Рубрика: The History of Grinding

Track-Guided Rollers

The MB mill was designed and built in 1947 by Max Berz, formerly head of the design department at von Grueber’s company. It had three large rollers that rotated in a track­ing groove and were pressed down by a thrust ring. The rollers were not fixed by roller bearings and could move relative to each […]

ROD MILLS

With the development of ball mills, studies were made to find improved means to pro­duce finer feed for ball mills. Double-roll crushers, gyratory crushers, and cone crushers were developed for this role. Using steel rods as the grinding media in tumbling mills was found to be an efficient means to make ball mill feed and […]

Rotary Querns

Mortars and pestles and saddlestone mills had several problems: the exhausting motions required of the operator, the batch nature of the processes, and the unnecessary rebreak­ing of particles that were already small enough. The invention of the rotary quern, prob­ably around 600 bc (estimates of the date of its appearance vary by several hundred years), […]

Single-Roll Crushers

Several types of single-roll mills have been built in which the solids are broken by being nipped between the rotating roll and a fixed surface. An early single-roll machine was the sledging roll crusher, which was built by Allis-Chalmers in 1911. It was a single-roll toothed crusher that was typical of a family of similar […]

Classifiers

In conventional dry roller mills, air is used to transport the particles from the grinding table to the classifier inlet and through the classifier, which is built into the mill housing. The fan and air transport system can take as much power as the mill, and this is shown in the power data (see Table […]

Ball Milling after World War II

The demand for iron, copper, and other strategic metals during World War II was enor­mous, and their resulting production depleted the available reserves of high-grade ores. After the war, large volumes of metals and cement were needed to rebuild industry and infrastructure, and a large increase in grinding capacity was required. In the United States, […]

HIGH-SPEED COLLOID MILLS

The first mill for making particles about 1 pm in diameter was invented by Herman Plau — son at his research institute in Hamburg in 1913 with the intention of making colloidal FIGURE 8.3 Plauson-Block colloid mill (Forster and Reilly 1922) coal, although it was 1922 before it was used in industry. Within a few […]