Calciner with tapered reverse feed spiral
AssigneeGTE Products Corporation
InventorsJames N. Christini, Tai K. Kim, Robert P. McClintic
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Abstract
A calciner includes a rotatable cylindrical retort which is indirectly heated and has material receiving and material discharging ends. A reverse pitch tapered spiral is affixed internal of the material discharging end with the spiral tapering toward the material discharging end whereby uniformity of material discharge over 300 degrees of rotation is achieved and whereby uniformity of agitation and increased residence time are achieved.
Claims10
A reverse pitch tapered spiral for a refractory metal reclaiming calciner having a cylindrical rotatable retort of a given inner diameter with a material-receiving end and a material-discharging end separated by a hot zone and coupled to a motor drive for rotating the retort in a given direction to provide material flow in a given direction, said reverse pitch tapered spiral characterized by the improvement wherein a spiral having a reverse pitch with respect to said given direction of material flow is positionally located in said material-discharging end of said rotatable retort and tapers toward the material exit from said material-discharging end whereby the direction of material flow within said material discharge end is reversed with respect to material flow within said material-receiving end and hot zone of said rotatable retort.
In a refractory metal reclaiming calciner having a cylindrical rotatable retort of a given inner diameter with a material-receiving end and a material-discharging end separated by a hot zone and coupled to a motor dirve for rotating said retort in a given direction to provide material flow through said material-receiving end and hot zone in a given direction, a reverse pitch tapered spiral located in said material-discharging end of said rotatable retort and tapering toward the exit of said material discharging end, said reverse pitch tapered spiral characterized by the improvement wherein said material flow through said material-discharging end is reversed with respect to said material flow through said material-receiving end and said material exits said material-discharging end during a major portion of rotation of said retort.
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