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Eirich
Correspondence

Volume II · Chapter five

The
Apparatus.

A catalogue of machines.

Every machine drawn in this house is a variation on a single patented principle. The mixers, the mills, the instruments and the plants do not stand apart, they are chapters of the same long essay on how a material becomes useful.

An Eirich Evactherm vacuum mixer photographed in the test hall

Frontispiece

Apparatus, photographed.

A single mixer, a single principle, fifty two plates of variation.

An Eirich Evactherm intensive mixer in the test hall at Hardheim

Plate V

Mixing system No. 1.

Plate V · Apparatus

Intensive mixers.

§ Mixing system No. 1.

The flagship apparatus. A pan turning one way, a tool turning the other, the encounter governed by an operator at a console. Built from the laboratory bench at one tenth of a litre to the production hall at twelve thousand.

Principle
Counter rotation, two motors
Scale
0.1 L to 12,000 L
Process
Mixing, granulating, kneading, dispersing, coating, drying, vacuum
Typical feed
Powders, slurries, plastic doughs, pastes
  • § Standard
  • § Hinged
  • § Tilting
  • § MixSolver
  • § Evactherm
Open Plate I, the intensive mixer
Wear parts and grinding bodies arranged on a workshop bench

Plate VI

An assembly of stones.

Plate VI · Apparatus

Grinding mills.

§ An assembly of stones.

Five mills for the reduction of soft to very hard minerals, dry or wet, fine or ultra fine. Each draws its energy from a different geometry but obeys the same patient discipline of the house.

Principle
Bead, attritor, agitator, tower
Scale
Laboratory through production
Process
Dry and wet ultra fine grinding
Typical feed
Industrial minerals, ores, ceramic raw materials, glass, fertiliser
  • § MaxxMill
  • § TowerMill
  • § OrbitMill
  • § FluxxMill
  • § TurboGrinder
An engineer reading sensor traces inside the Eirich Technikum

Plate VII

QualiMaster, ProView, Teleservice.

Plate VII · Apparatus

Telemetry and quality.

§ QualiMaster, ProView, Teleservice.

A small library of digital instruments for the watching of a running mixer. Sensors at the tool, sensors at the wall, a console in another room or another country. Numbers, not impressions.

Principle
Process analytics, remote diagnostics
Scale
Single machine to gigafactory line
Process
Monitoring, correction, vision control, rheology, torque
Typical feed
Live process data from the mixing chamber
  • § QualiMaster AT1
  • § AC1
  • § MT1
  • § RT1
  • § RT2
  • § VC1
  • § ProView
  • § Teleservice
The Eirich works at Hardheim in the Odenwald

Plate VIII

From the silo to the despatch crate.

Plate VIII · Apparatus

Turnkey plant engineering.

§ From the silo to the despatch crate.

Seventy years of building entire material preparation halls, from the raw intake at the gate to the finished product on the loading bay. Drawn, planned, erected and serviced by one house.

Principle
Single source plant engineering
Scale
Complete preparation lines
Process
Intake, dosing, mixing, finishing, despatch
Typical feed
The full inventory of a heavy industry plant
  • § Engineering
  • § Planning
  • § Erection
  • § Worldwide service

Note

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