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US 6,838,221 B2Granted
Continuous crushing method and apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTomiaki Ito, Hidehiro Mochizuki
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Abstract
A continuous crushing method including at least feeding a toner block into a crusher through a screw feeder thereof having a crushing capacity while cyclically increasing and decreasing a feeding amount of the toner block; and crushing the toner block to prepare a toner, in which the feeding amount of the toner block in the increasing cycle is larger than the crushing capacity.
Claims9
A continuous crushing method comprising:
- feeding a toner block into a crusher through a screw feeder thereof having a crushing capacity while cyclically increasing and decreasing a feeding amount of the toner block;
- and
- crushing the toner block to prepare a toner,
- wherein the feeding amount of the toner block in the increasing cycle is larger than the crushing capacity.
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A continuous crushing method comprising:
- intermittently feeding a toner block into a crusher through a screw feed thereof having a crushing capacity while repeating a feeding operation and a non-feeding operation;
- and
- crushing the toner block to prepare a toner,
- wherein a feeding amount of the toner block in the feeding operation is larger than the crushing capacity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.