Abstract: An object of the present invention is to diminish the sizes of most disintegrated material effectively, said sizes being determined by the box seats made on the surface of the under roll (7).

Abstract: The invention provides a method and installation for processing heterogeneous value bearing material by pressure comminution. The material is compressed in a bed of particles, at low pressures and at low bulk material densities, and preferably no more than is necessary to liberate the desired values, thereby to minimise the formation of fines. The compressive bed pressure applied to the material does not exceed 300 MPa, and the process is preferably operated in an open circuit mode. Surprisingly, these measures lead to enhanced liberation of values compared with conventional comminution techniques.

Abstract: A disk data destroyer comprises a housing, a data destroying shaft set, a motor driver and a sensor. The housing is provided with a hollow receiving chamber, a disk insertion slot and a disk outlet opposite said insertion slot. The sensor is mounted inside said housing adjacent to said disk insertion slot and adapted to output a driving signal to start said motor driver to drive the data destroying shaft set to rotate upon insertion of a data storage disk into said disk insertion slot such that the inserted disk is pressed by the data destroying shaft set so as to destroy storage data thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing vehicle tires includes a feed mechanism for transferring flattened tire treads into a shearing assembly which includes a rotating shear assembly. The shear assembly is comprised of a rotating arbor supporting a stack of a plurality of cutting plates having cutting inserts extending therefrom in a variable helical pattern. The inserts rotate past an anvil edge, and the sharp edges of the inserts shear the infeeding edge of the tire tread. The inserts are replaceable, and the spacing of the cutting head and anvil edge is variable to optimize the shearing action.

Abstract: A method for reducing fines generated during a crushing operation comprises matching the peripheral roll speed to the drop velocity into the crusher of the material to be crushed. The method is particularly suited to high volume crushing coal where existing techniques result in the generation of a significant level of coal fines (−4 mm).

Abstract: A waste treatment device includes a sealable chamber having an inlet for receiving waste to be treated and an outlet through which the treated waste is discharged. A cutting mechanism within the sealable chamber shreds the waste and delivers the shredded waste to the chamber outlet. The cutting mechanism includes a planetary gearbox carrying two or more rotating cutting heads which are in close proximity to one another.

Abstract: There is provided apparatus for breaking up a cake 5 of compacted laundry. The cake 5 falls from a conveyor 6 into the nip between a pair of spaced star shaped rollers 1 mounted on a frame 2 and driven by a motor and gearing 3. The broken up articles of laundry fall into a transporting means 8 provided below the rollers 1.

Abstract: The invention discloses an impact shears having a rotor with individual chopping blades disposed on the rotor in a predetermined arrangement and with blade(s) or blade system that is generally stationary vis-à-vis the rotation of the rotor. The blade is held in a blade holder on the stator side of the rotor. The blade holder is movable on the stator about an axis parallel to the rotational axis of the rotor and carries at least two blades, or blade systems, that are expediently disposed at the same angular distance to one another. The blade holder can be rotated about an axis that extends parallel to the rotational axis of the rotor so that every blade of the blade holder can be brought in a cutting position to interact with the chopping blades of the rotor and can be locked in position with respect to the chopping blades.

Abstract: A crushing apparatus for crushing, blending, homogenizing and transferring materials is made up of a first pressing element having a first pressing face with protrusions provided thereon in the form of isolated islands surrounded by depressed marginal spaces and a second pressing element to be held in engagement with the first pressing element and having a second pressing face with protrusions provided thereon in a similar pattern to the first pressing face. The protrusions of the first and second pressing faces are disposed in relation to each other such that the protrusions of the first or the second pressing element will engage with corresponding depressed marginal spaces on the second or first pressing face of the respective pressing element.

Abstract: A chopper for chopping items such as fibers, fiber strands, ribbon, etc. by passing the items continuously in a loose, unwound, condition through the nip of a blade roll and a backup roll having a working layer on its outer periphery. The chopper of the present invention uses one or more rolls that are radially expandable and retractable to replace the blade roll and/or the backup roll on the prior art choppers so that worn blades and/or a worn working layer can be more quickly and more easily replaced with a new or repaired working layer or blade holder containing sharp blades. The chopper of the present invention eliminates the need to carry large, heavy, awkward rolls through the fiber forming rooms or areas where the items are being chopped and also to transport such rolls back and forth to the location where they are being rebuilt.

