Patent ID: 6045072
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: B02C

Abstract:
A slotted hammermill hammer for use with a rotatable hammermill having a rotor shaft, a plurality of circumvolving hammer rings attached to said rotor shaft and held in spaced relationship to each other to receive between them, in interfitting relationship said hammer, said hammer rings each having at least two hammer ring rod holes, each of which are aligned with corresponding hammer ring rod holes in remaining hammer rings to form sets of aligned hammer ring rod holes so as to receive and hold within each of said sets of hammer ring rod holes an elongated hammer retaining rod, and first and second elongated hammer retaining rods each configured for insertion through said aligned sets hammer ring rod holes in said hammer rings, said slotted hammermill hammer comprising:a hammer body having a peripheral edge and configured for interfitting relationship between a pair of said hammer rings, said hammer body having a slot extending into said hammer body from said peripheral edge for engaging an elongated hammer retaining rod inserted and held within a set of aligned hammer ring rod holes of said hammer rings when said hammer body is interfitted between a pair of said hammer rings, said slot being oriented in any direction which permits said hammer body to in contact with said first hammer rod when said hammer is subjected to centrifugal forces of hammermill rotation, and a hammer body rod hole through which said second elongated hammer retaining rod may be inserted when said second elongated hammer retaining rod is inserted and held within another set of said aligned hammer ring rod holes of said hammer rings.