DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PULVERIZING MATERIALS, ESPECIALLY GLASS

摘要

Atomizing systems used in prior art to produce powders are normally successively charged with a liquid material for atomizing from one or more melting pots. The powder thus arising can have extremely inhomogeneous properties as a result of the ambience conditions prevailing during melting or during the conversion of the melt inside the melting pot. According to the invention a device for continuous melting of a material is disposed upstream from the atomizing system. The device disclosed in WO 97/05440 is one such device. The invention makes it possible to significantly improve the homogeneity of the powder which is produced by atomization. The inventive system enables non-metallic powders, especially glass powders to be produced in addition to the atomization of metallic materials.