Abstract: A disk data destroyer comprises a housing, a data destroying shaft set, a motor driver and a sensor. The housing is provided with a hollow receiving chamber, a disk insertion slot and a disk outlet opposite said insertion slot. The sensor is mounted inside said housing adjacent to said disk insertion slot and adapted to output a driving signal to start said motor driver to drive the data destroying shaft set to rotate upon insertion of a data storage disk into said disk insertion slot such that the inserted disk is pressed by the data destroying shaft set so as to destroy storage data thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for chopping long unwound items like fiber, fiber strands, yarn, etc. having an idler roll for pressing the item(s) against a backup roll for pulling the item(s) into the chopper uses an improved mount for the idler roll that maintains the outer peripheral surface of the idler roll into more consistent contact with more consistent force with the item(s) being chopped.

Abstract: An apparatus 10 for crushing materials such as rock, ore, coal, stone and the like includes two rolls 16A and 16B which are mounted in parallel to define a gap 18 therebetween. Chunks of material to be crushed are fed by a conveyor 12 into the nip 14 between the rolls. Each roll 16A and 16B is similar and includes longitudinally extending steps provided by outwardly extending faces and smoothly curved surface segments between the steps. When the rolls are counter-rotated at the same speed, the gap 18 is maintained substantially constant and effectively transversely reciprocates in location between limits defined by the outer extremity of the face of a step on one roll being located opposite the inner extremity of the face of a step on the opposite roll. Compared to smooth roll crushing the invention provides for greater reduction ratios to be achieved at slower rotational speeds and using smaller diameter rolls.

Abstract: A rubber waste disposal apparatus processing rubber waste such as an old tire efficiently includes a casing, a rubber waste deformation unit provided in the casing to subject rubber waste to deformation, and an ozone-containing gas supply unit supplying ozone-containing gas into the casing. The rubber waste deformation unit includes a pair of cylindrical rollers having a plurality of protrusions projecting outwards, capable of sandwiching rubber waste at the gap therebetween, and a distance setting unit that can set the distance of the gap between the cylindrical rollers.

Abstract: This fiber chopper overcomes the disadvantages of the previous cutting rollers for chopping continuous filaments. The apparatus includes a means for feeding continuous fibers to a chopping roller. A spring holds the cutting blades on the chopping roller. The filaments pass between the chopping roller and a feed roller for chopping.

Abstract: In order to create a surface armoring suitable for the autogenous wear protection with application of grid armoring technology that exhibits a long service life capability due to high wear-resistance and compressive strength and that can nonetheless be manufactured and repaired relatively simply and cost-beneficially overall, particularly for the grinding rollers of high-pressure roller mills for the pressure comminution of granular material, it is inventively proposed that depressions spaced from one another be formed in the outside surface of the roller jacket and that prefabricated, highly wear-resistant hard bodies be pressed into the depressions, namely onto an adhesive compound that fills out the space provided with cavities between the bottom of the depressions and the underside of the hard bodies that have been fitted in.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for grinding bone for use in orthopaedic procedures includes a bone shoot for receiving bone segments which are fed into a grinding assembly rotatable about an axis such that a plurality of cutting plates rotate about such axis to grind bone into uniform and desirable sized portions suitable for use in cementing of bone implants.

Abstract: An apparatus 10 for crushing materials such as rock, ore, coal, stone and the like includes two rolls 16A and 16B which are mounted in parallel to define a gap 18 therebetween. Chunks of material to be crushed are fed by a conveyor 12 into the nip 14 between the rolls. Each roll 16A and 16B is similar and includes longitudinally extending steps provided by outwardly extending faces and smoothly curved surface segments between the steps. When the rolls are counter-rotated at the same speed, the gap 18 is maintained substantially constant and effectively transversely reciprocates in location between limits defined by the outer extremity of the face of a step on one roll being located opposite the inner extremity of the face of a step on the opposite roll. Compared to smooth roll crushing the invention provides for greater reduction ratios to be achieved at slower rotational speeds and using smaller diameter rolls.

Abstract: In order to further develop a circuit grinding apparatus with roller mill or roller press for comminution of the material bed of granular material and with at least one integrated sifter, in which mill and sifters are arranged within two fixed side face walls with an interlying turnably borne material conveyor ring settable into rotation for an internal material circuit, so that seals between the fixed side face walls and the interlying material conveyor ring that is settable in rotation are no longer necessary, it is proposed according to the invention to combine the two fixed side face walls over a housing part that houses the rotatable material conveyor ring, especially a ring housing part, into a housing tightly enclosing the entire working space of the circuit grinding apparatus, and to arrange on the underside of the housing part at least one grinding material leakage discharge from the working space of the circuit grinding apparatus.

