Kyocera Corporation

Nobuo Oka

Noriyuki Ishida

Shingo Tamabuchi

Tatsuo Oosugi

Kazutoshi Koyama

Akihiro Ookura

A bone mill has a pair of cutter units, a first cutter unit and a second cutter unit. A bone to be crushed is taken in between the first cutter unit and the second cutter unit. While passing between the first cutter unit and the second cutter unit, the bone is crushed. Each cutter unit has a plurality of disks disposed in parallel to one another at regular intervals. Each disk is provided on the periphery thereof with blades for crushing the bone. The cutter units are positioned such that the disks of the first cutter unit are fitted in the gaps between adjacent disks of the second cutter unit. Both the disks of the first cutter unit and the disks of the second cutter unit are mutually inwardly rotated. Accordingly, when a bone to be crushed is supplied between the cutter units, the bone is taken in by and between the disks of the first cutter unit and the disks of the second cutter unit, both sets of disks being mutually inwardly rotated. Thus, the blades of the disks bite the bone, causing the bone to be broken. While passing between the disks of the first cutter unit and the disks of the second cutter unit, the bone is crushed by these disks so positioned as to be fitted in each other.

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Moriguchi, Japan

Nobuo Oka