Milling assembly for a ball mill
AssigneeFrank Peter Fowler
InventorFrank Peter Fowler
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Abstract
A milling assembly for a ball mill has a housing for refining and separating a substrate and a collection vessel for retaining the refined substrate. The housing includes, in vertical order, a lid, at least one milling vessel for receiving milling balls, and a screen with a refining section and apertures. The collection vessel is releasably mounted to a bottom end of the housing. The housing has an orifice arranged therein. The orifice has a valve for selectively allowing gas to pass between an outside and an inside of the housing in an open position of the valve and to seal the housing against the outside in a closed position of the valve. The milling vessel includes a taper for receiving a sealing screw.
Claims20
A milling assembly for a ball mill, comprising:
- a housing for refining and separating a substrate;
- a collection vessel for retaining the refined substrate;
- wherein the housing comprises, in vertical order:
- a lid;
- at least one milling vessel configured to receive milling balls;
- a screen with a refining section and apertures;
- and
- a bottom end;
- the at least one milling vessel having a disk disposed above the screen, the disk having an opening therethru and a lower surface that faces the screen, the lower surface sloping upwardly from an outer perimeter of the disk to a center of the disk;
- wherein the collection vessel is releasably mounted to the bottom end of the housing;
- and
- an orifice is arranged in the housing, the orifice having a valve arranged therein for selectively allowing gas to pass between an outside and an inside of the housing in an open position of the valve and to seal the housing against the outside in a closed position of the valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.