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AssigneeApplicationNo. 560400 filed on 03/20/1975US Classes:241/1, By operations other than force of contact with solid surface241/23With heating or cooling of materialExaminersPrimary: Custer, Granville Y. Jr.Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Application Priority Data1974-03-21 DTAbstractA process is disclosed for conversion of coal powder of 4 micron size into a finer powder of the order of 1/400 micron by passing through a vertical tube of sufficient length at a temperature of -77° C and thereafter passing through a second chamber by force of gravity where a counter stream of heated nitrogen at 780° C causes the powder to break up into the smaller size particles. | |