Method of granulating powder and apparatus for it
AssigneeFujisaki Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsOsami Watanabe, Katsushi Kawashima, Koji Nagao, Masahiro Sasaki
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Abstract
The present invention is intended for granulation of powder comprising the steps of mixing a powder and a mist of binder by fluidizing air flow, collecting the mixture of the powder and the binder on a filter surface thereby forming a powder layer thereon, peeling off the powder layer from the filter surface thereby crushing the powder layer into pieces, returning the crushed fragments into the fluidizing air flow and mixing them with the mist of binder again, repeating the steps until the desired granule is obtained.
Claims2
A method of granulating powder, said method comprising:
- mixing a powder of primary particles and a mist of binder by means of a fluidizing air flow in a main body container so as to form a mixture;
- collecting the mixture of the powder and the binder on a filter surface of a filter, which is disposed in a generally flat shape in such a way as to cover an inner circumferential face of the main body container, such that a powder layer of primary particles is formed on the filter surface;
- peeling the powder layer off from the filter surface so as to crush the powder layer into fragments;
- returning the fragments into the fluidizing air flow and mixing the fragments with the binder mist again;
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- repeating the above steps until the binder is coated on all of the primary particles and a desired granule of coated primary particles is obtained.
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