Fuji Paudal Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Paudal Company Limited

Nobuharu Moriya

Yoshihiro Itoh

Noboru Kawakami

Satoru Watano

Kohichi Kimura

Teturo Kamata

Nobuhito Oda

Ichirho Koizumi

Kazuo Nishii

Katunori Yoshida

Moistened powder and granular materials, such as produced by an extrusion granulator, are disintegrated into uniformly sized and shaped granules by an apparatus having a cylindrical housing and a working plate rotatably disposed in the housing in coaxial alignment with said housing, with an opening at the center of the working plate. A working fluid is introduced into the interior of the housing above the working plate through a wall of the housing and moistened powder and/or granular raw materials are supplied into the housing onto the working plate. The treated materials are discharged through the central opening in the working plate.

Apparatus and method for processing moistened powder and granular

In the operation of a granulating or coating apparatus wherein a particulate material is processed in a granulation chamber into granules, the material may be photographed during the course of carrying out the granulation process by utilizing a photography probe wherein a bundle of optical fibers are utilized to project a source of stroboscopic illuminating light in the form of a generally flat beam through a portion of the granulating chamber and a photographic camera is focused within the projected light beam along an optical line of sight oriented generally perpendicular to the projected light beam to produce an image of granules within the beam against a relatively dark background. Simultaneously, a stream of gas is directed into the region of the intersection of the projected light beam and the line of camera sight to disperse the charge material to promote photography of individualized particles of the charged material while at the same time preventing accumulation of charge material on the photographic probe.

Apparatus and method for monitoring granular size and shape during a

Uniform spherical granules are produced from powder raw material without utilizing an agglomerating liquid by repeatedly and alternately compacting a dry powder raw material within a granulating vessel to cohesively form agglomerates of the material and fluidizing the powder material within the vessel to break up and form the agglomerates gradually into a uniform spherical shape.

Dry granulating method and apparatus

A granulating apparatus particularly adapted for advanced ceramic materials having a granulation vessel with a cylindrical main body in which are coaxially-mounted rotatably an annular cage-like stirring rotor having peripheral stirring blades and a central impulse rotor having impulse blades and pins. The stirring blades are mounted in diverging pairs relative to their rotational direction to channel charge material axially centrally within the container, while the impulse blades are V-shaped convergingly in their rotational direction to impel charge material both radially and axially outwardly within the vessel, for enhanced charge material circulation. Nozzles mounted on the end cover of the vessel inject agglomerating liquid axially into the open granulation area between the rotors for direct impingement of liquid essentially only onto the charge material. The interior wall surface of the container, the stirring blades, and the impulse blades and pins have working surfaces formed of suitable wear resistant, non-contaminating material to facilitate use of the apparatus for advanced ceramic granulation applications.

Granulating apparatus

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Osaka, Japan

Nobuharu Moriya