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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1974
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canadian Patents and Development Limited, Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ; C09C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75-3 ; 264117 ;
Abstract
Ball agglomerated particulate material is produced by comminuting the material to produce coarse particles having a size predominantly within the range 0.3 mm to 1.4 mm, and fines, then feeding the coarse particles, fines and an agglomerating liquid into a rotating ball agglomerating mill with the volume fraction of the coarse particles being 20% to 80% by volume of the total solids feed to the mill, continuing rotation of the mill until agglomerated balls are produced having a continuous network of fines interspersed with the coarse particles such that: ##EQU1## WHERE .epsilon. = THE POROSITY OF THE AGGLOMERATES,