A material processing barrel and associated material processing system
AssigneeSeed Terminator Holdings Pty Ltd
InventorNicholas Kane Berry
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Abstract
A material processing system having a barrel also referred to hereinafter having a milling or impact surface and a central axis. The impact surface is impervious, in that material cannot pass through the surface, but rather is contained by the surface. An impact mechanism is located within barrel and is rotates about the central axis. The system has inlet openings and formed in the barrel at axially spaced locations along the axis. At least one outlet opening is formed in the barrel at a location intermediate of the inlets. The impact mechanism includes a plurality of hammers mounted on shaft which rotates about the axis.
Claims21
-87. (canceled)
A barrel for a material processing system comprising:
- a barrel like structure having a circumferential wall with an impervious inner impact surface extending circumferentially about a central axis of the barrel-like structure, at least one inlet opening to the barrel-like structure and at least one outlet from the barrel-like structure, the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet opening being spaced along the axis wherein the impact surface is configured to guide, or otherwise induce motion of, the material entering through the at least one inlet opening to travel in a spiral path about the axis toward the at least one outlet opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.