Abstract: A method for debasing coins, wherein each coin is mechanically deformed by feeding the coin between at least two rolls (6, 7) or assemblies rotating in opposite directions. The coins are deformed into a corrugated shape, flattened out or shredded. The device comprises at least two rolls (6, 7) or assemblies which are rotatable in opposite directions, a feeding device (3) for feeding coins to be debased to said rolls or assemblies and a discharge device (8) for carrying the debased coins away from said rolls or assemblies.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roll mill with two rolls which are rotatably mounted in a machine frame and have an outer wear protection casing. In order to facilitate a particularly simple and rapid replacement of the wear protection casings on the rolls, both rolls are mounted only at one end in the machine frame.

Abstract: There is provided apparatus for breaking up a cake 5 of compacted laundry. The cake 5 falls from a conveyor 6 into the nip between a pair of spaced star shaped rollers 1 mounted on a frame 2 and driven by a motor and gearing 3. The broken up articles of laundry fall into a transporting means 8 provided below the rollers 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a grinding roll in which a roll tire made from a highly wear-resistant bainitic cast material is applied to the basic roll body. In order to create a roll tire with particularly high reliability against fractures and with relatively high wear resistance and compression strength, the roll tire is produced from a ductile bainitic spheroidal graphite cast material having a breaking elongation of approximately 0.1 to 2.5% and a compression strength of approximately 1,000 to 1,800 Mpa.

Abstract: A straw splitter for longitudinally splitting pieces of cereal straw into separated strands for use in making a panel, board or beam is provided. A cutting shear roller and a gripping shear roller are rotatable around their longitudinal axis at different circumferential speeds. The pieces of straw are split due to shear between the cutting shear roller and the gripping shear roller. The shear rollers each comprise parallel grooves with cutting edges oriented at a predetermined angle to the roller axis such that the grooves of the gripping shear roller cross the grooves of the cutting shear roller providing a scissoring action for splitting the straw into long strands.

Abstract: A pull type forage harvester including a header, a cylindrical cutter head having rotating knives operatively associated with a shearbar, feed rolls for receiving crop material from the header and conveying it to the cutterhead, and a blower remotely located on the forage harvester relative to the cutterhead. The blower includes a spout for expelling cut crop material to a collecting receptacle. A transverse conveyor consisting of an auger mounted in a trough receives chopped crop material from the cutterhead and conveys it to the blower. Mounted adjacent the cutterhead is a crop processor for crushing chopped crop material received from the cutterhead. The processor comprises a pair of crushing rolls aligned with the is cutterhead axis and above the transverse conveyor. Each roll includes a shaft on which are mounted a plurality of cylindrical segments having similar outer crop engaging surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roll press, in particular for processing very abrasive materials, comprising at least two press rolls of which each includes a wear layer arranged on a basic body. The wear layer comprises substantially plane zones of a highly wear-resistant material while the spaces between the highly wear-resistant zones are filled with a material of different wear resistance. Furthermore, the material for the spaces is a composite material which is adapted to be sintered, and the highly wear-resistant zones are formed from hard bodies produced by hot-isostatic pressing. The material for the spaces and the material for the wear-resistant zones are bonded to the basic body in a hot-isostatic pressing process. The wear resistance of the composite material is substantially slightly greater or smaller than the wear resistance of the hard bodies in accordance with a desired profile which will obtained through wear.

Abstract: A single drive motor is connected by a speed reducer directly to the shaft of one roll of the two aggressive surfaced rolls which form a chip destructuring nip. One roll is dynamically positionable perpendicular to its axis of rotation to open and close the nip. Each roll turns on a shaft positioned along the axis of the roll which is mounted to a frame by bearings. Only the non-positionable roll is driven directly by the drive motor. The roll which is dynamically positionable is driven by a tire arrangement mounted about the axes of the rolls. Opposed tires mounted on the spaced apart parallel shafts form a clutch-like means for driving the dynamically positionable roll.

