Рубрика: The History of Grinding

Friedrich Kick

Friedrich Kick was born in Vienna in 1840. After graduating from the Vienna Polytechni — kum in 1862, he became professor of mechanical technology at the Technical University in Prague, Bohemia, where he worked from 1865 to 1892, including three terms as rector. From 1892 to 1910, he was a professor at the Technical University […]

WIND POWER FOR GRINDING

Historically, the wind has also been an important source of renewable energy for driving grinding mills. “Crude vertical-axis panemones have ground grain in the Afghan high­lands since the seventh century” (Gipe 1995). Panemones had walls to direct the wind past vertical sails that were attached to a rotating axle, as shown in Figure 4.7. Windmills […]

Nutating Mills

Another method of keeping balls in motion at high speed is nutation, which is similar to the oscillation of a spinning top. The nutating action, shown in Figure 8.9, is used by the Hicom mill. The grinding chamber is a truncated cone with a roughly hemispherical base, on a vertical axis of symmetry. The chamber […]

Initiation Methods

An initiation system starts the detonation of the main charge, after which firings should occur at the exact times that are planned to ensure best results. As discussed earlier, the objective of initiation systems during the black powder and dynamite eras was to improve the safety of explosives. By 1900, the first electric delay detonator […]

Fred Bond

Fred Bond was the engineer who did much to define the relationship between ore hard­ness, tonnage processed, size reduction achieved, and power required. Born in 1899 and raised in a rural community near Golden, Colorado, he attended and graduated with honors from the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) with a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy. He […]

THE AUTOMATIC FLOUR MILL

A seminal change in flour milling occurred in 1785 when Oliver Evans built an automatic flour mill to eliminate manual labor in material handling (Figure 4.9). Previously, sev­eral stages of grinding had been required, which included manual sifting between the stages to remove finished flour and inedible particles and to winnow out coarse materi­als for […]

Coal Crushers

The main uses of coal are as fuel in furnaces and as a chemical to reduce iron oxides to iron. To meet environmental standards for these purposes, coal needs to be mined, crushed, separated by size, upgraded, and ground to burn efficiently with the gaseous and solid wastes. Ground limestone is also required to remove […]