Media-circulation type pulverizer

A media-circulation type pulverizer comprising:

• a pulverization container including an end plate closing up an upper end thereof and having a pulverization chamber having an upright cylindrical form and containing pulverizing media in the form of beads;
• a raw-material-slurry supply section provided in the pulverization container;
• an agitating member disposed in a lower region of the pulverization chamber and having a rotary shaft coaxial with a central axis of the pulverization chamber;
• an annular partition wall disposed to extend upwardly from a position surrounding an outer periphery of the agitating member or a position radially away from the outer periphery by a given distance, so as to radially divide an internal space of the pulverization chamber to form an inner region of a pulverization chamber and an annular outer region of the pulverization chamber;
• a media guide member provided on a central area of a lower surface of the end plate to extend downwardly and configured to turn a mixture of a raw material slurry and pulverizing media being moved upwardly through the outer region of the pulverization chamber by an action of the agitating member, to a downward flow so as to direct the mixture toward the inner pulverization chamber region;
• a media separation member provided underneath the media guide member;
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• a product slurry discharge section provided inside the media guide member and communicating with an inside of the media separation member so as to enable a product slurry after separation of the pulverizing media by the media separation member to be discharged to outside therethrough,
• wherein the media-circulation type pulverizer is operable to circulate the pulverizing media between the inner region of the pulverization chamber and the outer region of pulverization chamber to pulverize a raw material in the raw material slurry by this circulating pulverizing media, and wherein the annular partition wall has a height set to be ⅗ to ⅘ of a height of the pulverization chamber, and the media guide member is formed as a downwardly tapered, circular truncated cone-shaped guide member which has a lower end which enters a space of the inner region of the pulverization chamber located inside the annular partition wall, and wherein a vertically-extending flow straightening blade is provided between said lower portion of the media guide member and an upper portion of the annular partition wall, and the media separation member is provided on the lower end of the lower portion of the media guide member.