Abstract: A refrigerator includes a freezing compartment and a refrigerating compartment, a refrigerating compartment door, an ice maker disposed in the freezing compartment, and an ice bank disposed on the door. The refrigerator also includes an ice transfer device configured to transfer ice made by the ice maker to the ice bank through an ice chute. The ice transfer device includes a housing and a transfer member configured to transfer ice from the housing into the ice chute. An inlet end of the ice chute is located at a point that is spaced upward from a bottom surface of the housing and extends upward from a horizontal plane at an angle that is less than an angle between the horizontal plane and a tangent that passes through an outer circumferential surface of the housing at a lower end of the inlet end of the ice chute.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for separating/sorting and orienting/aligning tubes and/or vials or other sample containers.

Abstract: A disc for releasable attachment with a shaft of a disc screen apparatus. The disc separates into two opposed halves at a parting line having offset portions. The disc includes a hub with a bore for receiving a rotating shaft. The hub is radially offset about a center axis of the disc to generally correspond with the offset portions of the parting line. The offset hub distributes rotational forces on the disc to prevent separation of the discs during operation.

Abstract: A bar screen is primarily intended for use in draining liquid from wood chips and pulp without blocking the bar screen. The area of use is especially a process area, in which cooking and circulation liquid is removed from a pressure vessel when making chemical pulp and paper pulp by continuous method. This type of bar screen is characterized in that behind the filtering gap of the screen bars, there is a flow space in which the liquid flows towards a discharge outlet. By adjusting the flow space, a flow rate of liquid which stops blocking due to accumulation is maintained in the background. The sturdiness of the screen structure is improved by adjustable support taps.

Abstract: A separator for separating solids and other objects (debris) from a liquid, and having a separator body (2) through which the liquid, having debris entrained therein (16, 19, 20), flows from an inlet (6) to an outlet (13), and a port (5) for diverting flow from the outlet during moderate flows whereby the debris entrained in the liquid is removed. A floor (11) wherein the separator is raised to form a hump (43) adjacent to or in which the opening (5) is located.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement (5) for a filter (6) for plastic material in the form of granulates supplied to an injection nozzle (7), whereby accommodated internally in a casing (8) is a filter body (20) extending in the longitudinal sense of the casing. The filter body (20) consists of metal or some other hard material. Arranged essentially in the longitudinal extent (10) of the filter body (20) is a number of groove-shaped unevennesses (11, 12) in the form of peaks (11) and valleys (12) extending along the filter body on its envelope surface, which unevennesses are executed so as to extend internally within the casing (8) at a distance (S) from it. A gap (9) is formed between the peaks (11) and the casing (8).

Abstract: The apparatus is for shredding and straining thermo plastic and rubber like materials to produce clear polymer pellets separated from oversize foreign materials, more particularly an apparatus provided with a hopper and forcing section adapted to feed hot or cold selected process materials into a shredding or granulating section which is adapted to granulate vulcanized rubber to pellets so small that they cannot harbor oversize materials or contaminates. The granulating section feeds warmed and under high pressure process material to the straining section which features multiple circumferential openings, adjustable in width in 0.0005 inch graduations, which lead off the fine and fluent phase materials and redirect the oversize and less fluent material to a separate discharge port. To avoid plugging the entrances to the circumferential openings of the straining section are composed of multiple plates, one set of which is stationary and secured to the barrel member.

Abstract: An improved comminuting device for pulverizing solid material includes a comminuting chamber and a discharge chamber adjacent the comminuting chamber. A screening assembly is located at the interface between the comminuting chamber and the discharge chamber and regulates the size of particles permitted to pass from the comminuting chamber into the discharge chamber. The screening assembly is adjustable to selectively vary the maximum size particles permitted to pass into the discharge chamber. The comminuting chamber is defined by a series of rolls having abrading protrusions on their outer surfaces. In one embodiment of the invention, the screening assembly includes a plurality of planar flails swingably mounted at a first end on a first surface of a disk rotatably mounted in the housing for rotaton in a horizontal plane. The disk forms the interface between the comminuting chamber and the discharge chamber.

Abstract: Fruit, which may be oblong fruit such as olives, are mechanically sorted into two separate vessels, depending on whether they are, or are not individually thick enough to be clamped between a reciprocating head and a plate, while the head and plate rotate about a drum axis at a downstream end of a carrying run of an endless conveyor for the fruit. The clamped (oversized) fruit are carried further about the periphery of the drum than are the non-clamped (undersized) fruit, allowing these two classes of fruit to be collected separately. In a preferred embodiment, the fruit are individually deposited on the conveyor and subjected to common orientation before passing between the reciprocating head and the plate.

Abstract: A spool separating device for separating spool tubes with a relatively smaller diameter from finished wound spools with a relatively larger diameter, includes a vibratory conveyor with a bottom, an upper end, a sliding surface extended spirally upward along a given spool transport direction from the bottom to the upper end, a wall outwardly bordering the sliding surface, the wall having a slot formed at a given location therein, the slot having a height being greater than the diameter of a spool tube and smaller than the diameter of a finished wound spool and a length being greater than the length of a spool tube, an adjustable wall section in a position bordering the top of the slot determining the height of the slot, the adjustable wall section being resiliently moveable out of the position in the event of spool jamming, and an additional wall section determining the depth of the slot and approaching the bordering wall in the given spool transport direction for guiding the end of a spool tube of a spool whi

Abstract: The invention is a motor driven device designed for the purpose of separating and sorting flatware, fed to the unit in random fashion. A hopper receives the pieces, and the speed of a concaved separating disc is employed to separate the flatware and move it handle first between the sorting disc and guides. The pieces are measured by the relation of the guides to the circumference of the disc and dropped into individual collection boxes. A threaded stud may be employed for the adjustment of the machine to a variety of patterns of flatware.

Abstract: Materials such as wood chips are classified by thickness by feeding same through a chip outlet onto a rotating disc adjacent the axis of rotation of the disc, the disc cooperating with a housing to define a tapering passage terminating in a narrow, restricted outlet adjacent the periphery of the disc, orienting bars project from the disc and extend radially from the axis of rotation to beyond the chip inlet. A frusto conical chip orienting surface extends from the radial outward extremities of the orienting bars toward the outlet in a position traversing the path of material leaving the orienting bars.In one embodiment, an oversized outlet is provided, positioned trailing the orienting bars in the direction of rotation behind a substantially unobstructed trajectory of material leaving the orienting bars. In another embodiment, the oversized outlets are replaced by breaker bars that cooperate with cooperating breaker bars on the housing to shear positions of the material away.

Abstract: An article or can sorting apparatus for separating articles having a recycle value from articles having no recycle value is defined by an annular article supporting surface positioned at about 45 degrees to horizontal, a cylindrical wall positioned in relation to the surface to define an article processing chamber, a feed hopper into which a plurality of the articles are deposited for feeding into the chamber, and an article conveying disc or wheel positioned in parallel relation to the surface and having a plurality of outwardly extending article pusher arms for separating the articles, such as discarded beverage cans, from the plurality of articles and conveying the articles one at a time about the annular surface to a material discriminator and a weight scale and toward an accept door or a reject door. The material discriminator or metal detector, the scale, and the accept and reject doors form segments of the article conveying surface.

Abstract: Shrimp are introduced individually onto a rotating disk inward of an adjustable gauging strip fixed above the disk's surface. Shrimp passing under the gauging strip under the influence of centrifugal force and are channeled to a first output chute. Those retained by the strip exit the disk through a second output chute. Disks may be ganged vertically to provide a plurality of sorted grades or in parallel for increased throughput.