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AssigneeThe Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
InventorsGraham J. Aldridge, Harry J. Gilbertson
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According to the present invention a crushing mechanism having at least two pairs of co-acting rollers, each roller having a hub with a plurality of teeth extending from a circumference thereof, the pairs of rollers being mounted in open cage fashion and characterized in that each tooth is, at least at its outermost position, in the form of a flat plate angled relative to a radius of the hub with an edge lying parallel with a roller axis, the rollers at their closest positions having plates on one in spaces between plates in the other, the plates of the at least two pairs of co-acting rollers comprising a means for crushing without scraping material in the crushing mechanism, the angle of each plate is substantially the same angle which would be present on a face of a gear tooth between co-acting rollers having gear teeth for crushing material.
A crushing mechanism having at least two pairs of co-acting rollers each roller having a hub with a plurality of teeth extending from a circumference thereof, the pairs of rollers being mounted in open cage fashion, wherein each tooth having, at least at an outermost position, the form of a fiat plate angled relative to a radius of the hub with an edge laying parallel with a roller axis, the rollers at their closest positions having plates on one in spaces between plates in the other, said plates of said at least two pairs of co-acting rollers comprising a means for crushing without scraping material in said crushing mechanism, said angle of each plate is substantially the same angle which would be present on a face of a gear tooth between co-acting rollers having gear teeth for crushing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.