Gravity feed stream splitter for splitting particulate material or for splitting and spreading particulate material, especially for use in particulate material separators.

摘要

In order to ensure that metallic contaminants are properly separated in a magnetic separator a splitter (22) spreads an inlet stream of the particulate material across the conveyor belt (30) of the separator in a thin flat sheet. The splitter has an inlet, and intermediate stages, made up of inclined troughs (78, 84, 86, 94), the troughs of successive stages sloping in opposite directions, each trough feeding two troughs of the next stage. The final stage is made up of an inclined plate (96) having vertical walls defining chutes (28).