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US 4,643,365 AGranted
Apparatus for adding grinding media to a grinding mill
AssigneeNorcast Corporation
InventorA. Meredith McKim
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Abstract
An apparatus for adding grinding media to a grinding mill is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a supporting structure including a face plate adapted to be mounted on a wall of a hopper or pipe containing the grinding media, a resilient rubber wheel mounted on the supporting structure and protruding through a slot in the face plate and said wall of the media container, and means for rotating said wheel at a low speed for withdrawing grinding media from said container and delivering the same to other conveyances for direction to the grinding mill.
Claims5
An apparatus for adding grinding media to a grinding mill comprising:
- (a) a supporting structure including a face plate adapted to be mounted on a wall of a container which contains the grinding media;
- (b) a resilient rubber wheel mounted on the supporting structure and protruding through a slot in the face plate and said wall of the container;
- (c) a shaft on which the wheel is mounted;
- (d) a fixed disc mounted on the shaft;
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- (e) a friction clutch engaging the disc for rotating said disc step by step at a low speed for withdrawing grinding media from said container and delivering the same to other conveyances for direction to the grinding mill.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.