Patent ID: 8104177
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: B02C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of improving a life of a hammer mill hammer blade assembly, the hammer mill hammer blade assembly comprising a hammer blade body, the method comprising: (a) providing an inner bearing race separate from a rod about which the hammer blade body rotates, wherein the inner bearing race remains stationary with respect to the rod; (b) providing an outer bearing race stationary with respect to the hammer blade body; (c) disposing the inner bearing race concentric to the outer bearing race; (d) disposing a spacer concentric to the inner bearing race; (e) disposing the inner bearing race over and concentric with the rod about which the hammer blade body rotates; and (f) providing space between the hammer blade body and a second hammer blade body by virtue of the spacer disposed between the first hammer mill hammer bearing and the second hammer mill hammer bearing.