Рубрика: The History of Grinding

Hammer Mills

In 1830 a patent was issued in United States for a machine …which comprised a wooden box containing a cylindrical drum, apparently made of wood, on which iron knobs or hammers were fastened. The expectation was that this drum, when revolved at 350 rpm, would shatter the rock fed into the box. (McGrew 1950) This […]

Tumbling Mills

By the middle of the 19th century, the need for better fine-grinding mills had become apparent. Stamps driven by steam engines had limitations on how fine they could grind, particularly on the size of the screens used to remove the desired product from the breaking chamber and keep the oversized material in the chamber. Querns […]

Classifying Liners

Figure 7.18 shows three types of classifying liners. As clinker grinding mills increased in length, it became necessary to devise a system by which the coarse balls were continu­ally thrown back to where the coarsest particles of ore were at the feed end of the com­partment. Hardinge had designed his “tricone” mill for this purpose, […]

ANFO: POWERFUL AND SAFE

As Table 10.1 shows, there was a spectacular rise in consumption of ammonium nitrate explosives during the 1960s. This was the start of the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) era in industrial explosives, which is expected to continue well into the future. Ammonium nitrate was made by J. R. Glauber in 1659 (DuPont 1980). Its explosive […]

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 […]