for example, on a known rotor disc 15. The hollow pins 53 can be distributed in such a way that they correspond to the model of the fastening holes in conventional rotor discs. This has the advantage that rotors comprising conventional permanent mould casting plates can be equipped with new ground elements according to the invention.
The embodiments shown in
In accordance with the further advantageous embodiments illustrated in
The extruder shown in
The variation of
The other extreme case is a low-speed pressure worm which drains water from moist fibrous material (crude brown coal—40% water content—beet chip, paper fibrous materials and the like); also a pressure worm has an extruder for plastics materials containing glass fibres or rock wool. These examples will be described hereinafter.
The sectors, having differing functions and working gaps, of a high-speed mill work are characterised as follows:
The inner sector 31 is the location at which the still-coarse material (optionally with added ceramics) has to be slowly pulped from the inlet. The working gap can therefore be larger than in the central sector 33.
The circumferential velocity of the inner sector is lower than the circumferential velocity of the central and outer sector. Vapour bubbles and cavitation therefore do not yet have any effect. In the inner sector 31, the coarse material, originating from the inlet and containing ceramic fillers, has to be pulped. With regard to the design of the materials, a permanent (long lasting) form is cast which has high hardness but also still has residual strength (notched bar impact work) can therefore be used for the ground elements. The corrosion resistance can be allowed for in the alloy in such a way that there remains sufficient free chromium for the formation of solid oxide layers at the surface in the metal matrix. High-temperature carbide formers such as V or Nb can be added by alloying for the formation of fine-grained carbide. Even in the case of chromium contents of from 24 to 28% by weight, the matrix will therefore contain sufficient free chromium if the high carbon content is set by special carbides (such as V or Nb, etc). The inner sector 31 is preferably designed in such a way that the removal of oxide is reduced by Tribox (abrasion of the constantly newly formed, insufficiently solid mixed oxides at the surface). The structure, with the fine-grain setting of the carbon by V, Nb or other metals, is characterised in that the matrix is solid and tough and sufficient metallic chromium remains in the matrix to allow the desired notched bar impact work to be achieved. In the regions near the surface, what is known as shot peening can be used to produce internal stresses. These prevent or delay the formation of microcracks. The lamellas of the ground element surface are preferably tough and resistant to fatigue microcracks. The working edges are expediently compacted cold, so as not to be susceptible to cracking. The inner sector can reach up to an adjoining, annular injection zone for “additional water”. The injection of additional water is expedient, as the high internal friction causes the aqueous paper stock partly to evaporate. The systems therefore operate under pressure. Relatively large amounts of water have to be injected if the outer sectors are to obtain water in the form of a wet steam mixture. The lamellar elements have to be made resistant to the inevitable droplet impact (in the resultant wet steam). The processes of wear are intensified—as in pumps and wet steam turbines (cavitation, droplet impact)—by fretting corrosion (Tribox) owing to the ceramic fillers introduced (as in dirty-water pumps).
The central sector 33 of the rotor disc is preferably formed to have high thermal stability. The high thermal stability can be achieved by the integration of securely bound metal carbides. High-temperature carbides endure the incipient formation of vapour bubbles and droplets. The integration of high-temperature carbides such as, for example, WC, TiC, SiC—SiN, optionally also borides or similar hard phase formers into the finest grains makes this sector corrosion and heat-resistant, so partial scraping of this sector does not cause disastrous damage.
For example, powder-pressed ground elements 41 made of Ti-stabilised tungsten carbide in cobalt (conventional use in rock drill bits for mining) form individual sector parts having emergency running properties. These sector parts having a melting temperature of preferably >2,500° C. do not tear or melt on the formation of frictional heat. This sector is accordingly used for the defined distancing.
The considerable transverse forces acting on the ground elements can be absorbed by suitable fastening members, for example knop feet. These knop feet 45, 46, 48 penetrate the bores formed, preferably conically from behind, in the carrier plate 51. The knop feet can be fastened by non-warping low-temperature soldering. Alternatively, sheathing of the knop feet is conceivable. Ground elements of this type, having complex geometry, can be produced cost-effectively and precisely by PIM (powder injection moulding). The various ground elements, which form a sector, can be mass-produced fully automatically on existing plastics material injection moulding machines. All that are required are minor (wear-preventing) modifications to set up the existing machines for the production of the sector parts according to the invention.
The central sector 33 is characterised in that it operates with the smallest working gap and thus, in the event of the rotor discs being scraped, as cannot be entirely avoided, is the first sector to have surface contact. The properties of the hard body allow this scraping in the event of procedural irregularities to be endured briefly, as the temperature of >2,000° C., rapidly produced by friction, can reliably be endured on account of the high melting point of the carbide-containing material (WC, etc.) of >2,800° C. (emergency running properties). The introduction of metal particles caused by wear, in particular the introduction of easily oxidisable iron into the fine paper material, is thus avoided. The properties of lamellar bodies made of pressed carbon fibres—as provided in the outer ring—make the bodies also appear suitable for the central ring, provided that the material to be processed does not place excessively high demands.