Abstract: A grinding roll for use in a material bed roll mill for the comminution of brittle material has a cylindrical body in the periphery of which are alternating grooves and lands. To the exterior of each land is secured a wear strip. The grooves of the confronting rolls may be directly opposite one another or the grooves may be offset axially so that the grooves in one roll confront a land of the opposite roll.

Abstract: A disposal system for cutting a needle/syringe (22) into small pieces. One or more motor driven rotating cutting blades (6) are located inside of a housing for cutting the needle/syringe (2) into small pieces. The pieces are deposited in a disposal tray (10) filled with a disinfecting solution, with the parts of the needle/syringe (2) automatically separating for recycling due to the specific gravity of the pieces. A pump (16) is provided for pumping the disinfecting solution, preferably a mixture of chlorine bleach and water, to the needle/syringe inlet (8) and cutting area. The disinfecting solution continuously disinfects the inlet (8), the needle/syringe pieces, the cutting blade (6) and the disposal tray (10). An automatic timer deeps the cutting blades (6) rotating and the pump (16) operating for a sufficient time to cut the needle/syringe (2) and disinfect the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for protecting a wood chip destructuring device from damage due to tramp material. The destructuring device includes a pair of destructuring rolls operating a pre-established distance from each other and an infeed chute for delivering a stream of wood chips to pass through a region between the destructuring rolls. Said protection system includes a sensing unit and a control unit to detect tramp material present in the chip stream. If tramp material is detected in the wood chip flow, the protection system operates to further separate the destructuring rolls so that the surfaces of the destructuring rolls will not be damaged by the tramp material as the flow of material passes between the destructuring rolls.

Abstract: A wood chip conditioner that uses at least two closely spaced, counter-rotating rolls having a regular, wave shaped profile formed into their surfaces having a repeating pattern of peaks and valleys that radially circumscribes the roll and which are preferably the same dimension and offset from each other so that a peak on one roll is in registry with a valley on the other roll and form a nip through which oversized wood chips traverse. The chips passing through the nip are destructured by being bent and compressed by the surfaces on the rolls, which produces internal cracks along the grain of the wood without penetrating the chips. The rolls are also designed to avoid breaking or fracturing the chips, which would increase the occurrence of undesirable pins and fines. The surface of the peaks preferably also have shallow, equally-spaced grooves that extend axially. The grooves provide an edge that catches and pulls the chips into and through the nip.

Abstract: A flaker mill provides for the flaking or rolling of processed grains such as corn and milo for livestock feed. The mill is powered by a relatively small motor which turns at a higher speed than the drive sheaves for the two rollers within the machine. A speed reduction transmission, such as a planetary transmission, is used to reduce the motor output speed to the proper speed to drive an output sheave from the transmission and to provide the proper torque for the two rollers. Each of the rollers has a sheave extending therefrom, for a total of only three sheaves for the entire machine to drive the two rollers. The machine does not require an idler pulley or sheave for belt tension adjustment, as the arcuate adjustment motion of the rear roller bearing housings disposed between the fixed front roller bearing housings and the transmission output, substantially compensates for positional changes in the belt run.

Abstract: A chip destructuring system combines two chip destructuring devices which are positioned back to back and fed from a single flow of chips. The chips flow into a splitter which directs the chips into a right handed and left handed auger mounted on a common shaft. The right handed auger meters wood chips into the nip of a first destructuring device, while the left handed auger meters chips into the nip of a second destructuring device. A pair of baffles hinged at an apex form the splitter. Each baffle makes up one side of the splitter and controls the flow of chips to either the right or the left augers. The baffles may also be adjusted to hang vertically and allow the flow of chips to bypass the augers and the chip destructuring devices.

Abstract: A rock crusher comprises a pair of rotors spaced apart to define a throat therebetween and driven in opposite directions. Impactor bars on the rotors crush rock that is delivered to the rotors and passes the broken rock fragments through the throat. The rock crusher may be conveniently provided in a harvesting vehicle such as a potato harvester to crush rock that has been picked up with and separated from the crop. The rocks can be crushed to a sufficiently small size that they may be conveniently returned to the field surface, and thus the arrangement avoids the trouble and expense that would otherwise be entailed in collecting and disposing of the separated rock.

