US PATENT SUBCLASS 241 / 176
.~.~ Rotating receptacle

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241 /   HD   SOLID MATERIAL COMMINUTION OR DISINTEGRATION

*  DD  APPARATUS {41}
170  DF  .~ Loose grinding body comminutor (e.g., ball or rod mills) {6}
176.~.~ Rotating receptacle {2}
177  DF  .~.~.~> Tiltable axis of rotation
178  DF  .~.~.~> Roller supported receptacle

DEFINITION

Classification: 241/176

(under subclass 170) Apparatus in which the loose grinding body or bodies are mounted in a receptacle which has a rotary motion.

(1) Note. Search for mounting and drive means or other characteristics applicable to rotary receptacles in general should be continued in the many classes containing patents utilizing rotary receptacles. See the notes appended to the definition of subclass 108 in Class 34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, for references to many of these classes. Particular attention is directed to Class 259, Agitating, subclasses 3, 14+, 50+, 57+, 81+, and 175+, for rotary receptacles which function as agitators.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

54, for such devices in which a gas current passes through the receptacle.

70+, for such devices provided with oversize discharge

preventing screens.

91, for such apparatus in which the receptacle walls are provided with passages for the material. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

248, Supports,

130, and 131, for supports for rotary receptacles.