Particle manufacture

• US 3,320,338 A
• Filed: 10/22/1965
• Issued: 05/16/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jerome H. Lemelson
• Original Assignee: Jerome H. Lemelson
• Inventors: Lemelson, Jerome H.
• Application Number:
  US04/501,393
• Time in Patent Office: 571 Days
• US Class Current: 264/14
• CPC Class Codes: B22F 9/10 using centrifugal force

Claims

1. A PROCESS FOR MAKING PARTICULATE MATERIAL COMPRISING:

(A) GENERATING A SPRAY OF MOLTEN PARTICULATE MATERIAL IN A 360* SPRAY FLOW THEREOF, (B) GENERATING A CYLINDRICAL WALL OF COOLANT LIQUID SUCH AS WATER AND DIRECTING SAME TO SURROUND SAID SPRAY FLOW OF PARTICULATE MATERIAL AND FLOW THEREPAST, (C) CAUSING SAID PARTICULATE MATERIAL TO BE DIRECTED INTO SAID CYCLINDRICAL WALL OF LIQUID, (D) SOLIDIFYING SAID PARTICULATE MATERIAL IN SAID LIQUID, (E) DIRECTING SAID CYLINDRICAL WALL OF LIQUID INTO A WATER BODY AT THE END OF SAID CYLINDRICAL LIQUID WALL WHICH BODY DEFINES AT UNINTERRUPTED WATER SURFACE TERMINATING SAID CYLINDRICAL WALL OF LIQUID, (F) DIRECTING SAID PARTICULATE MATERIAL TO FLOW ALONG SAID CYLINDRICAL LIQUID WALL INTO SAID WATER BODY, AND (G) SEPARATING SAID PARTICULATE MATERIAL FROM SAID LIQUID.