Abstract: A waste debarker 10 comprises a housing 12 in which is mounted a rotatable first cutting drum 14 and a rotatable second cutting drum 16 arranged in a longitudinally spaced relationship with respect to the first drum 14. The first drum 14 has a plurality of circumferentially extending flanges 24 spaced along the length thereof for supporting cutting teeth 26 thereon. The second drum 16 has a plurality of discrete lugs 34 arranged on its surface for supporting cutting teeth 26 thereon. The lugs 34 are offset with respect to the flanges 24 on the first drum 14 and extend in between the flanges 24 as the drums 14,16 are rotated. The second drum 16 is located at a higher elevation than the first drum 14. A method of debarking waste material is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for disassociating material such as peat moss from a compressed bale. The apparatus includes a housing having a plurality of substantially vertically stacked agitator assemblies. The agitator assemblies are rotatable in response to an independent hydraulic drive motor attached to one end of the vertical shaft of each agitator spindle partially comprising the agitator assembly. The hydraulic motors are mounted to the exterior of the housing, but receive the aforementioned shafts. A lifting platform is provided within the housing to enable a bale of material to be placed thereon. The lifting platform is hydraulically manipulated such that it may be raised to enable the bale of material to come in contact with the rotating spindles of the agitator assemblies. An exit port is provided in the lowermost portion of the housing to enable the material to be ejected from the housing after it is disassociated from the bale.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a comminution device suitable for use in a cooling apparatus for cooling crushable material. The device is located at a source for such crushable material and typically comprises at least two rolls in series, which are crushing rolls wherein material is crushed in a material crushing area located between said two crushing rolls. It is a advantageous feature of the device of the present invention in that the position of at least one of the crushing rolls is adjustable relative to the other crushing roll to thereby change the dimension of the material crushing area.

Abstract: A chopper has a rotatable cutting tool provided with a plurality of cutting teeth, a stopping body having a surface which faces the cutting teeth and guides the chopping product. The surface extends substantially in an axial direction of the cutting teeth and is arranged at a distance from the cutting teeth. The cutting teeth during a cutting process are in operative connection with the chopping product. A rotatably supported pressing roller which is arranged in a distance-free manner relative to the cutting tool and forms a gap between the pressing roller and the cutting tool, while the stopping body having a working side which extends in the gap between the pressing roller and the cutting tool.

Abstract: A heavy-duty grinder is disclosed having increased durability and longevity due to a construction that produces low mechanical vibrations and noises during operation. The grinder includes a pair of end plates, preferably solid steel, and a pair of cutting blade rotors carried between the end plates, which are also preferably machined from solid steel. A direct in-line hydraulic drive of the rotors is provided by hydraulic motors and compression fittings which lock the hydraulic motors to the rotors without the need of keys or splines. In this manner, a drive and construction is provided which accommodates load reverses, shocks, and shears encountered during the grinding process without detrimental effect to the mechanical integrity of the grinder. Machined blade pockets having recessed heels are formed on the periphery of the rotors. Knife blades are mounted in the recessed heels for reinforcement and support against cutting. An anvil is disposed in a cutting nip of the rotors having hardened cutting edges.

Abstract: A wood chip cracking device for use in papermaking employs closely spaced, oppositely rotating rolls which have pyramid-shaped projections on the roll surfaces. This chip destructuring apparatus is rendered readily serviceable with minimal downtime by constructing the roll surface of removable segments which are bolted to a central rotatable shaft. The segments are sized so they can be lifted by a service man. As damage to the roll surface, such as by exposure to tramp metal, is typically limited to a single segment, service and repair of the roll is expedited by permitting removal of a single damaged segment without removing the remaining undamaged segments. Each sector is bored for twelve bolts and is affixed to the central axis by twelve recessed bolts. The surface segments allow the surface to be replaced without removing the rolls from the frame of the wood chip cracking device.

Abstract: The chopping device includes a rotary cutting tool having peripheral cutting teeth with gaps between the teeth, which cooperates with an opposing knife element to chop up a workpiece and a clearing device which enters into the gaps between the teeth during operation to remove chopped up pieces of the workpiece from the gaps. To provide an economical and strong chopping device the opposing knife element and the clearing device are provided with a single rotatably driven counter tool. The single counter tool has a rotation axis parallel to the rotation axis of the cutting tool and displaced radially from it, a rotation direction opposite to that of the cutting tool and a rotation speed which is maintained in a fixed relationship to that of the cutting tool.

