# US 2014/0197260 A1 · Vertical mill

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- Number: US 2014/0197260 A1
- Document ID: US20140197260A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/236,019
- Filed: 2012-09-06
- Published: 2014-07-17
- Earliest claimed: 2011-09-22
- Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi; Hiroyuki Kanazawa; Shin Asano; Tomoaki Inoue
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140197260A1

## CPC

- B02C 15/04: Mills with pressed pendularly-mounted rollers, e.g. spring pressed
- B02C 2015/008: {Roller drive arrangements}
- B02C: CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN ({household tools and machines for pulverising foodstuffs, e.g. coffee and spice mills A47J42/00; pharmaceutical mortars A61J3/02; mechanical processing of refuse and garbage B03B9/06; dressing mould materials by grinding B22C5/04}; obtaining metallic powder by crushing, grinding or milling B22F9/04; {recovery of plastics by disintegrating B29B17/00; crushing raw materials in starch making C08B30/02; beaters for papermaking D21D1/02; crushing devices specially for transport in mines E21F13/002; slag crushing devices F23J1/00; fuel milling devices in combustion apparatus F23K1/00; household devices for crushing coal F24B15/02; ice disintegrating devices F25C5/02})

## Abstract

In a vertical mill, a mill table is supported in a housing by a support shaft center, which is along a vertical direction, in such a manner as to be driven and rotated, and above the mill table, a mill roller is rotatably supported by a first support shaft, and the mill roller is capable of rotating the mill table in such a manner that an external peripheral surface of the mill roller comes into contact with an upper surface of the mill table, and a support arm configured to support the first support shaft is swingably supported on the housing by a second support shaft, in such a manner that the mill roller can come close to or move away from the mill table, and a reaction force load giving device is provided that has a dumper filled with a magnetorheological fluid and magnetizes the magnetorheological fluid.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A vertical mill comprising:
a housing having a hollow shape;
a mill table rotatably supported in the housing by a support shaft center along a vertical direction;
a mill roller provided above the mill table and rotatably supported by a first support shaft, the mill roller being capable of rotating with an external peripheral surface of the mill roller coming into contact with an upper surface of the mill table;
a support arm for supporting the first support shaft, the support arm being swingably supported on the housing by a second support shaft with the external peripheral surface of the mill roller coming close to or moving away from the upper surface of the mill table; and
a reaction force load giving device having a dumper filled with a magnetorheological fluid and magnetizing the magnetorheological fluid so as to give a reaction force load to the mill roller via the support arm, the reaction force load being given against a direction in which the mill roller moves away from the mill table.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The vertical mill according to claim 1, wherein the mill roller is provided with a returning device for returning the mill roller back to an initial position where the mill roller is close to the mill table.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The vertical mill according to claim 1 further comprising:
a detection device for detecting a position of the mill roller with respect to the mill table or a pressing load of the mill roller onto the mill table; and
a control device for increasing the reaction force load given by the reaction force load giving device in accordance with increase of a detection value of the detection device.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The vertical mill according to claim 3, wherein when the detection value of the detection device is more than a predetermined value which has been set in advance, the control device is configured to reduce the reaction force load given by the reaction force load giving device so that the reaction force load given by the reaction force load giving device is less than a reference value which has been set in advance.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The vertical mill according to claim 3, wherein when a vibration of the mill roller enters into a resonance range, the control device is configured to increase a reaction force load given by the reaction force load giving device.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The vertical mill according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of mill rollers and support arms are provided with a regular interval along a peripheral direction of the mill table, and
the reaction force load giving device is configured to differentiate reaction force loads of the plurality of mill rollers.