Aggregate accelerator with bifurcated paddles
AssigneeImperial Technologies, Inc.
InventorRonald H. Tschantz
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Abstract
An aggregate accelerator for sorting a material such as coal from rock is presented. The accelerator includes a housing, a grizzly, a flail assembly, an impact grate assembly and lower grate(s). The grizzly allows material of a certain size to pass through the grizzly. The flail assembly has independent paddles configured to spin generally adjacent and co-planer due to centrifugal force and hit material to be separated from rock. The impact grate assembly receives and further breaks material hit by the flail assembly. The lower grate(s) allow material of a predetermined size to pass through the lower grate(s) to be collected. The lower grate(s) do not allow material larger than the predetermined size to pass through the lower grate(s) so that this material can be discarded.
Claims20
An aggregate accelerator:
- a housing;
- a grizzly inside the housing to allow material of a certain size to pass through the grizzly;
- a flail assembly with at least two independent paddles inside the housing, wherein the flail assembly is to spin and hit material to be separated from rock and wherein when the flail assembly is spinning and before hitting the material the at least two independent paddle are generally adjacent and co-planar due to centrifugal force;
- an impact grate assembly inside the housing to receive and break material hit by the flail assembly;
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- at least one lower grate to allow material of a predetermined size to pass through the at least one lower grate to be collected, wherein the grizzly, flail assembly, impact grate assembly and the at least one lower grate are configured to separate stone from the material, and wherein the at least one lower grate does not allow material larger the predetermined size to pass through the least one lower grate so that this material can be discarded.
A flair assembly for mounting in an aggregate breaker and sorter comprising:
- a rotatable shaft;
- at least two independent paddles operatively mounted on the shaft for hitting aggregate passing through the breaker and sorter when the shaft is rotating;
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- a flexible mounting assembly connecting the said two independent paddles to the shaft providing flexibility of movement between the paddles and shaft and between said paddles and for positioning the two paddles adjacent and co-planar to each other due to centrifugal force when the shaft is rotating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.