Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd.

Otsuka Iron Works, Ltd.

Kansai Zyari Kabushiki-Kaisha

Sousuke Naito

Hidekazu Takahashi

Toshio Watanabe

Shunzo Shimai

Tomeyoshi Nakajo

Junya Yamano

Yasuji Otsuka

A cage mill includes a housing, a disc rotatably supported within the housing, a plurality of support shafts each fixed at one end to the disc so as to form a cage, a band fixed to the other end of each of the support shafts, a plurality of ceramic pins each having a through-hole in which one of the support shafts is placed so as to support one of the ceramic pins, and a plurality of nuts each engaging with a male screw portion of each end of the support shafts for releasably fixing the support shafts and the ceramic pins to the disc and the band. The support shafts and loosely placed in the ceramic pins, respectively, so that the latter can be turned around the former when the nuts are released.

Cage mill

A cage mill includes a housing having an inlet at a side portion thereof and an exit at a lower portion thereof, a disc rotatably arranged within the housing, a plurality of support shafts fixed at one end thereof to the disc so as to form a cage into which hard materials can enter through the inlet of the housing when the cage rotates as a rotor, a ring fixed to the other end of the support shafts, a plurality of ceramic pins each fixed by way of an adhesive to each of the support shafts, and a stopper mechanism for preventing the ceramic pins from directly contacting the disc and the ring.

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Osaka, Japan

Sousuke Naito