Patent ID: 9567506
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: C09K,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of manufacturing encapsulated superhard material, the method including the steps of: providing particles of superhard material, providing a mixture comprising an appropriate binder, a solvent or fluid medium and coating or encapsulating material, providing a shovel rotor comprising a vessel including a rotor and walls that include shovels or baffles fixed thereto, the vessel adapted to receive a stream of gas, combining the superhard material and the mixture in the shovel rotor such that the superhard material is carried over the shovels or baffles that add additional rotation and translation thereto, and rotating the shovel rotor at a velocity such that the superhard material is encapsulated into pellets by the mixture, wherein less than 2% of the pellets of encapsulated material contain more than one particle of superhard material, wherein the superhard material is selected from the group consisting of diamond, cubic boron nitride, wurtzitic boron nitride, a carbide, oxide or silicide, Si