Comminution apparatus

A comminution assembly for size reduction of particles in a slurry thereof to form a homogeneous product which comprises:

• a housing formed with circularly-shaped chambers in tangential communication defining a contact zone;
• an outlet conduit in fluid communication with said contact zone for drawing said homogeneous product from said housing;
• a disk member positioned in each of said chambers, said disk member comprised of an upper plate member having a circularly-shaped opening, a lower base plate member, and a plurality of radially extending arcuate vanes mounted to and disposed between said plate members;
• a hollow shaft member perpendicularly mounted to each of said upper plate members for introducing said slurry into said disk member;
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• means for rotating said disk members to accelerate said slurry towards said contact zone to effect particle to particle contact and therefore size reduction to form said homogeneous product.