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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1992
Frank F Rowley, Jr, Valley Center, KS (US);
Vortec, Inc., Valley Center, KS (US);
Abstract
An improved comminuter/dehydrator apparatus and method includes a body having an inverted, coaxially shaped cavity with an open truncated lower end and an open upper end connected to a cylindrically shaped chamber. A sleeve, which extends through the chamber and into the cavity, is adjustable axially by a pair of jacks. A damper is adjustable relative to the sleeve to control air escaping from the cavity into the ambient atmosphere. A manifold with a velocity-enhancing venturi mechanism directs air from a blower tangentially into the chamber to create cochleated and resonating, oscillatory cyclonic air-flow activity. A portion of the air from the blower to the chamber is diverted through a feeder containing the material being comminuted and dehydrated. The comminuted and dehydrated material is gravitationally discharged through the cavity lower end. The body has a removable nozzle tip to extend the operational characteristics of the apparatus. Finer materials being comminuted may be gravitationally directed into the cavity through a tube and elbow arrangement spaced below a slot and gate arrangement in the damper.