Method for agglomerating fine powders
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior
InventorFrederic T. Barrows
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Abstract
A method is provided for producing feed particles of a desired size in a 20 to 1000 .mu.m size range for uses such as a larval aquatic feed. The method uses a marumerizer comprising a cylindrical housing have a grooved bottom, and includes the steps of placing a wet mash of the particle material (e.g., a larval aquatic feed material) in the marumerizer, placing in the marumerizer a charge of inert beads of a size (e.g., 3 mm) substantially larger than that of the particles to be produced, and rotating the marumerizer with the wet mash and charge of inert beads therein so that the beads compact and shape the mash into formed spheroidal particles.
Claims17
A method for agglomerating feed particles of diameters within a desired size range for use as a larval aquatic feed, said method comprising:
- placing, in a marumerizer, a wet charge of a larval aquatic feed material from which particles are to be produced;
- placing, in said marumerizer a further charge of inert elements of a diameter between 50 .mu.m and 10 mm;
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- activating said marumerizer to provide spinning of said wet charge and said inert elements in the marumerizer so that the inert elements compact and agglomerate the wet charge into shaped feed particles of a diameter less than 1000 .mu.m.
A method of producing feed particles of a desired size in a 20 to 1000 .mu.m size range for use as a larval aquatic feed, said method comprising:
- utilizing a marumerizer comprising a cylindrical housing having a grooved bottom;
- placing in said marumerizer a wet mash of larval aquatic feed material;
- placing in said marumerizer a charge of inert elements of a size substantially larger than that of the feed particles to be produced;
- and
- rotating said marumerizer with said wet mash and said charge therein so that said inert elements compact and shape the mash into formed particles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.