Claims
- 1. A rotary grinding mill having a drum, opposed end heads on said drum, one head having a central pulp discharge orifice,
- a diaphragm spaced axially from said one head to provide a pulp containment end zone open at its radially outer edge for the ingress of pulp from the drum, the diaphragm having a plurality of lifter ribs dividing the end zone into a plurality of adjacent zone segments, the radially outer portion of the pulp containment zone defining a pulp classifier wherein pulp is differentially separated in accordance with the relative fineness thereof,
- the radially outer edge of the diaphragm overhanging the opening to said pulp zone, to deflect larger particles away from the pulp zone, said lifter ribs extending into the pulp containment zone to provide selective transfer of pulp therefrom.
- 2. The grinding mill according to claim 1, said diaphragm comprising a plurality of segmented plate portions.
- 3. The grinding mill according to claim 2 wherein adjacent ones of said plate portions include portions of said ribs, positioned in mutual cooperating relation.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation application of Application Ser. No. 802,353, filed June 2, 1977, now abandoned.
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