Patent GB-1073117-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic separators
IPC: B03C1/14
Filed: 1965-12-13
Abstract: 1,073,117. Magnetic separators. W. BUCH NOLZ, [trading as STEINERT ELEKTROMAGNETBAU]. Dec. 13, 1965 [Dec. 22, 1964], No. 52740,65. Heading B2J. [Also in Division H1] In a magnetic separator having a primary field formed by a yoke with an air gap for the passage of material to be separated, the gap being delimited by two pole surfaces of which at least one is constituted by a roller of magnetisable material, either flat secondary coils, of individually or groupwise alternate polarity, or stationary permanent magnets are arranged side by side in the axial direction of the roller in such manner, as to produce secondary fields whose strength is lower than that of the primary field. In one roller arrangement, Fig. 1, a rotating separating roller is made up of a number of pole bodies 3 of magnetically conducting material which are mounted in abutting relationship on a shaft 1 of magnetically conducting material and have recesses in which are mounted disc-type coils made of aluminium or copper strip with resin and insulation material 4 providing the necessary dielectric strength. The direction of the magnetic flux produced by the coils is such that adjacent pole bodies are of opposite polarity. Current to the coils is supplied at 8. In a modification. Fig. 2 (not shown), a pair of coils (14, 15) producing flux of opposite direction is mounted in each pole body (12), the pole bodies being separated from each other by thin. non-magnetic discs (12a). The flux distribution along the roller surface is illustrated in Fig. 6 (not shown). In other arrangements, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), a stationary roller comprising pole bodies (22) having pairs of coils (24) and separated from each other by annular (Fig. 3) or sinusoidal (Fig. 4) gaps is surrounded by a rotating drum (21) of non- magnetic material having an aluminium end face (20) formed with a V-belt pulley groove (19). The pole bodies may have recesses, Fig. 5 (not shown), to facilitate ejection at the desired point of the magnetic particles picked up by the drum. In a modification of the latter embodiments, the stationary roller (23a), Fig. 4a (not shown) is provided with a flat on the side of the working gap, Fig. 5a (not shown), and carry a number of permanent magnets (22a); e.g. of barium ferrite. An arrangement of magnetic separator, Figs. 10 and 13 (not shown) comprises a rotating separating roller (26) or (39) which also forms the central pole of a 3-pole primary system comprising energiser coils (27) and outer poles (28), the magnetic circuit being completed by a stationary 3-pole armature (29), the middle pole shoe (40) of which has a concave surface. The material to be separated is fed from a hopper (37), the magnetic and non-magnetic components being discharged respectively on the left and right of guide plates (38). In modifications, the coils (32) are stationary and mounted in the armature (33), Fig. 11 (not shown) or on the armature (36), Fig. 12 (not shown). Instead of a stationary armature, a solid roller (42, 47, 51) or (56) Figs. 14 to 17 (not shown) of magnetically conducting material may be used. Arrangements consisting of double roller separators. Figs. 18 to 20 (not shown) and of separators in a cascade disposition are also described.