Fine-Grinding Sizers offer a very small footprint and low-profile design that allows wheel mounting or fixed support configuration. They are ideal for pilot plants or for small capacity applications such as lithium, cadmium, uranium coal and agglomerated ores.
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In response to customer demands, McLanahan has developed a small-footprint Fine-Grinding Sizer. This is the latest in the McLanahan range of Sizers, which offer a cost-effective alternative to high pressure grinding machines. McLanahan’s Sizer offers a twin drive, adjustable sizer using either fixed coupling or fluid coupling.
Fine-Grinding Sizers are typically used in applications where the material is required to be crushed to small product size but without the fines generation or high pressure that is normally associated with other forms of comminution. Fine-Grinding Sizers are also excellent machines for use in pilot plants, and are very popular in processing battery minerals such as lithium. Other applications include agglomerated iron ore, phosphates and heavy metals extraction.
Sizers deliver excellent control on product size and consistency. Sizers are also very well suited to crushing applications where the product is found in high clay bands and requires liberation from the clay as well as size reduction.
Double Roll Sizers are recommended for applications requiring a 4:1 ratio of reduction. However, due to the low profile and relatively small footprint, these Sizers are often nested to deliver multiple phases of crushing in a single flow.
The Fine-Grinding Sizer frame is a welded and machined structure of heavy-duty design and construction suitable for lower capacity raw material in a tertiary or quaternary application. The frame is designed to house two parallel shafts and crushing rolls through heavy-duty bearing arrangements. The Sizer shafts rotate inward at a constant speed depending on the application and are reversible for the removal of tramp material.
Large diameter crushing rolls provide a suitable feed angle so that material falls directly into the crushing zone. The rolls have been designed to be adjustable, accommodating for wear. Wear liners are symmetrical, bolted in place for easy replacement, and made from abrasion-resistant material. Each roll shaft is driven by a heavy-duty drive assembly consisting of a motor, coupling and gear reducer fixed directly to the drive shafts. Stub shafts are bolted to single piece roll shells, which can be fitted with crushing segments, beaded using hard facing electrodes or left smooth depending on product size required. Top plates can be unbolted to allow entire rolls to be removed and replaced efficiently.
Mining operations around the world rely on McLanahan's experience and Sizers to crush their material to product size. McLanahan Sizers are designed to be more efficient and facilitate an ease of maintenance, with interchangeable sizing combs and segments throughout, as well as readily available gearboxes, couplings and motors. All Sizers are backed by McLanahan's service and support for the life of the machine.
Roll adjustment is a key feature of the McLanahan Sizer. As a center sizer, both roll shafts can be adjusted forward or backward to help maintain the required crushing settings. Hardface welding can be used to build up or maintain the roll profile on some types of sizer teeth. Worn teeth will quickly reduce the throughput capacity of your sizer. Worn teeth will also suffer accelerated wear as the tooth height reduces, so it is important to monitor and maintain your sizer teeth.
Controlling the flow of feed material into a Sizer is important to ensure an even distribution across the length of the rolls and to ensure an even split between them. Even feed distribution ensures even wear of the rolls, maximizing the life of the wear parts and the throughput capacity of the sizer.
Fine-Grinding Sizer gear reducers have one input shaft seal and two output shaft seals. These should be greased once per week. Add enough grease that any old grease is pushed out via the grease vent.
To facilitate easy oil sampling, the gear reducers on Sizers are outfitted with a sample valve on the oil drain port.
To change the oil in the gear reducer, remove the top inspection cover and inspect the internal components for wear, damage or debris. Replace the desiccant filter/breather when changing the oil. This may need to be changed sooner if the desiccant beads turn red, indicating moisture saturation. Fill the gear reducer with the appropriate oil to the fill level indicated on the sight glass. Filling the gearbox with the correct oil and keeping the gearbox clean and maintained is key to long gearbox life.
Worn Fine-Grinding Sizer segments can be replaced by first removing the threaded plug from the body of the segment so you can screw in the lifting eyebolt. Next, remove all the hex headed holding bolts from the segment. Finally, using a chain block, lift the segment vertically.
McLanahan Fine-Grinding Sizers crush material to small sizes with minimal fines generation.
