Patent ID: 8708551

Claim:
A continuous granulator, comprising: a longitudinal granulation chamber having a first end with an inlet for powder material and a binder feed port and a second end with an outlet for granulated product, the granulation chamber comprising only one pair of parallel rotary shafts provided with granulating elements, wherein the one pair of shafts forms an angle of from 0 to 70 degrees with the vertical, wherein each granulating element on a shaft comprises one lobe having limited extent in the circumferential direction of the shaft and interleaving with a lobe of a granulating element on another shaft, wherein a plurality of said separate granulating elements are distributed from the inlet to the outlet, wherein successive granulating elements on a shaft are mutually angled, and wherein a feed pump is arranged at the binder feed port within or immediately adjacent an enclosure of the granulation chamber, and the feed pump is independently fed with liquid, solution, suspension or gas or any combination thereof.