The working principle is that a shaft fitted with grinding discs, rotates within a fixed grinding chamber that has been charged with the chosen grinding beads. The mill-base is pumped through the grinding chamber and the disc rotation move the beads and mill-base mixture at high speed. The product is separated from the grinding beads at the outlet by a slotted screen.
VOLLRATH supplies vertical bead mills respectively agitator ball mills with a vertically arranged grinding chamber. Thus, the bead package is evenly distributed and the geodetic pressure between the beads is maximized. Bead pressure and shear rate are very high, which also applies to the achieved grinding performance and the color strength. Horizontal bead mills or agitator ball mills with a horizontal grinding chamber do not have these advantages and are thereby disadvantageously designed and built.
High Performance
Because of VOLLRATH’s unique square shaped (with rounded corners) grinding chamber and special grinding discs, a very high turbulence and torque is transmitted between the discs, the mill base/beads mixture and the grinding chamber. This ensures a very high output and an excellent efficiency. The Vollrath bead mill is very easy to clean and product losses are low because the grinding chamber volume is small in relation to the grinding capacity.