B02C 15/00
Disintegrating by milling members in the form of rollers or balls co-operating
Official title: Disintegrating by milling members in the form of rollers or balls co-operating with rings or discs {(high-speed drum mills B02C19/11)}
B02C15/00 (Disintegrating by milling members in the form of rollers or balls co-operating) appears on 529 US grants and 366 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B02C- Granted patents
- 529
- Published applications
- 366
- Assignees
- 209
- Inventors
- 800
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2020 | 25 | 11 |
| 2021 | 15 | 6 |
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| 2023 | 13 | 13 |
| 2024 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 12 | 10 |
| 2026 | 5 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B02C 2015/002Combined with a classifierIndexing code142
- B02C 15/04Mills with pressed pendularly-mounted rollers140
- B02C 15/007Mills with rollers pressed against a rotary horizontal disc93
- B02C 15/001Air flow directing means positioned on the periphery of the horizontally rotating88
- B02C 15/004Shape or construction of rollers or balls87
- B02C 15/003Shape or construction of discs or rings50
- B02C 15/006Ring or disc drive gear arrangement41
- B02C 15/02Centrifugal pendulum-type mills36
All 15 subgroupsShow fewer
- B02C 15/06Mills with rollers forced against the interior of a rotary ring32
- B02C 15/14Edge runners22
- B02C 15/12Mills with at least two discs or rings and interposed balls or21
- B02C 15/08Mills with balls or rollers centrifugally forced against the inner surface of19
- B02C 15/16Disintegrating by milling members in the form of rollers or balls co-operating14
- B02C 2015/008Roller drive arrangementsIndexing code13
- B02C 15/10Mills with balls or rollers centrifugally forced against the inner surface of2
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