Patent ID: 11919007
Assignee: WILLY A. BACHOFEN AG
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An agitator ball mill having:
a grinding chamber which has a cylindrical wall;
a rotatably mounted agitator shaft which extends into the grinding chamber and on which at least one agitator element is arranged inside the grinding chamber;
an inlet configured to supply material to be ground and grinding bodies to the grinding chamber;
an outlet configured to remove ground material; and
an induction heater configured to heat the material to be ground, the induction heater comprising an inductor and a susceptor;, wherein:
the at least one agitator element comprises the susceptor of the induction heater,
the inductor comprises at least one coil which is arranged outside the cylindrical wall of the grinding chamber and encompasses the grinding chamber;
the cylindrical wall of the grinding chamber consists of an electrically and magnetically non-conductive material;
the at least one agitator element is two or more agitator elements arranged on the agitator shaft spaced apart from one another along the agitator shaft; and
the at least one coil is two or more coils which are arranged along the cylindrical wall of the grinding chamber in a manner such that the magnetic fields they generate each acts upon only one of the two or more agitator elements.