Device for briquetting loose materials

A device for briquetting loose materials with the use of impulse energy of detonation, comprising:

• a bed plate;
• a housing mounted on said bed plate;
• an explosion chamber provided within said housing and communicating at regular intervals with an energy carrier source;
• a first actuating cylinder within said housing with the cylinder space being, at the moment of detonation of the energy carrier in said explosion chamber, connected thereto;
• a piston having a rod contained within the space of said first actuating cylinder and moving therein under the effect of the detonation energy generated in said explosion chamber;
• a plunger fixed on the rod;
• an anvil mounted on said bed plate at a distance from said housing on the side of said pounger and rigidly connected to said housing;
• said housing and anvil being mounted on said bed plate with a possibility of rolling back at the moment of explosion along the axis of said first actuating cylinder towards its rod;
• a container arranged intermediate of said housing and anvil, said container being aligned axially with said first actuating cylinder and provided with a through axial conduit which is filled with a batch of material to be briquetted and in which at the moment of detonation, moves said rod with the plunger;
• a die positioned intermediate of said anvil and container and integral therewith;
• with a briquette being formed in said die under the effect of the plunger;
• actuating cylinders provided within said anvil with the axis thereof being parallel to the axis of said first actuating cylinder within said housing and being spaced at the same distance from the axis of the first actuating cylinder;
• said actuating cylinders having rods, the rods of said actuating cylinders being connected rigidly to said die;
• said container and first actuating cylinder within said housing adapted each to receive its counterpart member, as required, during the axial displacement of said container under the effect of said actuating cylinders, through which the plunger pushes out the finished briquette from said die during the forward stroke of the rods of the actuating cylinders while during their back stroke, said container with the die are urged tight against said anvil.