Compactor roll blocks

Fig. 9 Compactor roll blocks. (From Ref. courtesy of the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Granulation Technology.)...

Typical compactor roll configurations are shown in Fig. 8. Most compactors now have one floating roll and one fixed roll each on separate bearing blocks. An illustration of this is shown in Fig. 9. 

Bepex-Hosokowa Co. compactor (Fig. 21) consists of a pair of rolls that are both fixed and not cantilevered. The rolls are mounted on a horizontal plane in fixed bearing blocks and there is a set fixed gap distance. The Bepex roll designs are concave and can be water cooled. 

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