Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Formation of solid particulate material directly from molten... – Utilizing centrifugal force or rotating forming zone
Patent
1986-03-12
1991-05-28
Theisen, Mary Lynn
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Formation of solid particulate material directly from molten...
Utilizing centrifugal force or rotating forming zone
264 401, 264 406, 264 407, 264114, 264117, 425143, 425145, 425222, 23313R, B29B 908, B29B 910
Patent
active
050193023
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for the formation of granules of a larger size or mass of a desired range from a feed stock of smaller particles comprising feeding a meltable powdery material to be granulated, or a non-meltable powdery material with a meltable binder to the surface of a rotating spreader means in the form of a disk or bowl, at least a portion of which has been heated to a temperature above the melting point of the meltable component of the feed material wherein the rate of feeding, the energy input to the spreader means and the rotational speed of the spreader means are controlled so that there is sufficient time for at least a partial melting of the meltable component of the feed material substantially solely by contact with the heated surface of the spreader means, centrifugally spreading the material across the surface of the disk or bowl and dispersing the same from the edge thereof into an atmosphere cooler than the melting temperature to form the granulated product. For certain materials only a part of the powdery feed material is melted forming a liquid film carrying a major portion of substantially unaffected or minimally affected feed material to produce a product comprising individual granules containing a core as the major part of each granule with the original powdery material essentially unchanged maintained in self-sustaining form by a matrix of melted and resolidified particles bonded to each other at their surface.
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Center Michael
Mason Norbert S.
Sparks Robert E.
Theisen Mary Lynn
Washington University Technology Associates, Inc.
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