Air classifier
AssigneeNippon Pneumatic Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsNiro Nakayama, Kazuhiro Yonezawa
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Abstract
An air classifier having a ring-shaped high-pressure air chamber disposed around a classifying chamber and communicating therewith by means of a plurality of small openings, such as air injection nozzles or a louver, these openings face in the direction of movement of material entering the classifying chamber and traveling in a vortex so that the material is accelerated by the air which is injected into the classifying chamber through the small openings.
Claims7
An air classifier for separating a stream of particles suspended in a gas stream into coarse and fine particles, said air classifier comprising:
- (a) a guide barrel having an axis extending vertically, said guide barrel being closed at its top and having a cylindrical side wall;
- (b) an exhaust pipe attached to and vertically extending along said axis of and through said closed top of said guide barrel for exhausting fine particles;
- (c) feed pipe means attached to said cylindrical side wall of said barrel at a tangent for feeding particles in a gas stream into said guide barrel and causing said particles to move in a vortex within said guide barrel;
- (d) a classifying chamber having a cylindrical side wall and coaxial with said guide barrel below said guide barrel, said classifying chamber having a plurality of regularly spaced small openings on said cylindrical side wall;
- (e) a conical guide plate having an upwardly directed vertex, said conical guide plate positioned between said classifying chamber and said guide barrel and coaxial with said guide barrel, the outside diameter of said guide plate being smaller than the inside diameters of said guide barrel and classifying chamber and defining a ring shaped supply opening between the lower edge of said guide barrel and the circular edge of said conical guide plate;
- (f) a ring-shaped high-pressure air chamber attached to said classifying chamber around the periphery of said classifying chamber, said air chamber having a plurality of small openings which are coextensive with said classifying chamber openings for injecting high pressure air into said classifying chamber for causing said stream of particles to separate into coarse and fine particles as said stream of particles drop through said classifying chamber by causing said particles to accelerate while moving in said vortex;
- (g) a truncated cone having an upwardly directed truncated portion, said truncated cone located at the bottom of said classifying chamber and having the lower edge spaced from said classifying chamber for defining a ring shaped discharge opening for discharging coarse particles;
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- (h) a discharge pipe connected to said truncated cone-shaped classifying plate, extending down through said classifying plate for discharging fine particles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.