Abstract: A solid waste material comminuting system having a electric motor for providing rotary motion, a pair of cutter stacks with cutter elements of one stack interleaved with cutter elements of the other, and gear means to transmit the rotary motion of the electric motor to counter-rotate cutter elements of one stack with cutter elements of the other. Each of the cutter stacks comprise a central shaft journaled for rotation and a bearing module at each end of the central shafts. Each bearing module comprises an end housing, and a pair of insertable pre-assembled bearing assemblies mountable in each of said end housings. One bearing assembly has a thru-hole for journaling a first shaft for rotation and a second bearing assembly has a thru-hole for journaling a second shaft for rotation.

Abstract: A statistically large population of particles of amorphous precipitated silica is substantially free of particles of amorphous precipitated silica which are retained on a 20 mesh sieve screen, and is characterized by at least 90 percent by weight of said particles of said population being retained on a 200 mesh sieve screen. Such a population may be produced by cracking amorphous precipitated silica particles between the textured rolls of at least one roll pair.

Abstract: A shredding device for paper web is equipped with a receiving drum, the peripheral surface thereof being formed as a suction surface, a bladed drum having a pair of free rollers which rotate in contact with the peripheral surface or the receiving drum. a pair of rocking arms which support the bladed drum and the pair of free rollers so that they are free to rock, and a pair of pressure springs which urge these rocking arms toward the receiving drum. The urging force of these pressure springs press the pair of free rollers against the peripheral surface of the receiving drum with a specified force.

Abstract: An apparatus for reprocessing special waste of photocrosslinkable scrap material is composed of a housing equipped with a feed hopper, one or more UV emitters arranged in the housing to irradiate the scrap material, and a chopper arranged in the housing to comminute the scrap material by chopping. The apparatus is usefully employed in a method for reprocessing photocrosslinkable scrap material.

Abstract: A paper shredding knife structure includes a number of zigzag disk-like knife blades, each having a sharp outer edge, mounted on a knife support shaft, one by one closely adjacent each other so as to define a number of rhombic spaces between any two adjacent blades. A roller, preferably comprising a resilient material outer coating, is mounted in such a way to allow the knife blades to be in tight contact engagement with the roller so that when the knife support shaft and the roller are rotated with a sheet of paper feed through therebetween, the zigzag blades cut the paper sheet into small rhombic pieces.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roll mill, particularly a material bed roller mill for the comminution of brittle material for grinding, with two grinding rolls which are driven so that they rotate in opposite directions and are pressed against one another at high pressure, each of these grinding rolls having a roll shell of wear-resistant chill cast material with a surface profile. So that the rolls have a particularly good nip capacity and a high wear resistance, profiles in the form of weld beads of wear-resistant deposit welding material are applied to the surface of the chill cast roll shell.

Abstract: An improvement in a bulk stacker/reclaimer of the type comprising a stacker conveyor for stacking bulk material into a pile, a reclaimer conveyor for removing bulk material from the pile and a removing means for transporting reclaimed material away from the stacker/reclaimer to a remote location. The improvement comprises a breaking means, interposed between the reclaimer conveyor and the removing means, to break apart frozen clumps of bulk material. The inflow to the breaking means is in communication with the discharge of the reclaimer conveyor and the outflow of the removing means is in communication with the breaking means.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning chicken droppings from one or more mats used as nesting material in chicken nests in a chicken house. The invention includes a housing having a plurality of rollers therein for conveying a mat and pulverizing the chicken droppings adhering thereto. The rollers are paired with each pair including a fluted roller having a plurality of axially extending ridges thereon and a cylindrical roller defining a plurality of radial grooves thereon which cooperate with the ridges to pulverize the chicken droppings. Sprayers are provided to dislodge the pulverized chicken droppings from the mat. A plurality of guide plates are provided to guide the mat through the enclosure and support the mat during spraying.

Abstract: This invention pertains to an apparatus which facilitates the curb-side collection of recyclable waste products. It does so by incorporating a size reduction cutting or crushing head into a mobile unit designated primarily for truck mounting. The conveying and processing apparatus further provides a means whereby said recyclable waste products can be conveniently fed into the unit at a location, or multiple locations, convenient to an operator, or multiple operators, during said collection procedure. The apparatus provides the conveying and processing equipment necessary to move said recyclable material from the feed location to a size reduction cutter or crusher head mounted centrally to any such conveying components. Upon completion of the size reduction stage, the unit further provides the means of holding the processed recyclable material prior to its discharge at a collection facility.