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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1990
Mitsuo Kamiwano, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshitaka Inoue, Minato, JP;
Abstract
A dispersing and grinding apparatus comprises a vessel having an inlet for receiving a material to be processed and an outlet for discharging the processed material. A rotor is rotatably disposed within the vessel and positioned relative to the inner wall of the vessel to define therebetween a narrow, annular flow path for the passage therethrough of a mixture of the material and a grinding medium. The rotor has a plurality of axially extending grooves on the periphery thereof for guiding the mixture in the circumferential direction as the rotor rotates. The rotor is separated into a plurality of processing zones in the axial direction thereof, and the grooves in each processing zone are phase shifted in the circumferential direction with respect to the grooves in adjacent processing zones. When the mixture transfers from one processing zone to an adjacent processing zone, the velocity difference of the mixture is adjusted so that the mixture advances, as a whole, at approximately equal velocity through the narrow, annular flow path whereby the material is uniformly ground and dispersed.