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US 10,654,044 B2Granted
Cyclonic shear plates and method
OwnerPaul J. Aitkeninventor
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A cyclonic comminuting device includes a set of shearing plates that is adaptable to any colloid mill for improved efficiency and effectiveness in the production of all commodities including, but not limited to, asphalt or bitumen modification, tar, plastics, polymers, cosmetic processing and foods processing. The set of shearing plates includes a set of concave cutting edges. The set of concave cutting edges is applied to radial teeth of a rotor plate and/or a stator plate of the set of shearing plates forming a cyclonic flow pattern of a commodity as the commodity is passed through the comminuting device. The resulting turbulence created by the intersecting concave cutting edges on the rotor plate and the stator plate increases the effective hydraulic shear generated by the rotor plate and the stator plate resulting in greater particle pulverization and resulting in higher quality emulsions with reduced cost of materials required for production.
A pair of shear plates for installation in a colloid mill, which adjacently supports the pair of shear plates in parallel alignment along a common axis of rotation, and imparts rotation therebetween, and which are useful for emulsifying a liquid mixture passing between the rotating pair of shear plates, the pair of shear plates comprising:
A method of emulsifying a liquid mixture using a rotor plate and a stator plate installed in a colloid mill, which adjacently supports the rotor plate and the stator plate in parallel alignment along a common axis of rotation, wherein the rotor plate and the stator plate are planar, and circular about the axis of rotation, each having a plurality of teeth disposed on first planar surfaces thereof, which first planar surfaces face each other in cooperative alignment, and wherein the pluralities of teeth are arranged in plural concentric rings of teeth, and wherein each of said plural rings is positioned along a different radius from the axis of rotation, and wherein each of the plural concentric rings comprise plural teeth that are separated by voids having planar circular bases, and wherein each of the plural teeth are configured with a pair of concentric sides that are correspondingly aligned along the plural concentric rings, and that are circular and parallel to one another about the axis of rotation, and each of the plural teeth is further configured with a pair of opposing sides that are located adjacent to two of the voids, and wherein intersections between the pair of concentric sides and the pair of opposing sides on each of the plural teeth define four curved cutting edges, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.