CONTAINER, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STORING OR PROCESSING PARTICULATE MATERIALS TO MINIMIZE OR ELIMINATE VIBRATIONS SUCH AS QUAKING OR SHAKING

• Main Authors: MARTINIS Alessandro, MAGGIOLINO Stefano, TAVANO Andrea, MORALES SERRANO Raúl, BECERRA LUCATERO Luis Manuel
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 08.01.2021
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; BLASTING; CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS,e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES,DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; CONVEYING; DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS,IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KINDOF FURNACE; FURNACES; FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HEATING; KILNS; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS; OVENS; PACKAGES; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RETORTS; STORING; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

The invention provides containers with lower vibrations, such as quaking and shaking as well as noise effects, known also as hooting, honking or howling, and an effective and cost-competitive method and device to decrease such phenomena during the discharge of granular material particles from silos, hoppers, bins, reactors and in general containers for storing or processing such granular material particles. The invention comprises at least one baffle that is attached to the container wall, in the lower portion or at the bottom of the tapered discharge part of said container, protruding towards the central axis of its tapered discharge part. The baffle forms a stagnant zone in the bed of the granular material particles in contact with the container wall whereby the particles in that zone flow under the friction against other particles instead of the friction between the particles and the wall. La invención proporciona contenedores con bajas vibraciones, como temblores y agitaciones, así como efectos de ruido, también conocidos como silbidos, pitidos y aullidos, y un método y un dispositivo eficaces y rentables para disminuir dichos fenómenos durante la descarga de partículas de material granular de silos, tolvas, arcones, reactores y en general contenedores para almacenar o procesar tales partículas de material granular. La invención comprende al menos un deflector que está unido a la pared del contenedor, en la porción inferior o en el fondo de la parte de descarga ahusada de dicho contenedor, que sobresale hacia el eje central de su parte de descarga ahusada. El deflector forma una zona estancada en el lecho de partículas de material granular en contacto con la pared del contenedor, por lo que las partículas en esa zona fluyen por la fricción contra otras partículas en lugar de por la fricción entre las partículas y la pared.