WO2005092067A3 - Refiner sensor and coupling arrangement - Google Patents

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WO2005092067A3
WO2005092067A3 PCT/US2005/009760 US2005009760W WO2005092067A3 WO 2005092067 A3 WO2005092067 A3 WO 2005092067A3 US 2005009760 W US2005009760 W US 2005009760W WO 2005092067 A3 WO2005092067 A3 WO 2005092067A3
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refiner
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21DTREATMENT OF THE MATERIALS BEFORE PASSING TO THE PAPER-MAKING MACHINE
    • D21D1/00Methods of beating or refining; Beaters of the Hollander type
    • D21D1/002Control devices
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02CCRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C7/00Crushing or disintegrating by disc mills
    • B02C7/11Details
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21DTREATMENT OF THE MATERIALS BEFORE PASSING TO THE PAPER-MAKING MACHINE
    • D21D1/00Methods of beating or refining; Beaters of the Hollander type
    • D21D1/20Methods of refining
    • D21D1/30Disc mills

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A sensor assembly and coupling arrangement for a rotary disk refiner. The sensor assembly includes a housing foamed by a base and frustoconical cap that has a sensing element carrying bulb extending outwardly therefrom. The coupling arrangement includes a conduit arrangement that is received in one or more aligned preexisting instrument ports of the refiner and that releasably couples with a connector puck. The puck is carried by the backside of a refiner disk segment that lies next to the refiner disk segment that is equipped with one or more sensor assemblies. Preferably, a flexible hose communicates sensor wiring from a sensor manifold that holds a plurality of sensor assemblies to the connector puck. The sensor manifold preferably is carried by the backside of the sensor refiner disk.
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