The outer sector 37 of the rotor disc comprising the most highly loaded ground elements can be made of much cheaper ceramic lamellar bodies. Shaping is also possible by PIM (Si—Al—Zr oxide). The outer layer 37 can also be made of pressed and sintered ceramic or carbon fibres. For carbon fibres in particular, DLC (diamond-like carbon) can additionally be directionally applied to the working edges (prior art). The ground elements 41 of the outer, annular sector 37 can also be bonded and/or screwed directly to the rotor. The light materials used allow much higher rotational speeds to be achieved, at the same forces, than with conventional ground plates made of a hard metal casting.
One advantage of the modularly constructed ground plates is that the optimum edge geometries, in accordance with the invention, can be pressed without additional costs. For it is possible to determine an optimum working edge geometry for the shape of the ceramic parts and to implement this optimum geometry directly by injection moulding. Optimum operating conditions can thus be achieved for more than 90% of the working time. The service life of the ground plates according to the invention far exceeds that of permanent mould casting ground plates.
The ground elements comprising knop feet can be inserted into holes drilled in the carrier plate and, for example, be sheathed with high-strength plastics material or bonded in a precise position from behind. This can be carried out even at temperatures below 150° C. The central sector rules out the risk of the outer sector being scraped.
The outer sector 37 is characterised in that it contains segments or sector parts that can be exchanged cost-effectively. In this case, too, elements made of pressed carbon fibres, optionally DLC (diamond-like carbon) coated, can be used. The low specific weight allows direct fastening of the sector parts on the rotor plate and thus relatively high rotational speeds at comparatively low centrifugal forces. The elements can optionally be attached directly to the drilled rotor disc.
The outer sector can also consist of carrier plate segments connected to the hub via a grid consisting of short pins. The outer rotor disc (carrier plate 51) can thus be produced like a screen and be easily exchanged.
The outer sector can—as a result of the safe spacing of the rotor discs in the central sector—be formed from ground elements made of ceramic materials which most effectively endure the high-speed droplet impact inevitable in the outer sector and also the frictional wear caused by the fillers. The ceramic ground elements 41 can also be manufactured cost-effectively and precisely by PIM. The material used can be a more favourable ceramic compound, such as for example Si—Al—Zr oxide, than in the central sector. The fastening is produced, as in the other sector parts, preferably by knop feet.
Like the other sectors, the outer sector 37 can also consist of ground elements 41 which can be exchanged cost-effectively. The outer sector of a high-speed refiner accounts for more than 70% of the grinding output. As a result of the optimised material properties and geometry of the outer sector parts, high product quality can be ensured for more than 90% of the operating time. For particularly high rotational speeds and centrifugal forces, ground elements made of pressed carbon fibres, optionally with diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating, can also be used. On account of the low specific weight of the sector parts used, the centrifugal forces are lower, and the rotational speed, and thus the output, can be increased. The light outer ground elements can also be attached directly to the rotor disc. The rotor disc can therefore be very slim and light in its configuration, produced, for example, as a perforated disc or perforated segments.
The advantages of the ground bodies or ground elements according to the invention are: flexible construction of the rotor system in a high-speed mill work (high-speed refiner) and suitability for a broad range of starting materials and end products. Mills comprising the ground elements and ground bodies according to the invention allow an increase in output of up to 20 to 40% with power savings of >20%. The product quality is also higher and more uniform that in mills comprising conventional ground discs. Retrofitting of existing mills is possible in many cases and allows a broad range of services.
The ground bodies can be assembled in this case both on the working edges of the worm and on the scraper strips of the housing (
The ground elements according to the invention are in this case assembled on the working edges of the worm and over the entire circumference of the housing. The ground elements, which act in this case as working edges for the worms, can be assembled on a punched carrier plate which has lateral outlets for pressed water from the high-pressure region near the outer edge. Between the outlets there are punched extended tabs which can be bent and used for fastening by short, detachable welding beads (see
Pressure Worms (Extruders for Plastics Material (Filled with Glass Stone or Carbon Fibres) But Also for Brickwork or Ore Dressing Slurries and the Like)
The ground elements according to the invention are used in this case to protect both the working edge of the extruder screw and the inner wall of the housing. The ground elements, which can be shaped in any desired manner, are in this case configured for some applications without drainage bores such as 42. For high pressures, the ground elements overlap in the direction of the flow of material, 49. The tolerances are thus to be held in a range which allows manufacture by powder injection moulding (PIM) without reworking. In this case, too, a directional lamellar structure of the surface can entail considerable procedural advantages (service life and guidance of materials).
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01739/04 | Oct 2004 | CH | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/IB05/03146 | 10/21/2005 | WO | 00 | 4/22/2008 |
