Bühler AG

The present invention relates to a roll frame, comprising a product inlet, a grinding chamber with grinding rolls, into which grinding chamber bulk material to be ground can pass from the product inlet, and a product outlet unit which is arranged below the grinding chamber and into which product from the grinding chamber can pass, wherein the product outlet unit comprises a hopper which has a conveying worm in its lower region which is remote from the grinding chamber, wherein the conveying worm has two portions which convey in opposite directions, in order to convey product out of the lower region of the hopper to an outlet opening in the bottom region of the hopper.

A sieve, comprising outer bars and inner bars and sieving areas with sieving fabric being formed between the outer bars and the inner bars, wherein at least a portion of the outer bars is provided as elastomeric part and at least a portion of the inner bars is provided as elastomeric part, wherein said elastomeric parts can be transferred from a first untensioned state into a second tensioned state. The present invention is furthermore related to a sieve frame to which the sieve can be fixed in a tensioned state, as well as to a sieving device such as a plansifter comprising said sieve and/or sieve frame.

The invention relates to a rotor for an agitating mill having a generally cylindrical rotor body, the outer wall of which defines an inner surface of a milling chamber, through which a feed material to be treated flows during operation of the agitating mill. A ceramic ring is arranged at the rotor end of the rotor body, the rotor end being arranged opposite the product inlet of the agitating mill. The invention also relates to an agitating mill comprising the rotor according to the invention, to the use of the rotor according to the invention in an agitating mill for producing dispersions, and to a method for producing the rotor.

The present invention is related to a treatment unit ( 3 ) having an inlet ( 3 a ) and an outlet ( 3 b ), and a treatment space ( 4 ) being formed inside the treatment unit ( 3 ) such that it can be penetrated by electric pulses, said treatment space ( 4 ) being fluidly connected with the inlet ( 3 a ) and the outlet ( 3 b ), wherein at least a portion of an inner side face of the treatment space ( 4 ) is curved. The present invention is furthermore related to a device comprising such a treatment unit and to a method to be performed with said device, and wherein the inlet ( 3 a ) is formed in a top face of the treatment unit ( 3 ), and the outlet ( 3 b ) is formed in a bottom face of the treatment unit ( 3 ).

The present invention relates to an impact ring for a device for dehulling of granular good, comprising a ring-shaped body of metal and a polymer layer on its entire inner surface, wherein the polymer layer is releasably arranged on the inner surface of the ring-shaped body. The present invention further relates to a device for dehulling of granular material with such an impact ring and/or sensors for monitoring the condition of the impact ring, which are selected from the group consisting of load sensors and vibration sensors.

The present invention is related to a treatment unit ( 3 ) having an inlet ( 3 a ) and an outlet ( 3 b ), and a treatment space ( 4 ) being formed inside the treatment unit ( 3 ) such that it can be penetrated by electric pulses, said treatment space ( 4 ) being fluidly connected with the inlet ( 3 a ) and the outlet ( 3 b ), wherein at least a portion of an inner side face of the treatment space ( 4 ) is curved. The present invention is furthermore related to a device comprising such a treatment unit and to a method to be performed with said device, and wherein the inlet ( 3 a ) is formed in a top face of the treatment unit ( 3 ), and the outlet ( 3 b ) is formed in a bottom face of the treatment unit ( 3 ).

The present invention is related to a conveyor system ( 1 ) for a plant for producing elongated pasta, for example spaghetti, with a transfer unit ( 3 ) for transferring conveyor elements ( 4 ) from a first conveyor unit ( 2 a ) to a second conveyor unit ( 2 b ), the transfer unit ( 3 ) comprising a rotatably mounted cam element ( 3 a ) with a gripping device ( 3 b ) and a fixedly arranged guide element ( 3 c ) with an approximately circular-segment-shaped surface section ( 3 d ), which are arranged relative to each other in such a way that a conveyor element ( 4 ) taken over by the gripping means ( 3 b ) of the cam element ( 3 a ) from the first conveyor unit ( 2 a ) can be moved by rotation of the cam element ( 3 a ) along the approximately circular-segment-shaped surface portion ( 3 d ) of the guide element ( 3 c ) to a position where the conveyor element ( 4 ) can be taken over by the second conveyor unit ( 2 b ). The present invention further relates to a plant (A) for the production of elongated pasta and to a method for conveying elongated pasta.

Proposed is an industrial smart extruder and extrusion method, the industrial, intelligent extruder acting as a conveying device that uniformly squeeze solid to viscous masses out of a forming orifice under high pressure and temperature according to the operating principle of the Archimedean screw. Material is processed by hot extrusion or cold extrusion or warm extrusion or friction extrusion or micro extrusion by the extruder, and the material extruded by the extruder at least includes food products or metals or polymers or ceramics or concrete, or modelling clay. The industrial, intelligent extruder includes a smart device with a ML- or AI-based core engine controlling and/or steering and/or optimizing the operation of the extruder automatically.

An apparatus comprises a vacuum chamber configured to produce a substantially atmospheric vacuum environment for plasma processing; a radio frequency (RF) power supply located outside of the vacuum chamber; an RF matching network operatively coupled to the RF power supply; and a plurality of electrodes mounted within the vacuum chamber, the plurality of electrodes configured to receive RF power signals from the RF power supply through the RF matching network. The RF power signals are simultaneously delivered to the plurality of electrodes during a sputtering operation. The plurality of electrodes and a set of electrical components are operative to manage the inductive and capacitive reactance for coupling the RF power signals to provide more desirable plasma coupling during the sputtering operation.