Solid material comminution or disintegration – Processes – Subjecting material to impact by moving comminuting surface
Patent
1999-07-22
2000-08-29
Husar, John M.
Solid material comminution or disintegration
Processes
Subjecting material to impact by moving comminuting surface
241 28, 241 29, 24118635, 241281, 241282, D21B 126
Patent
active
061095508
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an arrangement for providing continuous grinding in a pulp grinder comprising a grindstone, a feed chute extending to the grindstone, a piston for pressing the wood in the feed chute against the grindstone, and a closing member that can be moved crosswise of the feed chute to prevent the wood from moving backward from the grindstone when the piston is moved away from the grindstone.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
When wood is ground to produce fibers, the grinders typically used are grinders in which the blocks of wood are pressed against the surface of a rotary grindstone, simultaneously spraying water there to produce a pulp suspension. The most generally, the wood supply is implemented in pulp grinders on a discontinuous basis: one batch of wood at a time is fed into a feed chute, after which the wood in the feed chute is pressed by a cylinder against the grindstone. In order that the output would be as great as possible, two feed chutes, with cylinders, are usually arranged on the opposite sides of the grindstone. Consequently, when a feed chute is being filled, the grindstone is subjected to less load than when both the feed chutes are in the grinding step, and this causes both uneven loading and variation in the quality of the ground pulp. Further, the drawback of the discontinuous supply is that the output is smaller when the wood is fed in batches than when continuous grinding is used. Another problem in the discontinuous grinding is that the blocks of wood fed during the compression press more firmly against each other, which also results in variation between the production rates at the beginning and at the end of the grinding. Consequently, for example the freeness of the ground pulp is higher at the beginning of the compression, dropping toward the end of the furnace, even if the feed rate at the piston of the cylinder is adjusted to remain constant. For the same reason, the motor is loaded unevenly, and the loading increases toward the end of the compression.
Previously known are also continuous grinders in which the continuous wood supply is based on moving feed chains on both sides of a feed chute and on the weight of the wood in the feed chute. Such a grinder is known, for example, from German Offenlegungsschrift 28,12,299. The drawback of the solution is that to provide the continuous wood supply and sufficient compression, the chains must be rather long, which in practice means that the feed chute must be up to 6-8 meters high. The contact surface between the chains and the blocks of wood that are being fed is thus rendered sufficient, and the weight of the pile of wood simultaneously helps to press the wood against the feed chains for compression. Because of this, only an essentially upright feed chute can be used in the grinding process, which notably restricts the amount of wood that can be ground simultaneously. As a result, the capacity of the grinder is naturally smaller than in solutions where wood from two or more feed chutes can be ground simultaneously. Another problem in the high feed chutes is that the blocks of wood may settle obliquely, which affects the grindstone and because of which the grinder must be sharpened unduly often in order to correct the obliqueness. Since the pressing force of the chains does not divide evenly between the blocks of wood in the feed chute, but in practice the blocks of wood that are the closest to the chains are fed at a higher feed rate than those in the middle of the feed chute, this affects the quality and may also cause the above obliqueness.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to provide an arrangement avoiding the drawbacks of the above embodiments and providing continuous and even wood supply to the grindstone. The arrangement of the invention is characterized by comprising rotary feed members between the piston and the grindstone on the opposite sides of the feed chute, the feed members pushing the wood in the feed chute toward the grindstone, and the piston comprisi
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Haikkala Pekka
Hautala Jouko
Liimatainen Heikki
Parssinen Kari
Setala Simo
Husar John M.
Valmet Corporation
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