Mills Morehouse

The Morehouse mill (Morehouse Industries, Inc.) is a high-speed disk type of mill (Fig. 20-53). The undispersed phase is fed at the top and passes between converging disks, being thrown outward at the periphery. 

Morehouse 200 wet mill (Morehouse Industries, Fullerton, CA), operated at 3600 rpm. The finely dispersed slurry was filtered through a 230-mesh vibrating screen to remove the coarse fiber fraction. The residue was washed a second time with 0.02% NaOH for 1 hr and passed through the wet mill and screen to remove additional solubles ... 

Rubber-mill chips are dissolved similarly to resins, to provide color concentrates. Dough mixer and chip concentrates must be diluted with solvent and other vehicles to make finished inks. Media milling is becoming a method of choice in both flexo and gravure ink manufacturing. Other high speed dispersing units, such as the Morehouse, Cowles, Kady, and others, are also used. 

Some mills of this type are Morehouse (More-house-Cowles, Inc), Premier (Premier Mill Corp), Charlotte (Chemicolloid Corp), Tri-Homo Disperser-Homogenizer (Tri-Homo Corp), Manton -Gaulin (Manton-Gaulin Co), and the Viscolizer (Cherry-Burrell Co)... 

In the Attritor (Union Process Inc.) a single vertical armature rotates several long radial arms. These are avail le in batch, continuous, and circulation types. Morehouse-Cowles media mills comprise a... 

Morehouse Mill. A mill of the attrition type consisting essentially of a vertically-driven shaft, with horizontal milling elements, made of sintered alumina. It has been used for the... 

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